Search Results - "Prolegomena"

Hume on Miracles and UFOs by Smith, Tiddy, Jonathan, Samuel Vincenzo

“…A miracle is defined as a violation of or intercession in the laws of na- ture. Some recent reports of UFO phenomena are such that UFOs may satisfy that…”
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No New Cartesian Circle by Zhuang, Xuanpu

“…Michael Della Rocca states a new reading of Descartes’ Fourth Medita- tion, in which he claims that the reasoning for the veracity of clear and distinct ideas…”
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Misfiring: Tyler Burge Contra Disjunctivism by Subotić, Vanja

“…Recently, Charles Goldhaber (2019) has argued that Tyler Burge’s (2005, 2010, 2011) arguments against disjunctivism in the philosophy of perception fail when…”
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Fake News and the Capability Approach: How Disinformation Impairs Personal Health by Cerovac, Ivan, Drmić, Helena

“…This paper examines the detrimental effects of fake news on individual well-being and explores measures that individuals and governments can adopt to mitigate…”
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Defending the “claimability objection” from non-conventional arguments by Rettig, Cristián

“…According to the well-known “claimability objection” posed by O’Neill, it is unjustified to hold that each individual has a human right to socioeconomic goods…”
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Was Rawls a Kantian? by Cekić, Nenad

“…In this article, the author evaluates whether Rawls rightly believed that his theory of justice could be interpreted as Kantian. Rawls’ Kantianism is primarily…”
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Considerations on democracy in Rawls’s A Theory of Justice by Mladenović, Ivan

“…According to some influential interpretations, Rawls’s later turn to political liberalism contributed significantly to the reorientation of contemporary…”
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Justice and practical reason: Rationality, reasonableness, and thought-experimenting in Rawls by Miščević, Nenad

“…Rawls’s central work, A Theory of Justice, is famously built around a thought experiment, the famous Original Position. It continues the tradition of…”
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Al-Kindi’s “The Real One”: Considerations of a mathematician or of a metaphysician? by Stefaniuk, Tomasz

“…The aim of the article is to analyze Al-Kindi’s concept of the True (Essential) One and certain additional issues, also taking into account the influence on…”
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Convergence argument against the challenge of “unconceived alternative theories” by Hajizadeh, Amir

“…Kyle Stanford (2001, 2006a) poses a new challenge to scientific realism, known as the “new pessimistic induction.” According to him, for each theory chosen by…”
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A philosophical argument for the beginning of time by Luna, Laureano, Erasmus, Jacobus

“…A common argument in support of a beginning of the universe used by advocates of the kalām cosmological argument (KCA) is the argument against the possibility…”
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Constitutional patriotism in the context of Habermas’s political philosophy by Zenović, Predrag

“…Although the work of Jürgen Habermas is often associated with constitutional patriotism as a post-national and post-conventional political identification and…”
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Mythical language and truth: The “affair” between Ares and Aphrodite in Aristotle by Militello, Chiara

“…This paper tackles the problem of the relationship between traditional myths (specifically, the myth of Ares and Aphrodite being in love) and truth in…”
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How should we justify moral principles? A constructivist defense of fact-sensitivity by Dumitru, Adelin-Costin

“…Constructivism is the metaethical position stating that although we cannot have direct access to moral facts, we can still come up with a set of principles…”
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Meet Helene Druskowitz by Boršić, Luka, Skuhala Karasman, Ivana

“…The article introduces the Austrian woman philosopher of Croatian origin, Helene Druskowitz (1856–1918). After providing an overview of her life and…”
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Does understanding solve problems? by Mărăşoiu, Andrei Ionuţ

“…It is intuitive to think that understanding, at least in exemplary cases, solves problems. This has motivated a general view concerning the nature of…”
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Free will, causation, and Sartorio’s Causation and Free Will by Anić, Zvonimir, Pećnjak, Davor

“…No matter what side one takes in the debate about free will, one will also have to accept certain metaphysical assumptions about causation and causal laws and,…”
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Euthanasia Laws, Slippery Slopes, and (Un)Reasonable Precaution by Klampfer, Friderik

“…The article examines the so-called slippery slope argument (SSA) against the legalization of active voluntary euthanasia (AVE). According to the SSA, by…”
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Ethics of Care and Robot Caregivers by Barcaro, Rosangela, Mazzoleni, Martina, Virgili, Paolo

“…Recently there has been a surge of interest in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and its possible developments and applications. Some of them are related to…”
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Three-Valued Plurivaluationism and the Higher-Order Vagueness by Štěpánek, Jan

“…Plurivaluationism is an approach to solving the Sorites Paradox based on the idea that vague discourse has more than one acceptable interpretation. Since…”
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