Custom And Cognition: Towards An Understanding Of Religious Belief,
2017
Portland State University
Custom And Cognition: Towards An Understanding Of Religious Belief, Matthew Hernandez
Episteme
No abstract provided.
On The Knowledge Of Primary Substances,
2017
Johns Hopkins University
Charles Taylor’S Langue/Parole And Alasdair Macintyre’S “Networks Of Giving And Receiving” As A Foundation For A Positive Anti-Atomist Political Theory,
2017
Denison University
Charles Taylor’S Langue/Parole And Alasdair Macintyre’S “Networks Of Giving And Receiving” As A Foundation For A Positive Anti-Atomist Political Theory, Robert Moore
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Heidegger’S World And Dasein’S Death: The Significance Of Being-In-A-World In Relation To Death,
2017
Boston University
Heidegger’S World And Dasein’S Death: The Significance Of Being-In-A-World In Relation To Death, Sandor Mark
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Cognition And Sensation: A Reconstruction Of Herder’S Quasi-Empiricism,
2017
University of Chicago
Cognition And Sensation: A Reconstruction Of Herder’S Quasi-Empiricism, Philip Yaure
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Losing And Regaining The Self Through Language: Individuation In Nietzsche’S Creative Use Of Metaphor,
2017
University of Chicago
Losing And Regaining The Self Through Language: Individuation In Nietzsche’S Creative Use Of Metaphor, Maximilian Chaoulideer
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Kantian Realism,
2017
Boston University
Against Fodor,
2017
Brown University
Problems Of Kierkegaard’S Poetics,
2017
Northwestern University
Three Criticisms Of Schopenhauer And A Response From The Advaita Vedantins,
2017
Belmont University
Three Criticisms Of Schopenhauer And A Response From The Advaita Vedantins, Brian York
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Spurious Soul: A Modern Critique Of The Thomistic Soul,
2017
Seattle Pacific University
Spurious Soul: A Modern Critique Of The Thomistic Soul, Eric Chase
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note,
2017
Denison University
The Kantian And Hegelian Sublime,
2017
Yale University
Choice And Practical Identity In Korsgaard’S Ethics,
2017
Yale University
Choice And Practical Identity In Korsgaard’S Ethics, Joseph Carlsmith
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Belief, Statements And Testimony,
2017
Rutgers University
Time And Consciousness: A Phenomenological View,
2017
Wheaton College
Time And Consciousness: A Phenomenological View, Robert Osborne
Episteme
Apart from our uses of time, in what way does time really exist? Given two possible assumptions—time is objective and time is subjective—the author argues that time is not objective and empirical but rather phenomenologically ideal. The negative argument critiques Sydney Shoemaker’s thought-experiment about changeless time intervals, finding it too radically imagined and containing conceptual conflation. The positive argument invokes Kant’s thoughts on the Transcendental Illusion and Robert K. C. Forman’s knowledge-by-identity theory. Furthermore, the author describes a thought experiment meant to counter Shoemaker’s. In conclusion, Occam’s razor and the author’s logic prefer time as subjective over time as objective: …
Surpassing Estrangement: The Reconciliation Between Species Being And Subjective Architectonics In Benjamin,
2017
Villanova University
Surpassing Estrangement: The Reconciliation Between Species Being And Subjective Architectonics In Benjamin, Michael Nail
Episteme
The author shows how Walter Benjamin modified Marx’s core concepts of a capitalist political economy given the 20th century reality of double estrangement. Benjamin takes Marx’s dehumanized being as also the creation of opportunities for the laborer’s capital to work for (not just against) him—they create the architechtonics of his life. Benjamin adjusts the notion of species being by introducing the distinction between individual and mass consciousness, and he argues that the commodity mediates between the two realms, of which the subject is the object of the world of commodities directly determined by a subconscious collective that can be more …
Telesemantics And The Believer,
2017
College of Charleston
Telesemantics And The Believer, Taylor Hamrick
Episteme
The paper concerns itself with Low-Level teleosemantics, a naturalized theory of intentionality designed to indicate which biological devices and which description are most immediate (and least sophisticated) to how an organism’s (such as a frog) representational system properly functions. The author argues for how Karen Neander’s approach solves Fodor’s indeterminacy problem. The author thoroughly responds to the objection that the Low-Level theory cannot generalize up to more sophisticated mental contents, such as belief-desire human psychology. He introduces a few tools, strategies, and considerations that extend the Low-Level theory, making it possible to increase mental state complexity by moving from action-oriented …
Prostitution And Casual Sex: An Examination Of Kantian Ethics And The Moral Acceptability Of Prostitution,
2017
Trinity University
Prostitution And Casual Sex: An Examination Of Kantian Ethics And The Moral Acceptability Of Prostitution, John Mcdaniel
Episteme
This paper concerns the ethics of prostitution. It begins with David Benatar’s distinction between “significant” and “casual” sex. Kant’s understanding of sex—fraught with worries about ends, autonomy, and objectification—falls under the significance view of sex, even more “special” because it seems to hold that sex is only morally acceptable within marriage. But this untenable position exposes an inconsistency in Kant’s thoughts on personhood and possession. Singer offers a preferable view of sex as sustenance. The author next argues that the service of prostitution is ethical so long as the prostitute’s job and her or his personal life remain distinct, the …
What Kind Of Is-Ought Gap Is There And What Kind Ought There Be?,
2017
University at Albany, State University of New York
What Kind Of Is-Ought Gap Is There And What Kind Ought There Be?, P.D. Magnus, Jon Mandle
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
Some philosophers think that there is a gap between is and ought which necessarily makes normative enquiry a different kind of thing than empirical science. This position gains support from our ability to explicate our inferential practices in a way that makes it impermissible to move from descriptive premises to a normative conclusion. But we can also explicate them in a way that allows such moves. So there is no categorical answer as to whether there is or is not a gap. The question of an is-ought gap is a practical and strategic matter rather than a logical one, and …
