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Is Truth Contextual?, Christofer Koch
Absurd Time: Understanding Camus’ Quantitative Ethics Through Bergsonian Duration, Thomas Ruan
Absurd Time: Understanding Camus’ Quantitative Ethics Through Bergsonian Duration, Thomas Ruan
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Rhythm As Logos In Native World-Ordering, Sierra Druley
Rhythm As Logos In Native World-Ordering, Sierra Druley
Episteme
No abstract provided.
And The President Droned On: Just War Theory And Targeted Killings, Matthew Strebe
And The President Droned On: Just War Theory And Targeted Killings, Matthew Strebe
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Custom And Cognition: Towards An Understanding Of Religious Belief, Matthew Hernandez
Custom And Cognition: Towards An Understanding Of Religious Belief, Matthew Hernandez
Episteme
No abstract provided.
On The Knowledge Of Primary Substances, Helen Zhao
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
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Heidegger’S World And Dasein’S Death: The Significance Of Being-In-A-World In Relation To Death, Sandor Mark
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, Philip Yaure
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, Maximilian Chaoulideer
Losing And Regaining The Self Through Language: Individuation In Nietzsche’S Creative Use Of Metaphor, Maximilian Chaoulideer
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Kantian Realism, Jake Quilty-Dunn
Against Fodor, Rafael Ventura
Problems Of Kierkegaard’S Poetics, Thomas Gilbert
Three Criticisms Of Schopenhauer And A Response From The Advaita Vedantins, Brian York
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, Eric Chase
Spurious Soul: A Modern Critique Of The Thomistic Soul, Eric Chase
Episteme
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Editor's Note, Sean Walt
The Kantian And Hegelian Sublime, Yena Lee
Choice And Practical Identity In Korsgaard’S Ethics, Joseph Carlsmith
Choice And Practical Identity In Korsgaard’S Ethics, Joseph Carlsmith
Episteme
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Belief, Statements And Testimony, Richard Garzon
Time And Consciousness: A Phenomenological View, Robert Osborne
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, Michael Nail
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, Taylor Hamrick
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, John Mcdaniel
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 …
Norm-Expressivism And The Frege-Geach Problem, Megan Blomfield
Norm-Expressivism And The Frege-Geach Problem, Megan Blomfield
Episteme
How successful is Allan Gibbard’s attempt to solve the Frege-Geach problem for moral non-cognitivism? This author argues that Gibbard is on the right track with his formalism, but is missing an argument about inconsistency that matches the strength of truth-functional logic. The paper includes discussions of non-cognitivism, the Frege-Geach problem, a summary of Gibbard’s argumentation, and summaries of various strong criticisms of Gibbard’s efforts. The author emphasizes the weakness of relying on practical considerations when it comes to consistency between all possible normative moral judgments, yet supports Schroeder’s insight that might help to improve Gibbard’s reasoning.
Rawls On Abortion: Adapting His Theory Of Justice To The Controversy, Douglas Dreier
Rawls On Abortion: Adapting His Theory Of Justice To The Controversy, Douglas Dreier
Episteme
Rawls does not have to be explicit about gender or sex issues to be on the pro-choice side of the abortion debate. If we examine Rawls’ principles of justice and his veil of ignorance, we recognize that his logic rips through much of the usual justification for pro-life legality, even in the famous Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. Since a person behind the veil might be a pregnant woman, cannot rely on specific moral beliefs, and must be able to have self-respect when the veil is lifted; Rawls is unmistakably pro-choice. Furthermore, in terms of other in vogue political …
A Gap In Kim's Eliminative Argument For Reductionism, Benjamin D. Mooneyham
A Gap In Kim's Eliminative Argument For Reductionism, Benjamin D. Mooneyham
Episteme
This paper traces the logical movements in Jaegwon Kim’s philosophy of mind addressed to physicalists. To start, a brief background to the contemporary debate between substance dualists, property dualists, and reductionists is provided. The author then argues that Kim uses inconsistent logic in his argument against non-reductive physicalism, compared with his argument against substance dualism: the pairing problem. It turns out that Kim fails to eliminate substance dualism as a possible theory of mind, in particular as an explanation of mental causation. The author offers a separate argument that would improve Kim’s case.
The Place Of Book X In Plato's Republic, Willie Costello
The Place Of Book X In Plato's Republic, Willie Costello
Episteme
Here is a new interpretation of Book X of the Republic, which understands this book in relation to the Republic’s central defense of justice and the virtuous life. A metaphysical argument uses the allegory of the cave to understand the problem of poetry as imitation. Appearances can be deceiving; truth need not look like popular wisdom. An ethical argument explains that poetry encourages us to act on the urging of the non-rational part of our soul, thereby diminishing the rational part. Furthermore, since the way our souls react to poetry is as real and as genuine as actual experience, we …
The Natural Philosophies Of Descartes And Newton: A Kuhnian Reflection, Stephen Trochimchuk
The Natural Philosophies Of Descartes And Newton: A Kuhnian Reflection, Stephen Trochimchuk
Episteme
Kuhn can be used to describe shifts in science other than just the Copernican Revolution. This paper argues that Newton’s theory of mechanics, especially the notion of gravitational force, only appears to be responding to “deficiencies” in Descartes’ corpuscularism. In reality, Newton’s theory represents a paradigm shift. To make his case, the author first supplies useful summaries of Descartes’ and Newton’s sciences, as well as Kuhn’s meta-scientific project. The author then emphasizes that on issues like gravity and mass, the Cartesian and Newtonian systems of science hold each other’s theoretical concepts to be senseless when judged from within their own. …
Possible Worlds And Counterfactuals: Critique And Commentary On Complicating Causation, Roman Feiman
Possible Worlds And Counterfactuals: Critique And Commentary On Complicating Causation, Roman Feiman
Episteme
This article focuses on David Lewis’s theory of causation. The author provides helpful clarity regarding the difference between material and counterfactual conditions, the distinction between causal dependence and causation, and the nature of possible world theories in general. Although it is found that Lewis does not fall victim to the problems of metaphysical impossibility or preemption, his theory still relies too much on mere intuition. Lewis’ solution is not very convincing when it comes to the slippery issue of causation.
Forcing Freedom: Applying Mill's Principles Of Liberty In An International Society, Jill Zimmerman
Forcing Freedom: Applying Mill's Principles Of Liberty In An International Society, Jill Zimmerman
Episteme
The author extends Mill’s liberty theory to contemporary international politics, specifically in relation to liberal intervention theory. The author tries to interpret Mill in the spirit of some popular liberal theories, but argues for why such an interpretation, which draws an analogy between the role of an individual and the role of a state’s government, would not be supported by Mill himself. For Mill, the individual is the central moral force, which is not simply in an appeal to prevent against harm toward a particular entity (as with looking-out for one particular nation among many in the international community). Even …