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Philosophy, Literature, Death, And Wisdom: On Philip Kitcher's "Deaths In Venice", Richard Thomas Eldridge
Philosophy, Literature, Death, And Wisdom: On Philip Kitcher's "Deaths In Venice", Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On A Future-Like-Ours And The Substance View, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On A Future-Like-Ours And The Substance View, Christopher Kaczor
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Epistemic Contrastivism, Knowledge And Practical Reasoning, Peter Baumann
Epistemic Contrastivism, Knowledge And Practical Reasoning, Peter Baumann
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Epistemic contrastivism is the view that knowledge is a ternary relation between a person, a proposition and a set of contrast propositions. This view is in tension with widely shared accounts of practical reasoning: be it the claim that knowledge of the premises is necessary for acceptable practical reasoning based on them or sufficient for the acceptability of the use of the premises in practical reasoning, or be it the claim that there is a looser connection between knowledge and practical reasoning. Given plausible assumptions, epistemic contrastivism implies that we should cut all links between knowledge and practical reasoning. However, …
Reference Magnetism As A Solution To The Moral Twin Earth Problem, William Dunaway
Reference Magnetism As A Solution To The Moral Twin Earth Problem, William Dunaway
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‘Moral Twin Earth’ thought experiments constitute a central semantic challenge to naturalistic normative realism. This paper first outlines a general framework for understanding the challenge, according to which (i) central normative terms are semantically stable in ways that contrast with many other paradigmatic descriptive terms, and (ii) realists should expect to have a unified meta-semantic theory that explains the difference in stability between the normative and descriptive terms in question. The most attractive way of meeting this challenge, we argue, appeals to the idea of reference magnetism. According to this influential idea, some properties are reference magnets, which (roughly) means …
Mechanistic Abstraction, Worth Boone, Gualtiero Piccinini
Mechanistic Abstraction, Worth Boone, Gualtiero Piccinini
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We provide an explicit taxonomy of legitimate kinds of abstraction within constitutive explanation. We argue that abstraction is an inherent aspect of adequate mechanistic explanation. Mechanistic explanations—even ideally complete ones—typically involve many kinds of abstraction and therefore do not require maximal detail. Some kinds of abstraction play the ontic role of identifying the specific complex components, subsets of causal powers, and organizational relations that produce a suitably general phenomenon. Therefore, abstract constitutive explanations are both legitimate and mechanistic.
Images Of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, And The Human Subject, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Images Of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, And The Human Subject, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact. Each sees a special place for religious consciousness and critical practice in the articulation and revision of ideals that are to have cultural effect, but they differ sharply in the forms of religious-philosophical understanding, cultural criticism, and political practice that they favor. Kant defends a liberal, reformist, Protestant stance, emphasizing the importance of liberty, individual rights, …
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense, Peter Baumann
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense, Peter Baumann
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This book develops and defends a version of epistemic contextualism, that is, of the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form “S knows that p” can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book is about arguments for contextualism and develops a particular version of it. The first chapter deals with the argument from cases and ordinary usage. More weight, however, is put on more “theoretical” arguments: arguments from reliability (Chapter 2) and from luck (Chapter 3). The second part of the book discusses problems contextualism faces and …
Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical And Ethical, Alan Richard Baker
Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical And Ethical, Alan Richard Baker
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This chapter examines how the general framework for indispensability arguments developed by Enoch in the metaethical context plays out in its ancestral home, the philosophy of mathematics. Enoch’s framework is inspired by the Quine–Putnam type of indispensability argument in mathematics and is liable to inherit the latter’s holism. But once this holism is expunged from Enoch’s framework it turns out that Enoch’s indispensability argument is stronger in the moral than in the mathematical case, since it is more plausible that normative entities are indispensible to all projects of practical deliberation than it is that mathematical entities are indispensible to all …
The Question Of Truth In Literature: Die Poetische Auffassung Der Welt, Richard Thomas Eldridge
The Question Of Truth In Literature: Die Poetische Auffassung Der Welt, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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This chapter starts with the question of truth in literature, noting that this question has several interrelated senses: can literature present (significant) truths at all?; what does its presentation of truths (if it exists) have to do with its manner of presentation (with literary language)?; and is the presentation of truth a central aim of literary art? The chapter surveys a variety of neo-Fregean (Lamarque and Olsen, Walton) views that reject the very possibility of literary truth as well as a variety of anti-Fregean views (Goodman, Heidegger) that endorse it. But those endorsements often do not say enough about literary …
The Four Dimensions Of An Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr
The Four Dimensions Of An Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr
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Is Intellectual Character Growth A Realistic Educational Aim?, Jason Baehr
Is Intellectual Character Growth A Realistic Educational Aim?, Jason Baehr
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No abstract provided.
Responsibilist Virtues And The ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ Of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr
Responsibilist Virtues And The ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ Of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr
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In Judgment and Agency, Ernest Sosa takes “reliabilist” virtue epistemology deep into “responsibilist” territory, arguing that “a true epistemology” will assign “responsibilist-cum-reliabilist intellectual virtue the main role in addressing concerns at the center of the tradition.” However, Sosa stops short of granting this status to familiar responsibilist virtues like open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual humility. He cites three reasons for doing so: responsibilist virtues involve excessive motivational demands; they are quasi-ethical; and they are best understood, not as constituting knowledge, but rather as putting one “in a position” to know. I elaborate on and respond to each of these …
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor
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No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Chance In Evolution, Timothy Shanahan
Book Review Of Chance In Evolution, Timothy Shanahan
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No abstract provided.
Book Review: Space, Geometry, And Kant's Transcendental Deduction Of The Categories, Jeffrey L. Wilson
Book Review: Space, Geometry, And Kant's Transcendental Deduction Of The Categories, Jeffrey L. Wilson
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No abstract provided.
On Alan Goldman’S "Philosophy And The Novel", Richard Thomas Eldridge
On Alan Goldman’S "Philosophy And The Novel", Richard Thomas Eldridge
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No abstract provided.
Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure, Peter Baumann
Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure, Peter Baumann
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No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Euthanasia, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Euthanasia, Christopher Kaczor
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In this article the author discusses the views of Luc Bovens on euthanasia in referance to his work "Child Euthanasia: Should We Just Not Talk about It?". Topcis discussed include Palliative Care, Legalization of euthanasia, killing of patients than relieving pain, euthanasia for minors, and parents for pressuring of children into euthanasia by their parents.
Philosophy And Theology: Separating Conjoined Twins, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Separating Conjoined Twins, Christopher Kaczor
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Domination And The Free Will Defense: A Reply To Pruss, Daniel Speak
Domination And The Free Will Defense: A Reply To Pruss, Daniel Speak
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Few arguments have enjoyed as strong a reputation for philosophical success as Alvin Plantinga's free will defense (FWD). Despite the striking reputation for decisiveness, however, concerns about the success of the FWD have begun to trickle into the philosophical literature. In a recent article in this journal, Alexander Pruss has contributed to this flow with an intriguing argument that a proposition necessary to the success of Plantinga's FWD is false. Specifically, Pruss has argued, contrary to the FWD, that, necessarily, God is able to actualize a world containing at least one significantly free creature who never does anything morally wrong. …
Willful Understanding: Avicenna’S Philosophy Of Action And Theory Of The Will, Jon Mcginnis, Anthony Ruffus
Willful Understanding: Avicenna’S Philosophy Of Action And Theory Of The Will, Jon Mcginnis, Anthony Ruffus
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In this study, we look at two interpretive puzzles associated with the thought of Avicenna that are still of intrinsic philosophical interest today. The first concerns to what extent, if at all, Avicenna’s deity can be said to act freely. The second concerns to what extent, if at all, humans within Avicenna’s philosophical system can be said to act freely. It is our contention that only through a careful analysis of Avicenna’s theory of action can one begin to assess his position concerning the status of the will and so provide a satisfactory response to these two interpretative issues. We …
Philosophy And Theology: Artificial Gametes, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Artificial Gametes, Christopher Kaczor
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The Moral Value Of Envy, Krista Karbowski Thomason
The Moral Value Of Envy, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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It is common to think that we would be morally better people if we never felt envy. Recently, some philosophers have rejected this conclusion by arguing that envy can often be directed toward unfairness or inequality. As such, they conclude that we should not suppress our feelings of envy. I argue, however, that these defenses only show that envy is sometimes morally permissible. In order to show that we would not be better off without envy, we must show how envy is not merely morally permissible, but morally valuable. Here I provide a defense of envy's moral value. I argue …
A Small Discovery: Avicenna's Theory Of Minima Naturalia, Jon Mcginnis
A Small Discovery: Avicenna's Theory Of Minima Naturalia, Jon Mcginnis
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There has been a long-held misconception among historians of philosophy and science that apart from brief comments in Aristotle and Averroes, the theory of minima naturalia had to await Latin Schoolmen for its full articulation. Recently scholars have shown that far from sporadic comments on minima naturalia, Averroes in fact had a fully developed and well-integrated theory of them. In this study, I complement these scholars’ important work by considering Avicenna’s place in the history and development of the doctrine of the minima naturalia. There is no study to date that mentions Avicenna in connection with this doctrine despite the …
Transitional Justice As Structural Justice, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Transitional Justice As Structural Justice, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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“To Think Exactly And Courageously”: Poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann’S Poetics, And Her Bohemia Poem, Richard Thomas Eldridge
“To Think Exactly And Courageously”: Poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann’S Poetics, And Her Bohemia Poem, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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This chapter demonstrates the importance of close reading and criticism to the philosophy of poetry. Its reading of Ingeborg Bachman’s ‘Böhmen liegt am Meer’ explores the extent to which the poem is exemplary of the distinctive achievements of lyric poetry. The poem provides an object study in how the lyric allows the human voice to pursue, and at times acquire, expressive freedom. The various sonic, affective, rhythmic, figurative, and expressive devices of poetry account for why its products are not merely lovely aesthetic objects but exemplary of the ‘imaginative economy of human life’. What lyric that aspires to this status …
Review Of "After The Beautiful: Hegel And The Philosophy Of Pictorial Modernism" By R. B. Pippin, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Review Of "After The Beautiful: Hegel And The Philosophy Of Pictorial Modernism" By R. B. Pippin, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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A Agroecologia: Uma Ilustração Da Fecundidade Da Pesquisa Multiestratégica, Hugh Lacey
A Agroecologia: Uma Ilustração Da Fecundidade Da Pesquisa Multiestratégica, Hugh Lacey
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The aims of the article are (1) to highlight the fact that research conducted under agroecological strategies serves to illustrate the fruitfulness of multi-strategic research, and (2) to point to the relevance of agroecology in Brazil, as well as to its growing importance in the production of foodstuffs throughout the world.
Poetry And Emphatic Truth: Walter Benjamin’S Reading Of Hölderlin, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Poetry And Emphatic Truth: Walter Benjamin’S Reading Of Hölderlin, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Benjamin’s poetic theory is commented. It is noted that Benjamin follows Hölderlin in regarding a successful poem as a particular configuration that joins the intellectual and perceptual orders. Such a successful poem aims at and can possess not truth as correspondence to a given object, but rather what in the text is described as “emphatic truth”.
Food And Agricultural Systems For The Future: Science, Emancipation And Human Flourishing, Hugh Lacey
Food And Agricultural Systems For The Future: Science, Emancipation And Human Flourishing, Hugh Lacey
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It has been proposed that the policies and practices of food sovereignty, unlike those of today's hegemonic food/agricultural system, provide the means for satisfying and safeguarding the right to food security for everyone everywhere. My principal objective in this article, which gains its significance in the light of an explanatory critique of the current system, is to explore how scientific research — using what kinds of methodologies, and building on experiences of what and of whom? — can constructively inform these practices and policies, and contribute towards appraising this proposal.