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Diagnosing Merely Verbal Disputes: A Case Study on Personal Identity
Abstract Merely verbal disputes have attracted considerable attention in metaphilosophy. Yet the critical task of discussing workable diagnostic methods for determining which disputes are merely verbal has been largely neglected, and detailed case studies of philosophical debates are rare. This paper addresses both of these gaps.
Viktoria Knoll
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The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense
In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one and not the most pertinent and
Lewin Michael
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Responsibility as Personal Significance
ABSTRACT This paper defends a view of what responsibility is, where responsibility is neither just the agential facts that make a person responsible, or is not the aptness of certain responses to those facts. Responsibility is the relevant agential facts, and the significance of those facts for the person.
Victor Tadrose
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A Methodological Plea: Sampling in Experimental Philosophy
ABSTRACT This paper highlights a methodological problem that might render the value of Experimental Philosophy (X‐Phi) research unclear. It is argued that research in X‐Phi often relies on an unrepresentative sample with respect to the target population and the contingent property examined.
Yotam Harel
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W poszukiwaniu tożsamości współczesnej filozofii przyrody
This article addresses the issue of the identity of the philosophy of nature in the context of three features characteristic of this philosophical discipline, namely its methodological diversity, interdisciplinarity and specific developmental dynamics ...
Jarosław Maciej Janowski
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ÇAĞDAŞ ANA AKIM ANALİTİK FELSEFEDE SEZGİLERİN OLUMSUZ ROLÜ ÜZERİNE
Analitik felsefe geçtiğimiz yüzyılın başlarında kendisini geleneksel felsefeden bir dizi derin farkla ayırt ederek kimliğini oluşturmaya çalışmıştı. Dakiklik, tutarlılık, öncüller ile sonucun berraklığı, aradaki çıkarımın açıklığı, mantıksal ve kavramsal
Serdal Tümkaya
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Johnstone's View of Rhetorical and Dialectical Argument
In the writings of Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. there can be found an evolving and gradually more sophisticated discussion of the relationship between rhetorical and dialectical argument. Johnstone's view on these matters was highly original, and at odds with
Douglas Walton
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Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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Moral Metaphilosophy: The Study of Moral Violations in, Against, and Through Philosophy
Metaphilosophy is often understood as an inquiry into the nature, goals, and methods of philosophy and is sometimes construed as an epistemology of philosophy.
Michael Lewin, Polina Lewin
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Abstract In Plato's Republic, Socrates' account of an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy closely concerns the failure of poets to defend justice as good in itself and not merely for its external benefits. No less an exemplum of poetry than Shakespeare's Macbeth does just that.
Mark J. Boone
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