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Philosophical Wandering as a Mode of Philosophy in Cultural Life: From Diogenes of Sinope to Cornel West

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2018
In this essay, I defend philosophical wandering not only as an approach to doing philosophy, but also as an important force to incite critical reflection in cultural life.
Eli Kramer
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Misunderstanding Metaethics: Difficulties Measuring Folk Objectivism and Relativism

Diametros, 2020
Recent research on the metaethical beliefs of ordinary people appears to show that they are metaethical pluralists that adopt different metaethical standards for different moral judgments.
Lance S. Bush, David Moss
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A Critique of Saul Kripke's "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language" [PDF]

, 2008
In Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Saul Kripke presents a controversial skeptical argument, which he attributes to Wittgenstein’s interlocutor in the Philosophical Investigations [PI].
Gitsoulis, Chrysoula
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For A Service Conception of Epistemic Authority: A Collective Approach [PDF]

, 2019
This paper attempts to provide a remedy to a surprising lacuna in the current discussion in the epistemology of expertise, namely the lack of a theory accounting for the epistemic authority of collective agents.
Croce, Michel
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Danger signals for untrustworthy thought experiments

Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 209-224, April 2025.
Abstract A key question in contemporary metaphilosophy of thought experiments is the “wheat from chaff” problem: How can we separate the good and trustworthy thought experiments from the untrustworthy ones? This article examines this problem by viewing thought experimentation as a form of mental simulation.
Henri Tuohimaa
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Cooperative Intuitionism [PDF]

, 2020
According to pluralistic intuitionist theories, some of our moral beliefs are non-inferentially justified, and these beliefs come in both an a priori and an a posteriori variety.
Ingram, Stephen
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How can we build a “women's” philosophy?

Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 249-263, April 2025.
Abstract Nancy Holland (1990, 1) defines “women's philosophy” as philosophical work that “arises from, explicitly refers to, and attempts to account for the experience of women.” A “women's” philosophy, distinct from “feminist” philosophy, would depict the lived reality of women's experiences without an explicit or self‐conscious desire to construct ...
Anne‐Marie McCallion
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Thought experiments in current metaphilosophical debates [PDF]

, 2018
Although thought experiments were first discovered as a sui generis methodological tool by philosophers of science (most prominently by Ernst Mach), the tool can also be found – even more frequently – in contemporary philosophy.
Cohnitz, Daniel, Häggqvist, Sören
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Intuition in Contemporary Philosophy [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter will consider three themes relating to the significance of intuitions in contemporary philosophy. In §1, I’ll review and explore the relationship between philosophical use of words like ‘intuitively’ and any kinds of mental states that might
Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins
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Education towards a reasonable humanism

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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