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“CURING” PYRRHONIAN DOUBT: ANTI-SKEPTICAL RHETORIC IN THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY [PDF]
Societate şi Politică, 2012 By examining the analogies of sickness and disease used by severalopponents of philosophical skepticism (Pyrrhonism) in the early 18th century, this articlewill shed light on the rhetorical strategies used in attempts to undermine the revival ofthis ...
Anton MATYTSIN
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Deep Disagreement (Part 2): Epistemology of Deep Disagreement. [PDF]
Philos Compass, 2022 Abstract What is the epistemological significance of deep disagreement? Part I explored the nature of deep disagreement, while Part II considers its epistemological significance. It focuses on two core problems: the incommensurability and the rational resolvability problems. We critically survey key responses to these challenges, before raising worries
Ranalli C, Lagewaard T.
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Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT In Section One of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume distinguishes between two sorts of writing on human nature: first, one that appeals to common sense to make virtue seem attractive and, second, one that attempts to describe the principles governing the mind.
Jacovides M.
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Kornblith versus Sosa on grades of knowledge. [PDF]
Synthese, 2019 In a series of works Ernest Sosa (see Sosa 1991, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017) has defended the view that there are two kinds or ‘grades’ of knowledge, animal and reflective.
Carter JA, McKenna R.
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Adaptation, Activism, and the Looming Climate Disaster†
Educational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 6, Page 801-821, December 2023., 2023 Abstract It is likely that the process of global climate change will continue to accelerate. There is a lack of political will to confront the problem and the consequences for humanity — including widespread suffering and institutional destabilization — will be disastrous. How should educators respond to a catastrophic future?
Bryan R. Warnick
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Understanding Wittgenstein's positive philosophy through language‐games: Giving philosophy peace
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 376-394, July 2023., 2023 Abstract A significant discrepancy in Wittgenstein's studies is whether Philosophical Investigations contains any trace of positive philosophy, notwithstanding the author's apparent anti‐theoretic position. This study argues that the so‐called ‘Chapter on philosophy’ in the Investigations §§89–133 contains negative and positive vocabulary and the use ...
Andrey Pukhaev
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Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 220-230, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Ruth Chang has argued convincingly that we must recognize that some choices will not involve strict, univocal comparison of options. How, then, can such choices be made well? Chang suggests that commitment is a fundamental way of ‘putting one's very self’ behind a normative consideration, thereby ‘endow[ing] that consideration with the ...
Peter Railton
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The Beginning of Hegel's Logic
Philosophy Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This article discusses two topics, both commonly referred to using the label “the beginning of Hegel's Logic”: (1) Hegel's justification for the claim that a science of logic must begin by considering the concept of “pure being”. (2) Hegel's discussion of the concepts “being”, “nothing”, and “becoming” in the first chapter of his Logic ...
Robb Dunphy
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Commentary on “Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?”
Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 55-60, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper explains some of the reasoning behind “Can a Good Philosophical Contribution Be Made Just by Asking a Question?,” a paper which consists solely in its title and which is published in the same issue of the journal as the present paper. The method for explaining that reasoning consists in making available a lightly edited version of a
Joshua Habgood‐Coote +2 more
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A new bridge principle for the normativity of logic
Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 6, Page 1274-1292, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Logic appears to be normative for rational belief. The thesis of the normativity of logic holds that indeed logic has such a normative status. Gilbert Harman has questioned it, thereby giving rise to what has been called “Harman's skeptical challenge”.
Francesco Orilia
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