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Wittgensteinian Epistemology, Epistemic Vertigo, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism [PDF]

, 2020
AbstractIn On Certainty, Wittgenstein offers a radical conception of the structure of rational evaluation, such that all rational evaluations are essentially local in that they necessarily occur relative to arational hinge certainties. Support is canvassed for the following claims: (1) that a Wittgensteinian epistemology, while the antidote to a ...
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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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Conflicting Appearances, Suspension of Judgment, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism without Commitment

Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2022
By means of the Ten Modes, Pyrrhonian skeptics appeal to conflicting appearances to bring about suspension of judgment. However, precisely how the skeptic might do so in a nondogmatic manner is not entirely clear. In this paper, I argue that existing accounts of the Modes face significant objections, and I defend an alternative account that better ...
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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, Lani Watson, Dennis Whitcomb   +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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Trust as performance

Philosophical Issues, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 120-147, October 2022., 2022
Abstract It is argued that trust is a performative kind and that the evaluative normativity of trust is a special case of the evaluative normativity of performances generally. The view is shown to have advantages over competitor views, e.g., according to which good trusting is principally a matter of good believing (e.g., Hieronymi, 2008; McMyler, 2011)
J. Adam Carter
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