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On Whether It Is and What It Is

This dialogue, taking place between Prof. Whether and Prof. What, focuses on the nature of the relationship between ontology, conceived as the branch of philosophy concerned with the question of what ... the complementary part of philosophy that seeks to explain, of those entities, what they are. Most philosophers claim that it is not possible to address the first question without at the same time

Shaping and Sharing in Democratic Theory: Towards a Political Philosophy of Interstate Equality

: TOWARDS A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF INTERSTATE EQUALITY LEA BRILMAYER* Interstatecases pose most dramatically the question of the legitimacy of a state's exercise of coercive power. Professor Brilmayer ... Limits of Political Theories (unpublished manuscript on file, FloridaState University Law Review). 9. Rawls, Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play, in LAW AND PHILOSOPHY 3 (S. Hook ed. 1964) ("I

Three Kinds of Arguments for Panpsychism

known from the history of philosophy mainly due to the fact that the former is often combined with so-called Russellian monism. According to Russellian monism, the intrinsic properties of physical things ... Terminological Preliminaries Within the last 100 years, the analytic philosophy of mind has been dominated by materialism, a view that one can fully account for mental phenomena in purely physical terms, such as

Why the Actual Malice Test Should Be Eliminated

-censorship, according to Sullivan, was that it undermined the political theory of self-government as well as the philosophy of the Enlightenment, both of which Sullivan regarded as undergirding the right of ... right of political criticism-along with the actual malice test which was designed to protect it-derived logically from both a political theory of self-government and the philosophy of the Enlightenment

Replies to the Critics of Knowing and Checking: an Epistemological Investigation

Investigation (Routledge 2019), hereinafter abbreviated as KC. These papers resulted from a workshop organized by the department of philosophy of the University of Maribor. I am very thankful to the organizers of ... . Admittedly, there is some plausibility to claiming that we can check by using Newtonian physics. However, this is a general problem within the philosophy of science and not a problem for checking in particular

Tricky Truths: How Should Alethic Pluralism Accommodate Racial Truths?

Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University , Stellenbosch , South Africa 2 Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University , North Ryde , Australia Some alethic pluralists maintain that there are two ... accommodate such a notion. Philosophy of truth; Determination Pluralism; Douglas Edwards; Crispin Wright; Michael Lynch; Metaphysics of race 1 Introduction The important question of whether we should

Justified Evidence Resistance

to Mylan Engel, Thomas Grundmann, Paul Silva Jr, Mona Simion, Tom Sorell, and Luis Rosa. I have benefitted from being a Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy ... an intellectual virtue? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement , 84 , 23 - 45 . Bernecker , S. ( 2021 ). An epistemic defense of news abstinence . In S. Bernecker, A. Flowerree , & T. Grundmann (Eds

Virtue, Self-Narratives, and the Causes of Action

Journal of Philosophy , 13 ( 1 ), 11 - 20 . Ulatowski , J. , & Lumsden , D. ( 2023 ). Do political convictions infect every fibre of our being? Social Epistemology , 1 - 17 . https://doi.org/10.1080 ... of moral value are caused by virtues cultivated by a person over time. This is a notion that not only has relevance to popular thinking about virtues but also, within academic philosophy, has currency

Privacy's "Three Mile Island" and the Need to Protect Political Privacy in Private-Law Contexts

underlying political information such privacy protects. In the intervening four years, despite these revelations, while some social media companies took voluntary measures to prevent a repeat of the types of ... single institution-themarket, political bodies, or the courts-should take a greater role in policing online privacy. Yet these institutionsare often interdependent when it comes to protecting

Prospects of BRICS currency dominance in international trade

dominance of the BRICS currency in international trade, if only trade relations are taken into account, whereas political and other aspects are neglected. ... political and other aspects are neglected. Keywords: World trade network, International trade, Currency, Opinion formation model Introduction Starting from the Bretton Woods agreements in 1944, the US dollar

If Molinism is true, what can you do?

counterexamples and the free will defense . Faith and Philosophy , 19 , 462 - 478 . Bergmann , M. ( 2003 ). Agent causation and responsibility: A reply to flint . Faith and Philosophy , 20 , 229 - 235 . Climenhaga ... Philosophy of Religion , 77 , 231 - 246 . Cohen , Y. ( 2016 ). Counterfactuals of divine freedom . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 79 , 185 - 205 . Craig , W. L. ( 2007 ). Sept. Q&A #23

Hearing God speak? Debunking arguments and everyday religious experiences

licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. Allen , C. ( 2020 ). Teleological Notions in Biology . In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition ... being: Connections and distinctions . Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 9 ( 4 ), 321 - 341 . https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp. 2003 .0053 Coleman , T. J. , III., Bartlett , J. E. , Holcombe , J. M

A Global Constitutional Crisis

the domestic legal and political discourse, even without a formal transposition mechanism. The very fact that the Biden administration was pressured to return to the WTO normalcy is emblematic of the ... gravitationalforce of the WTC can also shape daily operations of private businesses at a granular level, even if such force may remain unrecognizableon a surficial level. This Article finally argues that political

Value Pluralism versus Value Monism

history of philosophy, is defended only by a few contemporary authors (Dworkin, 2012; Hurka, 1996; Klocksiem, 2011; Moen, 2016; Regan, 1997) ,1 is based on the opposing metaphysical thesis: namely, that ... among deliberators that such conflicts allow for reasoned choices. In fact, the very notion of political deliberation is underpinned by the presupposition of comparability. For if choices between freedom

Political corruption and the congestion of controllability in social networks

By viewing political and social corruption through the lens of the control theory of complex systems, this paper will provide some insight into the effects of corruption and outside control on ... payment through political corruption opportunities, can be identified by changes in an indicator of the controllability of the network at points where the network undergoes a structural change. A

Adult Supervision? Appellate Review, Mandamus, and the Federal Rules in Multidistrict Litigation

its implication that MDL judges ignore the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure-has gone viral, finding its way into briefs, opinions, and political materials intended to hamper judicial discretion in MDL ... support for this proposition as a general matter, it is recognizable as the rhetoric from these groups' political efforts.2 ' That such language would be deployed in this opinion-under circumstances that

Non-Factualist Interpretation of the Skeptical Solution and the Self-Refutation Argument

and logic . Victor Gollancz Ltd. Barber , A. ( 1998 ). The pleonasticity of talk about concepts . Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition , 89 ( 1 ), 53 ... . ( 2017 ). Semantic non-factualism in Kripke's Wittgenstein . Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy , 5 ( 9 ), 1 - 13 . Byrne , A. ( 1996 ). Misinterpreting Kripke's Wittgenstein. Philosophy and

Does moral anti-theodicy beg the question?

-theodicy . Philosophy. Compass , 11 , 1 . Betenson , T. ( 2019 ). In defence of moralising Anti-theodicy: A rely to Snellman . European Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 11 ( 1 ), 213 - 226 . Hick , J ... critique and defense of theodicy . Religious Studies , 49 , 439 - 458 . Simpson , R. M. ( 2009 ). Moral antitheodicy: Prospects and problems . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 65 , 153

God’s necessary existence: a thomistic perspective

Philosophy and Theology , Offenbacher Landstraße 224, 60599 Frankfurt , Germany 1 Åke Wahlberg There are strong reasons for assuming that Thomas Aquinas conceived of God's existence in terms of logical ... controversial notions in modern philosophy. At this point, I will merely mention two characteristics of logical necessity in this broad sense. First, broad logical necessity is stronger than factual necessity. If

Oppy on arguments and worldviews: an internal critique

one standard format for a paper in philosophy of religion. (1) Provide some introductory remarks that form the background to the subsequent discussion. (2) State an argument – either with the conclusion ... – which is just to say that interesting and controversial propositions are not tautologies. If they were, or if at least many philosophers suspected that they might be, we’d expect philosophy papers to