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applications of democracy undermine liberty on both a practical and structural level. To accomplish this task, this paper discusses the role of group agents in a democratic political system. While voting allows ... Administration. n.d. Office of the Federal Register. https://www .archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html Ripstein, Arthur. 2009. Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy
is my claim that epistemic injustice is not just a problem of knowing and that it reaches far beyond the scope of traditional epistemology and roots itself in both the social and political. It is, at a ... , the inability to engage in the introspective process of creating one’s subjecthood. Epistemology and political philosophy share a deep connection, one that is often overlooked by traditional
realm of academia has appeared to regress in an appreciation or acknowledgement for the usefulness of philosophy. I will begin by examining the influence of socio-political and economic factors on the ... . Camus’ political presence was grounded in the refusal to accept an ideology at the cost of human suffering, and he described the nature of Sartre’s philosophy and submission to political institutions as
I argue that the validity of the Stoic conception of the singular soul, empirically and psychologically, creates a view that is paradoxical: if being happy is the end for the sake of which everything is done, and if this consists in living according to virtue, using only right reasoning, one cannot obtain happiness. Why? Because selecting using right reasoning is the only virtue...
Bechtel believe that if “philosophy of science is (often) philosophy of mind enough” HIT refutes the correlation objection (McCauley & Bechtel (2001), 754). In fact, in almost every place they articulate ... & Bechtel, 754). The correlation objection, then, misses the point entirely by getting the role of identities in scientific practice wrong. 5. Is HIT “philosophy of mind enough?” It is clear from McCauley
Typically, Western moral philosophy has sought to understand questions of right and wrong in the absence of Eastern tradition. Yet, Aristotelian ethics has long been used as a lens with which Chinese ... collective efficacy in society, by stressing actions which lead to positive consequences. This lens allows for an expansion of consequentialist ethics into Confucian philosophy, while also opening Western
, associated models of the method are usually empiricist ones. However, much of the recent philosophy of science shows a lack of emphasis on novel predictions. The central reasons include the general thesis of ... for methods classified as unificationist criteria of theory assessment. In this paper, I will extend Harker’s criticisms to a broader history of novel predictions in philosophy of science. I will then
about the universe. Although this process is explicitly adopted by Descartes in his micro mechanical explanations of the physical universe, Hobbes maintains that his political philosophy follows from ... axioms and logic alone. Essential to my main claim, I will argue that Hobbes is wrong. His political philosophy does not follow from axioms and logic alone but rather from beliefs about human psychology
Deliberative mechanisms surrounding climate change politics in advanced democracies have, for some time, been at the mercy of ideological and political economic commitments. One need only to look at ... conflict linked to climate concerns by Germany and the US to see that the political institutionalization of climate change is pervasive. On the other hand, the discursive demarcation by climate science has
The field of Ethics in philosophy is confusing for many, even those having worked in the field a few years. Thus, the field of Meta-ethics may be even more confusing. Meta-ethics, in a nutshell, is ... Footnote Honorable Mention Paper, 17th Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (2013) Thi s article is available in Res Cogitans: http://commons.pacificu.edu/rescogitans/vol4/iss1/18
who argues that there is a fundamental difference in the knowledge of men and of women; the female virtues, as she states, have not been given their full voice in epistemology and philosophy in general ... and philosophy. Finally we shall take on a new perspective of the feminist standpoint from Phyllis Rooney who says that any characterization is bound to be tied up with gendered associations that
intentions to make a case for ethical and political normativity are good, his bridging of the chasm between the empirical and the normative is too weak to be a groundwork for our talk of a “meaningful life” as ... conscious experience, perhaps the only things that ultimately matter to us, are often relegated in the rest of philosophy to the status of “secondary qualities,” in the shadowy zone between the real and the
[From the introduction] Contemporary trends in philosophy of mind have galvanized non-reductive physicalism, the thesis that (1) the world and its components are essentially physical, and (2 ... than one sufficient cause. In this paper I draw on emergentism, a prevalent non-reductionist theory, in order to present the problem of causal overdetermination in philosophy of mind. I attempt to show
paper, I will attempt to provide a new reading of St. Augustine’s philosophy regarding women in light of The Trinity and City of God. It is my argument that Augustine has a twofold vision of the Imago Dei ... men’s will. Sadly, such was the reality of women in the religious, political, and often domestic setting. And still is… Augustine’s commentary, I turn to the Gospel of Matthew. Christ asserts: “One does
been changed. Essentially, Tymoczko, and others, argue we can now have mathematical epistemic justification through a posteriori means. This has obvious implication in philosophy of mathematics and ... the Philosophy of Mathematics Casey M. Rufener Macalester College In 1977 when Appel, Haken and Koch used a computer to mathematically solve the century old fourcolor-problem philosopher Thomas
Contemporary philosophy discussions on the nature of time begin with McTaggart, who introduces two ways of describing temporal relation between events: the A-series, focusing on the past, present and ... editor of CommonKnowledge. For more information , please contact - On Time Chengquan Xiang Colorado College Published online: September 7 2017 © Chengquan Xiang 2017 Contemporary philosophy discussions
Sellars’ charge that such a view commits one to an empirically unjustifiable platonistic ontology. In Sellars’ view, an adequate philosophy of science requires an adequate philosophy of mind, and this ... adequate philosophy of mind, and this implies that we cannot locate unobservable platonic abstracta on an ontological continuum with the unobservable theoretical entities posited in scientific theories (e.g
theory’s treatment of normative validity claims. Cooke believes that despite Habermas’ exhaustive efforts, any political theory that discredits the possibility of metaphysical truth inevitably relinquishes ... validity is meant to capture. In this essay, I examine how Habermasian philosophy attempts to assimilate such criticisms by deriving its normative ideals from the Theory of Communicative Action. In
Philosophy of Language”) is critically discussed; third, Kent Bach and Robert Harnish’s analysis of linguistic communication is critically discussed; lastly, due to considerations detailed in the previous ... that P; U knows that A was at the scene while A was burgling and therefore U knows that A believes that P. Therefore, (1) is false. Neale, in “Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language,” succeeds in
This paper wishes to follow the injunction given to us from Badiou that philosophy shouldn’t dictate the progress in various fields that it’s coupled with (science, politics, etc.), and that it ... Us to Rethink Metaphysics Sterling Hall University of Nevada, Reno Philosophy isn’t a lapdog to the sciences, though it does dwell in its shadow. Philosophy’s purpose isn’t to clarify the workings
