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give rise to corresponding general recommendations for how to do empirical political philosophy. Proponents of this approach should take care to (1) check for inappropriately narrow (and broad) samples ... theorizing. 1 Introduction Political philosophy has traditionally mainly been conducted from the proverbial philosopher’s armchair.1 Only in recent decades a methodological shift or expansion has taken place
, expertise and expert disagreement, social justice, climate change ethics, racism and gender. These issues raise questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, but also in epistemology, philosophy of ... philosophy in non-academic settings. On the other hand, we witness philosophers going public in the sense of intervening in ongoing political debates. The difference concerns the origin of the subject matter
ground for answering to this question by showing that it cannot be answered within a widely influential framework in the philosophy of action that has been dubbed the Standard Conception of Action, shared ... within a widespread framework in the philosophy of action that has been dubbed the ‘Standard Conception of Action’ (cf. Schlosser, 2019: §2) . That framework is a broad school, uniting causal theories of
-conscious machines via ad hoc means. Second, we can identify ad hoc AI by taking inspiration from the notion of an ad hoc hypothesis in philosophy of science. Third, given the first and the second claim, the ... , whether a being has conscious (affective) experience determines whether it has moral status (Dung, 2022b; Jaworska & Tannenbaum, 2021; Shevlin, 2020b) . 2 Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität
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This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building in ecology. This is reflected in a one-to-one ... Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE) , Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Campus Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-115 , Brazil 6 History, Philosophy and Biology Teaching Lab
work. Acknowledgements For comments, I would like to thank audiences of the UCL Colloquium in Political Philosophy, the VI Braga Meetings on Ethics & Political Philosophy, the German Analytic Philosophy ... Conference, the Public Goods Workshop in Zurich and the Ashoka Colloquium in Political and Legal Theory. I am especially indebted to Paul Bou-Habib, Paula Casal, Andrée-Anne Cormier, Anca Gheaus, Geert Keil
can be justified. We will address these two problems by combining ideas taken from legal theory and moral philosophy. Our analysis will emphasise the importance of the voluntary involvement of the ... University in Bratislava , Bratislava , Slovak Republic 1 Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Public Research Institution , Bratislava , Slovak Republic
scientific foundations of Nussbaum’s position. On the ethical side, we explore the tension between a robust defence of animal rights and political liberalism, which requires tolerance of a range of reasonable ... Science, London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK Martha Nussbaum's Justice for Animals calls upon humanity to secure for all sentient beings the central capabilities they need to
differences with respect to organismic features, these two kinds of systems cannot share a typical organismic property such as health. In recent years, an organisational approach in philosophy of biology and ... specifically refer to an approach in the philosophy of biology that has given rise to a number of theoretical developments from the late 1990s onwards (e.g., Schlosser 1998; Collier 2000; Bickhard 2000, 2004
opportunities for welfare . Philosophical Studies , 56 ( 1 ), 77 - 93 . Axelsen , D. , & Nielsen , L. ( 2015 ). Sufficiency as Freedom from Duress . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 23 ( 4 ), 406 - 426 ... egalitarian self-relations . British Journal of Political Science , 52 ( 2 ), 908 - 920 . Huseby , R. ( 2010 ). Sufficiency: Restated and defended . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 18 ( 2 ), 178 - 197
that are less tightly connected to rationality, such as political philosophy or the philosophy of language. As is characteristic for a handbook of this kind, certain key concepts or aspects are ... Informatics Campus , Saarland University , Campus E The concept of rationality is staple in philosophy, though it is not exclusive to it. Other disciplines - psychology in particular - take an interest in it
In this paper, we bring together the concepts of affordance from ecological psychology and function from the organizational approach to philosophy of biology into a single integrative framework. This
The problem of dream skepticism – i.e., the problem of what can justify one’s belief that they are not dreaming – is one of the most famous problems in philosophy. I propose a way of responding to ... two separate imagistic experiences in the same modality. 1 Introduction The problem of dream skepticism is one of the most famous problems in philosophy. It can be put simply: What can justify one’s
Pluralist mathematical realism, the view that there exists more than one mathematical universe, has become an influential position in the philosophy of mathematics. I argue that, if mathematical ... and attractive philosophy of mathematics. Note, however, that none of the accounts discussed offers a reason to believe in mathematical realism in the first place; they merely show that pluralist
memory, can provide philosophy with elucidating input that a restricted view misses. We further argue that reflection in fact often does add reliability, through generalizability, flexibility, and ... Introduction Throughout the history of Western philosophy, reflection has been considered an especially important human ability. Its role has long been prominent and can still be found at the center of theories
In recent years, immune systems have sparked considerable interest within the philosophy of science. One issue that has received increased attention is whether other phyla besides vertebrates display ... perspective on immune systems for immunology and its philosophy. Philosophy of immunology; Adaptive immune systems; Epigenetics; Small RNA inheritance; Immune memory Introduction The philosophy of immunology
This paper argues, based on Lewis’ claim that communication is a coordination game (Lewis in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp 3–35, 1975 ... philosophical logic and the philosophy of language, are not among those they employ. Strictly speaking, it is not their view of ‘reference’, in our sense, that is at issue here. Rather the relevance of their work
(hereafter Other Minds) from a methodological perspective. I show that these both instantiate what I call ‘synthetic philosophy.’ They are both Darwinian philosophers of science who draw on each other’s work ... , anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, and literary theory to explain how and why cultural features (good and bad) work the way they do…Pre-Darwinian natural history at its best was
. I argue that we testify not only by asserting something, but also by taking something for granted within some other utterance. In philosophy of language, this is called semantic presupposition. The ... reductionists and non-reductionists).5 Statements and assertions are utterances in the declarative mood. While ‘assertion’ seems the more technical term in philosophy of language, I take it that ‘statement