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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 Limits of Political Theories (unpublished manuscript on file, FloridaState University Law Review). 9.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

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

Mental Health Service Users and Their Caregivers Perspectives on Personal Recovery from Severe Mental Health Conditions in Cape Town, South Africa: A Qualitative Study

diverse contextual, socioeconomic, political, demographic, cultural, and spiritual factors help and hinder personal recovery. MHSUs and their caregivers sought support from mental health non-profit ... strengths of the individual (Brijnath, 2015) and without due consideration of contextual barriers influencing recovery is reductionist. Ongoing research into the social, economic, cultural and political

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

A Realist Evaluation of Residential Treatment of Adults with Substance use Disorder: Development of an Initial Programme Theory

researchers with appropriate philosophy and methods with which to explore and start to unravel some of the complexity within residential treatment for addictions. ... treatment of substance use disorders (SUD). In doing so, we identify the importance of context in activating those mechanisms and outline the usefulness of Realist Evaluation (RE) as a research philosophy for

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

Slurs and Expressive Commitments

and Lepore Noûs 47(1), 25–48, 2013a, Analytic Philosophy 54(3), 350–363, 2013b; Bolinger Nous, 51(3), 439–462, 2017), giving them a firmer conceptual basis. It supports a distinction between derogation ... Nunberg's analysis (and incorporates elements of other pragmatic accounts, cf. Anderson and Lepore Nouˆs 47(1), 25-48, 2013a, Analytic Philosophy 54(3), 350-363, b; Bolinger Nous, 51(3), 439-462, 2017

Contributions, Brides, and the Convergence of Political and Criminal Corruption

purposesand should be recognized as such. Drawingfrom the political science theory of "multiple elitism,"I introducea new theory of corruption-"commonplacepolitical corruption"-inpresenting a defense of

Two Concepts of Truthmaking: a Compatibilist Solution to the Controversy Between Substantive and Deflationary Approach

neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Armstrong , D. M. ( 1997 ). A world of states of affairs . In Cambridge studies in philosophy. Cambridge ... . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , 101 ( 3 ), 567 - 590 . https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12605 Baron , S. , Chua , R. M. , Miller , K. , & Norton , J. ( 2022 ). Much ado about aboutness . Inquiry , 65

Intermediate Scrutiny for Corporate Political Contributions

its own political views rather than to serve the corporation’s best interests—i.e., by acting in bad faith. What standard will a Delaware court apply when reviewing management’s decision to cause the ... (Del. Ch. 2010) (Strine, V.C.). 2. Super PACs are political action committees that can spend unlimited money to expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates for federal political office, but

Partially Autonomous Belief

read at every truck stop. Tom is interested in political issues, and he tries to think the arguments from each party through. The contents of the arguments by themselves are not enough to convince him ... Empirical Knowledge . Midwest Studies in Philosophy , 5 ( 1 ), 53 - 73 . Carter , A. J. ( 2022 ). Autonomous Knowledge . Oxford University Press. Clark , A. , & Chalmers , D. J. ( 1998 ). The extended mind