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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

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

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

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

SEmHuS: a semantically embedded humanitarian space

lowest priorities for those who operate there. In humanitarian crises, interests and preferences of decision-makers are driven by their original languages, cultures, education, religions, and political ... political affiliations. Therefore, imposing a universal solution upon them might be difficult, if not impossible. The shortage in machine-based reasoning techniques that could be applied to humanitarian data

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

The stagnation of innovation in humanitarian cash assistance

internal and external capacities, inherent characteristics of new financial technology (fintech), and a wider social, political, and regulatory context. According to the cyclical model of technological ... political context (Dearing and Cox 2018) . Innovators can be represented by an organization if the diffusion is a system-wide effort across the organization or a selected individual within an organization

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

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

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

Recognising the shadow pandemic in the humanitarian sector: ending violence against women in the aftermath of COVID-19

structural relations of power that are deeply rooted in cultural, social, economic, and political systems of the different societies and communities assisted by humanitarian organisations. The term ... , Europe, and Central Asia region; but also supporting and expanding helplines in Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya; and supporting emergency legal assistance services in Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya. Driving political

Unique Collections and Digital Humanities Initiatives: From Concept to Creation–Exploration and Practice at the University of Pittsburgh Library System

other fields such as sociology, political science, and gender studies in and outside of the university. In 2018, Dr Diana Wood, the Director of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), led ... Literature, Library and Information Science, Computer Science, Sociology, Political Science, History, and Economics. Advisors have also provided valuable comments and suggestions to the projects as well as

Consciousness and Intentionality in Franz Brentano

conscious insofar as it is aware of itself as an object. However, this reading fails to take into account the Brentanian concept of object, which is ultimately derived from ancient and medieval philosophy, as ... intentionality”. The current debate about the relationship between intentionality and consciousness1 can be viewed as largely the consequence of the focus placed in analytic philosophy on the so-called hard

Epiphenomenalism and the Epistemic Argument

of qualia-epiphenomenalism . Journal of Consciousness Studies , 13 ( 1- 2 ), 101 - 113 . Horowitz , A. ( 1999 ). Is there a problem in physicalist epiphenomenalism? Philosophy and Phenomenological ... (pp. 159 - 178 ). Reidel. Kim , J. ( 1984 ). Supervenience and supervenient causation . The Southern Journal of Philosophy , 22 , 45 - 56 . Kim , J. ( 1989 ). The myth of nonreductive materialism

Refugee COVID-19 protocol adherence and NGO staff perceptions: paternalism and power in humanitarian assistance

power over refugees in paternalistic ways (Verdirame and Harrell-Bond 2005) . Humanitarian assistance often de-emphasizes the agency of refugees, treating refugees as if they are detached from political ... belonging because they are not treated as political beings that have the capacity to belong to a polity. In this way, paternalism can lead to what Agamben (1998) called “bare life” and what Malkki (2002

Lists of Selected Full-text Databases by Subscription in East Asian Studies

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Motivating (Underdetermination) Scepticism

hypotheses . The Philosophical Quarterly , 60 ( 240 ), 449 - 470 . Beebe , J. ( 2011 ). A priori skepticism . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , 83 ( 3 ), 583 - 602 . Bergmann , M. ( 2004 ). Epistemic ... circularity: Malignant and benign . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , 69 ( 3 ), 709 - 727 . Bergmann , M. ( 2021 ). Radical skepticism & epistemic intuition . Oxford University Press. Boult , C. ( 2013