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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

Reinventing Black Womanhood: Alternative Media and Identity Discourse in the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Race

to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to

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

Inauthenticity, Delusion, and Victimization: Interrogating Affective Rhetoric Targeting Trans* Youth

has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal

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

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

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

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

With Action Comes Reflection

., & S. Kahn (Eds.). Activism and rhetoric: Theories and contexts for political engagement (pp. 38-48). Routledge. Pelias, R. J. (2013). Writing autoethnography: The personal, poetic, and performative as ... political engagement (pp. 159 - 172 ). Routledge. https://doi. org/10.4324/9781315144535 Bell , L. A. ( 2019 ). Storytelling for social justice: Connecting narrative and the arts in antiracist teaching (2nd

We Don’t Do That Here: Investigating and Expanding Instructional Communication by “Transing” the Communication Classroom

instructional communication and education researchers investigate methods of improving teaching and educational systems at large, many of these investigations neglect to attend to the socio-political context of ... their sexualities in educational spaces. Importantly, however, factors constraining one’s ability to engage in strategic self-disclosure are highly dependent on both socio-political context and the

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

Scientific Evidence and the Internalism–Externalism Distinction

propositions (or facts) that are common knowledge among the members of the scientific community. (2) Kelly (Philosophy Compass, 3 (5), 933–955, 2008; 2016) argues that only externalism is suited to account for ... philosophy, John Earman (1993 , 37) says that “the main concern is rarely whether or not a scientist ‘knows’ that some theory is true but rather whether or not she is justified in believing it.”. For a

Essentialist Arguments for Discernibility are Unsound

in published maps and institutional affiliations. Baker , L. R. ( 1997 ). Why Constitution is Not Identity . The Journal of Philosophy , 94 ( 12 ), 599 - 621 . https://doi.org/10.2307/2564596 Barcan ... ), 1567 - 1585 . https:// doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-0351-8 Della Rocca , M. ( 1996 ). Essentialists and essentialism . Journal of Philosophy , 93 ( 4 ), 186 - 202 . Fine , K. ( 1994 ). Essence and modality