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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

Banding Together: Law Versus People Power in the United States

democracy deficit. Labor unions and other collective associations like tenants’ unions can challenge oligarchy. Membership-based political parties or democratic NGOs allow people to engage in politics in ... - more scope for participatory involvement.2 I examine this de-democratization in relation to four kinds of associations: (1) political parties; (2) labor unions; (3) nonworker economic cooperatives; and

The Political Urgency of Black Manhood: Frederick Douglass on Constitutional Theory

citizenship under the Constitution. He had to generate a potent faith in his own gendered identity in order to overcome the debilitating political stigma that attached to his racial identity. Only by doing this ... for free and open access by The University of New Mexico School of Law. For more information, please visit the New Mexico Law Review website: , USA 2 John M. Kang, The Political Urgency of Black Manhood

Stochastic Terrorism, Speech Incantations and Federal Tax Exemption

failure bespeaks a First Amendment political philosophy but insufficient legal analysis. 248. See generally Abner S. Greene, Government of the Good, 53 VAND. L. REV. 1 (2000) (discussing the government ... person, feeling threatened, is motivated to do so as a result. 3. That individual act of political violence can’t be predicted as such, but that violence will happen is much more probable thanks to the

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

A Return to Rationality: Restoring the Rule of Law After Daubert's Disastrous U-Turn

compromises with social and political pressures having, as such, no bearing on the principled choices that the Court is obliged to make. Thus, the Court’s legitimacy depends on making legally principled ... sense judges only of the experiment, the experiment of Nature and the thing itself.”); see also Mary Hesse, Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Science 123–24, in ESSENTIAL ARTICLES FOR THE STUDY OF FRANCIS

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

The Mindful First Amendment

freedom of speech and freedom of the press in an era of severe cultural and political polarization. This article focuses on the external aspects of mindfulness—the interaction with others and with society ... considerations in the realm of speech and press. THE PROBLEM Modern political discourse is broken. The evidence for this state of affairs comes from many sources and perspectives. Starting with polling, consider

The Historical Development of the Concept of Forced Labor and the Open Boundaries of its Definition Today

Historical Perspective: A Study of Proletarianization of the African Peasantry in Rhodesia, in ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA (Giovanni Arrighi & John Saul eds., 1973); Richard Roberts, Coerced ... prohibiting the use of coercive labor to accomplish certain ends. In particular, it committed states to suppress: any form of forced or compulsory labour— (a) as a means of political coercion or education or as

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

Rethinking Rights in a Disappearing Penumbra: How to Expand Upon Reproductive Rights in Court After Dobbs

. REV. 173, 214 (1994) (noting that “[t]he Nazi’s simply carried [Holmes’s] philosophy to its natural conclusions,” but also demonstrating how Holmesians usually escaped this accusation with blusterous ... elementary work,”73 Wilson noted, elsewhere, that Blackstone is a mere “political writer[]” who “deserves to be much admired; but he ought not to be implicitly followed.”74 Failing to heed this founding

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

Risk Practices in Childhood. A Glance from Political Subjectivity

The following study provides the results of the research conducted on risk practices taken by boys and girls in the school environment and how these influence in shaping their political subjectivity ... interpretative - qualitative perspective of exploratory type that allowed recognizing the relationship between risk and political subjectivity in childhood and from there, the meaning and actions that take place

Risk Practices in Childhood. A Glance from Political Subjectivity

The following study provides the results of the research conducted on risk practices taken by boys and girls in the school environment and how these influence in shaping their political subjectivity ... interpretative - qualitative perspective of exploratory type that allowed recognizing the relationship between risk and political subjectivity in childhood and from there, the meaning and actions that take place

Emotional Complexity, Collective Strength and Power Relations in the Political Participation of University Students from Medellín

political participation, both among young people who assume the role of student representatives and among those who call themselves "disinterested". The results suggest that feelings of enthusiasm, empathy ... political participation of student representatives, while feelings of apathy, fear and frustration are associated with the inhibition of political participation, especially among those who call themselves

Emotional Complexity, Collective Strength and Power Relations in the Political Participation of University Students from Medellín

political participation, both among young people who assume the role of student representatives and among those who call themselves "disinterested". The results suggest that feelings of enthusiasm, empathy ... political participation of student representatives, while feelings of apathy, fear and frustration are associated with the inhibition of political participation, especially among those who call themselves

Emotional Complexity, Collective Strength and Power Relations in the Political Participation of University Students from Medellín

political participation, both among young people who assume the role of student representatives and among those who call themselves "disinterested". The results suggest that feelings of enthusiasm, empathy ... political participation of student representatives, while feelings of apathy, fear and frustration are associated with the inhibition of political participation, especially among those who call themselves