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This paper presents a meta-ranking of philosophy journals based on existing rankings, and a new ranking of philosophy journals developed through a survey involving a thousand authors (351 respondents ... Scopus. As it can be expected that some work is more often cited in such publications than others (think of citations to moral and political philosophy in national policy-oriented publications), these
The role of scientific values has taken on new urgency with recent changes in the politics of Western societies. The threat is the erosion of the distinction between true and false in political ... political circles. This could rapidly lead to democracy sliding into populism thence fascism. In the light of this, philosophy and sociology of science should themselves re-examine their role. The main point
disciplines that engage in normative theorizing. Thus, we propose that social ontology connects not only with folk ontology and scientific ontology but also with fields such as ethics and political philosophy ... as ethics and political philosophy. Building bridges between them serves to formulate a credible and encompassing worldview that is of theoretical and practical significance. Consilience; Ecumenism
Philosophers of language are increasingly engaging with derogatory terms or slurs. Only few theorists take such language as a starting point for addressing puzzles in philosophy of language with ... theory goes back to John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, and there has been a lot of debate in moral and political philosophy about this distinction ever since. Only recently, the methodological discussions
It is argued that understanding is the norm of political discourse, and it is shown why political assertions can be epistemically problematic within a liberal democracy even when asserted ... can be epistemically problematic within a liberal democracy, even when knowledgably delivered. §2 One of the central tenets of liberal political philosophy is the endorsement constraint (e.g., Dworkin
There is a standard story told about the rise and fall of ordinary language philosophy: it was a widespread, if not dominant, approach to philosophy in Great Britain in the aftermath of World War II ... language philosophy, and the top 5 most cited articles in topic 24 include Frege’s “The Thought”, Michael Walzer’s “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands”, and Frank Jackson’s “Epiphenomenal Qualia
strand of ordinary language philosophy (OLP), as practiced by J.L. Austin, provides an approach to such ‘antinomic problems’ that proceeds from an examination of ‘ordinary language’ (how people ordinarily ... research program in experimental philosophy that avoids apparent non-sequiturs of OLP, extends and transforms experimental philosophy's 'sources program', and provides a promising new strategy for deploying
This paper studies Paul Cohen’s philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice as expressed in his writing on set-theoretic consistency proofs using his method of forcing. Since Cohen did not ... and was somewhat reluctant about philosophy, the analysis uses semiotic and literary textual methodologies rather than mainstream philosophical ones. Specifically, I follow some ideas of Lévi-Strauss's
In this paper we analyze relations between ontology in anthropology and philosophy beyond simple homonymy or synonymy and show how this diagnosis allows for new interdisciplinary links and insights ... concerns about validity and justification in philosophy, as we have seen throughout this analysis, the ontological turn in anthropology focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and political concerns that
by the citizens overlap on a shared political conception of justice, e.g. his justice as fairness. Optimally, accepting the political conception is for each citizen individually justified by the method ... is narrowed down by focusing on the inferential connections between comprehensive doctrines and political conception. Rawls himself makes a demanding assumption about which connections are necessary
Words appear to be denizens of the external world or, at any rate, not wholly mental, unlike our pains. It is the norm for philosophical accounts of words to reflect this appearance by offering various socio-cultural conditions to which an adequate account of wordhood must cleave. The paper argues, to the contrary, that an adequate account of word phenomena need avert to nothing...
of intuitions in undergraduate students of philosophy (n = 226), whose case judgments we sampled after each semester throughout their studies. Under the assumption, made by proponents of the expertise ... Philosophy, University of Warsaw , Warsaw , Poland According to the expertise defense, practitioners of the method of cases need not worry about findings that ordinary people's philosophical intuitions depend
The epistemic value of a political procedure—such as democracy or a civil trial system—depends on how well it performs in arriving at decisions that are correct by some independent standard. A core ... market . Politics, Philosophy & Economics , 20 ( 1 ), 99 - 123 . Blum , C. , & Zuber , C. I. ( 2016 ). Liquid democracy: Potentials, problems, and perspectives . Journal of Political Philosophy , 24 ( 2
Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden 1 KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , Sweden 1 Preliminaries Recent philosophy of science literature has acknowledged that there is a range of scientific modeling ... towards modal empiricism – the view that our modal knowledge derives from experience and/or (non-modal) empirical knowledge rather than being a priori – which makes its findings more amenable to philosophy
scholars from a variety of fields in order to explore issues in philosophy of statistics from different perspectives. The articles in this collection can be divided into roughly two categories. The first ... group contain articles by Mayo and Hand (2022), Radzvilas et al. (2021), Rubin (2021), and Spanos (2021), and are concerned mainly with foundational issues in philosophy of statistics. In particular, the
this focus does not adequately represent sound procedures of legitimisation at the hand of political theories of representation. Consequently, I develop a different approach: I propose to consider ... as of partisan science. 5 From values to representation: considering the political role of scientists and its democratic legitimacy The democratic legitimacy discussion within philosophy of science
Fichte’s Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre 1794 is one of the most fundamental books in classical German philosophy. The use of laws of thought to establish foundational principles of ... foundational principles of transcendental philosophy was groundbreaking in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and is still crucial for many areas of theoretical philosophy and logic in general
Social phenomena—quite like mental states in the philosophy of mind—are often regarded as potential troublemakers from the start, particularly if they are approached with certain explanatory ... different outside of analytic philosophy, see esp. Reinach (1913). In what follows, we shall outline the contours of a descriptive approach by arguing, first, that description and explanation need to be
representation” from philosophical and linguistic literature, concluding that none has a straight-forward application to BERTology. In philosophy, representations are typically analyzed as cognitive vehicles ... have so far not been addressed. In particular, there is a discrepancy in how representations have been analyzed across fields. Customary accounts in contemporary philosophy individuate them by
