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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

Emergence of National Nutrition Policy in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: an analysis of collaborations between governmental and external actors

provided the government with an effective political tool for coalescing the three coalitions into a unique coalition involving all major stakeholders in the nutrition field. All three forces that incite ... single coalition involved the control dimension. This control was essentially exercised through the political leadership that was conferred by the government to the Ministry of Health. The official

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

Vaccine inequity: a threat to Africa’s recovery from COVID-19

interests as well as the political and global economic welfare. Global solidarity and coordination would be required to fulfill this objective of equity, although there has been little evidence to confirm ... in political actors, beliefs about not needing the vaccine, and concerns about side effects. The vast majority of the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated against COVID-19 tend to reside in lower

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

Applicability of artificial intelligence-based computer-aided detection (AI–CAD) for pulmonary tuberculosis to community-based active case finding

95% by 2035. In addition, the United Nations General Assembly held its first-ever high-level meeting on TB in 2018, and adopted a political declaration of 40 million treatments and 30 million TB ... : WHO; 2015 . 3. General Assembly of the United Nations . Political declaration of the HighLevel Meeting of the General Assembly on the Fight Against Tuberculosis: resolution / adopted by the General

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

The Surprising Truth About Disagreement

significantly reduce our confidence in our central moral and political commitments. In this paper, I develop a typology of disagreement cases and a diagnosis of the source and force of the pressure to conciliate ... disagreement but the problem of irrelevant influences. Deep disagreement constitutes some pressure to examine the foundations from which we reason, rather than to conciliate on our central moral and political