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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

Sexual Consent Norms in a Sexually Diverse Sample

Sexual consent has received increased attention in mainstream media, educational, and political settings since the rise of the #MeToo movement in 2017. However, long before #MeToo, sexual consent has ... (from “far below average “ to “far above average”), political orientation (assessed using three items: “in general,” “regarding economic issues,” and “regarding social issues,” response options ranging

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

Correction to: Validation of the Short Version (TLS-15) of the Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45) Across 37 Languages

Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA Department of Child & Family Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of

Pornography Consumption and Extramarital Sex Attitudes Among Married U.S. Adults: Longitudinal Replication

, divorce history, education, race, sex, general unhappiness, martial unhappiness, liberal-conservative political orientation, and religiosity. These results are consistent with prior panel studies in the ... assessed via frequency of attendance at religious services (scale: 0 = never attend religious services, 8 = attend religious services more than once a week; M = 3.62, SD = 2.85). On a political orientation

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

Male Sexual Victimization by Women: Incidence Rates, Mental Health, and Conformity to Gender Norms in a Sample of British Men

) . This may be due in part to prevailing Department of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK gender norms that impact whether victims report incidents of ... manuscript. Funding Funding was provided by the Department of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Data Availability Data and materials are available at https

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

Reply to Sullins (2023) on the Ethical and Human Rights Concerns of Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

religious or political inclinations, the problem with SOCE is fundamentally about ethics and sexual and human rights. Sullins (2022, 2023) claims that SOCE reduces suicidality and thus restrictions against ... (i.e., lifting bans and/or restrictions on SOCE, including the practices described above like “corrective” rape). We hope that, regardless of one’s religious or political ideologies, we can all agree

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

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