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Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Expressivism
The Logic of Philosophy presents a development of historical forms of coherence as they are found in discourse and as they can be logically...
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Modern Aristotelian and Thomistic Accounts
While previous chapters tended to present Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts in terms of their own words, there have also been disagreements among...
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The Plausibility and Significance of Underdetermination Arguments
Underdetermination of theory choice claims that empirical evidence fails to provide sufficient grounds for choosing a theory over its rivals. We...
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Applying Ramseyfication to Infrared Spectroscopy
The so-called Ramsey–Carnap approach, or Ramseyfication, has gone out of fashion in the philosophy of science. Advocates have tried to argue for a...
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From Local to Global: Rethinking the Dynamics of African Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective
This paper seeks to make a specific contribution to the future of contemporary African/intercultural philosophy in a globalized intercultural...
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Formal and Fundamental Ontology in Husserl and Heidegger
This article asks the double question of the relation between Husserl’s methodology and Heidegger’s "question of being", on the one hand, and the...
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Phrónēsis in Literary Criticism—The Pragmatic Denouement
The penultimate chapter gathers together the arguments previously adumbrated about the dovetailing of literary criticism and philosophy, while also...
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Exploring Ignorance and Injustice in African Epistemology
This chapter will explore two major themes in the African epistemology: the question of epistemic injustice and the question of the epistemology of...
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On Foucault’s Shoulders
Chapter On Foucault’s Shoulders, starts by proposing that the subject that awarded Ian Hacking more visibility and consideration, dealt with in...
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Exploring Ignorance and Injustice in African Epistemology
This chapter will explore two major themes in the African epistemology: the question of epistemic injustice and the question of the epistemology of...
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The Question of Method
An essential aspect of the contrast between mainstream philosophy of mathematics and heuristic philosophy of mathematics concerns the method of...
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Relativism and Realism in the Philosophy of Science
The philosophy of science is an important field of philosophy, where relativism and realism meet. The philosophy of science studies the nature of...
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The Relativity of Truth
In this chapter, I discuss the relativity of truth and define the concept of viewpoint-relative truth. The relativity of truth is perhaps the...
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Dynamic Coherentism
The previous chapter introduced two concepts, disinterpellation and mutual mistranslation which emerge at the intersection of two incompatible...
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Metaphysical, Scientific, Semantic and Aristotelian Naturalism
The chapter compares Aristotelian naturalism with other kinds of naturalism, and discusses the reasons for and against classifying a philosophical...
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Powers, Dispositions and Laws of Nature
Metaphysics should follow science in postulating laws alongside properties. I defend this claim against the claim that natural properties conceived...
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Kant’s Negative Noumena as Abstracta
This paper takes a fresh look at Kant’s transcendental idealism with a new reading of negative noumena as abstract entities. It shows that the three...
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Possible “Worlds”: Remarks About a Contoversy
J.N. Mohanty is one of the few phenomenologists who has been able to enter a fruitful discussion with analytical philosophy. Most significant in this...
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Philosophy’s gender gap and argumentative arena: an empirical study
While the empirical evidence pointing to a gender gap in professional, academic philosophy in the English-speaking world is widely accepted,...
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Tolerance and Relativism
Before addressing the question of whether and under what circumstances it is epistemically adequate to respond tolerantly to a disagreement, I would...