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Soothing the Self-Threat of Idea Theft
The creative process has the potential to increase wellbeing and foster human flourishing (Dolan and Metcalfe,
2012 ; Forgeard and Eichner,2014 ;...
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The Idea of Merit: Delineation and Challenges
The idea of merit is at the core of intense contemporary debate related to social justice in general and meritocracy in particular. In this paper, I...
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The groundlessness of sense: a critique of Husserl’s idea of grounding
This article critiques Husserl’s idea of grounding through an exploration of his notion of the lifeworld. First, it sketches different senses of the...
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Is the autonomy of the will a paradoxical idea?
This essay tackles head on the argument that sees an inherent paradox in the autonomy of the will as the ground for the authority of the fundamental...
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A Holistic Approach to Macro-Ethics of Technology: A Contribution to Mitcham’s Big Idea
Carl Mitcham has recently pointed out that the current approach to the ethics of technology has failed to solve large-scale socio-ethical challenges...
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Exorcising the Myth of the Given: the idea of doxasticism
We can distinguish two senses of the Given, the nonconceptual and the non-doxastic. The idea of the nonconceptual Given is the target of Sellars’s...
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Practical perceptual representations: a contemporary defense of an old idea
According to ‘orthodox’ representationalism, perceptual states possess constitutive veridicality (truth, accuracy, or satisfaction) conditions....
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The Idea of an Anthropological Shift
After having read each of these manifestos separately, we will examine the differences between their different anthropological aims. This will be the...
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The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann
Identifications, diagnoses, and treatments of pseudo-problems form a family of classic methodologies in later nineteenth century philosophy and at...
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Frozen Sandhi, Flowing Sound: Permanent Euphonic Ligatures and the Idea of Text in Classical Pali Grammars
Pali classical grammars reflect a specific idea of what Pali Buddhist texts are. According to this traditional idea, texts are mainly conceived as...
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Providence, Renaissance Idea of
In the Renaissance, under the influence of the Reformation but also of “Neoplatonists” or natural philosophers observing material phenomena, the idea...
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Scepticism About Scepticism or the Very Idea of a Global ‘Vat-Language’
This paper aims to motivate a scepticism about scepticism in contemporary epistemology. I present the sceptic with a dilemma: On one parsing of the...
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Beauty, the Renaissance Idea of
The idea of beauty in the Renaissance relies heavily on Plato’s thoughts about beauty as the emanation and splendor of the divine. The Florentine...
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Appetite, Renaissance Idea of
For Aristotle, the sensitive soul of animals was distinguished from the vegetative one because of its appetitive faculty. During Renaissance, the...
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Plato’s Idea of Truth
Human freedom is often presented by Plato as a paradox. Although most men and women regard themselves as free and independent beings, this vision is...
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Law, Renaissance Idea of Natural
The introduction of laws of nature is often seen as one of the hallmarks of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. The new sciences...
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Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Rudolf-Wolfgang Müller: The Idea of Money and Money as Idea
This chapter surveys the relation between money and ideation in the writings of two insightful but often overlooked German thinkers of the...