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Aptness and means-end coherence: a dominance argument for causal decision theory
Why should we be means-end rational? Why care whether someone’s mental states exhibit certain formal patterns, like the ones formalized in causal...
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Natorp, Cassirer and the Influence of Relativity Theory on Neo-Kantian Philosophy
In this paper, I will survey the “received view” of the interpretation of relativity theory in Natorp and Cassirer. Neo-Kantian and non-neo-Kantian...
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Kagawa Toyohiko, 1888–1960: An Early Exemplar of an ‘Epistemology of the South’
This chapter introduces Kagawa Toyohiko’s nature and child-centered religious education curriculum for pre-schoolers, which he designed in response...
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Exciting the Industry of the Irish: Bishop Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money
This chapter discusses Berkeley’s monetary theory, as developed in The Querist, focusing on the political crisis and the political project that...
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An Externalist Theory of Social Understanding: Interaction, Psychological Models, and the Frame Problem
I put forward an externalist theory of social understanding. On this view, psychological sense making takes place in environments that contain both...
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Objectification and vision: how images shape our early visual processes
Objectification involves treating someone (a subject) as a thing (an object). The role of images in perpetuating objectification has been discussed...
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Complimentarities of Physicality and Functionality Yield Unavoidable Dualisms
Choice control by higher order constraints operating through downward causation occurs when physical conditions are underdetermined by laws and...
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Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Common Telos of the All
This chapter explores foundational issues in the philosophy of time and space by comparing the phenomenological contributions of Anna-Teresa...
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Anti-Representationalism, Naturalism, and Placement Metaphysics
A perennial issue in contemporary philosophy is the question of how, in Wilfrid Sellars’ terms, categories of the ‘manifest image’ relate to those of...
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Federigo Enriques and the Philosophical Background to the Discussion of Implicit Definitions
Implicit definitions have been much discussed in the history and philosophy of science in relation to logical positivism. Not only have the logical...
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The Disorientation of Love and the Decline of Literature
This chapter provides an overview of Murdoch’s engagement with Kantian aesthetics and existentialist philosophy. Murdoch believed that contemporary...
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Scientia in the Renaissance, Concept of
“Scientia” is a long-standing heritage of Aristotelian logic and denotes an epistemic ideal pursued through several centuries. According to...
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The Spatiality of the Peace
Peace studies have long ignored social theories about spatiality and have considered space as an abstract container that does not contribute anything...
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The Invalidity of the Argument from Illusion and the Argument from Appearance
One crucial premise in the argument from illusion is the Phenomenal Principle. It states that if there sensibly appears to be something that...
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Incommensurability and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: taking Kuhn seriously
In this paper, we analyze the debate between the Modern Synthesis and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis in light of the concept of...
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Feyerabend, funding, and the freedom of science: the case of traditional Chinese medicine
From the 1970s onwards, Feyerabend argues against the freedom of science. This will seem strange to some, as his epistemological anarchism is often...
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The Form of Practical Reasoning
A central claim in the Kantian account of practical knowledge is that the logical form of practical reasoning is universal. This chapter argues for a...
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LESSING: Answer Coded in the Parable of the Three Rings
As a matter of fact, the Leibniz’s never-published, compromising, page on the (non-) eternity of the pains of hell was on a piece of paper discovered...
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Critique of pure Bayesian cognitive science: A view from the philosophy of science
Bayesian approaches to human cognition have been extensively advocated in the last decades, but sharp objections have been raised too within...
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Analysis of Segment III: Discussion of Copleston’s Religious Argument
Segment III of the debate is quite brief (Turns 71-91) and is dedicated to the argument from religious or mystical experience to God’s existence....