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Literary Méditations Hégéliennes
The next chapter develops the previous case for postructuralism by contending that the work of W.V.O Quine, and in particular, Donald Davidson, have...
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Quine’s conflicts with truth deflationism
Compared to the extensive amount of literature on various themes of W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, his immanent concept of truth remains a relatively...
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Naturalistic Epistemology
In this opening chapter, I discuss naturalized epistemology in contrast to traditional epistemology dating back to Descartes. What characterizes...
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A Kantian Response to Sellars’s Criticism of the Myth of the Given
One of the greatest followers of Kant, Wilfrid Sellars, who considered himself as an author of variations on Kantian themes, criticizes Kant for his...
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Human Sensory Knowledge
The first three chapters deal with different modes of experiential knowledge as these appear in animals and, as I suggest, in humans too. Following...
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Correctness conditions for property nominalists
Nominalists need some account of correctness for sentences committed to the existence of abstract objects. This paper proposes a new statement of...
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Maddy vs. Quine on Innate Concepts. Revisiting a Perennial Debate in Light of Recent Empirical Results
This article critically assesses the empirical research that leads Quine, in his posthumously published work, to abandon his empiricist principle...
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Nothing, Everything, Something!
Universalist and nihilist answers to philosophical questions may be extreme, but they are clear enough. Aliquidist answers, by contrast, are...
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Science and its Epistemic Limits
This chapter offers a discussion of scientific knowledge, what counts as theoretical knowledge in science, and how scientists may agree about the...
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Was sind soziale Pluralitäten und was plurale epistemische Autoritäten?
Im dritten Teil der Untersuchung wende ich mich nun pluralen epistemischen Autoritäten zu. Damit sind soziale Pluralitäten gemeint, die in unserer...
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Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Kognition und Sprachphilosophie
Automaten und Maschinen erkennen Sprachen von einfachen symbolischen bis zu natürlichen Sprachen (1). In der Tradition symbolischer KI lässt sich...
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Linking Experiences to the Social World
This chapter is dedicated to the evolution of thoughts and language based on sensory information of the environment. Animals living in socially...
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Ein Teil der Natur?
In diesem Kapitel diskutiere ich die Form des ethischen Naturalismus, die meinen Überlegungen zugrunde liegt. Vor dem Hintergrund der Unterscheidung...
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Individuum and Region of Being
The sign above Plato’s Academy allegedly read: “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter herein.” The sign put above the entrance of Husserl’s “pure...
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Rhetoric and Logic in Inference and Expectation
Language functions as argument in favor of or against a position in knowledge claims. Explanations defend their conclusions, criticism (as a form of...
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The Dialectical Principle of Charity: A Procedure for a Critical Discussion
This paper aims to discuss a well-known concept from argumentation theory, namely the principle of charity. It will show that this principle,...
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Fabri’s Logic of Composite Modals in its Historical Context
This chapter situates Fabri’s logic of composite modals in its historical context. Building on the results from Chap. 3...
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The Mental and Physical Still Pose Insuperable Problems
Classic topics are sentience (awareness), sapience (knowledge), and selfhood (agency or the epistemic “who”), exemplifying essential, unavoidable...
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Geist
Dieses Kapitel behandelt die Frage, welchen Platz der Geist in der materiellen Welt einnimmt. Der Begriff „Geist“ soll hierbei psychologische...
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A Pragmatist Approach to Business Ethics Research
The purpose of this chapter is to give an introductory account of the main tenets of a philosophical approach called “pragmatism”. The authors...