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Socratic Inquiry and the Aporetic Endings
In the early dialogues, Socrates has an epistemic procedure that begins with a conceptual answer to the ‘What is F?’ question, and proceeds toward a...
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A plea for descriptive social ontology
Social phenomena—quite like mental states in the philosophy of mind—are often regarded as potential troublemakers from the start, particularly if...
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Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Approach to Philosophy
This chapter opens with a biographical overview of Michael Polanyi’s life and work before focusing on the post-critical orientation of his...
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How (not) to judge a theory of causation
Philosophical theories of causation are commonly judged by their ability to correctly determine whether there is a causal relation present in...
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Epistemic Emotions and the Value of Truth
In this paper, I discuss the intrinsic value of truth from the perspective of the emotion studies in virtue epistemology. The strategy is the one...
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Determinacy and Functional Relations
This chapter disambiguates several concepts central to the thesis of the book and provides the staging necessary for an understanding of the...
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Do Preconceptions Determine New Knowledge? Epictetus and Max Weber on Truth
Scientific knowledge development involves a sequence between the preconceptions of premises and the confirmation or reconfiguration of those premises...
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Memory as Triage: Facing Up to the Hard Question of Memory
The Hard Question of memory is the following: how are memory representations stored and organized so as to be made available for retrieval in the...
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We don’t know we don’t know: asserting ignorance
The pragmatic logic of assertions shows a connection between ignorance and (informal) decidability. In it, we can express pragmatic factual ignorance...
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Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology
In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them,...
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Merleau-Ponty on human development and the retrospective realization of potential
In this essay, I propose that human development is the emergence of something significantly new out of a past situation that does not hold that novel...
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Wiedererinnerung/Anamnesis
Entsprechend dem üblichen Sprachgebrauch kann bei Platon mit dem Verb anamimnêskesthai und dem Nomen anamnêsis ein Sich-Erinnern an wahrgenommene...
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Knowledge as Problem Solving
Contrary to a philosophical tradition which maintains that sense perception is the starting point of knowledge, this chapter maintains that problems...
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Smartfounding: Four Grades of Resistance to Thought Experiments
Smartfounding is the opposite of “dumbfounding” introduced by Jonathan Haidt’s research on disgust. Dumbfounders have general competence at thought...
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The Greek Legacy
Falsafa emerges in the Islamic world during the Abbasid Caliphate when Islamic civilization was first coming into contact with Greek philosophy. The...
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Replies
I’ll organize my replies around four topics: mind wandering and phenomenal selfhood, transformation versus enactive emergence, agency versus...
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Circulus Vitiosus Existentiae: Ricoeur’s Circular Hermeneutics of Evil
This chapter offers a reading of Ricoeur’s Symbolism of Evil wherein Ricoeur identifies a circular, repetitive structure in the experience of evil....
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Al-Farabi and Islamic Moderate Evidentialism
In this chapter, we discuss the second of the great Islamic philosophers Abu Nasr al-Farabi. We take up themes that were raised in the previous two...
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Myth and Instruction: Meno
Tofighian explores Socrates’s references to myth and religious tradition in the Meno and the way myth impacts the dialectical exchange with Meno. By...