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Hume’s Academic Skepticism: A Normative Theory of Belief
The close link between Hume and the skepticism of the New Academy was contested for a long time by an interpretative tradition that saw Hume as a...
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Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Unity of Space
In this chapter, I discuss the first implication of the Idealist reading, pertaining to the (dis)unity of space. I consider both the spatial...
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The Foundational Document of Cognitive Science
David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature is arguably the best candidate for the first ever overarching attempt at a descriptive-explanatory science of...
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Hume’s “projectivism” explained
Hume appeals to a mysterious mental process to explain how to world appears to possess features that are not present in sense perceptions, namely...
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Belief, blame, and inquiry: a defense of doxastic wronging
According to the thesis of doxastic wronging, our beliefs can non-derivatively wrong others. A recent criticism of this view claims that proponents...
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External world scepticism and self scepticism
A general trend in recent philosophical and empirical work aims to undermine various traditional claims regarding the distinctive nature of...
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Is Radical Doubt Morally Wrong?
Is radical skepticism ethically problematic? This paper argues that it is. Radical skepticism’s strong regulation of our doxastic economy results in...
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Ambedkar, Radical Interdependence and Dignity: A Study of Women Mall Janitors in India
In this paper, using Ambedkar’s pioneering vision for engaged Buddhism, we developed the notion of radical interdependence, which consists of four...
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How Sceptical Is Hume’s Theory of Personal Identity?
Andrew Ward argues, at odds with the standard interpretation of Hume on the self, that the Appendix does not express Hume’s dissatisfaction with the...
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Justification and Pluralism in the Logic of Philosophy
Reading the Logic of Philosophy as opening up the possibility of an interactive and dynamic theory of argumentation implies a reflection on the...
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Distinctive substantial self-knowledge and the possibility of self-improvement
Quassim Cassam distinguishes between trivial and substantial cases of self-knowledge. At first sight, trivial cases are epistemically distinctive...
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Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination: The roles of mental time travel and metacognition
We tend to seek immediate gratification at the expense of long-term reward. In fact, the more distant a reward is from the present moment?the more we...
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Linguistic Corpora and Ordinary Language: On the Dispute Between Ryle and Austin About the Use of ‘Voluntary’, ‘Involuntary’, ‘Voluntarily’, and ‘Involuntarily’
The fact that Gilbert Ryle and J.L. Austin seem to disagree about the ordinary use of words such as ‘voluntary’, ‘involuntary’, ‘voluntarily’, and...
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Will in Renaissance Philosophy, Weakness of
Weakness of will (akrasia) continues to be actively discussed in the Renaissance and the Reformation. Important treatises are written by John...
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Introduction
The introduction begins presenting the two axes of the book. On the one hand, the book is concerned with both modern skeptical doubt and religious...
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Contractualism and the Moral Point of View
In this paper, I argue that accounts of the normative basis of morality face the following puzzle, drawing on a case found in Susan Wolf’s...