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Sexualität und Geschlechtlichkeit
Die Sexualethik fragt nach dem Stellenwert von Geschlechtlichkeit oder ‚Sexualität‘, wie sie seit dem 19. Jahrhundert auch heißt (von lat. sexus:...
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General Introduction
What is the meaning of justice in African philosophy? The chapter introduces the central themes of this book. It first presents highlights of the...
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“Good” Philosophical Reasons for “Bad” Editorial Philology?
Using new archival material, this chapter reconstructs the editorial history of Philosophical Grammar, an edition that Rush Rhees crafted from...
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Vermischte Bemerkungen
Die Vermischten Bemerkungen sind eine Sammlung von Bemerkungen aus dem W.-Nachlass, die von Georg Henrik von Wright und Heikki Nyman zum ersten Mal...
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Jahre in Berkeley und anderswo
Paul Feyerabend kam im September 1958 als Gastdozent nach Berkeley. 1960 erhielt er dort eine Festanstellung. Der Philosoph und...
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Must Virtue Be Heroic? Virtue Ethics and the Possibility of Supererogation
When Urmson first challenged moral philosophers to account for the phenomenon of supererogation, contemporary virtue ethics was just in its infancy....
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The Neo-Wittgensteinian Treatment of Religious Knowledge
A school of philosophy of religion emerged in the twentieth century that was strongly influenced by the thought of the later Wittgenstein....
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The Humean theory of motivation: much ado about nothing?
According to the Humean theory of motivation, desire is identified as the primary source of motivation, while cognitive states like beliefs are...
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Life and Recognition: Michael Thompson’s Practical Naturalism
Like other neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalist, Thompson holds that ethical goodness is a species of natural goodness insofar as the ethical...
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Zettel
Der unter dem Namen Zettel veröffentlichte Text geht auf Ts 233 zurück, in dem sich von W. gesammelte, handschriftlich bearbeitete und nach seinem...
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“Where lies the grail? AI, common sense, and human practical intelligence”
The creation of machines with intelligence comparable to human beings—so-called "human-level” and “general” intelligence—is often regarded as the...
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How agency is constitutive of phenomenal consciousness: pushing the first and third-personal approaches to their limits
Husserl characterizes sleep with the idea of “the relaxation of the will.” One finds a similar approach in the work of Maine de Biran, who explains...
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Das Gutsein der Wirklichkeit
Gleich zu Beginn seiner Frühschrift Die Wirklichkeit und das Gute macht Josef Pieper auf den zweifachen Sinn des Begriffs ‚Wirklichkeit‘ aufmerksam:...
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Assertion, Lying and the Norm of Truth
In chapter four of Truth and Truthfulness Bernard Williams presents an account of assertion that relies heavily on the ‘psychological’ notions of...
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Conceptual Pluralism
This chapter introduces the problem of conceptual plurality. I argue that the best way to approach causal pluralism is to take a semantic approach,...
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Anti-intellectualism, instructive representations, and the intentional action argument
Intellectualists hold that knowledge-how is a species of knowledge-that, and consequently that the knowledge involved in skill is propositional. In...
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Practical Reasoning and Practical Argumentation: A Stakeholder Commitment Approach
This paper examines the conceptual and terminological overlap between theories and models of practical deliberation developed within the fields of...
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Kelsen: Methodological Individualism in the Social Theory of Law
The status and nature of the state have been the traditional source of claims about the reality of supra-individual social entities. Kelsen was the...
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Perceiving causation and causal singularism
Elizabeth Anscombe’s classic paper Causality and Determination claims that causation can be perceived. It also defends causal singularism, the idea...
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Looking for Reasons to be Good: Mengzi as a Moral Advisor
This essay accounts for Mengzi’s 孟子 failure in persuading King Xuan of Qi (Qi Xuan Wang 齊宣王) to act morally. We argue that the distinction between...