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The State of Nature
Hobbes created the state of nature, the condition in which people live before the establishment of the civil state, as the civil state’s polar...
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Exit & isolation: Rousseau’s state of nature
Game theory has proven useful in clarifying Hobbes’s argument that the state of nature will inevitably devolve into a state of war....
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The State as Second Nature in Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism
This essay reconstructs Schelling’s account of the state as second nature and accordingly as an objective ground of human freedom in the System of...
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Locke’s state of nature and its epistemic deficit: a game-theoretic analysis
Locke rejected anarchism. Locke defended the universal necessity of political governments on the grounds that the state of nature will occasionally...
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Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature
This chapter deals with the basic outlines of Schelling’s conception of living nature. It had a profound influence on the development of biology,...
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Nature
In this chapter, I focus on Descartes’s physics. According to it, nature is extended matter, a uniform solid body made of moving and arranging...
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The Evolutionary Nature of Knowledge
There is uncanny similarity between evolutionary biology and evolutionary knowledge. Darwin’s theory of evolution is the most comprehensive and...
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A Dualist Metaphysics of Nature
I start this chapter with a presentation and critique of Brian Ellis’ new essentialism, which consists in a dualist metaphysics of laws based on both...
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Nature and Functions of the G20
The second part of the book discusses the legitimacy of a specific global governance institution, the G20, which has so far hardly been investigated...
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What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework
This paper presents an account of the nature of stem cells based on the philosophical concept of disposition. It is argued that stem cells can be...
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The Nature of Epistemic Intuition
In the last chapter, we saw that epistemic intuition is an essential constituent of epistemic thought experiments. The question then arises: what is...
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Sextus and the Nature of Suspension
This article is an investigation of the nature of suspension of judgement as it is conceived by Sextus Empiricus. I carry out this investigation by...
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Can You Hear Nature Sing? Enacting the Syilx Ethical Practice of Nʕawqnwixʷ to Reconstruct the Relationships Between Humans and Nature
This study sheds new insight on how historically oppressed and marginalized actors are able to pursue environmental sustainability based on...
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Unlimited Nature: A Śaivist Model of Divine Greatness
The notion of maximal greatness is arguably part of the very concept of God: something greater than God is not even possible. But how should we...
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Lamarck: Philosopher of Nature
This paper presents the chapter on the history of the inheritance of acquired charactersAcquired character that Jean Gayon published in 2006 in a...
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The Paradoxical Nature of Aliveness
Our experience of relationships provides us with direct access to the intelligibility of joinings in terms of paradox. This includes the paradoxes of...
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Typicality of Dynamics and Laws of Nature
Certain results, most famously in classical statistical mechanics and complex systems, but also in quantum mechanics and high-energy physics, yield a...
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The Nature of Good and Evil
“The Nature of Good and Evil” addresses the relationship between Dewey’s metaphysics and his social ethics. The chapter focuses especially on wisdom,...
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Laws of Nature and Theory Choice
I articulate a Global Best-System Account (GBSA) of laws of nature along broadly Mill–Ramsey–Lewis lines. The guiding idea is that the job of laws is...
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Reichenbach’s Lecture “The Problem of Laws of Nature”
This is the first appearance in English translation (and the first appearance anywhere since a now-hard-to-find 1939 Turkish publication) of...