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Analytische Philosophie (III): Wilfrid Sellars, Peter F. Strawson und Barry Stroud. Analytischer Kantianismus.
Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989), Peter F. Strawson (1919– 2006) und Barry Stroud (1935–2019) gehören zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen der...
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Scepticism, Anti-scepticism, and Santayana’s Singularity
Considering Santayana’s treatment of scepticism in relation to Descartes and Hume, as well as twentieth-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein,...
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What Is the Sceptical Solution?
In chapter 3 of Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Kripke’s Wittgenstein offers a “sceptical solution” to the sceptical paradox about...
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Epistemic Partiality and the Nature of Friendship
The debate around epistemic partiality in friendship presents us with several tough philosophical puzzles. One of these has been articulated in two...
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Loving truly: An epistemic approach to the doxastic norms of love
If you love someone, is it good to believe better of her than epistemic norms allow? The partiality view says that it is: love, on this view, issues...
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Introduction: the Agony of Corinne Rey
Corinne Rey gave masked gunmen the passcode to the Charlie Hebdo building. If she had not, she and her young daughter would have been killed. She has...
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The Division of Normativity and a Defence of Demanding Moral Theories
Morality, according to some theories, demands a lot of us. One way to defend such demanding moral theories is through an appeal to the division of...
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Virtue Perspectivism, Externalism, and Epistemic Circularity
Virtue perspectivism is a bi-level epistemology according to which there are two grades of knowledge: animal and reflective. The exercise of reliable...
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Rules of disengagement: a Kantian account of the relationship between former friends
The category of “former friend” is familiar, yet the nature of this relationship type remains underexplored. Aristotle, for example, poses but does...
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Ton Seirenon Huposkhesin: The Dogmatic Attack on Everyday Life
This chapter resumes the second criterion to settle the dispute between the skeptic and the dogmatist, and argues that the dogmatist, but not the...
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Introduction
I introduce the key ideas of foundationalist, coherentist and pragmatist theories of knowledge. I then use these ideas as background for presenting...
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Hume’s Bundle
This chapter turns to the bundle problem. Hume identifies the mind with a bundle of perceptions and claims that our belief in its unity and identity...
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Carnap and Quine on Explanationism in Ontology
Let “explanationism” be the view that ontology is fundamentally an explanatory enterprise. What it does is “on a par” with natural science, as Quine...
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Resolving the Ethical Tension Between Creating a Civil Environment and Facilitating Free Expression Online: Comment Reordering as an Alternative to Comment Moderation
Incivility in online commenting sections can create a hostile environment and result in the silencing of vulnerable voices. Accordingly, content...
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Overcoming Epistemic Compositionalism by Appreciating Kant's Insight
Many interpretations of Kant’s first Critique fail to appreciate the revolutionary nature of his account of knowledge and its implications for...
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The Knowledge View of Perception: Capacities, Opportunities and Hindrances for Perceptual Knowledge
In my paper I discuss the idea that percpetion is a capacity for knowledge. I will argue that any attempt of holding on to the idea that perception...
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Anti-Skepticism Under a Linguistic Guise
In this paper I consider the plausibility of develo** anti-skepticism by framing the question in linguistic terms: instead of asking whether we...