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Logic and Normativity
What is the relationship between logic and thought? One view is that logic merely describes how people think. But this view – called 'psychologism' – cannot be quite right. Logic cannot describe how people reason, because ...
Locating “I think, therefore I am” in the Meditations
“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum) suggests a “naïve” interpretation whereby anyone who argues as follows is certain of their existence.
I think.
Therefore, I am.
Curiously, the famous line doesn’t appear in ...
Perception and Memory: Beyond Representationalism and Relationalism
This thesis is a collection of five self-standing articles dealing with different issues relating to representationalism and relationalism in contemporary philosophy of perception and contemporary philosophy of memory. The ...
Science and Religion: A Conflict of Methods
There is an epistemological conflict between religion and science. While the claims of science are justified using epistemic methods whose reliability has been corroborated by other people and by other methods, the claims ...
The Narrative Shaping of the Human World
Galen Strawson poses a dilemma for those who give narrative a central role in
shaping our experience. Either an account of narrativity requires narrative
self-experience, or it does not. If our account requires narrative ...
Identity and What Matters in Survival: Cause, Content or Continuity?
Derek Parfit maintains in Reasons and Persons that personal identity consists in two things. Person A and person B are the same person only if:
1. A and B are psychologically very similar [R&P 216], that is, in their ...
The Ethics of Killing Invasive Animals in Ecological Restoration
In many conservation decisions, there is disagreement over which animals should be managed through lethal control. These disagreements seemingly stem from different justifications for killing invasive animals. This study ...
Oughts, Thoughts, and Companions in Guilt: A Defense of Moral Realism
According to the moral error theory, there are no moral facts: all (positive, atomic) moral judgements are systematically and uniformly false. A popular strategy in recent years for arguing against the moral error theory ...
Newton's Epistemic Triad
Isaac Newton condemned the use of hypotheses with his (in)famous methodological statement, Hypotheses non fingo, and yet employed hypotheses explicitly in every edition of the Principia. Some commentators have argued that ...
Wittgenstein, objectivity and rule-following: towards resolving the communitarian vs. individualism debate
The question of whether the concept of a rule-follower presupposes more than a single individual came into prominence in the wake of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s considerations on rule-following, found primarily in his Philosophical ...