Tag: Philosophy
Feminist logic may favor bilateralist proof systems
Feminist critique of inferentialism showing how formal logic systems embed political hierarchies and proposing paraconsistent alternatives that address these concerns.
Orthodox theologians link animal care to creation care
Metropolitan John of Pergamon and Kallistos of Diokleia reframe Orthodox theology to affirm animals’ intrinsic worth and eschatological inclusion, challenging anthropocentric traditions.
Understanding is proposed as an alternative basis for access internalism
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in EpistemologyPhilosophical examination proposing objectual understanding as an alternative to knowledge-theoretic formulations of access internalism in epistemology.
Tolstoy’s ethics influenced Wittgenstein’s views on conscience
Explore how Leo Tolstoy’s ethical philosophy shaped Ludwig Wittgenstein’s intellectual development during World War I, revealing deep conceptual convergences between these thinkers across distinct.
Wittgenstein’s anti-scientism is argued to support naturalism
Philosophical analysis of how Wittgenstein’s anti-scientistic approach permits a naturalistic philosophy of religion without supernaturalism.
Ability and epistemic position are treated as the same kind of modality
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in EpistemologyAnalysis arguing that an agent’s position to know reduces to ability to know through compossibility, subsuming epistemic modality under agentive modality.
The commentary questions Parfit’s temporal neutrality
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in EpistemologyCommentary on Scheffler’s treatment of Parfit’s temporal neutrality argument, proposing that fundamental grounds beyond relationships justify rejecting temporal neutrality.
Wittgenstein links religious language to ordinary life
Analysis of Wittgenstein’s philosophy showing how religious language functions within ordinary language-games and everyday forms of life rather than transcending everyday discourse.
Instructions can provide reasons by conveying practical information
Explore how instructions convey information about rational conclusions and establish reasons for action, bridging the philosophical gap between declarative and imperative sentences in decision-making.
Poetry and philosophy overlap in several ways
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in AestheticsExamination of how poetry and philosophy intersect, overlap, and complicate each other’s intellectual practices without collapsing into unified disciplines.
