The lived experience of complex trauma survivors influences ontology by offering the opportunity to theorize paradoxes within the formation of consciousness. Using Emmanuel Levinas' Existence and Existents, I develop an ...

John Rawls' A Theory of Justice is an extremely important work of contemporary liberalism that sets up the theoretical framework for a defense of liberal social contract deontology. Michael Sandel, a communitarian, tries ...

In the study of living things, there is a general suspicion of teleology as a legitimate mode of explanation. In its place, materialist accounts have been put forth and used by biologists to explain life processes through ...

Conflicting interpretations have disturbed Wittgenstein's private language argument. I describe two fundamentally opposing readings. In the first, the argument defends an essential connection between the public and the ...

Derek Parfit argues that normative anti-realism, the thesis that all normative truths are dependent on our normative attitudes, is a form of Nihilism, the thesis that nothing matters. I shall argue that Parfit is right: ...

The philosophy of Artificial Intelligence is beset by an intolerable deadlock. In an attempt to answer the question of whether computers can perform the same actions as humans, many philosophers have posited varying ...

Perspectivism of knowledge, in conjunction with common epistemic assumptions, entails that perspectives are an inherently distortionary force in the knowledge relation. Often reduced to the thought that “there are no facts, ...

This paper seeks to dissolve the apparent epistemological tension posed in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics between, on the one hand, the infallibility of the knowledge-state we are in when we know scientific first principles, ...

The interpretation of essence and its role in determining substance in Aristotle’s Metaphysics has long been a topic of controversy. In the following article, I will attempt to analyze essence as the sole and definitive ...

In the paper “Nietzsche contra Freud: Genealogy/Archaeology of Morals” I argue that the works On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche and Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud should be analysed ...