The aim of this paper is to examine what Heidegger identifies as the danger of modern technology and to understand how art can possibly be an antidote to this present danger. Heidegger’s concern about modern technology ...
What is the problem with identity? A genre of academic articles has emerged out of concern over the use of identity in various political and social contexts. These articles worry that social identities such as race, gender, ...
My senior essay is aimed at asking whether artificial agency is possible, and examining the ethical ramifications of an affirmative answer. In the course of my paper, I accept that agency ought to be defined on a continuum ...
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 ...
My focus is on two very different forms of understanding—what I call scientific understanding and narrative understanding. I argue that scientific understanding is characterized by its non-agential perspective and ...
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, ...
This paper argues that Kierkegaard can make a positive contribution to contemporary debates concerning the possibility of supererogation within a virtue ethics conception of ethics. It uses Kierkegaard’s theories on the ...
Realists and anti-realists about value acknowledge that we have and talk about evaluative experiences, but the status of our experiences and talk is contentious. What is up for debate is whether such experiences are ...
Although teleology, or explanations in terms of goals or ends, has historically been integrated in biology, within the past few hundred years, mechanistic explanations have dominated the field and teleology has largely ...
The project of this paper is to problematize the Wittgensteinian account of logic which treats what we understand to be the laws of logic as infallible and claims that logic does not constitute a branch of knowledge. In ...