Is it possible to make progress on all philosophical arguments? Ordinarily, we are given to think that we can do just this by correcting any mistakes we perceive, but in order to have the ability to mount a challenge against ...

The viscous, when it has been discussed at all, has been under the guise of disgust, abjection, or fear. But what if that conversation obscures a more fundamental movement to separate the viscous and self? Drawing on work ...

I argue that a surface reading of Wilfrid Sellars's thoughts on the split between the conceptual and pre-conceptual leaves children without the necessary tools for language acquisition. With the interpretive tools Sellars ...

In Mind and World, John McDowell makes a Kantian thesis that the two faculties of human knowledge – sensibility and understanding – are inextricably combined, in particular, that the sphere in which the faculty of understanding ...

Advances in artificial intelligence technologies are displacing human labor and continue to gain new capacities. Given these displacements, particularly those that not just displace physical tasks but mental ones, there ...

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 ...

For as long as language has been of interest to philosophers, so has translation. Over the course of the 20th century, sustained focus on matters of language inevitably brought translation to the fore. As a normative ...

White horse problem is a famous proposition in pre-Qin dynasty elaborated by Gongsun Long in 白马论, White Horse Dialogue. The reason that this problem is interesting to scholars is because that it might testify the existence ...

Nietzsche writes "The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything" (GM I:13). And yet, though Nietzsche's rejection of the theoretical import of ‘doers' in favor of an account of ‘deeds' is clearly a ...

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: ...