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 ...
While it is a view that philosophy has
largely ignored since Gilbert Ryle's work in the 20th century, we ought to recognize that
explanatory knowledge serves a valuable role in expert behavior. With ...
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 ...
Contemporary political philosophers studying
the effects of race approach it as being fundamentally a force of differentiation and
oppression, taking a thoroughly Rousseauian approach to inequality as based ...
The laws of nature are laws of nature in
virtue of their relationship to a singular entity which I am calling the law-like lump. The
law-like lump is a pattern within the time-evolution of the world, but ...
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 ...
This essay aims to employ a deconstructive
understanding of identity and representation in order to identify what an ethical approach
to representation should look like, especially with regard to the ...
Drives, both literal and metaphorical, come
together in The Haunting of Hill House. These drives occur in the car and in the home, two
spaces that are symbolically important in terms of women’s independence ...