Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Relativism is notorious. It is regarded by some as an enemy of realism, the view that human judgments can be valid of their objects as those objects obtain independent of the judgments in question. Realism is linked, not necessarily but usually, to correspondence theories of truth. For its critics, relativism threatens the validity of human judgment. Oddly enough, opposition to relativism is also notorious.1 Philosophers since World War II from almost all schools of thought have discovered novel forms of judgmental relativity, as well as the unavailability of self-evident valid judgments or epistemic "foundations." Many regard realism and correspondence as anachronistic attempts to preserve a philosophical ancien ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-30T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: "He created a philosophy of hope expressly premised on the understanding that there is, finally, no reason for hope.""Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of an uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement. …""Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-30T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In this section, I will explain the distinction between non-naturalist and naturalist phenomenologies. In doing so, I will explain both the methodological and ontological divides between these approaches with Scheler's work as an example of a non-naturalist phenomenology. In contrast, a naturalistic phenomenology will be suppled in the example of William James's radical empiricism.1 His radical empiricism will be shown to imply a commitment to what I call processive naturalism. Finally, I will explain aspects of Jack Reynolds's call for a minimal phenomenology that works with a muted conception of naturalism similar to my construal. In this way, Reynolds's argument against phenomenology simpliciter sets up a useful ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-30T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Suppose Sam is talking to his neighbor Janet about Bill, a schoolteacher, after finding out that Bill punishes his students by lashing them with a switch. "It's bad," Janet says. "It's bad and it's wrong," Sam says; "it's our duty to put a stop to it." But Janet won't go that far. She thinks there is a moral culture within which Bill might be acting conscientiously. Sam says that if that's true, the culture is wrong. Janet declines to make the ethical move of determining her duty, or Bill's, by a method of reasoning that can override a community's standards. Yet she really disapproves of Bill's conduct; she feels that domineering and violence impair the fellowship all humans should enjoy.We've all been in such ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-30T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Translating early Greek thinking—the so-called presocratic philosophers—presents a complex of opportunities and challenges for translators, several of which are regularly overlooked. On the one hand, translation and its constitutive element of interpretation can provoke fresh insights and unseal the possibilities for appreciating the early Greek thinkers as not only before, but in a sense beyond—outside, in excess of—philosophy. On the other hand, translators engaged with early Greek thinking face layers of interpretive history and expectations that can determine the scope of translation and limit the range of interpretive possibilities. Yet the predisciplinary or at least hybrid modes of the early Greek thinkers ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-30T00:00:00-05:00
Subscription journal
