Sensitivity has Multiple Heterogeneity Problems: a Reply to Wallbridge

Philosophia - In this paper, I defend the heterogeneity problem for sensitivity accounts of knowledge against an objection that has been recently proposed by Wallbridge in Philosophia (2016b). I...     

Neo-Pragmatism,Primitive Intentionality and Animal Minds

Philosophia - According to Hutto and Satne (Philosophia, 43(3), 521–536, 2015), an “essential tension” plagues contemporary neo-Pragmatist accounts of mental contents: their...     

Kantian Forgiveness: Fallibility,Guilt and the need to become a Better Person: Reply to Blöser

Philosophia - In ‘Human Fallibility and the Need for Forgiveness’, Claudia Blöser (Philosophia 47:1-19, 2019) has proposed a Kantian account of our reasons to forgive that situates...     

On an Alleged Loophole in Causal Closure: A Reply to Gamper

Philosophia - This paper intends to critically consider the idea put forward by Johan Gamper (Philosophia 45: 631–636, 2017) that the principle of causal closure can be reconciled with the...     

Correction to: Non-transitive Better than Relations and Rational Choice

Philosophia - There is a mistake in the definition of the covering criterion on page 6.     

Comments on Nietzsche’s Constructivism by Justin Remhof

Philosophia - Justin Remhof defends a constructivist interpretation of Nietzsche’s view regarding the metaphysics of material objects. First, I describe an attractive feature of...     

Engineered Knowledge,Fragility and Virtue Epistemology

Philosophia - There is a clean image of knowledge transmission between thinkers that involves sincere and reliable speakers, and hearers who carefully assess the epistemic credentials of the...     

“One’s an Illusion: Organisms,Reference, and Non-Eliminative Nihilism”

Philosophia - Gabriele Contessa has recently introduced and defended a view he calls ‘non-eliminative nihilism’. Non-eliminative nihilism (NEN, henceforth) is the conjunction of...     

A Fundamental Failure of Frankfurt’s Agentic Counterfactual Intervention: No Agency

Philosophia - Frankfurt’s “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility” (1969) made an important intervention into the literature on moral responsibility via a classical...     

Anecdotal Pluralism,Total Evidence and Religious Diversity

Philosophia - My main claim is that, contrary to the assumptions of mainstream literature, epistemic religious diversity is not a matter of an abstract comparison among the belief systems of...     

A Hexagon of Opposition for the Theism/Atheism Debate

Philosophia - Burgess-Jackson has recently suggested that (the logical structure underlying) the debate between theism and atheism can be represented by means of a classical square of opposition....     

The Dualism of Modern Just War Theory

Philosophia - Conventional modern just war theory is fundamentally incoherent. On the one hand, the theory contains a theory of public war wherein ethical responsibility for the justice of war...     

Non-transitive Better than Relations and Rational Choice

Philosophia - This paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reasons to accept...     

Language,Ontology, and the Carnap-Quine Debate

Philosophia - On a widespread reading, the Carnap-Quine debate about ontology concerns the objectivity and non-triviality of ontological claims. I argue that this view mischaracterizes...     

Interpretivism without Judgement-Dependence

Philosophia - In a recent article in this journal, Krzysztof Poslajko reconstructs—and endorses as probative—a dilemma for interpretivism first posed by Alex Byrne. On the first horn of...     

Human Dignity as the Essence of Nussbaum’s Ethics of Human Development

Philosophia - Martha C. Nussbaum, in the context of ancient philosophy, formulated ethics of human development based on 10 basic human capabilities (and opportunities) as a precondition of...     

Modes of Introspective Access: a Pluralist Approach

Philosophia - Several contemporary philosophical theories of introspection have been offered, yet each faces a number of difficulties in providing an explanation of the exact nature of...     

On Actualist and Fundamental Public Justification in Political Liberalism

Philosophia - Public justification in political liberalism is often conceptualized in light of Rawls’s view of its role in a hypothetical well-ordered society as an ideal or idealizing form...     

On Bayne and Chalmers’ Phenomenal Unity Thesis (or: Much Ado about Nothing)

Philosophia - According to the Phenomenal Unity Thesis (“PUT”) – most prominently defended by Tim Bayne and David Chalmers – necessarily, any set of phenomenal states of a...     

Multiculturalism and Controversial Minority and Majority Practices

Philosophia - Raphael Cohen-Almagor’s Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism offers a different way of approaching multiculturalism from the systematic theoretical treatments that anchor the...