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Paradox of Dignity: Everyday Racism and the Failure of Multiculturalism

Posted on August 11, 2019May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…and racism raise, and discusses two common liberal approaches for solving the problem of racism: the individualized conception of dignity and the social conception of multiculturalism. I argue that the…

Posted in Multiculturalism, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Racism, Value TheoryTagged Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Germany, liberalism, multiculturalism, racismLeave a comment

Dignity and its violation examined within the context of animal ethics

Posted on May 30, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…say “she fulfilled her duty with dignity, or honour.” However, in this paper I will not be using ‘dignity’ in either of these senses. Rather, the sense of dignity I…

Posted in Animal Ethics, Applied Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Value TheoryTagged animals, circus animals, dignity, InterestsLeave a comment

Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…women. Sarah Song provides a distinctive argument about the circumstances under which egalitarian justice requires special accommodations for cultural minorities while emphasizing the value of gender equality as an important…

Posted in Culture and Cultures, Feminist Political Philosophy, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism and Feminism, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged gender, justice, multiculturalismLeave a comment

The lottery paradox, knowledge and rationality

Posted on May 23, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…that one of the tickets sold will win. The rationality version of the paradox arises because it appears that it is rational to believe of each single ticket in, say,…

Posted in Epistemology, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Probability, Probabilistic Puzzles, Rationality, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged knowledge, lottery paradox, paradox, rationalityLeave a comment

Multiculturalism

Posted on January 20, 2020June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…historical injustice arguments. It then surveys a number of critiques of multiculturalism. It concludes by discussing concerns about political backlash and retreat from multiculturalism in the Western liberal democratic countries….

Posted in Culture and Cultures, History of Western Philosophy, Multiculturalism, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged equality, group rights, identity politics, justice, multiculturalismLeave a comment

Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making

Posted on February 20, 2020June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people’s everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one’s life experiences and sharpening…

Posted in Aesthetic Experience, Aesthetic Pleasure, Aesthetics, Value TheoryTagged everyday aesthetics, familiarityLeave a comment

Inheritors and Paradox

Posted on May 19, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Summary: Classic account of the way in which the prosentential theory of truth handles the liar paradox. Prosententialists take ‘It is true that’ to be a prosentence forming operator that…

Posted in Liar Paradox, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged liar paradox, logic, paradox, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, truthLeave a comment

Everyday Aesthetics

Posted on February 1, 2018June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking…

Posted in Aesthetic cognition, Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Nature, Value TheoryTagged aesthetic judgement, aesthetic taste, aesthetics, nature, quality of life, transcienceLeave a comment

Truth, Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox

Posted on June 28, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…will argue that the Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox is not a problem for naturalists only, I will propose a naturalist solution to it. (Should the Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox prove to be soluble from…

Posted in 20th Century Philosophy, Aspects of Meaning, History of Western Philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Saul KripkeTagged Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox, meaning, paradox, truth, truth rulesLeave a comment

Is multiculturalism bad for women?

Posted on February 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism — and certain minority group rights in particular…

Posted in Multiculturalism and Feminism, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged culture conflict, discrimination, feminism, minority, multiculturalism, sex, womenLeave a comment

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