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Democratizing Citizenship: Some Advantages of a Basic Income

Posted on November 21, 2023May 13, 2025 by Deryn Mair Thomas

…democratic right, and the importance of the opportunity not to be employed shows how a basic income can help break both the link between income and employment and the mutual…

Posted in Analytic Feminism, Distributive Justice, Economics and Ethics, Economics and Justice, Feminist Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged basic income, free-riding, freedom, stakeholding, womenLeave a comment

The Status of Consciousness in Nature

Posted on May 26, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The most central metaphysical question about phenomenal consciousness is that of what constitutes phenomenal consciousness, whereas the most central epistemic question about consciousness is that of whether science can…

Posted in Consciousness and Materialism, Mathematical Psychologism, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind, Science Logic & Mathematics, Zombies and the Conceivability ArgumentTagged consciousness, explanatory gap, philosophy of mind, physicalismLeave a comment

Biological Parenthood: Gestational, Not Genetic

Posted on November 20, 2023May 13, 2025 by Deryn Mair Thomas

…distinguish between two kinds of biological connections between parents and children: the genetic link and the gestational link. I argue that the second can better justify a right to rear….

Posted in Applied Ethics, Children's Rights, Parenthood, Political Ethics, Rights, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged biological parenthood, children's rights, parental rightsLeave a comment

Pierre Duhem’s Good Sense as a Guide to Theory Choice

Posted on May 20, 2016June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…of good sense and the problems that stem from it. The paper presents a recent attempt by David Stump to link good sense to virtue epistemology. It is argued that…

Posted in General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Rational Choice Theory, Science Logic & Mathematics, Underdetermination of Theory by DataTagged Duhem, philosophy of science, underdetermination of theory by evidence, virtue epistemologyLeave a comment

Repatriation and the Concept of Inalienable Possession

Posted on November 27, 2017May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…a distinction between property and ownership. This opens up conceptual space for a link between objects and identity through ownership that might nevertheless allow for the alienability of such property….

Posted in Aesthetics, Art and Artworks, non-Western art, Property Rights, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged art, cultural artifact, cultural property, inalienable possession, ownership, property, property rights, rightsLeave a comment

The Political Promise of the Performative

Posted on November 27, 2017May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Summary: In this conversation Butler and Athanasiou explore the parameters of the public performance of political dissent. They discuss instances of political protest that link up to Butler and Athanasiou’s…

Posted in Political Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged performativity, political dissent, political protestLeave a comment

Mental disorder and the value(s) of ‘autonomy’

Posted on August 8, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…implicit in discussions about what we, as a society, owe to people with mental disorder. This form of thought builds upon intuitions which link respect for a person with respect…

Posted in Applied Ethics, Autonomy, Dementia, Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Science Logic & Mathematics, Value TheoryTagged autonomy, dementia, dignity, mental disorder, respectLeave a comment

Kink and Feminism – Breaking the Binaries

Posted on November 16, 2018June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…being ‘OK’ vs. ‘not OK’. The unconscious allows for a link between the personal and political such that our politics is less judgmental. Being in that space where our desires…

Posted in Conceptions of Sex, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged BDSM, desire, feminism, gender, kink, power, sex, unconsciousLeave a comment

Classical Chinese Logic

Posted on May 6, 2019May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…state of research in this area and the crucial concepts and methods applied in classical Chinese logic. The close link between Chinese logic and the Chinese language is also stressed…

Posted in Asian Philosophy, Chinese Logic, Chinese Philosophy of Logic and Language, Classical Logic, General Works in Logic, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Philosophical Traditions, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged Chinese logic, Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, logicLeave a comment

The public use of reason

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

…it is perhaps not surprising that Kant links his discussions of politics very closely to larger issues about the powers and limits of human reason. However, this is a large…

Posted in Government and Democracy, Political Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged Kant, political theory, reasonsLeave a comment

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