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A Group Theory of Group Theory: Collaborative Mathematics and the ‘Uninvention’ of a 1000-page Proof

Posted on June 17, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…completed in 1981, ranged between 300 and 500 articles and ran somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 journal pages. Mathematicians have hailed the project as one of the greatest mathematical achievements…

Posted in Collective Knowledge, Mathematical Methodology, Mathematical PracticeTagged Classification Theorem, expertise, mathematical community, reliability, uninventionLeave a comment

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 Logic Book

Posted on March 18, 2019June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Summary: This book is an introductory textbook on mathematical logic. It covers Propositional Logic and Predicate Logic. For each of these formalisms it presents its syntax and formal semantics as well…

Posted in History of Western Philosophy, Introductions to Logic, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged mathematical logic, predicate logic, propositional logicLeave a comment

Indicative Conditionals

Posted on March 12, 2023May 13, 2025 by Franci Mangraviti

The chapter is an introduction to logical treatments of indicative conditionals, comparing truth-functional, non-truth-functional, and suppositional approaches. Some of the topics discussed are truth conditions, conditional belief, assertability, and issues…

Posted in Indicative Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Norms of Assertion, Philosophy of LanguageTagged conditional belief, conditional probability, indicative conditionals, truth conditionsLeave 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

Types and Tokens: On Abstract Objects

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

…both types and tokens – for example, there is only one word type ‘the’ but there are numerous tokens of it on this page – as do symphonies, bears, chess…

Posted in Abstract Objects, Metaphysics, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of LinguisticsTagged metaphysics, nominalism, philosophy of languageLeave a comment

Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy

Posted on March 18, 2019May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her work as roughly…

Posted in 17th/18th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, Hannah Arendt, History of Political Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Kant: Philosophy of History, Kant: Social Political and Religious Thought, Political Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged judgement, Kant, political philosophyLeave 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

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