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Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy

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

…actively participated in the language debates in the early 1990s. Tangwa briefly considers the purpose, functions, and uses of language in general, the relationship between language and culture, and the…

Posted in African Languages, African/Africana Philosophy, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Indigenous Languages, Language of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Social and Political PhilosophyTagged colonialism, decolonisation, native languages, philosophical conceptsLeave a comment

Biosemantics

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

Summary: The term ‘biosemantics’ has usually been applied only to the theory of mental representation. This article first characterizes a more general class of theories called ‘teleological theories of mental content’…

Posted in Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Teleological Accounts of Mental ContentTagged mental, philosophy of biology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, representationLeave a comment

Teleological Theories of Mental Content

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

…theory of content tries to say why a mental representation counts as representing what it represents. According to teleological theories of content, what a representation represents depends on the functions…

Posted in Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Teleological Accounts of Mental ContentTagged mental, philosophy of biology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mindLeave a comment

The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes

Posted on September 6, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth, revealing her mastery of metaphysics, analytic geometry, and moral philosophy, as well as her keen interest in natural philosophy. The letters are essential reading for…

Posted in 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Dualism, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Princess Elizabeth, René DescartesTagged Descartes, early modern philosophy, mind/body dualismLeave a comment

Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

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

Publisher’s Note: Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet,…

Posted in Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Food and Drink, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged aesthetic taste, aesthetics, philosophy of foodLeave a comment

Clarifying the Images (Ming xiang)

Posted on February 1, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Changes. Bi catalogues and explains the relationship between images, ideas, language, and meaning. A key text that continues to be of importance in Chinese aesthetics, philosophy of language, and hermeneutics….

Posted in Aesthetic Representation, Aesthetics, Asian Philosophy, Chinese Aesthetics, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Depiction, Meaning, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Language, Value TheoryTagged aesthetics, Chinese philosophy, hermeneutics, images, philosophy of languageLeave a comment

The Philosophy of the Upanishads

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

Overview: Not focused on any one Upanishad in particular, it conveys the spirit in which the Upanishads were written and provides a short overview of their Metaphysics, Ethics and Epistemology….

Posted in Asian Philosophy, Existence, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Metaphysics, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Ontology, Persons, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Religion, Specific Religions, The Self, Theistic Indian PhilosophyTagged existence, Hinduism, philosophy of religion, the selfLeave a comment

Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century

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

…of more recent feminist thinkers. The result is a more gender-balanced account of early modern thought than has hitherto been available. Broad’s clear and accessible exploration of this still-unfamiliar area…

Posted in 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Anne Conway, Cambridge Platonism, Feminist History of Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged early modern philosophy, history of modern philosophy, women philosophersLeave a comment

Forty acres and a mule’ for women: Rawls and feminism

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

…without such social and political equality, justice as fairness is as meaningful to women as the unrealized promise of ‘Forty acres and a mule’ was to the newly freed slaves….

Posted in 20th Century Philosophy, African-American Philosophy, African/Africana Philosophy, Feminist Ethics, Government and Democracy, History of Western Philosophy, John Rawls, Normative Ethics, Philosophical Traditions, Slavery, Social and Political Philosophy, Social Contract, Value TheoryTagged feminist ethics, John Rawls, slavery, social and political philosophy, social contractLeave a comment

22 Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy

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

Abstract: In 1934, Karl N. Llewellyn published a lively essay trumpeting the dawn of legal realism, “On Philosophy in American Law.” The charm of his defective little piece is its…

Posted in Abortion, Applied Ethics, History of Western Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged Gonzalez v. Carhart, Karl Llewellyn, law, legal realism, maternalism, partial-birth abortion act, paternalismLeave a comment

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