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The Persistence of Epistemic Objects Through Scientific Change

Posted on May 16, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…and which ones to eliminate; historians and philosophers of science have been on the whole much too unreflective in accepting the scientists’ decisions in this regard. Through a re-examination of…

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Interpreting Quantum Theories: The art of the possible

Posted on May 20, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Quantum Theories has three entangled aims. The first is to guide those familiar with the philosophy of ordinary QM into the philosophy of ‘QM infinity’, by presenting accessible introductions to…

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On the Apparent Antagonism Between Feminist and Mainstream Metapysics

Posted on August 20, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…typically bring new methodological insights to bear on traditional ways of doing philosophy. Feminist metaphysicians have also recently begun interrogating the methods of metaphysics and they have raised questions about…

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On a causal theory of content

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

Abstract: The project of explaining intentional phenomena in terms of nonintentional phenomena has become a central task in the philosophy of mind.’ Since intentional phenomena like believing, desiring, intending have…

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Verbal Disputes and the Varieties of Verbalness

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

…statement S (Chalmers, Hirsch, Sider) do not capture the full range of cases as they might arise in philosophy. Moreover, these accounts bring in heavy theoretical machinery. I attempt to…

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Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility and Spatiality

Posted on September 10, 2024May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…our society typically comport themselves and move differently from the ways that men do. In accordance with the existentialist concern with the situatedness of human experience, I make no claim…

Tagged embodiment, gender, phenomenology of spatiality, Simone de BeauvoirLeave a comment

Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience

Posted on May 7, 2015May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…sees private ‘conscientious’ objection as a modest act of personal belief and civil disobedience as a strategic, undemocratic act whose costs are only sometimes worth bearing. The conscience argument is…

Tagged civil disobedience, conscience, conscientious conviction, conscientious objection, integrity, moral obligation, moral pluralismLeave a comment

Plato on Commensurability and Desire

Posted on June 12, 2015June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…social choice theory that present themselves as innocuous extensions of ordinary belief and practice could actually lead, followed and lived with severity and rigor, to the end of human life…

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Non-Combatant Liability in War

Posted on June 19, 2015May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher: How We Fight: Ethics in War contains ten groundbreaking essays by some of the leading philosophers of war. The essays offer new perspectives on key debates including pacifism, punitive…

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Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction

Posted on October 19, 2015May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s note: Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is…

Tagged artworld, feminism, women in artLeave a comment

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