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Food for Thought: Philosophy and Food

Posted on April 26, 2016June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Summary: The importance of food in our individual lives raises moral questions from the debate over eating animals to the prominence of gourmet cookery in the popular media. Through philosophy,…

Posted in Aesthetics, Applied Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Food and Drink, Value TheoryTagged food, food moral and ethical aspectsLeave a comment

Intention

Posted on May 23, 2016July 2, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Summary: Three core problems about intention are discussed: (i) expressions of intention; (ii) the intentional or non-intentional character of action; (iii) the intention of an action, or with which it…

Posted in Intentional Action, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Practical and Theoretical ReasoningTagged action, expression, intentionLeave a comment

Risk and Rationality

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

Publisher’s Note: Lara Buchak sets out a new account of rational decision-making in the face of risk. She argues that the orthodox view is too narrow, and suggests an alternative,…

Posted in Decision-Theoretic Frameworks, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Normative and Descriptive Decision Theory, Philosophy of Action, Preferences in Decision Theory, UtilityTagged behavioral economics, decision theory, expected utility, instrumental rationality, rationality, risk, risk-weighted expected utilityLeave a comment

The Metaphysics of Squaring Scientific Realism with Referential Indeterminacy

Posted on November 24, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…that some philosophers actually advocate both theses (Quine himself may be one such example), finding a way to square the theses would be multiply advantageous. On this paper, the author…

Posted in Arguments For and Against Scientific Realism, General Philosophy of Science, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged referential indeterminacy, scientific realismLeave a comment

The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition

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

Publisher’s Note: The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition touches on all areas of artistic activity, including poetry, painting, calligraphy, architecture, and the “art of living.” Right government, the ideal human being, and…

Posted in Aesthetics, Aesthetics General Works, Asian Philosophy, Chinese Aesthetics, Philosophical Traditions, Value TheoryTagged art, art and culture, Buddhism, China, Chinese aesthetics, confucianism, DaoismLeave a comment

Against Dryness

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

Abstract: The complaints which I wish to make are concerned primarily with prose, not with poetry, and primarily with novels, not with drama; and they are brief, simplified, abstract, and…

Posted in History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophical MethodsTagged metaphilosophy, methodologyLeave a comment

Afrophone philosophies: possibilities and practice. The reflexion of philosophical influences in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Nagona and Mzingile

Posted on January 30, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

My paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, I will define the basic concepts, such as “African philosophy” and “Afrophone philosophies”, their relationship and the general context…

Posted in African Languages, Indigenous Languages, Language of Philosophy, MetaphilosophyTagged culture, Euphrase Kezilahabi, philosophical influences, philosophical reflexionLeave a comment

Simone Weil on Labor and Spirit

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

This essay argues that Simone Weil appropriates Marx’s notion of labor as life activity in order to reposition work as the site of spirituality. Rather than locating spirituality in a…

Posted in Normative Ethics, Religious Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged immanence, labour, Marx, Simone Weil, spirituality, workLeave a comment

Experiments in Ethics

Posted on March 31, 2015May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…elaborates a vision of naturalism that resists both temptations. He traces an intellectual genealogy of the burgeoning discipline of “experimental philosophy,” provides a balanced, lucid account of the work being…

Posted in Experimental Philosophy, Experimental Philosophy: Ethics, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Normative Ethics, Skepticism about Character, Value TheoryTagged experimental ethics, moral psychology, naturalismLeave a comment

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

Posted on May 7, 2015June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…of Goodness has proven to be important reading for philosophers and classicists, and its non-technical style makes it accessible to any educated person interested in the difficult problems it tackles….

Posted in Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Moral Luck, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Literature, Value TheoryTagged Aristotle, ethics history, fortune, fragility, Greek drama, luckLeave a comment

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