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That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory: America’s Indigenous Nations and Informal Logic Courses

Posted on April 11, 2023June 26, 2025 by Franci Mangraviti

…relevant contextual content of examples used to teach critical thinking can excite and inspire Native students to learn. Thus philosophers can reinforce the acquisition of critical thinking skills for Native…

Posted in Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas, Informal Logic, Logic and Philosophy of LogicTagged bering strait theory, critical thinking, fallacies, teaching philosophyLeave a comment

The Other Side of Agency

Posted on July 17, 2023May 13, 2025 by Deryn Mair Thomas

…in versions of the agential conception: action, capability, choice and independence. In 3. I argue that each of these agential features presupposes a non-agential feature: agency presupposes patiency, capability presupposes…

Posted in Agency, Persons, Philosophy of Action, Social and Political Philosophy, Theories of Moral ValueTagged agency, moral theory, patiency, personhood, philosophy of actionLeave a comment

Civic Education and Social Diversity

Posted on September 29, 2023May 13, 2025 by Deryn Mair Thomas

…with political liberalism accommodate significantly more social diversity than one guided by comprehensive liberalism? Political liberals claim that it would, and some recommend political liberalism to us largely on this…

Posted in History of Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged civic education, civic virtues, Mill, political liberalism, Rawls, social diversityLeave a comment

Zhuangzi’s Knowing-How and Skepticism

Posted on October 26, 2023May 13, 2025 by Lea Cantor

A common interpretation of the Zhuangzi holds that the text is skeptical only about propositional knowledge and not practical knowledge. It is argued here that this interpretation is problematic, for…

Posted in Asian Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Classical Daoism, Epistemology, History: Skepticism, Philosophical TraditionsTagged Daoism, epistemology, scepticism, ZhuangziLeave a comment

Can there be a feminist science?

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

Abstract: This paper explores a number of recent proposals regarding “feminist science” and rejects a content-based approach in favor of a process-based approach to characterizing feminist science. Philosophy of science…

Posted in Feminist Philosophy of Science, General Philosophy of Science, History of Western Philosophy, Science and Values, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged feminism, philosophy of science, women in scienceLeave a comment

Gender and the Infinite: on the Aspiration to be All there Is

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

Introduction: In this essay I would like to offer a feminist rethinking of a core topic for a more inclusive philosophy of religion. I advocate a gender-sensitive approach to the…

Posted in Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Religion, Value TheoryTagged feminist philosophy of religion, gendered conceptions of God., non-classical divine attributes, problem of evilLeave a comment

Dao Becomes Female

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

Abstract: Daoism, a Dao based and inspired teaching and practice, has been considered to be the philosophy of yielding in Chinese intellectual history. One important aspect of yielding is being…

Posted in Asian Philosophy, Classical Daoism, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged Chinese philosophy, Dao, Daoism, feminismLeave a comment

The State of the Field Report IX: Contemporary Chinese Studies of Zhuangzian Wang (Forgetting)

Posted on January 24, 2024June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…some notable studies in Sinophone academia concerning the notion of wang in the Zhuangzi. The studies, though not necessarily focused on wang, shed light on different aspects of the concept,…

Posted in Asian Philosophy, Chinese Ethics, Chinese Philosophy, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Classical Daoism, Philosophical TraditionsTagged Chinese Philosophy; Daoism; classics; moral psychologyLeave a comment

A Prosentential Theory of Truth

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

Summary: Classic presentation of the prosentential theory of truth: an important, though minority, deflationist account of truth. Prosententialists take ‘It is true that’ to be a prosentence forming operator that…

Posted in History of Western Philosophy, Liar Paradox, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Prosentential Theory of Truth, Science Logic & Mathematics, TruthTagged liar paradox, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, truthLeave a comment

Evolution of Quine’s Thinking on the Thesis of Underdetermination and Scott Soames’s Accusation of Paradoxicality

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

Abstract: Scott Soames argues that interpreted in the light of Quine’s holistic verificationism, Quine’s thesis of underdetermination leads to a contradiction. It is contended here that if we pay proper…

Posted in 20th Century Philosophy, Confirmation Holism, General Philosophy of Science, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Science Logic & Mathematics, Underdetermination of Theory by Data, Verificationist Theories of Meaning, W. V. O. QuineTagged holism, philosophy of science, Quine, underdetermination of theory by evidence, verificationismLeave a comment

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