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Frege and Hilbert on Consistency

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

…tictular, he gives no proofs of independence or of consistency. This is no accident. Despite his firm commitment to the independence and consistency claims just mentioned, Frege holds that independence…

Posted in 20th Century Philosophy, Gottlob Frege, History of Western Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged consistency, Frege, HilbertLeave a comment

Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism

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

…women. Sarah Song provides a distinctive argument about the circumstances under which egalitarian justice requires special accommodations for cultural minorities while emphasizing the value of gender equality as an important…

Posted in Culture and Cultures, Feminist Political Philosophy, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism and Feminism, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged gender, justice, multiculturalismLeave a comment

It’s just a feeling: why economic models do not explain

Posted on February 17, 2020June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: Julian Reiss correctly identified a trilemma about economic models: we cannot maintain that they are false, but nevertheless explain and that only true accounts explain. In this reply we…

Posted in History of Western Philosophy, Idealization in Economics, Instrumentalism about Economics, Models in Economics, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Social Science, Science Logic & Mathematics, The Status of EconomicsTagged economics, explanation, modelsLeave a comment

Truth, Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox

Posted on June 28, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…conditions. The proposed solution to the paradox suggests another view of language understanding, according to which a speaker can express, through his language practice, a grasp of correspondence truth rules….

Posted in 20th Century Philosophy, Aspects of Meaning, History of Western Philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Saul KripkeTagged Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox, meaning, paradox, truth, truth rulesLeave a comment

‘I Don’t Want To be a Playa No More’: An Exploration of the Denigrating effects of ‘Player’ as a Stereotype Against African American Polyamorous Men

Posted on October 27, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: This paper shows how amatonormativity and its attendant social pressures converge at the intersections of race, gender, romantic relationality, and sexuality to generate peculiar challenges to polyamorous African American…

Posted in Black Feminism, Conceptions of Sex, Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Love, Philosophy of Race, Social Ethics, Value TheoryTagged love, Non-monogamy, Polyamory, stereotypingLeave a comment

Monogamies, Non-Monogamies, and the Moral Impermissibility of Intimacy Confining Constraints

Posted on October 27, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: In this paper, I argue that intimacy confining constraints—or a categorical restriction on having additional intimate relationships—is morally impermissible. Though some scholars believe that this problem attaches exclusively to…

Posted in Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Love, Philosophy of Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged intimacy, polyfidelityLeave a comment

The science question in feminism

Posted on December 7, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the…

Posted in Feminist Philosophy of Science, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged AndrocentricismLeave a comment

The Moral Limits of Markets: The Case of Human Kidneys

Posted on February 2, 2021May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: This paper examines the morality of kidney markets through the lens of choice, inequality, and weak agency looking at the case for limiting such markets under both non-ideal and…

Posted in Applied Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Organ Transplantation, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Social Science, Science Logic & Mathematics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged choice, exploitation, kidney, marketLeave a comment

Logic: A Feminist Approach

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

This chapter asks whether there is any such thing as feminist logic. It defines feminism and logic, and then goes on to present and evaluate four possible views, introducing and…

Posted in Feminist Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Nonclassical Logics, Relevance LogicTagged andrea nye, classical negation, feminist logic, philosophy of logic, social hierarchy, susan stebbing, val plumwoodLeave a comment

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

Posted on March 31, 2015June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…having conversations across boundaries, and in recognizing our obligations to other human beings, offers a welcome prescription for a world still plagued by fanaticism and intolerance.” — Kofi A. Annan,…

Posted in African Philosophy: Ethics, African/Africana Philosophy, Cosmopolitanism, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Race, Value TheoryTagged Africa, cosmopolitanism, globalisation, identity, race, separatismLeave a comment

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