…in highly accessible and affordable volumes. These books will prove valuable to philosophy teachers and their students as well as to other readers who share a general interest in philosophy….
On the Value of Acting From the Motive of Duty
…what Kant intended in his discussion of those actions he credits with moral worth. […] An action has moral worth if it is required by duty and has as its…
The Philosopher’s Defence of Morality
Introduction: Philosophers are often asked whether they can provide a defence against hostile theories which are said to be “undermining the foundations of morality,” and they often try to do…
Doing Non-Ideal Theory About Gender in the Global Context
This paper elaborates and renders explicit some of the views about political philosophical methodology that underlie the author’s arguments in Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic. It shows how the…
Queer feminist logic and contradictions: Or how logic and feminism can be relevant to each other
…phenomena. Upon this assumption, I want to inves-tigate possible applications of queer feminist views on (philosophy of) logic with respect to a very specific group, namely contradictory logics, i.e., logical…
The Language of Political Theory
This article questions fundamental concepts in political philosophy and political theory, as well as the method of political philosophy and philosophy more generally. While acknowledging that concepts such as contract,…
Multiple realizability revisited: Linking cognitive and neural states
Abstract: The claim of the multiple realizability of mental states by brain states has been a major feature of the dominant philosophy of mind of the late 20th century. The…
The Persistence of Epistemic Objects Through Scientific Change
…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…
Interpreting Quantum Theories: The art of the possible
…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…
On the Apparent Antagonism Between Feminist and Mainstream Metapysics
…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…