The Philosophical Significance of an Evolutionary Epistemology

1987 ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Epistemology ◽  
Philosophical Significance

Conceptual Analysis Rebooted

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edouard Machery
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Method ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
Conceptual Engineering ◽  
Method Of Cases

Chapter 7 proposes a new, naturalistic characterization of conceptual analysis, defends its philosophical significance, and shows that usual concerns with conceptual analysis do not apply to this revamped version. So understood, conceptual analysis encompasses both a descriptive project and a normative project, similar to explication or to conceptual engineering. Chapter 7 also defends the philosophical significance of this novel form of conceptual analysis and its continuity with the role of conceptual analysis in the philosophical tradition. Furthermore, naturalized conceptual analysis often requires empirical tools to be pursued successfully, and an experimental method of cases 2.0 should often replace the traditional use of cases in philosophy.

Legal Positivism about the Artifact Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Leiter
Keyword(s):  
Natural Kind ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Philosophical Significance

This chapter defends legal positivism against the backdrop of the assumption that law is an artifact, not a natural kind, and that it is an artifact whose nature does not depend on the intentions of a creator. It explores in more detail the philosophical significance of that fact, given the growing interest in that topic as reflected in this volume and offers a synoptic explanation of what makes that view of the nature of law so plausible. The chapter goes on to argue that even within the constraint imposed by the metaphysics of what law is, positivism satisfies the most important theoretical desiderata, including locating law within a naturalistic worldview.

Spinoza’s Afterlife in Judaism and the Task of Modern Jewish Philosophy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
Jewish Philosophy ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

This article examines Baruch Spinoza’s legacy within Judaism and his impact on modern Jewish philosophy. It first considers some of the Jewish intellectuals and leaders who have found inspiration or provocation in Spinoza, and then turns to Spinozism in Judaism and the philosophical significance of Spinoza’s reception among the Jews. It then explores the ways in which Spinoza has become a symbol of philosophical tendencies in Jewish self-understanding and concludes by discussing how Spinoza’s symbolic presence signals a dialectic in modern Jewish philosophy concerning various interpretations of Jewish existence and their interaction. More specifically, it looks at three Jewish philosophers who have at one time or another taken an interest in Spinoza, with emphasis on their various responses to him: Leo Strauss, Emil Fackenheim, and Emmanuel Levinas.

G. Priest and R. Routley. First historical introduction. A preliminary history of paraconsistent and dialethic approaches. Paraconsistent logic, Essays on the inconsistent, edited by Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman, Analytica, Philosophia Verlag, Munich, Hamden, and Vienna, 1989, pp. 3–75. - Ayda I. Arruda. Aspects of the historical development of paraconsistent logic. Paraconsistent logic, Essays on the inconsistent, edited by Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman, Analytica, Philosophia Verlag, Munich, Hamden, and Vienna, 1989, pp. 99–130. - G. Priest and R. Routley. Systems of paraconsistent logic. Paraconsistent logic, Essays on the inconsistent, edited by Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman, Analytica, Philosophia Verlag, Munich, Hamden, and Vienna, 1989, pp. 151–186. - G. Priest and R. Routley. Applications of paraconsistent logic. Paraconsistent logic, Essays on the inconsistent, edited by Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman, Analytica, Philosophia Verlag, Munich, Hamden, and Vienna, 1989, pp. 367–393. - G. Priest and R. Routley. The philosophical significance and inevitability of paraconsistency, Paraconsistent logic, Essays on the inconsistent, edited by Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman, Analytica, Philosophia Verlag, Munich, Hamden, and Vienna, 1989, pp. 483–539.

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1503-1504
Author(s):  
F. G. Asenjo
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Paraconsistent Logic ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Graham Priest

scholarly journals The philosophical significance of theDe Se

Inquiry ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel García-Carpintero
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Significance

The testing of evolutionary epistemology

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Epistemology

scholarly journals Gadamer’s Appropriation of Pietism

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Barry Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Deep Sense ◽  
Foundation Stone

A foundation stone of Hans Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics is the notion of the sensus communis. The philosophical significance of a “sensus communis” (common sense) begins with Aristotle, who offered scattered reflections. The topic was taken up in earnest in Enlightenment thought and in German idealism, but it became more of an individual faculty, lacking the deep sense of community and tradition found in earlier formulations. In this paper, the author demonstrates Gadamer’s debt to Pietist thought, examining his appropriation and use of the theology of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782), a leading figure in Swabian Pietism, whose ideas had a significant impact in theological circles and broader cultural life. Gadamer’s critique of the Enlightenment’s ‘prejudice against prejudice,’ owes a debt to the Pietist conception of the sensus communis and his practical philosophy to Pietism’s emphasis on ‘application’ as a fundamental aspect of a hermeneutical triad.

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