Questions tagged [reference-request]
This tag should be used when the question is asking for specific references.
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Philosophical texts which focus on a novel or small idea?
Perhaps an extremely broad question, but I'm looking for philosophical texts which focus on a small/novel idea that the author uses as a springboard to reflect on more general ideas.
For example, the ...
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Where to learn about Gorgias' theory on truth and language?
The IEP writes in the article about Gorgias:
In recent years, however, modernists and post-structuralists have found great value in the philosophy of Gorgias, especially his theories on truth and ...
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On the logical modeling of reality and human reason
What is the system of logic which models reality and, furthermore, which models human reason?
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Of course, objective reality (that is, reality as it is before it's perceived) may operate under ...
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Are there any "right-now" versions of utilitarianism?
From what I can tell, the conclusive problems that normal utilitarianism faces are (A) the knowability problem, which is whether we could really know the total future impact of our actions, or (B) &...
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Is an Ethiopian and Bedouin unity possible in a subaltern utopia for Palestine-Israel? [closed]
I would like to ask for a potential utopian scenario where Ethiopian Jews and LC(lower class) bedouins form some subaltern allegiance to combat the racism they face in Palestine-Israel. Is this ...
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Is, "No," a sentence-level negation in natural language?
In the SEP article on negation, they say:
Where we do not find negation is in the one place propositional logic would lead us to look, sentence- or clause-peripheral position, as an external one-...
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Philosophy of the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine
I'm looking for reference works in the fields of the Philosophy of Law and Political Science on the subject of the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine: the view that certain products of a legal/...
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Book request: A nosology of untruths
I recall reading several philosophical articles which deal with various types of untruths: lies, misrepresentations, contradictions, omissions, confabulations, delusions, hallucinations, apparitions, ...
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Is it possible for the universe to be deterministic at one level, but not at a higher level?
I know that it is certainly possible for the universe to be stochastic at one level, but deterministic at a higher level. For example, I have read that while quantum mechanics is a stochastic theory, ...
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Is it ever rational to stumble onto the conjunction fallacy in probability?
The conjunction fallacy is the phenomenon where many people believe that the probability of the event (A AND B) is strictly greater than the probability of the event A. It is usually thought of as an ...
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Are there conjunctive facts and disjunctive facts?
Facts are supposed to be the grounds for truths. However, consider a conjunctive statement like "Paris is in France and New York City is in the USA". What fact grounds that? Is there such a ...
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How do philosophers understand intelligence (beyond artificial intelligence)?
Do philosophers have working definitions of 'intelligence'? The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a lot of references, but all of them are related to artificial intelligence and other ...
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In which work does Wolfgang Stegmuller criticize anti-inductivism and Karl Popper?
In the introductory note to the third edition of Fact Fiction and Forecast, Nelson Goodman writes that "Wolfgang Stegmuller has corrected the notion thnat 'anti-inductivists' of the school of ...
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Identification of light with existence and darkness with non-existence [closed]
Is it true that in ancient times many thinkers identified light with existence (essence), and darkness with non-existence?
Examples include Pythagoreanism, Neoplatonism, the ontology of light as-...
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Introductory texts to formal ontology and mereology?
I’m a grad student of Mathematics, doing research in Formal Semantics (a topic in Computational Linguistics) and some of my more tangential reading has made me privy to the existence of formal ...
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Can one determine the meaning and truth value of counterfactual statements without invoking the existence of possible worlds?
Usually, philosophers explain the meaning and truth value of counterfactual statements using possible world semantics. However, that approach requires one to accept the existence of possible worlds. ...
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Philosophical works on Privilege
I read the book "Caste", and can't recommend it highly enough. Are there any philosophical works that directly address the historical causes and current 'benefits' to society of what ended ...
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Seeking Help on Cartesian Dualism and the Mind-Body Relationship
I'm currently studying philosophy and I'm struggling with the concept of Cartesian dualism, particularly in relation to other theories about the mind-body relationship. I'm wondering if anyone here ...
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Philosophical term for the possibility that one came into existence right now
If one is absolutely skeptical, then one cannot disprove the possibility that one came into existence right now, somehow imbued with all kinds of memories.
What is the name of this idea? I am pretty ...
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Ontology over time
Looking for any recommended references for this topic, I was recommended a good book on logic previously on here, and found it extremely enlightening, mainly how we deal with issues like the ship of ...
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How does one test their credences of belief?
Suppose I feel that event A is more plausible than event B. How can I test, verify, or falsify this?
For example, suppose I have a belief that my partner is cheating on me. Suppose I have another ...
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Atheists who follow the teachings of Jesus [closed]
I'm an atheist who believes in much (not all) of the teachings of Jesus. Are there other Atheist/philosophers who discuss the teachings of Jesus from an atheistic perspective?
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An introductory book on philosophy of language and logic?
I tried self teaching philosophy of language, logic, modal logic but I am lost as a headless chicken. Can anyone help me please? I have a full time job, but I can take an hour everyday and learn a bit....
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List of German books (mainly Kant) which are untranslated into English
I just got access to the new Bing and I really like it so far. It has translated works pretty well for me so far so I wanted to see if people had a list of books that they would like translated which ...
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Has any contemporary philosopher argued that philosophy is dead?
Today a friend told me that Stephen Hawking claimed in 2010 that philosophy was dead. I've searched about this and indeed: he wrote that philosophy is ‘dead’ since it hasn’t kept up with the latest ...
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Books similar in nature to Logic and Theism by Jordan Sobel?
I've recently been reading "Logic and Theism" by Jordan Sobel and have found it to be fascinating. The two primary things I like about it are:
The book primarily focuses on analyzing the ...
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Reference request : Defining concepts
Shafi Goldwasser's interview
In the video attached, Goldwasser talks about course(s) on abstract subject matter like definition of concepts, definienda, etc. I am looking for a link to course/book ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
I am new here, so I apologize if this question doesn't suit this platform in any particular way. I am currently in high school. I came across this article by the name "Famine, Affluence and ...
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Who said sth like "Marxism could be said to be true, even if its specific predictions were falsified"
I'm trying to track down a remark I remember reading in college, I think made by some early to mid 20th century French Marxist, to the effect of "Marxism could be said to be true, even if its ...
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Would contingently inhabited sets be necessarily impure?
Allow that ur-elements can count as purely set-theoretic, depending on which ones are introduced (we might say: an ur-element is pure if the only extralogical facts about it feature just the ...
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Has any philosopher accounted for a cause of the universe? [closed]
Science has shown that the universe had a beginning, and we know it exists. Within religion, a universe that had a beginning is explained by a Cause in sacred scriptures, in general in the form of ...
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Anthology of texts on semiotics
It might be rather unusual question but I'm looking for a book that I once saw several years ago. It was a multivolume anthology of texts on semiotics. I remember that there were some Peirce and ...
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Philosophical school of thought that includes "unsatisfaction" or "the yearning for more" as a key component of "happiness"
What is the philosophical term for Callicle's position here? The quotes are from Plato's Gorgias.
SOCRATES: [...] Tell me, then:—you say, do you not, that in the rightly-developed man the passions ...
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Reference request for books on the foundations of science
I have lately been interested in the foundations of science. I checked Wikipedia if there was an article on the foundations of science, but there was no such article. So, I am asking for books and ...
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Request for a philosopher/mathematician that arrives at a wicked God as the only solution to the problem of evil using formal logic
I was reading the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, and stumbled upon this paragraph on Chapter 12 (translation is mine because the book is in spanish):
And thus, monotheism explains order, but is ...
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Reference request for the analysis of the concept of "fact"
I am looking for books and papers that analyze the concept of "fact" in a philosophical way. That is, such texts might define what a fact is, talk about whether a fact is one kind of entity ...
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What are some journals where the papers employ technical logic and math notation?
Recently, I have been interested in philosophy papers that employ technical logic and/or math notation. I know of analytic philosophy, but I am looking specifically for papers that use technical ...
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When did Walter Benjamin say "We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector"?
In for instance this source, it is stated that Walter Benjamin once said or wrote the following:
"We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that ...
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Is there such a thing as foundations of philosophy?
In many subjects, like math and physics, there is also the foundations of that subjects, like foundations of math and foundations of physics, respectively. Is there also such a thing as the ...
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Moral philosophy book to read after James Rachel's "The elements of moral philosophy"
I am new to philosophy and I've made my entry by reading the exquisite textbook "The elements of moral philosophy" by James Rachel.
I'd like to get into more depth (but not more than I can ...
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How does Bergson's philosophy relate to Sorel's brand of Marxism?
Apart from Reflections on Violence, I am unfamiliar with Georges Sorel's writings, and I have done only very limited reading on Bergson and Bergsonianism.
I understand that Bergson is among the main ...
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Is every feature of the universe logically necessary?
Is every feature of the universe logically necessary? For example, it would be logically necessary that no material object can exceed the speed of light. In other words, there is only one way for the ...
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Resources on the distinction between epistemology in pure and applied mathematics
I'm looking for recommendations for works that present roughly (or at least parts of) the following perspective on epistemology in mathematics. I hope having access to similar perspectives will allow ...
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What is the definition of a physical thing?
Physicalism is the view that only the physical exists. But that raises the question, what is the definition of a physical thing or object? Has any philosopher defined physicality? I would like some ...
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Reference request for the history of logic
I have lately been interested in the history of logic, specifically, propositional logic and first-order logic. I want to know how those logical systems were first thought of. Can anyone give me some ...
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How would I translate the following statement into higher order logic? Or what book would you recommend to teach myself higher order logic?
"For every liar Sentence, there exists some person for whom the sentence is either self-referential or (purely) negative."
I am a behavior analyst with an undergraduate degree in philosophy ...
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Identifying a Logical Fallacy (written by Bertrand Russell?)
I'm struggling and googled but cannot find something that's in the recesses of my mind.
Bertrand Russell (I think) described a logical fallacy where one could describe the same behavior / ...
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Philosophy of storytelling from non-western cultures
In the west, most of our thoughts on storytelling seem to originate and be influenced by Aristotle's Poetics, in one form or another.
However, it seems that in other cultures storytelling is often ...
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Reference request for the logical analysis of the word "any"
I have recently noticed a curious phenomenon with the word "any", in that it sometimes does not behave like the universal quantifier "every". Consider this pair of sentences: "...
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References to "Nos" in "Philosophical Papers and Letters" by Leibniz, edited by Loemker
Does anyone know what text is being referenced here. There are many times they cite like (Nos. 5,6,7) but there is no reference to this text in the bibliography, nor anywhere in the text. Google ...
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