Unanswered Questions
1,122 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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A Neo-Kantian View on Causality?
Quantum non-determinism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy.
Stephen R. Palmquist however provides an interesting and appealing case against this supposition, ...
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Identifying three kinds of “unity” in Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason”
After reading about transcendental Aesthetics and transcendental logic, I perceive three kinds of unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason:
Unity of properties of an object which is sensed through ...
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Are humans becoming more hive-like? Does this have philosophical implications?
Have any philosophers taken up human hive-like behaviour and its implications?
EO Wilson and others have outlined eusociality, a mode of group selection acting in addition to selection at the ...
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How does Quine effectively shift from points he has made about knowledge acquisition to conclusions he makes about knowledge simpliciter?
Quine propagated forward an approach to epistemology wherein there was no need of any sort of justification "beyond observation and the hypothetico-deductive method" (Quine 1981).
Quine is going ...
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Does practical moral skepticism end up as relativism?
Harman (2000a) argues that a moral judgment that a person ought to do
X (an “inner judgment”) implies that the person has motivating reasons
to do X, and that a person is likely to have such ...
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What is an “unarticulated background”?
Does a sentence only mean something because it draws on knowledge outside of itself? Take 2 + 2 = 4: is it a tautology? No: it depends on a conception of '+', which is not located within that sentence/...
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Self determination in non atomistic time?
I am reading the book " perspective in whiteheads metaphysics" by Stephen David Ross. On page 182 he says" whiteheads theory of events is atomistic-primarily to allow for self determination, but the ...
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Does 'to believe that P' imply 'to believe that P is true'?
Williams (1973) casually asserts that
to believe that P is to believe that P is true.
He explains what he means by that:
To believe that so and so is one and the same as to believe that that ...
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Hume's argument for the subjectivity of morality
I am trying to analyze the following argument by Hume in his Treatise of Human Nature:
But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we ...
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Quantifying Ethics
It seems like a relation like '<' exists in morality, as most ethical systems view moral actions as more evil/good than other actions.
Has any philosopher tried to quantify this, e.g. how much ...
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Who came up with the notion of a properly basic belief?
I first heard about so-called properly basic beliefs in the context of discussions about belief in God. Moreover, when I do a Google search for the term "properly basic belief," I get a bunch of ...
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How do disjunctive antecedents work in Marc Lange's stability concept of laws of nature?
I'm an ecology student who's dabbling into philosophy of science. I'm currently
writing a term paper on laws of nature (with a focus on ecology as a special science) and try to wrap my mind around ...
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Plato - against teaching philosophy to children
I'm trying to hunt down a half-remembered quote from Plato, possibly from the Republic, where he actually argues AGAINST teaching children philosophy too early, in the fears it will confuse them and ...
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What properties do “intuition” need in order to be counted as philosophical evidence?
Timothy Williamson (2008) has argued that we should not construe
philosophical evidence as consisting of intuitions.
Do intuitions generate philosophical evidence? And, if so, what sort of evidence ...
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Are the “laws” of deductive logic empirically verifiable?
"Is Logic Empirical?" strongly suggests a question that I would like very much to get a handle on.
That phrase is a title of an article by Hilary Putnam, and, according to synopses/reviews, the ...
