Unanswered Questions
1,020 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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Is Propositional Logic Sound and Complete
After reading Gödel's incompleteness theorem, I wonder if there are any systems whose axioms are sound and complete. I realize that Gödel's arguments (at least from my sources) only apply to ...
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The Moral Law and the Categorical Imperative in Kant
In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant begins his task by developing, through analysis of ordinary moral concepts, a theory of the 'supreme principle of morals,' the criteria for a ...
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Is Tarski's derivation of the Liar paradox valid?
First a link to his derivation:
http://www.jfsowa.com/logic/tarski.htm
Its a famous essay so you really should read all of it but at the moment its enough if you read section 7 where Tarski derives ...
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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 '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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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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Is there any author that argues for radical moral pluralism?
Let me first clarify what I mean with "radical" here. While many modern authors, if not all, accept moral pluralism of sorts, all that I know of express either the hope, if not the conviction, that ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Kripke's Solution to Negative Existentials
From what I've collected, Quine seemed to have solved the problem of non-being by using Russell's theory of definite descriptions through the negation of the x having certain properties/descriptions. ...
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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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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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Is Spinoza a Pantheist?
I define "Pantheism" as the postition that affirm the equality between God and the whole reality(not of course equal to every single existing thing, but equal to ALL reality, the reality as a totality)...
