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Similarity and cotenability
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2013)
In this paper I present some difficulties for Lewis's and similar theories of counterfactuals, and suggest that the problem lies in the notion of absolute similarity. In order to explain the problem, I discuss the relation ...
The challenge of amoralism
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2018)
According to unconditional motivational internalism, there is an a priori constraint on an agent's forming a sincere moral judgement, namely that she is, at least to some minimal extent, motivated to act as it dictates. ...
How might have democritus replied to theophrastus' objections concerning vision?
(Univerzitet u Novom Sadu - Filozofski fakultet - Odsek za filozofiju, Novi Sad, 2018)
In this paper, Democritus' account of vision is critically discussed taking into account primarily Theophrastus' De sensibus. I endeavor to demonstrate that Democritus used the other explanatory model of perception apart ...
Functionally Extended Cognition
(Soc Advancement Philosophy-Zagreb, Zagreb, 2013)
The hypothesis of the Extended Cognition (ExCog), formulated by Clark and Chalmers (1998), aims to be a bold and new hypothesis about realisers of cognitive processes. It claims that sometimes cognitive processes extend ...
Moorean Assertions and Their Normative Function
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2020)
G. E. Moore famously pointed out that all sincere assertions of the form 'p, but I don't believe that p' are inherently absurd. John Turri strongly disagrees with the consensus evaluation of such assertions as inherently ...
The Roots of Empathy: A Lesson from Psychoanalysis
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2011)
Despite considerable improvement in our understanding of empathy and its development, most contemporary empathy theories still do not provide a sufficiently detailed picture of the developmental mechanisms involved in ...
Liberalism between Politics and Epistemology: A Discussion of Alessandro Ferrara's The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2017)
In this symposium, Alessandro Ferrara's recent book The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism - an attempt to expand the framework of Rawls' political liberalism in order to enable it ...
Weakness of will and motivational internalism
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2017)
The unconditional version of motivational internalism says that if an agent sincerely judges that to phi in circumstances C is the best option available to her, then, as a matter of conceptual necessity, she will be motivated ...
Godel's Notre Dame course
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2016)
This is a companion to a paper by the authors entitled "Godel's natural deduction," which presented and made comments about the natural deduction system in Godel's unpublished notes for the elementary logic course he gave ...
"The king of France is bald" reconsidered: a case against Yablo
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2014)
Stephen Yablo has argued for metaontological antirealism: he believes that the sentences claiming or denying the existence of numbers (or other abstract entities or mereological sums) are inapt for truth valuation, because ...