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Plato's Protagoras on Who we Are?
(Univ Brasilia, Brasilia, 2021)
In Protagoras' so called Great Speach, in Plato's dialogue named after him, the Greek philosopher attributes the sophist a myth about the origin, development and nature of human beings, which has philosophical relevance. ...
Socrates and Epictetus vs. the First and the Second Generation of Sophists
(Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb, 2021)
The paper discusses the difference between philosophy and sophistry. More precisely, it discusses the differences between Socrates and Sophists of the first generation, as well as the differences between Epictetus and ...
Who speaks for Hume: Hume's presence in the 'Dialogues concerning Natural religion'
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za filozofiju, Beograd, 2021)
One of the reasons for many different and even opposing interpretations of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is the absence of consensus concerning the question of which character in the Dialogues represents ...
Sosa's Safety Condition and Problem of Philosophical Skepticism
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
This paper aims to show that Sosa's theory of knowledge based on safety condition can provide a convincing response to the problem of philosophical skepticism. With regard to that, it is divided in three sections. The first ...
Content Extraction, Ontological Mootness and Nominalism: Difficulties on the Easy Road
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
In his latest bookAboutness, Stephen Yablo has proposed a new 'easy road' nominalist strategy: instead of engaging in the hard work of paraphrasing a scientific theory which presupposes numbers in a nominalistically ...
Observation, Experiment, and Scientific Practice
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
Ian Hacking has argued that the notions of experiment and observation are distinct, not even the opposite ends of a continuum. More recently, other authors have emphasised their continuity, saying it is futile to distinguish ...
Political liberalism and justificatory secularism
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd, 2021)
In this paper I analyze Cecile Laborde's conception of justificatory secularism. Laborde points out that in her formulation and defense of the conception of justificatory secularism, she follows Rawls' conception of political ...
Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes
(Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb, 2021)
Cognitive scientists used to deem reasoning either as a higher cognitive process based on the manipulation of abstract rules or as a higher cognitive process that is stochastic rather than involving abstract rules. I ...
Education and the good life: Petrarch's insights and the current research on well-being
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
According to Petrarch, the main goal of the liberal arts is to help us live a good life and become wise, virtuous, and serene. This is also something achieved via true Christian faith. In this paper, my goal is twofold. ...
On an Alleged Loophole in Causal Closure: A Reply to Gamper
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
This paper intends to critically consider the idea put forward by Johan Gamper (Philosophia 45: 631-636, 2017) that the principle of causal closure can be reconciled with the possibility of pluralism. This idea is based ...