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Adorno’s dynamic theory of ideology Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Bernardo Ferro
Adorno’s conception of ideology was denounced by Habermas as incompatible with a viable form of social critique. By conflating ideology and the ‘identity principle’ inherent to modern Western reaso...
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Conceptual engineering in the Lvov-Warsaw School Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Krzysztof Sękowski
The paper explores the relationship between conceptual engineering and the methodology of the Lvov-Warsaw School. While conceptual engineering is commonly seen as rooted in Rudolf Carnap's works an...
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Fake news & bad science journalism: the case against insincerity Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 C.J. Oswald
Philosophers and social scientists largely agree that fake news is not just necessarily untruthful, but necessarily insincere: it’s produced either with the intention to deceive or an indifference ...
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Political friendship as joint commitment: Aristotle on homonoia Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Cansu Hepçağlayan
Aristotle devotes Nicomachean Ethics IX.6 to the notion of homonoia. Commonly translated as ‘concord’ or ‘like-mindedness’, homonoia is a central concept in Aristotle’s account of political friends...
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Practical reason as theoretical reason Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 William Ratoff
Might practical reason be a species of theoretical reason? Can we make sense of practical deliberation as a special kind of theoretical cogitation over what you will do? The prospects of such a red...
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Being-there, being-with, and being-a-part: Heidegger’s mereology of Mitsein in Being and Time Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Noam Cohen
The main problem in making sense of Mitsein as an aspect of Dasein in Being and Time concerns the sense in which individual Dasein is an ‘I’, given that it can be either an ‘anyone-self’ or an ‘aut...
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Irony in earnest: rethinking Hegel’s critique of romantic irony Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Jason Miller
In the so-called ‘irony debate,’ one of the most infamous polemics of modern intellectual history, G.W.F. Hegel accuses his German romantic contemporaries of being ‘nicht im Ernst’—not in earnest—w...
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Integrational creativity: from combining and blending to transforming and resonating Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Michael Beaney, Martha Kunicki
In this paper we elaborate a conception of what we call integrational creativity, which aims both to capture the richest kinds of human creativity and to bring together certain existing conceptions...
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Does valuing ice cream sandwiches make one a true gourmand and connoisseur of them? Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Ke Zhang
Valuing something is complicated. Philosophers have offered different stories about what we do when we value something. However, we have not paid enough attention to the thought that, sometimes, va...
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Lies are assertions and presuppositions are not Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Andreas Stokke
Most philosophers agree that lies are assertions. Most also agree that to presuppose information is different from asserting it. In a series of papers, Viebahn [2020. “Lying with Presuppositions.” ...
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‘Lucifer in person’: on Iris Murdoch’s ‘Heidegger problem’ Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Tom Whyman
Towards the end of her life, Iris Murdoch attempted (but did not succeed) to write a monograph on Heidegger. In this paper, I argue two things. Firstly, Murdoch’s Heidegger study is more than a mer...
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Talking about Talking About Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Daniel W. Harris, Sam Berstler
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Explaining systematic polysemy: kinds and individuation Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Katherine Ritchie, Sandeep Prasada
Polysemy is a phenomenon involving single lexical items with multiple related senses. Much theorizing about it has focused on developing linguistic accounts that are responsive to various compositi...
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Hegel, Selbstischkeit, and the experiential self Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Paul R. Matthews
In this essay, I offer a corrective to the standard reading of Hegel as a social constructivist when it comes to matters of the self by shifting the focus from the Phenomenology to his ‘Philosophy ...
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Contingentism and fragile worlds Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Christopher James Masterman
Propositional contingentism is the thesis that there might have been propositions which might have not have been something. Serious actualism is the thesis that it is impossible for a property to b...
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A prolegomena to investigating conspiracy theories Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 M R. X. Dentith
Central to the particularist project, one that has become the consensus in the philosophy of conspiracy theory theory, is the claim that a general dismissal of these things called `conspiracy theor...
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Idealization, animals, and democracy Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Pablo Magaña
Philosophical theorizing on democracy typically assumes away the existence of nonhuman animals – even though animals are systematically affected by democratic decisions in morally relevant ways. Th...
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Investigating conspiracy theories – introduction to the special issue Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 M R. X. Dentith, Julia Duetz, Melina Tsapos
This introduction to this special issue of Inquiry looks at recent work in the philosophy of conspiracy theory theory. Looking at two related worries expressed in the wider conspiracy theory theory...
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Presuppositional epistemic contextualism and non-ideal contexts Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 William Tuckwell
Conversational contextualists claim that the truth-conditions of knowledge claims depend upon the dynamics of the conversation in which the knowledge claim is made. However, they have failed to app...
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How not to argue for the presumption of liberty Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Jason Brennan, Christopher Freiman
Many liberal philosophers claim that people are free to do as they will by default; any interference must be justified. This supposed presumption of liberty does a significant amount of theoretical...
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Decolonizing epistemic justice: on inter-epistemology Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Elad Lapidot
This article responds to the challenge of decolonizing epistemic injustice by offering the project of inter-epistemic thought or ‘Inter-Epistemology'. The point of departure is a critical epistemol...
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Conceptual engineering and conceptual innovation Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Matti Eklund
Conceptual engineering, motivated one natural way, involves the search for new concepts. But to what extent does conceptual engineering as practiced involve such conceptual innovation, and to what ...
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Room for responsibility: Kant on direct doxastic voluntarism Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Christopher Benzenberg
Kant's theory of assent seems to combine two incompatible claims that (i) we are responsible for our assent and (ii) we have no direct voluntary control over our assent. But how can we be responsib...
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Epistemic (de-)colonization in the midst of Europe Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Hilkje C. Hänel
Roma in Europe are suffering from manifold injustices and are subject to serious discrimination; carried out both interpersonally as well as institutionally. As with most forms of oppression, the o...
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Conspiracy accusations Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Patrick Brooks, Julia Duetz
In an historic moment in Dutch politics, the entire cabinet left the House of Representatives during a debate due to extreme right politician Thierry Baudet's conspiracy-laden speech. After espousi...
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‘Austin vs. Searle on locutionary and illocutionary acts' Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Indrek Reiland
The central pillar of Austin’s theory of speech acts is the three-way distinction between locutionary acts like saying, illocutionary acts like asserting, and perlocutionary acts like persuading [A...
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Ultimate-Humeanism Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Samuel John Andrews
Super-Humeans (Esfeld and Deckert, 2017. A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World. New York: Routledge) argue that the most parsimonious ontology of the natural world compatible with our best phy...
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Conceptual engineering, cognitive deficiency, and the foundations of conceptual inquiry Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Gurpreet Rattan, Jim Hutchinson
As usually understood, ‘conceptual engineering’ is a form of conceptual inquiry aimed at diagnosing problems with extant concepts and finding better concepts to replace them. This can seem like an ...
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The size of a lie: from truthlikeness to sincerity Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Jessica Pepp
Lies come in different sizes. There are little white lies, slight stretches, exaggerations, fibs, and whoppers. Such terms can reflect different aspects of lies, but one of these is how far a lie i...
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The power of second-order conspiracies Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier
A second-order conspiracy (SOC) is a conspiracy that aims to create (and typically also disseminate) a conspiracy theory. Second-order conspiracy theories (SOCT) are theories that explain the occur...
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Doubts about an argument from doubt Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Pirooz Fatoorchi
The purpose of this paper is to debate a version of the Cartesian argument from doubt for mind–body dualism which has been proposed recently by Ari Maunu in this journal (Inquiry, 61/4). After intr...
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How conspiratorial beliefs spread, and how real conspiracies are covered up Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Recent research on conspiracy theories (in philosophy and elsewhere) has tended to focus on beliefs that seem (from a ‘mainstream’ perspective) outlandish and patently false: QAnon, Covid-19 vaccin...
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Conspiracy theorists are not the problem; Conspiracy liars are Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Brian L. Keeley
In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times (08/06/2022), entitled Alex Jones is no kind of ‘theorist’, LZ Granderson writes that although the ubiquitous recent ‘conspiracy theorist’ of American j...
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Should we worry about conspiracy theorists rejecting experts? Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Melina Tsapos
Concerns have been raised by both researchers and authorities regarding conspiracy theorists rejecting experts. To address the validity of these concerns, we need to delve into two key inquiries re...
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A new paradox of belief Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Benoit Gaultier
In this paper I raise a paradox of belief inspired by Kripke’s ‘paradox of knowledge', which states that knowledge seems to make permissible an intuitively unacceptable form of dogmatism. This para...
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Moral responsibility and general ability Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Simon Kittle
It is widely believed that an agent can be morally responsible for something only if they were able to do otherwise. But what kind of ability to do otherwise is needed? Despite the obvious disagree...
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Occurrent knowledge is the sole aim of inquiry Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Leonardo Flamini
Many philosophers have recently challenged the monistic idea that knowledge is the sole aim of our inquiries into questions. Specifically, by giving examples, they argue that we can factually and l...
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Spinoza on the parts of God Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Kay Malte Bischof
I defend Spinoza's claim that extension is an attribute that an indivisible substance, such as God, could have. However, in order to explain why, we must abandon two long held orthodoxies in Spinoz...
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Where conspiracy theories come from, what they do, and what to do about them Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Keith Raymond Harris
Philosophers who study conspiracy theories have increasingly addressed the questions of where conspiracy theories come from, what such theories do, and what to do about them. This essay serves as a...
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Autonomy and knowledge: comments on Adam Carter’s Autonomous Knowledge Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Jesús Vega-Encabo
In his book Autonomous Knowledge. Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing (OUP, 2022). J. Adam Carter argues that both propositional knowledge and know-how must include a condition...
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Heterodox conspiracy theories and evidence-based theories of error Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Rico Hauswald
Heterodox ideas face an uphill battle. This is not least the case for heterodox conspiracy theories. As an empirical observation, this is hardly controversial. What is controversial is whether and ...
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Talking about: a response to Bowker, Keiser, Michaelson Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Elmar Unnsteinsson
I respond to comments from Mark Bowker, Jessica Keiser, and Eliot Michaelson on my book, Talking About. The response clarifies my stance on the nature of reference, conflicting intentions, and the ...
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False friends in political dogwhistles Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Stefan Rinner, Alexander Hieke
Philosophers have studied various ways in which things can be said implicitly, and how this can be exploited in both derogatory and political speech. The present paper follows this tradition by foc...
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Reasons and ‘because’* Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Wolfgang Freitag
The paper argues that action explanations of the form ‘because p’ do not indicate that reasons are non-psychological facts or propositions. ‘Because p’ has two different uses: In the explanatory us...
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Fichte’s world of wordless lies Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Roy Sorensen, Quentin Farr
Catholics condemn Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) as a fanatic; he fails to cushion ‘Never lie' with a distinction between venial and mortal sin. But Kant has secular substitutes: lie/mislead, candor/hon...
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On the culpable ignorance of group agents: the group justification thesis Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Nathan W. Biebel
People are often responsible for what they do, but they also often possess an excuse. One of the most common excuses is ignorance. Not all ignorance constitutes an excuse, however, for some ignoran...
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Toward a paradigm shift: corrective trust as a pathway to mitigate biases in healthcare and beyond Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Ju Zhang
In this paper, I explore the concept of corrective trust as a pathway to mitigate biases, and potentially build or restore mutual trust in relationships characterized by power imbalances, particula...
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From pictures to employments: later Wittgenstein on ‘the infinite’ Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Philip Bold
With respect to the metaphysics of infinity, the tendency of standard debates is to either endorse or to deny the reality of ‘the infinite’. But how should we understand the notion of ‘reality’ emp...
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Conceptual engineering and the dynamics of linguistic intervention Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Adam F. Gibbons
The Implementation Problem for conceptual engineering is, roughly, the problem conceptual engineers face when attempting to bring about the conceptual change they support. An important aspect of th...
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On the intrinsic value of diversity Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Seth D. Baum, Andrea Owe
Diversity is an important ethical concept, but it is almost exclusively studied within two domains: biodiversity and diversity of sociological attributes such as race and gender. We provide a gener...
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True lies and attempted lies Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Emanuel Viebahn
Sometimes speakers try to lie and inadvertently assert something true. Subjectivists about lying hold that such speakers are lying despite telling the truth. Objectivists hold that such speakers ar...
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Moral status of believing in races Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Aness Kim Webster
To establish the claim that racism is an ideology that consists of having morally impermissible attitudes towards people in virtue of their racialised identities, Appiah claims that a (false) belie...
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Kant on scientific pedantry and epistemic populism Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Axel Gelfert
While positive appraisals of testimonial knowledge by Enlightenment thinkers have recently begun to receive more attention, such discussions often operate at a very general level, leaving out much ...
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Equal desires and self-control Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Daniel Coren
Self-control requires intentionally resisting what we most want to do. Yet we do what we most want to do, if we do anything intentionally at that time (The Law of Desire). Therefore, self-control i...
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Social goodness: the ontology of social norms Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Charlotte Witt
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 67, No. 8, 2024)
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Is health the absence of disease? Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham
While philosophical questions about health and disease have attracted much attention in recent decades, and while opinions are divided on most issues, influential accounts seem to embrace negativis...
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Romantic love and the first-person plural perspective Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Felipe León
On the assumption that romantic partners tend to act from a first-person plural perspective, how should the love that binds them be understood? This paper approaches this question by focusing on ro...
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Lambert on moral certainty and the justification of induction Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Aaron Wells
I reconstruct J. H. Lambert's views on how practical grounds relate to epistemic features, such as certainty. I argue, first, that Lambert's account of moral certainty does not involve any distinct...
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How far can genealogies affect the space of reasons? Vindication, justification and excuses Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Francesco Testini
Pragmatic vindicatory genealogies provide both a cause and a rationale and can thus affect the space of reasons. But how far is the space of reasons affected by this kind of genealogical argument? ...
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Comments on Alex Byrne, Transparency and self-knowledge Inquiry (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Andre Gallois
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)