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Moral testimony and epistemic privilege Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 James Chamberlain
How should we, as philosophers, respond to the pure moral testimony of people in marginalized positions? Some philosophers argue that marginalized people have an epistemic advantage concerning their experiences of marginalization, such that, if we are non‐marginalized, then we should defer to their moral testimony concerning these experiences. We might accept this as a requirement for ordinary conversation
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The poverty of postmodernist constructivism: And a case for naturalism out of Hume, Darwin, and Wittgenstein Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Ariel Peckel
This essay develops a naturalist framework based on Hume, Darwin, and Wittgenstein against postmodernist constructivism. That framework claims universal features of human biology, cognition, and behavior to explain our cultural histories, running contrary to two core constructivist doctrines of postmodernist scholarship: mutual opacity and epistemic violence. Mutual opacity posits the incommensurability
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Virtuous leadership: Ambiguities, challenges, and precedents Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 John Haldane
Virtuous leadership is the focus of a growing body of academic literature but is little discussed by contemporary philosophers. Current treatments tend to over‐generalisation: assimilating diverse features to a few broad categories and applying simplified ethical theories. This essay argues that virtue and character education need to be keyed to specific activities, that “virtuous leadership” is in
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The practical turn in philosophy: A revival of the ancient art of living through modern philosophical practice Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Xiaojun Ding, Peter Harteloh, Tianqun Pan, Feng Yu
Philosophical practice, an art of living rooted in ancient traditions, is enriched by modern techniques such as individual counseling, Socratic group dialogues, and organizational consulting. Philosophical counseling, a key aspect of this practice, employs traditional philosophical frameworks and rational reasoning to address clients' concerns, distinguishing itself from psychotherapy while respecting
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Philosophical research in Brazil: A structural topic modeling approach with a focus on temporal and gender trends Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Marcos Fanton, Hugo Ribeiro Mota, Carolina de Melo Bomfim Araújo, Mitieli Seixas da Silva, Raquel Canuto
This paper employs structural topic modeling (STM) to describe the academic philosophy landscape in Brazil. Based on a public national database, a corpus consisting of 12,515 abstracts of monographs defended in philosophy graduate programs between 1991 and 2021 was compiled. The final STM model identified 74 meaningful research topics, clustered into 7 thematic categories. This study discusses the
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The logical structure of modular semantic theories of software systems Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Nicola Angius, Petros Stefaneas
This paper studies the structure of semantic theories over modular computational systems and applies the algebraic Theory of Institutions to provide a logical representation of such theories. A modular semantic theory is here defined by a cluster of semantic theories, each for a single program's module, and by a set of relations connecting models of different semantic theories. A semantic theory of
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Beyond gatekeeping: Philosophical sources, Indigenous philosophy, and the Huarochirí Manuscript Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Jorge Sanchez‐Perez
This paper argues for a broad definition of philosophical sources and how Indigenous traditional knowledge fits that definition. It concludes by showing how, following the previous two points, an Indigenous document such as the Huarochirí Manuscript can be considered a philosophical source by academic philosophers. The paper has three sections: the first deals with the methodological point of addressing
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Louis Groarke
This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's account of these issues is mostly correct and merits close
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“Another Logic is known”: Benedetto Croce's assessment of “Indian Logic” Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Lorenzo Leonardo Pizzichemi
This essay aims to shed new light on the theoretical pertinence of classical Indian logic and epistemology in Benedetto Croce's criticism of Western Aristotelian and modern logic. As a matter of fact, Croce gave a positive and extraordinarily enterprising evaluation of “Indian Logic” in his review of Hermann Jacobi's Indische Logik (1905) and in his book Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept (1996
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Methodologies and communities in comparative philosophy Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Stephen C. Angle
There is considerable disagreement and even confusion over what forms of border‐crossing philosophizing are most appropriate to our times. Are comparative, cross‐cultural, intercultural, blended, and fusion philosophy all the same thing? Some critics find what they call “comparative philosophy” to be moribund or problematically colonialist; others assert that projects like “fusion philosophy” are intellectually
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Naturalizing skepticism Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges. This is often seen as an advantage; but it also calls into question its claim of belonging to the philosophical inquiry into knowledge
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A speculative turn in science and philosophy of science Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Slobodan Perović, Milan Ćirković
This paper describes the main features and goals of the speculative work in modern sciences that has greatly accelerated since World War II due to the exponential increase in computing power and newly available theoretical and conceptual tools. It points to the long historical strand of speculative philosophical work in symbiosis with the sciences, suggests the reasons for its unexpected neglect in
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African philosophy cannot be a thing Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Idowu Odeyemi
This essay unpacks several arguments about the metaphilosophic nature of African philosophy and charts a way through the problems these arguments encounter. It argues that we must be careful in our attempt to define African philosophy conceptually. Because to define it is to limit it—and to limit it is to conserve it and lead it to a cesspool. It also argues that finding a single meaning for African
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Philosophy and biography Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Paul O'Grady
Does the biography of a philosopher have any relevance to assessing their philosophy? After considering and rejecting three distinct treatments of this question, a different answer is articulated here. Distinguishing between the content and approach of a philosophical text, this article argues that biography is relevant to assessing the approach of the text in three ways: in its socio‐historical context
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The emergence of value: Human norms in a natural world By LawrenceCahoone. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. 340 pp. Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Sami Pihlström
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The evolving hierarchy of naturalized philosophy: A metaphilosophical sketch Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Luca Rivelli
Some scholars claim that epistemology of science and machine learning are actually overlapping disciplines studying induction, respectively affected by Hume's problem of induction and its formal machine‐learning counterpart, the “no‐free‐lunch” (NFL) theorems, to which even advanced AI systems such as LLMs are not immune. Extending Kevin Korb's view, this paper envisions a hierarchy of disciplines
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On the philosophical proofs of absolute death by schizophrenia Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Kuo Li
This paper begins by elucidating two common features in the application from spirit to the material world of objective idealism: first, all main representatives take the Absolute as the way to think about the inner negative foundation of spirit and, second, the Absolute has a self‐negation processual structure, which exits itself and then returns to itself. The paper points out that the exit‐return
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Amartya Sen's social justice Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Jane Duran
This paper uses lines of argument drawn from Amartya Sen's Idea of Justice to support the notion that NGO efforts, far from being oppressive, are helpful and progressive. It cites the work of Lairap‐Fonderson and Chen, and alludes to specific projects. Contrast is made with Rawls, and the paper suggests that more formal theories of justice may not enable us to grapple with our intuitive sense that
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The testimony challenge against the possibility of philosophical knowledge Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Octavio García
We access most of our most cherished beliefs via testimony. Philosophy is no exception. We treat spoken and written philosophical testimony as evidence for philosophical claims. Nonetheless, this paper argues that philosophical testimony is unable to justify philosophical beliefs. If testimony is the only evidence we have to justify philosophical beliefs, this entails skepticism about philosophy. Call
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Philosophy of education: Thinking and learning through history and practice By JohnRyder. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. Pp. x + 275 Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Avi I. Mintz
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Ethnophilosophy as a global development goal Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 James Tartaglia
The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but this paper approaches the debate in search of lessons about philosophy in general. The paper shows how this ongoing debate has been obscured by varying understandings of “ethnophilosophy” and that a de facto victory has long since transpired, since “ethnophilosophy
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Libertarianism without alternative possibilities Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Joël Dolbeault
In the contemporary debate on free will, most philosophers assume that the defense of libertarianism implies the defense of the notion of alternative possibilities. This article discusses this presupposition by showing that it is possible to build a libertarianism without alternative possibilities, apparently more robust than libertarianism with alternative possibilities. Inspired by Bergson, this
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Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Rasmus Jaksland
The naturalized metaphysics promoted by Ladyman and Ross, among others, is often described as (neo)‐Quinean metaphysics. This association with Quine's naturalism can, however, give a misleading impression of the aims and commitments of this kind of naturalized metaphysics. Contrary to Quine, these naturalized metaphysicians endorse metaphysical realism and offer wholesale arguments in favor of the
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Good reasons to philosophize: On Hadot, Cooper, and ancient philosophical protreptic Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Matthew Sharpe
This paper reassesses the Cooper‐Hadot debate surrounding how students are converted to philosophy as a way of life (section 1) through engagement with philosophical protreptics. In section 2, the paper identifies the core “argument from finality” in philosophical protreptics seeking to convert non‐philosophers to philosophy, starting from the universal human interest in securing eudaimonia. In line
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Philosophy as dia‐philosophy: Hector‐Neri Castañeda's theoretical defense of pluralism Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Nevia Dolcini
This paper focuses on Hector‐Neri Castañeda's significant contributions to metaphilosophy. In his 1980 work, On Philosophical Method, Castañeda articulates a unique perspective, characterizing philosophy as fundamentally a dia‐philosophical activity. By asserting the supremacy of synthesis over analysis within the metaphilosophical hierarchy, his account provides a purely theoretical defense of philosophical
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Meta‐regresses and the limits of persuasive argumentation Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Guido Melchior
This paper provides a thorough analysis of two often informally stated claims. First, successful argumentation in the sense of persuasive argumentation requires agreement between the interlocutors about the rationality of arguments. Second, a general agreement about rationality of arguments cannot itself be established via argumentation, since such an attempt leads to an infinite meta‐regress. Hence
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The consequences of seeing imagination as a dual‐process virtue Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ingrid Malm Lindberg
Michael T. Stuart (2021 and 2022) has proposed imagination as an intellectual dual‐process virtue, consisting of imagination1 (underwritten by cognitive Type 1 processing) and imagination2 (supported by Type 2 processing). This paper investigates the consequences of taking such an account seriously. It proposes that the dual‐process view of imagination allows us to incorporate recent insights from
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Queue‐jumping arguments Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Andrew Aberdein, Kenneth R. Pike
A queue‐jumping argument concludes that some course of action is impermissible by likening it to the presumptively impermissible act of jumping a queue. Arguments of this sort may be found in a disparate range of contexts and in support of policies favoured by both left and right. Examples include arguments against private education and private health care but also arguments against accommodations
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Spiritual exercises and early modern philosophy: Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza By SimoneD'Agostino. Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. iv + 212 Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Matteo J. Stettler
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“It takes a village to write a really good paper”: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Samantha Copeland, Lavinia Marin
That there is a “crisis of peer review” at the moment is not in dispute, but sufficient attention has not yet been paid to the normative potential that lies in current calls for reform. In contrast to approaches to “fixing” the problems in peer review, which tend to maintain the status quo in terms of professionalising opportunities, this paper addresses the needs of philosophers and how peer‐review
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Ontological relativity and conceptual analysis as theoretical frameworks for epistemic injustice: Exploring applications Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Paolo Valore
This article introduces a novel theoretical framework for addressing epistemic injustice—a phenomenon where certain groups or individuals are systematically excluded from knowledge creation and dissemination processes—by employing ontological relativity and conceptual analysis. “Ontological relativity” refers to a philosophical perspective that posits our understanding of reality as being shaped by
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Academic hoaxes Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Andrew Sneddon
What are academic hoaxes, and what should we make of them? This paper argues that academic hoaxes are exercises in pretense, with a complex structure involving both a focal item and a self-revealing dimension, all governed by attitudes about the relevant sort of academic work, that are derivative yet different from the attitudes found in normal participation in publication. Hoaxes done primarily for
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Alternate conceptions of metaphysics Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 David Weissman
Metaphysics is the inquiry having categorial form as its aim. Once all but defunct, metaphysics has now revived, though without disciplinary focus. Nine points of entry dominate current studies, each separate from and largely oblivious to the others. This essay characterizes the nine, expressing its preference for a discipline grounded in the empirical sciences while pursuing issues they ignore.
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The psychopathology of metaphysics: Depersonalization and the problem of reality Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alexandre Billon
According to a common philosophical intuition, the deep nature of things is hidden from us, and the world as we know it through perception and science is, just like a dream, shadows, or a computer simulation, somehow shallow and lacking in reality. This “intuition of unreality” clashes with a strong, but perhaps more naive, intuition to the effect that the world as we know it seems perfectly real.
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Where do philosophers appeal to intuitions (if they do)? Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Richard Galvin, William Roche
It might be that intuitions are central to philosophy, and it might be that this is true because when philosophers give case-based arguments for philosophical claims (in published philosophy), the case verdict is typically (a) an intuited proposition and (b) either left undefended or defended on the grounds that it is an intuited proposition. This paper remains neutral on these global issues, however
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Some vices of vice epistemology Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Quassim Cassam
The actual or potential epistemic vices of a given discipline or field of study are its disciplinary vices. This paper identifies three actual or potential disciplinary vices of vice epistemology. Vice epistemology explains people's epistemic misconduct by reference to their supposed epistemic vices. Such vice explanations are contrasted with attempts to achieve Verstehen of people's epistemic conduct
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Protohistory: Unending intuitions Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Idowu Odeyemi
Philosophers ponder on how to do philosophy and how to do it well. This pondering has divided metaphilosophers' concern about philosophical methodology into two groups, which we could label “pro-history” and “pro-intuition.” The claim (and belief) of philosophers who are in the “pro-history” group can be found in this sentence by Robert Pasnau (2011): “The discipline of philosophy benefits from a serious
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Comparing language and religion in normative arguments about linguistic justice Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 François Boucher
Many of the most influential theorists of linguistic justice make arguments on the basis of comparisons between language and religion. They claim either that (1) language, by contrast with religion, cannot be separated from the state or that (2) unequal official linguistic recognition, just like unequal official religious recognition, is morally problematic. This article argues that careful attention
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Immigrant linguistic justice: The lay of the land Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Helder De Schutter, Seunghyun Song
Linguistic justice is concerned with the just way of politically regulating linguistic diversity. Today, the linguistic-justice debate may be differentiated into three different domains: interlinguistic justice, intralinguistic justice, and global linguistic justice. Each of these domains has, to a significant extent, attracted different authors and debates, although the normative system underlying
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Structural linguistic injustice Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Seunghyun Song
This paper develops a concept of structural linguistic injustice. By employing the so-called structural-injustice approach, it argues that individuals' seemingly harmless language attitudes and language choices might enable serious harms on a collective level, constituting what one could call a structural linguistic injustice. Section 1 introduces the linguistic-justice debate. By doing so, it establishes
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Avowal under oppression Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Sydney Maxwell
Leading expressivist proposals characterize the mental state expressed in the making of a normative judgment solely in terms of intrinsic, psychological dispositions. As a result, they fail to capture a subset of the normative judgments that agents can and do make; they miss the way that external factors can influence what the making of a normative judgment looks like. This problem can be seen most
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The integration problem for naive realism Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Ivan V. Ivanov
This paper makes explicit the basic problem perfect hallucinations pose for perceptual naive realists, more fundamental than the well-trodden Screening-off Problem. The deeper problem offers the basis for an overarching classification of the available naive- realist-friendly approaches to perfect hallucinations. In the course of laying out the challenges to the different types of response, the paper
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Pre-departure language requirements for family reunification Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tamara van den Berg
This paper argues that pre-departure language requirements for family reunification are unjustified. Such requirements are assumed to safeguard (1) the non-instrumental cultural interests of citizens of the receiving society and (2) the instrumental language interests of both citizens and immigrants, for democratic life and political participation. The paper explores nationalist and multiculturalist
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Discursive pluralism: Inferentialist expressivism and the integration challenge Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Pietro Salis
Discursive pluralism, recently fostered by anti-representationalist views, by stating that not all assertions conform to a descriptive model of language, poses an interesting challenge to representationalism. Although in recent years alethic pluralism has become more and more popular as an interesting way out for this issue, the discussion also hosts other interesting minority approaches in the an
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Frank Ebersole on Wittgenstein and Pictures in Philosophy Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Leonidas Tsilipakos
How do we get into trouble in philosophy, and what do pictures have to do with it? This article addresses Frank Ebersole's thoughts on (Wittgenstein's remarks on) pictures in philosophy. It identifies the puzzlement generated for Ebersole by what Wittgenstein says and also considers some puzzling aspects of Ebersole's own renderings of pictures. It distinguishes between the philosophical picture and
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The practical ethics of linguistic integration: Three challenges Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Yael Peled
Public debates on linguistic integration as a socially desired outcome often share a prevailing sentiment that newcomers ought to “learn the language.” But the intensity of that sentiment is rarely accompanied by an equally robust understanding of what, precisely, it means in practice. This results in a notion of linguistic integration with an inbuilt tension between a seemingly pragmatic and commonsensical
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Stylistic appearances and linguistic diversity Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Filippo Contesi
Philosophy is beginning to pay problems of linguistic justice the attention they deserve in today's heavily interconnected and migrant world. Contemporary philosophy itself, however, has a particular problem of linguistic justice that deserves metaphilosophical attention. At least in the philosophical tradition that is mainstream in much of the world today, viz., analytic philosophy, methodological
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Towards a topological philosophy Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Bartłomiej Skowron, Janusz Kaczmarek, Krzysztof Wójtowicz
This article examines the use of mathematical concepts in philosophy, focusing on topology, which may be viewed as a modern supplement to geometry. We show that Plato and Parmenides were already employing geometric ideas in their research, and discuss three examples of the application of topology to philosophical problems: the first concerns the analysis of the Cartesian distinction between res extensa
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Linguistic prejudice and electoral discrimination: What can political theory learn from sociolinguistics? Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Matteo Bonotti, Louisa Willoughby
Normative political theorists working in the field of linguistic justice generally believe that participation in democratic life in linguistically diverse societies requires a shared lingua franca (e.g., Patten 2009; Van Parijs 2011). Even when a shared lingua franca is present, however, there is likely to be a variety of ways in which people speak it, due to variations in accent, pitch, register,
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Detection of words versus good old counting: A note on Mizrahi and Dickinson, “The analytic-continental divide in philosophical practice” Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Hugo Dirk Hogenbirk
In a recent Metaphilosophy article, Moti Mizrahi and Michael Dickinson argue against characterizing the divide between analytical and continental philosophy as a divide in the use of arguments. This hypothesis is rejected on the basis of a text-mining approach. The present paper argues that the results they extracted do not answer the questions they set out to answer as well as would have been possible
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Philosophers ought to develop, theorize about, and use philosophically relevant AI Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Graham Clay, Caleb Ontiveros
The transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to philosophy—the only question is the degree to which philosophers will harness it. This paper argues that the application of AI tools to philosophy could have an impact on the field comparable to the advent of writing, and that it is likely that philosophical progress will significantly increase as a consequence of AI. The role of
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Empirical tests of scientific realism: A quantitative framework Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 James W. McAllister
The scientific realism debate in philosophy of science raises some intriguing methodological issues. Scientific realism posits a link between a scientific theory's observational and referential success. This opens the possibility of testing the thesis empirically, by searching for evidence of such a link in the record of theories put forward in the history of science. Many realist philosophers working
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The value of philosophy: A Canguilhemian perspective Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Anton Vydra
This paper represents a philosophical reflection on the nature and value of philosophy itself. Georges Canguilhem somewhat scandalously argued that the fundamental value of philosophy does not lie in truth. He suggests that truth is a typical value of science because truth is what science says and what is said scientifically. Why would a philosopher depreciate his own discipline? And does he really
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Truth and consequences Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Polly Mitchell, Alan Cribb, Vikki Entwistle
In his 1987 paper “Truth or Consequences,” Dan Brock describes a deep conflict between the goals and virtues of philosophical scholarship and public policymaking: whereas the former is concerned with the search for truth, the latter must primarily be concerned with promoting good consequences. When philosophers are engaged in policymaking, he argues, they must shift their primary goal from truth to
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I through thou, and we through I: Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla on the personal foundation of community Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Lasha Matiashvili
This article is an attempt to scrutinize the phenomenological social ontology of Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla by drawing on the particular role and nature of interpersonal relatedness and second-person engagement in the constitution of first-person-plural perspective. Both Hildebrand and Wojtyla endorse the unique value of the person and personality as the foundational principle for different
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Outgrowing representationalism: Semantic remarks on Tracy Llanera's Richard Rorty: Outgrowing modern nihilism Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi
This article provides a semantic reading of Tracy Llanera's brilliant book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism. Llanera is reframing the debate of how to react to the malaise of modern nihilism by proposing a change of metaphor: instead of trying to “overcome” nihilism, we should try to “outgrow” nihilism. This article invites Llanera to shed more light on her project with respect to the semantic
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A socio-epistemological program for the philosophy of regulatory science Metaphilosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Guillermo Marín Penella
This paper presents a program of action for the philosophy of regulatory science, based on a general theory of social epistemology. Two candidates are considered. The first one, offered by Alvin Goldman, is not fit for our purposes because it is focused on a veritism incompatible with non-epistemic aims of regulatory science. The second, championed by Steve Fuller, sociologically investigates the existing