Methodus

As we celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the first publication of the Tractatus, I take a look back at this foundational work of the analytic philosophical tradition. In particular, I examine Wittgenstein’s conception of metaphysics in...

This paper reconstructs the first book of Fichte’s Die Bestimmung des Menschen as an implicit critique by Fichte of the idea of an inductive metaphysics, an idea that was developed explicitly by some philosophers in the German-speaking world only...

According to a widely accepted conception, philosophy is essentially a second-order discipline raising second-order questions about the procedures and products of first-order reasonings (concepts; principles; theories etc.). While this conception...

Moral subjectivism is commonly associated with out-of-favour theories like, e.g., Alfred Ayer’s emotivism or John Mackie’s error theory. This paper approaches the field against the background of the attitudinal character of morality and...

Our modern world is - at least, since the 17th and the 18th century - deeply structured, if not scattered by several not-reconciled, though classical traditions: By the Platonic-Socratic conception of enlightenment, by the lutheran reformation and...

This text analyses the meaning that Husserl gives to the term "transcendental". To do this the author analyses Husserl's texts in two stages. First, he lists some central features that characterise the transcendental. Second, he relates these...