Volume 78 (2024), Edition 3

Spinoza denies that there are powers or abilities as distinct entities and has there- fore often been understood as an antirealist. This paper rejects such an inter- pretation and argues that he subscribes to reductive realism: abilities are really...

In the modern metaethical debate, the term 'non-cognitivism' is often used to describe a claim in moral psychology: the claim that moral judgments are constituted by desire-like mental states rather than beliefs. An argument tradi- tionally employed...

There is currently much discussion about the crisis or even the end of demo- cracy. In the initial phase of digitalisation, many hoped that the Internet, with its boundlessly open, egalitarian and interactive structure, would provide a boost to...

In the epistemological literature, conspiracy theories (CTs) are often compared with skeptical hypotheses: Both are said to resist empirical refutation by immu- nising themselves against counterevidence. In the case of CTs, the trick is to explain...

John Stuart Mill defines economics as a science that employs methods not fundamentally different from those of the natural sciences. The related assumption of the possibility of posing economic laws provides Mill with the foundation of an art of...