Volume 72 (2018), Issue 4

In this paper I will argue that Bernard William's theory of frustrated desires is superior to Tom Nagel's theory of deprivation in explaining when and why death is harmful to oneself. The model of frustrated desires will then be applied...

In the first section of the Groundwork, Kant claims that his definition of ,,duty" follows as a consequence (,,Folgerung") from two antecedent propositions – but he only makes the ,,second" one explicit. Over the last seventy years, scholars have...

The person of the initial thought experiment knows all non-indexical physical facts about things of the external world but not their real size. This highlights a tension between two rather uncontroversial views about spatial objects: (1) the...

The most important argument for the incompatibility of semantic externalism and a priori self-knowledge is the so-called McKinsey paradox. In this essay, it is shown that the most familiar proposal for a dissolution of that paradox, viz, the one...

The article defends the logical possibility of zombies. They are only nomologically impossible in our world, and this for axiological reasons. But the logical possibility of zombies remains important, for it is a necessary – not a sufficient –...

The zombie, mocking all nomological arguments, gives rise to axiological considerations that also result in a vindication of the nomological paradigm. So the 'philosophical benefit of zombies' ultimately proves to be that they lead to an...