Volume 131 (2024), Edition 1

The article aims to recognize Heidegger’s late phenomenology of language as a situational ontology. It is shown that this approach is motivated by a hitherto unnoticed problem of relevance that goes beyond the traditional frame problem. The...

Human existence is essentially temporal. Our past, present, and future permeate each other and their mutual dynamic is crucial to the flourishing of our existence. Obviously, though, we are not fully in control of our own temporal realization. So,...

In the Discours sur l’inégalité, Rousseau introduces the key concept of love of oneself (amour de soi-même). He conceives it as an original impulse in human beings, one that can historically be found even before the development of reason....

One central goal of Transparency and Reflection is to explain how self-knowledge is possible, while adhering to the principle that knowledge of mental states is ‘transparent’ to knowledge of the world. I argue that the resources that Matthew...

In his essay “Transparency, Self-Consciousness, and Reflection”, and in his book Transparency and Reflection, Boyle develops a solution to the problem of transparency according to which answers to suitable questions about the mind merely make...

This article discusses the way Matthew Boyle conceives of "reflection", a notion situated at the very heart of his philosophical project. After surveying how Boyle defines the notion and its function through the conceptual articulation of certain...