Volume 71 (2017), Issue 1

The claims about free will that Descartes makes in his writings seem, at first glance, to be inconsistent. In recent years, several authors have argued that we can dissolve the apparent contradiction by taking a closer look at the role that...

Many of our beliefs are based on other mental states. What does this basing relation consist in? Causal theories give the following causal condition for the belief B being based on the mental state M: (CC) M has caused B (or causes that B is...

Are persons rational because they are self-conscious or are they self-conscious because they are rational? Wittgenstein's remarks on the grammatical peculiarities of first-person expressions are not only a criticism of the conception of a Cartesian...

Is hope a virtue? The paper answers this question by meeting it in both directions: in which sense can hope be considered to be a virtue – more exactly: which answers are eligible depending on the presupposed understanding of virtue? And the other...