Volume 70 (2016), Issue 3

Consequentialism in decision theory, as opposed to moral philosophy, is concerned with defending certain rationality postulates rather than ethical postulates. The concept of a consequence is accordingly understood in a wide sense that is meant to...

It is often said that practical reason is a capacity to deliberate practically or to step back from one's motivations and reflect on them. I argue that this conception of practical reason is faced with a dilemma: Everyday intelligent action is then...

In the present paper, I set out to develop a novel approach to the experience of the world and of others, as it accrues from the original ability to be affected [Affektabilität] and its desire, by taking as a starting-point a radical phenomenology...

I discuss the relation between theoretical and practical activity in the Nicomachean Ethics. It seems that, according to EN X, it is rational for humans to contemplate as much as they can – even to the detriment of practical claims, such as to...

The idea of toleration leads somewhat of a double life in our liberal society. On the one hand, there is a fairly broad public consensus that toleration is a good thing. On the other hand, political philosophers have been puzzled by the conceptual...