Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung

The article purports to show that the preference of theôria in Nicomachean Ethics X 7–8 does not represent Aristotle's definitive conception of the best form of life, because it is compatible neither with his overall conception of happiness in...

With his recently published account of know-how David Löwenstein takes a mediating position between intellectualists and anti-intellectualists. Therefore it may appear to be an interesting question to what extent arguments from both sides of the...

Since the early 1970s there is a metaethical discussion about the question whether morality is always prior to other normativities in case of conflict. This debate about the so called overridingness thesis was taken further on a Münsteran...

I argue that the question 'Is there a life after death?' should be put aside as meaningless; the reason for this has nothing to do with materialism or physicalism, however. On the contrary, it is a consequence of temporal idealism: Man's...

The question is not whether realism about external things is true; the question is what it means – and whether it means anything at all. In accordance with Viennese criteria of significance, Moritz Schlick granted good cognitive sense to realism,...

This paper reconstructs Michael Tomasello's account of the evolution of morality and discusses it in the context of the philosophical debates on human nature and the concept of morality. The aim is to show that Tomasello presupposes a particular...

The aim of this paper is to show that intersubjective intelligibility, testability with the use of evidence, rational argumentation and objectivity are possible in the case of text interpretation. As far as one is willing to accept that the appli-...

In this paper we argue that Kripke's causal theory of reference does not provide necessary conditions for reference. For example, we show that Kripke's theory cannot explain that when interchanging two names also the referents of the two names are...