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It is well known that for Arendt, plurality – the fact that “ men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world" – is a condition of human existence. It is less well known and less often discussed among Arendt-scholars that plurality is...

Wonder (thaumazein) is the beginning of philosophy. This well-known formula can be grasped for the first time in Plato's Theaetetus (155d). The standard interpretation of this passage takes wonder as a positively connoted, transitive starting point...

This paper focuses on justice in Hegel's philosophy of law. Starting with the observation of justice not being mentioned explicitly in German law merely at all, the claim towards a philosophy of law to explain this silence of the law, is asserted...

So far Schelling's contributions to the Critical Journal of Philosophy, which he published in close collaboration with Hegel, have only rarely received closer attention. According to common opinion, Schelling fails to meet the criteria of...

In a recent paper, Romy Jaster and Ansgar Beckermann have added a new twist to the traditional debate about the compatibility of free will with determinism. They wonder whether the abilities required for free will are compatible with determinism....

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...

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 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 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...

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 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 –...