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The usual reading of the Utopia is this: In a feigned discussion between Thomas More, Peter Giles and a fictional character, called Hythlodeus, the author Thomas More criticizes several social as well as economic conditions obtaining in England at...

Locke and other compatibilists have argued that for an agent to have free will the agent has to have certain abilities. Yet, this does not fully answer the question of whether free will and determinism are compatible. For as Geert Keil and other...

The present article undertakes to connect the critique Kant develops in the §§ 72 and 73 of the CJ on Spinoza's conception of purposefully organized natural things with the classical individuation problem. Departing from an exposition of the main...

This paper argues against Davidson's claim that there is no distinction between conceptual schemes and their content and derives the implications for the debate on realism and antirealism. Starting from a semantic conception of realism, I discuss...

My argument is that Chalmers' Zombie fiction and his rigid-designator-argument going back on Kripke seems to come down to a petitio principii. Rather, at the core it appears to be more related to the essential ,privacy' of the phenomenal internal...

In the Jena course catalog for the summer semester 1806, Hegel announced a lecture course on ,,Logic, according to my forthcoming book System of Science". Yet two years later, in May 1808, he wrote to his friend Niethammer that he had barely laid...

Interpreting primarily the first two chapters of Aristotle's Politics, this essay defends three theses: 1) Anthropology did not, as for instance the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie insinuates, originate in early modernity but in Greek...

Democracy is one of the core concepts discussed in contemporary political philosophy. This article reconstructs and reflects two traditions that are under-represented in the current debate: pragmatist and radical theories of democracy. A comparison...

Although Christine Korsgaard's theory of practical normativity is one of the most influencial accounts in current practical philosophy, is it widely disputed what her main arguments are and in how far her account can be defended on rational grounds....

The paper starts from the thesis that in social reality every experiences of injustice of single individuals or social groups always has an emotional dimension, and that it can be interpreted as a breach of the normative unwritten social contract of...

The text analyses and systematizes the arguments of the ,,pharmacological calvinism", i.e. the position in the debate of neuroenhancement that refuses psychotropic drugs for enhancement without a therapeutic context and devaluates all aims achieved...

This essay attempts to trace back the most radical form of philosophical scepticism (the ancient, pyrrhonian scepticism) to its basic operation. Its first part provides a brief overview of the basic characteristics of ancient Pyrrhonism. The second...