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The neologism, ,,Gemütsphilosophie" – roughly: philosophy of mindedness – I coined for this article, following Kant's use of ,,Gemüt" to render the Latin 'animus', and thus avoid opting for one pole of Cartesian dualism by speaking of 'mind'...

One of the versions of ,,reflective history" presented and criticized in Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History is ,,pragmatic history": an attitude that approaches history with the primary purpose of learning from it. Hegel's objection...

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that in his late essay Der Gedanke, published in the Beitraegen zur Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus in 1918, Frege presents several considerations that can be understood as contributions to Kantian and...

The evidential uniqueness thesis claims roughly that, in the light of a certain body of evidence E, at most one doxastic attitude – belief, disbelief, or suspension of belief – toward any particular proposition may be rationally adopted by...

This article examines the status of psychoanalysis in the work of Michel Foucault. It argues that Foucaults struggle with Sigmund Freud's theory is pivotal for his œuvre. Foucault is initially ambivalent towards psychoanalysis. This changes with...

On the one hand, scientific pluralism – the view that epistemic or social diversity contributes significantly to the achievement of the aims of science – is both promising and popular in contemporary philosophy of science. On the other hand,...