Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung

Gerhard Ernst formulates the following trilemma: (1) We love persons because of their lovable qualities. (2) Lovable qualities can have multiple instantiations.(3) Loved persons are irreplaceable. All three of these claims are prima facie...

In this article a philosophical theory of causation is developed which is inde terministic in that it reconciles the thesis that every event has a cause with the thesis that there are contingent events. Its basic idea is the following: A con tingent...

Anton Friedrich Koch’s subjectivity thesis states that without embodied subjects there could be no individual things in space and time. Subjects, argues Koch, are “logico-ontologically” necessary because the problem of an apparent logical...

This article aims to address some fundamental questions of the individuation of things by means of a theory of the non-empirical aspects of the individual self-consciousness of bodily subjects. At the outset, the principle of the identity of...

The promotion of philosophical judgment skills is often considered as one of the main objectives of philosophy and ethics classes. The underlying idea is that students need to be enabled to make autonomous decisions in their social and personal...

According to Kant, an analytic judgment is characterized by the fact that its predicate is already contained in its subject. Bolzano criticizes this definition as being too broad, as it identifies judgments as analytic that clearly are not. As an...

In metaethics, there is a close connection between ethical intuitionism and moral realism that is mostly based on the fact that intuitionism is capable of providing a solution to a philosophical problem, the problem of justification. This close...

Moral responsibility for an action can only be ascribed if it allows inferences about the agent. In cases of negligence, such a connection appears absent, as the agent acts in ignorance of readily accessible relevant facts. Yet, we hold individuals...