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The following topics guide our reasoning in this article on Schelling, Being, and Predication. The first, in which continuity between the System of Identity and Schelling's new essay on the System of Freedom can be seen, concerns the critique of...

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct Fichte's concept of freedom of the will in terms of a genetic compatibilism. Historically, the focus is on the question of how Fichte departs from Kant's concept of transcendental freedom. System- atically,...

The paper focuses on the anthropological analyses of Blaise Pascal's Pensées and aims to elucidate their significance in the history and present from a methodological point of view. In its hermeneutic approach, Pascal's anthropology proves to be...

This paper presents an analysis of Richard Holton's multiple‐plan cases. In these cases, we seem to plan with different mutually incompatible ways of reaching a single goal and yet the plan appears rational. I will argue that examples of this kind...

Recently, there has been a growing body of work that takes a closer look at the concept of moral progress. In the following paper, I present various approaches that examine the phenomenon of moral progress by interpreting it in different ways: a) as...

There is currently much discussion about the crisis or even the end of demo- cracy. In the initial phase of digitalisation, many hoped that the Internet, with its boundlessly open, egalitarian and interactive structure, would provide a boost to...

Spinoza denies that there are powers or abilities as distinct entities and has there- fore often been understood as an antirealist. This paper rejects such an inter- pretation and argues that he subscribes to reductive realism: abilities are really...

John Stuart Mill defines economics as a science that employs methods not fundamentally different from those of the natural sciences. The related assumption of the possibility of posing economic laws provides Mill with the foundation of an art of...

In the epistemological literature, conspiracy theories (CTs) are often compared with skeptical hypotheses: Both are said to resist empirical refutation by immu- nising themselves against counterevidence. In the case of CTs, the trick is to explain...

In the modern metaethical debate, the term 'non-cognitivism' is often used to describe a claim in moral psychology: the claim that moral judgments are constituted by desire-like mental states rather than beliefs. An argument tradi- tionally employed...