Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung

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...