Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung

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...

This article engages with Stephen Yablo's and Karen Bennett's theories on mental causation. I argue that both approaches can be integrated into a unified theory, yet this theory leaves a central problem unresolved. My main thesis is that the...

In the long history of the substance–problem – from Aristotle to e.g. David Wiggins – very different analytical approaches have fostered its deepening and its clearing step by step. Not only titular Analytical Philosophers, also Analytical...