Methodus

Main aim of the paper is to propose a slightly different version of negative atheism. Assuming that the debate between theists and atheists cannot be decided by arguments, it explores the limited role of arguments in the philosophy of religion. By...

In this paper, I shall defend two main claims. First, Friedman’s famous paper “On the methodology of positive economics” (“F53”) cannot be properly understood without taking into account the influence of three authors who are neither cited...

As we celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the first publication of the Tractatus, I take a look back at this foundational work of the analytic philosophical tradition. In particular, I examine Wittgenstein’s conception of metaphysics in...

This paper reconstructs the first book of Fichte’s Die Bestimmung des Menschen as an implicit critique by Fichte of the idea of an inductive metaphysics, an idea that was developed explicitly by some philosophers in the German-speaking world only...

According to a widely accepted conception, philosophy is essentially a second-order discipline raising second-order questions about the procedures and products of first-order reasonings (concepts; principles; theories etc.). While this conception...

Moral subjectivism is commonly associated with out-of-favour theories like, e.g., Alfred Ayer’s emotivism or John Mackie’s error theory. This paper approaches the field against the background of the attitudinal character of morality and...

Our modern world is - at least, since the 17th and the 18th century - deeply structured, if not scattered by several not-reconciled, though classical traditions: By the Platonic-Socratic conception of enlightenment, by the lutheran reformation and...

This text analyses the meaning that Husserl gives to the term "transcendental". To do this the author analyses Husserl's texts in two stages. First, he lists some central features that characterise the transcendental. Second, he relates these...

The article elucidates in what way neuroscience and in particular neuroimaging can contribute to the clarification and empirical underpinning of theories in the philosophy of mind and the anthropology of religion. Its initial hypothesis is that...

In this paper I shall analyze Kant's distinction between the public use and the private use of reason, as formulated in What is Enlightenment?-, in relation to the characteristics that Kant attributes to the faculty of reason in several of his main...

Is there a propositional revelation, and if so, are there rational criteria by which one can distinguish a true revelation from one that only pretends to be one? In the first section of this essay, I will analyze the basic concepts of "revelation"...

The main focus of this article is the methodological problem of the selfdetermination of the philosophy according to the phenomenological analysis carried out by Heidegger in one of the lectures of his early period (the so called Früh Freiburger...