VOLUME 6 • 2007
TRIANGULATION, OBJECTIVITY AND THE AMBIGUITY PROBLEM
ABSTRACT. Davidson claims that a creature that has spent its entire life in isolation cannot have thoughts: (i) interaction with another creature (what he calls "triangulation") is required to locate the cause of the creature's responses, and (ii) linguistic communication is necessary to acquire the..
CIRCUMSTANTE TEMPORALIZATE
ABSTRACT. Events occur at instants or over periods of time, and are related to other events by the relations of "earlier than", "simultaneous with", and "later than." Insofar as statements affirm the possession of properties by individuals at places and times, they make no reference to the mode of p..
NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY: FOUCAULT ON THE BIRTH OF BIOPOLITICS
ABSTRACT. Abstract. This paper first briefly discusses Foucault's approach to governmentality, before detailing and analysing Foucault's account of German ordoliberalism, a configuration based on the theoretical configuration of economics and law developed at the University of Freiberg by W. Eucken ..
HUMAN GENETIC ENHANCEMENTS: A TRANSHUMANIST PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. Transhumanists place an emphasis on modifications which, in addition to promoting human well-being, also open more possibilities than they close and which increase our ability to make subsequent choices wisely. Longer active lifespans, better memory, and greater intellectual capacities are..
VARIABLES, GENERALITY AND EXISTENCE: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NOTION OF A CONCEPT-SCRIPT (II)
ABSTRACT. The ideal of a logically transparent language represents no merely interesting episode in the history of ideas. The notion of an ideal language typically carries the implication that it is not only transparent but also that it is complete. The project of formalising natural-language senten..
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS: CONSTRUCTIVISM REHABILITATED?
ABSTRACT. Epistemological issues, although controversial, are central to teaching and learning and have long been a theme of PME. A central epistemological issue is that of the philosophy of mathematics. It is argued that the traditional absolutist philosophies need to be replaced by a conceptual ch..
THE PARADOX OF BELIEVABILITY
ABSTRACT. A superagent is a being who satisfies the following two principles: (I) If p entails q, and if S believes p, then S believes q. (II) If S believes that she doesn't believe p, then S doesn't believe p. There could be a superagent, in the sense that it's not conceptually impossible for a sup..