VOLUME 10 • 2011
A CRITIQUE OF CARTESIAN KNOWABILITY
ABSTRACT. Frederick Fitch has provided a proof which seems to demonstrate that if all truths are knowable then all truths are known. In response, some defenders of the view that truth is essentially knowable have sought to avoid this result by restricting the claim that all truths are known in some ..
PLANTINGA ON MATERIALISM AND INTENTIONALITY
ABSTRACT. Alvin Plantinga (2006) presents an argument against materialism that is concerned with intentionality. His main contention is that according to materialism, intentionality is not a basic property of the brain or of any part thereof, and that intentionality cannot be determined by interacti..
THE M EVENT PARADOX AND THE SPECIOUS PRESENT: AN ANALYSIS AND REFUTATION OF MCTAGGART’S 2ND ARGUMENT
ABSTRACT. In the “Unreality of Time”, McTaggart famously offers various, significant objections against the possibility of an A-series. After presenting his more famous puzzles, he offers a brief (and often overlooked) argument against an A-series view that would argue for the objective existence of..
INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, ETHNOCENTRISM AND WESTERN FORMS OF DIALOGUE
ABSTRACT. This paper provides the background and analysis for the rise of interculturalism as an emergent discourse and examines the concept and the main forms of dialogue within the Western philosophical tradition. First, it reviews the history of the concept of ethnocentrism, cultural relativism a..
THE EFFECTS OF THE MASS MEDIA AND DEMOGRAPHICS ON PRE-PURCHASE, PURCHASE AND POST-PURCHASE ACTIVITIES
ABSTRACT. The survey (n=242) was conducted in several shopping centres, stores, cafes, and restaurants in order to learn how consumers’ pre-purchase, purchase and post-purchase activities are shaped by the mass media and demographics. Females were more willing than males to spread negative and posit..
CAN YOU OWN YOURSELF?
ABSTRACT. This article answers the title question in the affirmative. Self-ownership comes in two forms: one, negative, which denies that anyone else owns me; and the other, positive, which asserts that one has a right to dispose of oneself in any way that does not infringe on the like right of othe..
INFINITE ETHICS
ABSTRACT. Aggregative consequentialism and several other popular moral theories are threatened with paralysis: when coupled with some plausible assumptions, they seem to imply that it is always ethically indifferent what you do. Modern cosmology teaches that the world might well contain an infinite ..