VOLUME 7 • 2008
DESDEMONA’S HANDKERCHIEF, ENGINEERED KNOWLEDGE AND JUSTIFICATION
ABSTRACT. This paper discusses cases of engineered knowledge. These involve a devious speaker making use of a hearer’s prejudiced ways of thinking in order to transmit knowledge to them. Such hearers acquire testimonial knowledge but their thoughts are not justified. Knowledge does not therefore ent..
SILENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY
ABSTRACT. Wittgenteinian quietism can be seen as a rejection of two opposing approaches to metaphysical theorising. Conceptual realism, on the one hand, sees our concept scheme as being one particular view on some super-conceptual or god-eye view of reality. Conceptual idealism, on the other hand, r..
CONTINUTUL REVELATIEI PROPOZITIONALE
ABSTRACT. Revelation may be either of God or by God of propositions. Christian orthodoxy has with various degrees of emphasis and qualification claimed that the Christian Bible is true, because its writing was inspired by God; and that it contains in propositional form the crucial elements of the Ch..
WHITEHEAD’S THEORY OF EXTENSION IN PROCESS AND REALITY
ABSTRACT. This paper concerns Part IV of Whitehead’s treatise Process and Reality, in particular the chapters IV.II and IV.III. Most considerations in Part IV have to be seen as fundamental and profound, and not at all incomprehensible. We have to admit that some of the considerations have implicati..
METAPHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND METAPHOR
ABSTRACT. There are three possible positions that philosophy can occupy vis-à-vis first-order knowledge: either philosophy has no first-order concerns of its own; or philosophy has some residual (but dwindling) first-order concerns; or philosophy has first-order concerns that are ineliminable. On th..
FUTURES FOR PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Philosophy of the future is a platform for rethinking the philosophy of education and policy futures in education. While policy futures may draw on the techniques and methodologies of futures studies it is not reducible to this field, or to its siblings–futurology, scenario planning, fores..