VOLUME 13 • 2014
KRIPKE ON THE NECESSITY OF IDENTITY
ABSTRACT. Saul A. Kripke, in his 1971 essay, “Identity and Necessity” (reprinted 2011, in Kripke, Philosophical Troubles, Collected Papers, Volume 1), argues on grounds of Leibnizian indiscernibility of identicals that identity relations are necessary. Kripke speaks here explicitly of the modality o..
ONTOLOGICALLY SERIOUS GENUINISM
ABSTRACT. The most general criticism of negative causation – causation by or of absences – is that it requires negative properties or entities as an ontological addition. If that were the case, then negative causation would be a spurious phenomenon. I argue that negative causation, properly understo..
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN KARL MARX’S IDEALISM: THE HEGELIAN LEGACY
ABSTRACT. A very widespread philosophical cliché is the one affirming that Karl Marx abandoned Hegelian philosophy in favor of his materialist conception of history, overturning, that way, Hegelian dialectics. Even though Marx himself stated that he was a materialist philosopher, in this essay we wi..
CONSTRUCTIVE COMMUNICATION IN EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATION
ABSTRACT. Applying new conceptual and methodological approaches, this study advances to the next level research on the function of gender in negotiation conduct and results, communication as a relevant variable in predicting bargained outcomes, the role of psychological impact in negotiations, and t..
THE POLITICAL ONTOLOGY OF RAWLS’S WORK
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of Rawls’s view of political liberalism, his theory of the person, his account of citizenship, and his normative individualism. The results of the current study converge with prior research on Rawls’s emphasis on freedom and ind..