VOLUME 15 • 2016
THE CONCEPT OF IDEALIZATION IN ERNST CASSIRER’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. The German philosopher Ernst Cassirer is well known for his masterful historical works on modern philosophy and also for his philosophy of symbolic forms, but there is an aspect that has been disregarded by those scholars who dedicated several books and essays to Cassirer’s thought, I mean..
REVISITING TRUTH IN PHILOSOPHY
ABSTRACT. What I want to explore in this paper is whether there are any truths in philosophy. The issue arises because of the widespread controversies about nearly every topic those working in the discipline consider. Unlike in physics or biology, although not so much in economics and literary criti..
WHY VAN FRAASSEN SHOULD AMEND HIS POSITION ON INSTRUMENT-MEDIATED DETECTIONS
ABSTRACT. Constructive empiricism is a prominent anti-realist position whose aim is to make sense of science. As is well known, it also crucially depends on the distinction between what is observable and what scientific theories postulate but is unobservable to us. Accordingly, adopting an adequate ..
HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF THE MODAL LOGIC OF ANALYTIC TRUTH FROM A LINGUISTIC NATURALIST PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. This paper addresses Katz’s argument for Linguistic Platonism based on the logical necessity characteristic of analytic truth (Katz, 1981; 1984). In a different philosophical context, Kripke observes that “it would be wrong to identify the language people would have, given that a certain s..
BIOPOLITICAL ECONOMIES OF DEBT
ABSTRACT. This paper provides a Nietzschean-inspired account of “biopolitical economies of debt” as a basis for analyzing the sovereign debt crises experienced by many countries in the last few decades, focusing on Greece. The paper argues that the sovereign debt crises are themselves only a reflect..
ON THE ERROR OF TREATING FUNCTIONS AS OBJECTS
ABSTRACT. In his late fragment, “Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,” Frege laments the tendency to confuse functions with objects and says, “It is here that the tendency of language by its use of the definite article to stamp as an object what is a function and hence a non-obj..