Browsing by Author "Philosophy"

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    • "Above the Sceptred Sway": Retrieving the Quality of Mercy 

      Ransome, William (2008)

    • Aesthetics and kinaesthetics 

      Gallagher, Shaun (Akademie Verlag, 2011)

    • After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method 

      Larvor, B. (2002)

    • Against digital ontology 

      Floridi, L. (2009)
      The paper argues that digital ontology (the ultimate nature of reality is digital, and the universe is a computational system equivalent to a Turing Machine) should be carefully distinguished from informational ontology ...

    • Albert Lautman, ou la dialectique dans les mathématiques 

      Larvor, B. (2010)
      Albert Lautman (1908-1944) is a rare example of a twentieth-century philosopher whose engagement with contemporary mathematics goes beyond the ‘foundational’ areas of mathematical logic and set theory. He insists that (what ...

    • Albert Lautman: Dialectics in mathematics 

      Larvor, B. (College Publications, 2011)
      In this paper, I shall first explore Lautman’s conception of dialectics by a consideration of his references to Plato and Heidegger. I shall then compare the dialectical structures that he found in contemporary mathematics ...

    • Ambiguity in the sense of agency 

      Gallagher, Shaun (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)

    • An analysis of information visualisation 

      Chen, M.; Floridi, L. (2013-11)
      Philosophers have relied on visual metaphors to analyse ideas and explain their theories at least since Plato. Descartes is famous for his system of axes, and Wittgenstein for his first design of truth table diagrams. ...

    • Analytic Theology and the Phenomenology of Faith 

      Kirkpatrick, Katherine (2016-05-01)
      This article argues that analytic philosophy has a “convincingness deficit”; that proponents of the analytic method’s application to questions of theology must consider whether it is the best tool for the purpose at hand; ...

    • Analyzing peer-to-peer technology using information ethics 

      Taddeo, Mariarosaria; Vaccaro, Antonino (2011)
      Much of the ethical debate on peer-to-peer (P2P) focuses on the use of this technology for unauthorized and illegal sharing of copyrighted materials. This fixation has led some to believe that P2P is an intrinsically ...

    • The Animal in Epistemology : Wittgenstein's Enactivist Solution to the Problem of Regress 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-10-01)
      In this paper I briefly summarize the nature of Wittgenstein's 'hinge certainties', showing how they radically differ from traditional basic beliefs in their being nonepistemic, grammatical, nonpropositional and enacted. ...

    • The Animal in Epistemology: Wittgenstein's Enactivist Solution to the Problem of Regress 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele (2016-05-23)
      In this paper I briefly summarize the nature of Wittgenstein's 'hinge certainties', showing how they radically differ from traditional basic beliefs in their being nonepistemic, grammatical, nonpropositional and enacted. ...

    • Animals and the Capacity for Love 

      Milligan, Tony (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014-09)
      A recurring assumption in analytic work on the philosophy of love is that love is best understood through an exploration of our human responsiveness to other humans. However, this plausible methodological preference has ...

    • Anscombe’s Intentions 

      Sandis, Constantine (2015-10-01)
      Philosophers commonly talk of Anscombe's book Intention as a single unified Account produced at a particular moment in time. Yet we have a tendency to refer to the Text of the second (1963) edition while citing the first ...

    • The Archaeology of STEM fairs 

      Larvor, Brendan (2014-05-06)

    • Are minimal representations still representations? 

      Gallagher, Shaun (2008-07-01)
      I examine the following question: Do actions require representations that are intrinsic to the action itself? Recent work by Mark Rowlands, Michael Wheeler, and Andy Clark suggests that actions may require a minimal form ...

    • The Art of Time Travel: A Bigger Picture 

      Bourne, Craig; Caddick Bourne, Emily (2017-03-31)
      We reply to Storrs McCall's objections to our proposed solution to his puzzle concerning time travel and artistic creativity. We also raise some further thoughts, developing the discussion of time travel's implications for ...

    • The Art of Time Travel: McCall’s “Insoluble” Problem Solved 

      Bourne, Craig; Caddick Bourne, Emily (2016-12-01)
      In ‘An Insoluble Problem’ (2010), Storrs McCall presents an argument which he takes to reveal the real problem with backwards time travel. McCall asks us to imagine a scenario in which a renowned artist produces his famous ...

    • Articulating and understanding the phenomenological manifesto 

      Hutto, D. (2008)
      Focusing on the manifesto provided by Gallagher and Zahavi's The Phenomenological Mind, this paper critically examines how we should understand and asses the prospects of allying phenomenological approaches to mind with ...

    • Artificial evil and the foundation of computer ethics 

      Floridi, L.; Sanders, J.W. (2001)
      Moral reasoning traditionally distinguishes two types of evil: moral (ME) and natural (NE). The standard v iew is that ME is the product of human agency and so includes phenomena such as war, torture and psychological ...