Donald Davidson: Anomalous Monism Anomalous Monism is a type of property dualism in the philosophy of mind. Property dualism combines the thesis that mental phenomena are strictly irreducible to physical phenomena with the denial that mind and body are discrete substances. For the anomalous monist, the plausibility of property dualism derives from the fact that although mental states, events and processes have genuine causal powers, the causal

John Stuart Mill (1806—1873) John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) profoundly influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse. His substantial corpus of works includes texts in logic, Erkenntnistheorie, Wirtschaft, social and political philosophy, Ethik, Metaphysik, Religion, and current affairs. Among his most well-known and significant are A System of Logic, Principles of Political Economy, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, Three Essays

Evidence The concept of evidence is crucial to epistemology and the philosophy of science. In der Erkenntnistheorie, evidence is often taken to be relevant to justified belief, where the latter, im Gegenzug, is typically thought to be necessary for knowledge. Wohl, dann, an understanding of evidence is vital for appreciating the two dominant objects of epistemological concern, nämlich, knowledge and justified belief. In the philosophy of

Laws of Nature Laws of Nature are to be distinguished both from Scientific Laws and from Natural Laws. Neither Natural Laws, as invoked in legal or ethical theories, nor Scientific Laws, which some researchers consider to be scientists’ attempts to state or approximate the Laws of Nature, will be discussed in this article. Stattdessen, it explores issues in contemporary metaphysics. Within metaphysics, there are two competing

Tyler Burge (1946—) Tyler Burge is an American philosopher who has done influential work in several areas of philosophy. These include philosophy of language, Logik, Philosophie des Geistes, Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie der Wissenschaft (primarily philosophy of psychology), and history of philosophy (focusing especially on Frege, but also on the classical rationalists—Descartes, Leibniz, und Kant). Burge has also done some work in psychology itself. Burge is best