Epistemology of Memory We learn a lot. Friends tell us about their lives. Books tell us about the past. We see the world. We reason and we reflect on our mental lives. As a result we come to know and to form justified beliefs about a range of topics. We also seem to keep these beliefs. Wie? The natural answer is: by memory. Es ist

Occasionalism In the minds of most philosophers with a passing familiarity with early-modern philosophy, occasionalism is typically regarded as a laughable ad hoc or ‘for want of anything better’ solution to the mind-body problem, first opened up in Descartes’ Meditations. As typically presented in philosophy textbooks, the doctrine (usually identified exclusively with Nicholas Malebranche) certainly seems laughable: beginning from the assumption that the actual transmission

Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics is a physical theory developed in the 1920s to account for the behavior of matter on the atomic scale. It has subsequently been developed into arguably the most empirically successful theory in the history of physics. Aber, it is hard to understand quantum mechanics as a description of the physical world, or to understand it as a physical explanation

Modal Illusions We often talk about how things could have been, given different circumstances, or about how things might be in the future. When we speak this way, we presume that these situations are possible. Aber, sometimes people make mistakes regarding what is possible or regarding what could have been the case. When what seems possible to a person is not really possible, this person

Ehemalige Mitarbeiter Vielen Dank an: Bereichsredakteure Joseph Agassi (Philosophie der Wissenschaft) James R. Beebe (Erkenntnistheorie) David Boersema (Amerikanische Philosophie) Curtis Bowman (Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts) Douglas Burnham (Europäer des 19. Jahrhunderts) Jon Cogburn (Philosophie des Geistes) Roy Cook (Mathematik) Joel Dittmer (Werttheorie) James Dunson (Deutsch des 19. Jahrhunderts) Shawn Floyd (Mittelalterliche Philosophie) Valentin Goranko (Logik) John-Stewart Gordon (Ethik und Bioethik) Peter Gratton (Indigene Weltphilosophie) Jeff

David Hume (1711–1776) „Hume ist unsere Politik, Hume ist unser Handwerk, Hume ist unsere Philosophie, Hume ist unsere Religion.“ Diese Aussage des Philosophen James Hutchison Stirling aus dem 19. Jahrhundert spiegelt die einzigartige Stellung des schottischen Philosophen David Hume im intellektuellen Denken wider. Ein Teil von Humes Ruhm und Bedeutung ist seiner kühnen skeptischen Herangehensweise an eine Reihe philosophischer Themen zu verdanken. In der Erkenntnistheorie, er stellte gängige Vorstellungen in Frage