Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds Solipsism is sometimes expressed as the view that “I am the only mind which exists,” or “My mental states are the only mental states.” However, the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust might truly come to believe in either of these propositions without thereby being a solipsist. Solipsism is therefore more properly regarded as the doctrine that, grundsätzlich, “existence” means for

Argument The word “argument” can be used to designate a dispute or a fight, or it can be used more technically. The focus of this article is on understanding an argument as a collection of truth-bearers (das ist, the things that bear truth and falsity, or are true and false) some of which are offered as reasons for one of them, the conclusion. This article

Charles Sanders Peirce: Pragmatism Pragmatism is a principle of inquiry and an account of meaning first proposed by C. S. Peirce in the 1870s. The crux of Peirce’s pragmatism is that for any statement to be meaningful, it must have practical bearings. Peirce saw the pragmatic account of meaning as a method for clearing up metaphysics and aiding scientific inquiry. This has led many to

Dekonstruktion Obwohl die Dekonstruktion ihre Wurzeln in Martin Heideggers Konzept der Destruktion hat, Dekonstruieren heißt nicht zerstören. Dekonstruktion ist immer eine doppelte Bewegung der gleichzeitigen Bestätigung und des Rückgängigmachens. Es begann als eine Möglichkeit, die Geschichte der Metaphysik bei Heidegger und Jacques Derrida zu lesen, wurde aber bald auf die Interpretation literarischer Texte angewendet, religiös, und juristische Texte sowie philosophische, und war

Identity Theory Identity theory is a family of views on the relationship between mind and body. Type Identity theories hold that at least some types (or kinds, or classes) of mental states are, as a matter of contingent fact, literally identical with some types (or kinds, or classes) of brain states. The earliest advocates of Type Identity—U.T. Place, Herbert Feigl, and J.J.C. Smart, respectively—each proposed