Modal Logic: A Contemporary View Modal notions go beyond the merely true or false by embedding what we say or think in a larger conceptual space referring to what might be or might have been, should be, or should have been, or can still come to be. Modal expressions occur in a remarkably wide range across natural languages, from necessity, possibilité, and contingency to expressions

Self-Consciousness Philosophical work on self-consciousness has mostly focused on the identification and articulation of specific epistemic and semantic peculiarities of self-consciousness, peculiarities which distinguish it from consciousness of things other than oneself. After drawing certain fundamental distinctions, and considering the conditions for the very possibility of self-consciousness, this article discusses the nature of those epistemic and semantic peculiarities. The relevant epistemic peculiarities are mainly those

Design Arguments for the Existence of God Design arguments are empirical arguments for the existence of God. These arguments typically, mais pas toujours, proceed by attempting to identify various empirical features of the world that constitute evidence of intelligent design and inferring God’s existence as the best explanation for these features. Since the concepts of design and purpose are closely related, design arguments are also

Ethics and Care-Worker Migration Cited as one of the most pressing issues of our times, health care worker migration is now occurring at unprecedented rates. In the post-colonial era, as many developing countries began to develop and expand their health services and to educate their citizens to staff them, more educated workers left for wealthier countries, often those of the colonists or ones that shared

Desiderius Erasmus (1468?—1536) Desiderius Erasmus was one of the leading activists and thinkers of the European Renaissance. His main activity was to write letters to the leading statesmen, humanists, printers, and theologians of the first three and a half decades of the sixteenth century. Erasmus was an indefatigable correspondent, controversialist, self-publicist, satirist, translator, commentator, éditeur, and provocateur of Renaissance culture. He was perhaps above all

Moralité et sciences cognitives Que savons-nous de la façon dont les gens portent des jugements moraux? Et que devraient faire les philosophes moraux avec cette connaissance? Cet article aborde la science cognitive du jugement moral. Il passe en revue des découvertes empiriques importantes et discute de la manière dont les philosophes y ont réagi.. Plusieurs tendances ont dominé la science cognitive de la moralité au début du 21e siècle. L'un est un éloignement de