Philosophie de la technologie Comme de nombreux sous-domaines spécifiques à un domaine de la philosophie, comme la philosophie de la physique ou la philosophie de la biologie, la philosophie de la technologie est un domaine de recherche relativement jeune. On pense généralement qu'elle est apparue comme une spécialisation philosophique reconnaissable dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle., ses origines étant souvent repérées avec la publication du livre d’Ernst Kapp, Principes de base d'une philosophie de la technologie

Mind and the Causal Exclusion Problem The causal exclusion problem is an objection to nonreductive physicalist models of mental causation. Mental causation occurs when behavioural effects have mental causes: Jennie eats a peach because she wants one; Marvin goes to Harvard because he chose to, etc.. Nonreductive physicalists typically supplement adherence to mental causation with the view that behavioural effects have distinct sufficient physical causes

Contextualism in Epistemology In very general terms, epistemological contextualism maintains that whether one knows is somehow relative to context. Certain features of contexts—features such as the intentions and presuppositions of the members of a conversational context—shape the standards that one must meet in order for one’s beliefs to count as knowledge. This allows for the possibility that different contexts set different epistemic standards, and contextualists

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469—1527) Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas. His two most famous philosophical books, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, were published after his death. His philosophical legacy remains enigmatic, but that result should not be surprising for a thinker who understood the necessity to work sometimes from the shadows. There is still no settled scholarly

Conservatisme doxastique Nous sommes des créatures avec des limitations cognitives évidentes. Nos souvenirs sont limités et il y a une limite au genre de choses que nous pouvons stocker et récupérer. Nous ne pouvons pas, par exemple, rappelez-vous la justification ou la preuve de bon nombre de nos croyances. De plus, en réponse à nos ressources cognitives limitées, nous avons généralement tendance à maintenir nos croyances et sommes réticents à les changer. Un clair

Paradox of Hedonism Varieties of hedonism have been criticized from ancient to modern times. Along the way, philosophers have also considered the paradox of hedonism. The paradox is a common objection to hedonism, even if they often do not give that specific name to the objection. According to the paradox of hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure is self-defeating. This article examines this objection. There are several ambiguities that surround