Epistemic Conditions of Moral Responsibility What conditions on a person’s knowledge must be satisfied in order for them to be morally responsible for something they have done? The first two decades of the twenty-first century saw a surge of interest in this question. Must an agent, par exemple, be aware that their conduct is all-things-considered wrong to be blameworthy for it? Or could something weaker

Sigmund Freud: Religion Cet article explore les tentatives de Sigmund Freud (1850-1939) fournir une vision naturaliste de la religion enrichie par des idées et des constructions théoriques dérivées de la discipline de la psychanalyse dont il avait été le pionnier. Freud était un neurologue et psychologue autrichien largement considéré comme le père de la psychanalyse., qui est à la fois une théorie psychologique et un système thérapeutique. En tant que théorie, la psychanalyse conceptualise le

Kristina Wasa (1626—1689) The flamboyant life of Kristina, the Queen of Sweden, one of Europe’s most mercurial monarchs, has long overshadowed her contribution to philosophy. When histories of philosophy mention her at all, they usually present her as the pupil of Descartes and as the patron of philosophical salons. But Kristina’s relationship to philosophy transcends her auxiliary roles. In her writings she makes her own

Constructivism in Metaethics It is difficult to provide an uncontroversial statement of constructivism in metaethics, since the terms of this doctrine are themselves the focus of philosophical debate. Toutefois, this view is now perhaps most commonly understood as a metaphysical thesis concerning how we are to understand the nature of normative facts–that is, facts about what we ought to do. Most broadly, it is the

Environmental Ethics The field of environmental ethics concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the natural environment. While numerous philosophers have written on this topic throughout history, environmental ethics only developed into a specific philosophical discipline in the 1970s. This emergence was no doubt due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology, industry, economic expansion and population growth were having on