La théorie classique des concepts La théorie classique des concepts est l'une des cinq principales théories des concepts., les quatre autres étant des théories prototypes ou exemplaires, théories atomistiques, théorie-théories, et théories néoclassiques. La théorie classique implique que chaque concept complexe a une analyse classique, où une analyse classique d'un concept est une proposition donnant des conditions métaphysiquement nécessaires et conjointement suffisantes pour être en

The Language of Thought Hypothesis The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) is the hypothesis that mental representation has a linguistic structure, or in other words, that thought takes place within a mental language. The hypothesis is sometimes expressed as the claim that thoughts are sentences in the head. It is one of a cluster of other hypotheses that together offer a theory of the nature

Charles Hartshorne: Dipolar Theism From the beginning to the end of his career Charles Hartshorne maintained that the idea that “God is love” was his guiding intuition in philosophy. This “intuition” presupposes both that there is a divine reality and that that reality answers to some positive description of being a loving God. This article focuses on the latter issue, à savoir, Hartshorne’s concept of God.

Punishment Punishment involves the deliberate infliction of suffering on a supposed or actual offender for an offense such as a moral or legal transgression. Since punishment involves inflicting a pain or deprivation similar to that which the perpetrator of a crime inflicts on his victim, it has generally been agreed that punishment requires moral as well as legal and political justification. While philosophers almost all

Evidence The concept of evidence is crucial to epistemology and the philosophy of science. En épistémologie, evidence is often taken to be relevant to justified belief, where the latter, à son tour, is typically thought to be necessary for knowledge. Discutablement, alors, an understanding of evidence is vital for appreciating the two dominant objects of epistemological concern, à savoir, knowledge and justified belief. In the philosophy of