Non-Cognitivism in Ethics A non-cognitivist theory of ethics implies that ethical sentences are neither true nor false, questo è, they lack truth-values. What this means will be investigated by giving a brief logical-linguistic analysis explaining…
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Collective Moral Responsibility
Collective Moral Responsibility Focusing on groups through the lens of collective moral responsibility has broadened the scope of moral philosophy. As a social practice, as well as an important theoretical issue, moral responsibility has most…
Ralph Cudworth (1617—1688)
Ralph Cudworth (1617—1688) Ralph Cudworth was an English philosopher and theologian, representative of a seventeenth century movement known as the Cambridge Platonists. These were the first English philosophers to publish primarily in their native tongue,…
Thomas Reid: Filosofia della mente
Thomas Reid: Philosophy of Mind This article focuses on the philosophy of mind of Thomas Reid (1710-1796), as presented in An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764) and Essays…
Ore
Tempo Il tempo è ciò che misurano gli orologi, Einstein disse una volta. Le informazioni sul tempo indicano la durata degli eventi, e quando si verificano, e quali eventi accadono prima di quali altri, so time plays a very significant role…
Kripke’s Wittgenstein
Kripke’s Wittgenstein Saul Kripke, in his celebrated book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982), offers a novel reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s main remarks in his later works, especially in Philosophical Investigations (1953) e, A…
Propositional Attitudes
Propositional Attitudes Sentences such as “Galileo believes that the earth moves” and “Pia hopes that it will rain” are used to report what philosophers, psicologi, and other cognitive scientists call propositional attitudes—for example, la convinzione…
Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817–1881)
Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817–1881) Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the nineteenth century, influencing practically all the leading philosophical schools of the late nineteenth and the coming…
David Hume: Religione
David Hume: Religione David Hume (1711-1776) veniva chiamato dai suoi amici “San Davide” e “Il Buon Davide”., but his adversaries knew him as “The Great Infidel.” His contributions to religion have had a lasting impact…
La semplicità nella filosofia della scienza
La semplicità nella filosofia della scienza L'idea che la semplicità sia una virtù nelle teorie scientifiche e così via, a parità di altre condizioni, simpler theories should be preferred to more complex ones has been widely advocated…