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Valore epistemico Il valore epistemico è un tipo di valore che si attribuisce ai successi cognitivi come le vere credenze, credenze giustificate, conoscenza, e comprensione. Questi tipi di successo cognitivo hanno spesso un valore pratico: true beliefs…
Albert Camus (1913—1960) Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist, playwright, novelist, philosophical essayist, and Nobel laureate. Though he was neither by advanced training nor profession a philosopher, he nevertheless made important, forceful contributions to a…
Il pragmatismo femminista Il pragmatismo femminista è una tradizione filosofica, che attinge alle intuizioni della teoria e della pratica sia femminista che pragmatista. Si occupa fondamentalmente di ampliare il pensiero filosofico attraverso l'attivismo e l'esperienza vissuta, and assumes feminist and…
Confucio (551—479 B.C.E.) Better known in China as “Master Kong” (cinese: Kongzi), Confucius was a fifth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose influence upon East Asian intellectual and social history is immeasurable. As a culturally symbolic figure,…
Michael Dummett (1925—2011) Michael Dummett was one of the most influential British philosophers of his generation. His philosophical reputation is based partly on his studies of the history of analytical philosophy and partly on his…
Il linguaggio nella filosofia cinese classica A prima vista, il primo pensiero cinese espresso nel periodo degli Stati Combattenti (475-221 a.C) texts does not seem to focus on the kinds of questions about language that one might…
The Golden Rule The most familiar version of the Golden Rule says, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Moral philosophy has barely taken notice of the golden rule in its…
Feminist Ethics and Narrative Ethics A narrative approach to ethics focuses on how stories that are told, written, or otherwise expressed by individuals and groups help to define and structure our moral universe. Nello specifico, narrative ethicists…
Moral Epistemology Can we ever know that it’s wrong to torture innocent children? Più generalmente, potremo mai saperlo, o almeno avere qualche giustificazione per crederci, se qualcosa sia moralmente giusto o sbagliato, Appena…
Applied Ethics Under what conditions is an abortion morally permissible? Does a citizen have a moral obligation to actively participate (perhaps by voting) in the democratic process of one’s nation (assuming one is living in…