Doxastic Conservatism We are creatures with clear cognitive limitations. Our memories are finite and there is a limit to the kinds of things we can store and retrieve. We cannot, Per esempio, remember the justification or evidence for many of our beliefs. Inoltre, in response to our limited cognitive resources, we generally tend to maintain our beliefs and are reluctant to change them. A clear

Religious Language The term “religious language” refers to statements or claims made about God or gods. Here is a typical philosophical problem of religious language. If God is infinite, then words used to describe finite creatures might not adequately describe God. Per esempio, is God good in the same sense that Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan is good? This difficulty challenges us to articulate

Ikhwan al-Safa’ Ikhwan al-Safa’ (i Fratelli della Purezza) sono gli autori del Rasā’il al-Ikhwān al-safā’ (Trattati dei Fratelli della Purezza), un'enciclopedia islamica composta da cinquantadue trattati e un ulteriore trattato completo (Risalat al-jami'a) sulle varie scienze filosofiche interpretate dagli studiosi Ismā‘īlī Shī‘ī. Copre la matematica, naturale, psicologico/razionale, e scienze teologiche e fu scritto nel X o XI secolo E.V. IL

The Experience Machine The experience machine is a thought experiment first devised by Robert Nozick in the 1970s. In the last decades of the 20th century, an argument based on this thought experiment has been considered a knock-down objection to hedonism about well-being, the thesis that our well-being—that is, the goodness or badness of our lives for us—is entirely determined by our pains and pleasures.