Explication Explication is a method employed throughout philosophy and most sciences, as well as any cognitive endeavors which involve allocating concepts. It is also notably found in the sphere of law. Since explication is part and parcel of the traditionally philosophical subject of concept formation, philosophy is the main discipline to reflect on it extensively. Explication has sometimes been compared to a number of philosophical

Senofane (c. 570-c. 478 a.E.V.) Xenophanes of Colophon was a traveling poet and sage with philosophical leanings who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth and the beginning of the fifth centuries B.C.E. There are a significant number of surviving fragments for such an early figure, and the poetic verses available to us indicate a broad range of issues. These include comments on religion, conoscenza,

Benedetto di Spinoza: Political Philosophy The body of Benedict de Spinoza’s writings on political philosophy in the 17th century should be seen as a paradigmatic species of European Enlightenment Philosophy. Spinoza rejected the teleological account of human nature and its implications to political societies in favor of rational, scientific understanding with its contractual implications. Quindi, political societies to Spinoza are not natural organisms but artificial

Proper Functionalism ‘Proper Functionalism’ refers to a family of epistemological views according to which whether a belief (or some other doxastic state) was formed by way of properly functioning cognitive faculties plays a crucial role in whether it has a certain kind of positive epistemic status (such as being an item of knowledge, or a justified belief). Alvin Plantinga’s proper functionalist theory of knowledge has

Relativismo morale Il relativismo morale è la visione secondo cui i giudizi morali sono veri o falsi solo rispetto ad alcuni punti di vista particolari (per esempio, quello di una cultura o di un periodo storico) e che nessun punto di vista è privilegiato rispetto a tutti gli altri. È stato spesso associato ad altre affermazioni sulla moralità: in particolare, la tesi secondo cui culture diverse spesso esibiscono valori morali radicalmente diversi; il negarlo

Tyler Burge (1946—) Tyler Burge is an American philosopher who has done influential work in several areas of philosophy. These include philosophy of language, logica, filosofia della mente, epistemologia, filosofia della scienza (primarily philosophy of psychology), and history of philosophy (focusing especially on Frege, but also on the classical rationalists—Descartes, Leibniz, e Kant). Burge has also done some work in psychology itself. Burge is best