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Toward a Baptist View of Metaphilosophy: An Analysis of E. Y. Mullins, John Newport, Richard Cunningham, and L. Russ Bush
… the historical context regarding the issue of metaphilosophy. Philosophy has been traditionally understood as the love of wisdom. However, since the Enlightenment and the dawning of modern Western philosophy, how thinkers understood the nature of philosophy changed dramatically. As the natural …
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The Principles of Philosophical Community
There are three central orientations, or modes, forming a “tripod” as it were, that grounds philosophy as a cultural activity. The two commonly known modes are, first philosophical geniuses who make models of reality in their “solitary burrows” (such as a Kant and Peirce); and, second, …
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What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations
My thesis is that the say-show distinction is the basis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy in both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and the Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein said that the Investigations should be read in conjunction with the Tractatus. To …
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The Mother of Chaos and Night: Kant's Metaphilosophical Attack on Indifferentism
<p>Kant positions the Critical philosophy as a response to the crisis of metaphysics - a crisis that is still with us. But his diagnosis of that crisis in terms of a struggle between dogmatism, skepticism, and indifferentism is given short shrift in the secondary literature, despite its promise to …
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Gedankenexperimente - Eine Familie philosophischer Verfahren
Gedankenexperimente werden von Philosophen einerseits intensiv genutzt, andererseits hält sich vor allem gegenüber Gedankenexperimenten mit sehr fremden Szenarien ein tiefes Misstrauen. Die Kritik an Gedankenexperimenten wird in der Arbeit als übertrieben oder haltlos erwiesen. Erstens wird vor …