My definition of 'lying' is better able than the prevailing definition to capture common intuitions about what is a lie and what is not. It does so specifically by making novel inclusions to the definition, such as the ...

Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ...

This thesis is concerned with the existence and knowledge of mathematical objects within a naturalistic philosophy. I will begin with a brief explanation of what constitutes a mathematical object and will then define and ...

I divide this paper into 5 sections. In section 1, I present viewpoints of prominent scholars like Rene Descartes, Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor, and Paul Churchland on the issue of language, representation, and thought. ...

To evaluate the proper response to receiving the gift of life, we must ask what constitutes proper gratitude. I claim that there are two fundamental parts to gratitude: the mental state and the return. While this return ...

In this paper, I will first outline how modern philosophers typically make the distinction between non-moral and moral value. The rest of the paper will be divided into three parts: first Brian Leiter's interpretation of ...

Because atrocity crimes are sui generis, nothing other than the pursuit of retribution can justify their international prosecution. Other commonly given general justifying aims for punishment all fail -- to incapacitation, ...

In this paper, I provide an explanation of marginal and equilibrium analysis, analytic techniques from modern economics, and then defend an interpretation of the passage as meaning that an exchange is just when the value ...

In this thesis, I will attempt first to show how some major themes in Nietzsche's philosophy such as the rejection of dualisms and capital-T truths make room for an interpretation that suggests many of the same ideas that ...

After briefly elucidating, in more detail, the nature of phenomenology and its use in providing a description of the ‘normal' individual's being-in-the-world, my aims in this project are threefold: (1) To illuminate the ...