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What is the primary intellectual aim of philosophy? The standard view is that philosophy aims to provide true answers to philosophical questions.

Abstract. This paper examines the role existence plays in measurement validity. I argue that existing popular theories of measurement and of validity follow ...

This paper discusses the idea that the concept of privacy should be understood in terms of control. Three different attempts to spell out this idea will be ...

Feb 2, 2024 · This question is of whether effective metaphysics has prospects is an important one. For one thing, if it does then many of the criticisms of ...

In this paper, I consider whether and in what sense forgiveness is rescindable, retractable, or otherwise reversible. In other words, I consider what it might ...

Laws, causality and the intentional explanation of action.Zhu Xu - 2010 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 5 (2):280-293. Psychological explanation and causal ...