DOI: https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxvi-1/3 Abstract: This text critically examines whether psychometric scales represent a robust measurement choice when studying conspiracy theories: a key philosophical and methodological gap in the literature on conspiracy theories. I call into question whether such scales have content validity, predictive validity and whether studies employing these instruments manifest external validity, respectively. These issues…
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THE DIFFICULTIES OF DEVELOPING AN OBJECTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY by MIHAI ALEXANDRU BÎCLEA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxvi-1/2 Abstract: Thomas Nagel’s end note of his famous essay “What is it like to be a bat?” introduced the speculative proposal of developing an objective phenomenology capable of enabling further empirical studies of consciousness. I will argue that such an endeavor inevitably faces two major difficulties in the first-order inaccessible qualia and second-order…
FREGE ON INFORMATIVE IDENTITIES BETWEEN STATEMENTS by Nora Grigore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxvi-1/1 Nora Grigore[1] Abstract: The Frege-Husserl correspondence can be fruitfully explored so as to provide new insight into the paradox of analysis. Why are some identifies informative and others not? And how could we ascertain the issue if under scrutiny are mathematical identities, necessarily true if true at all? This text articulates the distinction…
Comte si pozitivismul – de WILLIAM WHEWELL, traducere de Bianca Alexandra Savu
DOI: 10.62229/rrfaxv-1/3 Recenzie a lucrării Auguste Comte și pozitivismul, de John Stuart Mill, publicată înFortnightly Review. Recenzia lui Whewell tradusă aici a fost publicată în Macmillan’sMagazine, vol. 13 / martie 1866, pp. 353-362 William Whewell (1794-1866) este considerat a fi una dintre cele mai influentepersonalități din spațiul britanic al secolului XIX. Polimat, cu lucrări care…
Galileo’s Law: On Some Arguments Concerning Falling Bodies by James Cargile
DOI: 10.62229/rrfaxv-1/2 Abstract: A law saying that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones has been held to berefutable independently of empirical experiments, with a priori “thought experiments”.I argue that these thought experiments do not qualify as good arguments against the law.
DOES THE MEANING OF LYING POSE A PROBLEM TO PINOCCHIO’S PARADOX? by MARIA-FLORIANA GAȚE
MARIA-FLORIANA GAȚE University of Bucharest DOI: https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxv-2/3 Abstract: In this paper I sketch two solutions to Pinocchio’s Paradox, mainly by resorting to the concept of lying, as it is conceived by Augustine in his “De mendacio”. I will argue that the paradox is based on a slightly narrow conception of what it means to lie,…
VAGUENESS AND FREGE by MARIAN CĂLBOREAN
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxv-2/2 Abstract: A constant of Frege’s writing is his rejection of indeterminate predicates as found in natural language. This paper follows Frege’s remarks on vagueness from the early “Begriffsschrift” to his mature works, drawing brief parallels with the main contemporary theories of vagueness. I critically examine Frege’s arguments for the inconsistency of natural language…
COGNITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE YOGA-SAMKHYA PHILOSOPHY – INTERSECTIONS WITH CURRENT DEBATES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND by LIA ZAMFIR
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxv-2/1 Abstract This paper explores the intersection of Yoga-Samkhya philosophy with contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. While mainstream philosophy of mind has primarily embraced physicalism, asserting that everything has an underlying physical basis, it still fails to account satisfactorily for why or how exactly consciousness, and in particular its phenomenal aspect, would…
NICOLAS FRANK, POLITICAL OBLIGATION WITHOUT COMPREHENSIVENESS
Abstract: Philosophical anarchists deny state legitimacy because they reject traditional accounts of political obligation and any possible alternatives. Their arguments have been powerful enough to create a vacuum where a presumption of a far-reaching moral requirement to obey the state once resided. Many “statists” have attempted to rework traditional bases for political obligation, uncover neglected…
JAMES CARGILE, Epimenides
Abstract. This presents the Epimenides and some related paradoxes with a brief history. It is then argued that the paradoxes arise from mistaken assumptions about what the relevant problem sentences say. For example, one paradox has the sentence A: “The sentence A is not true” and two premises: (i) that a sentence is true iff…