The new mechanism trend in the twenty-first century philosophy of science, which deals with the special sciences in providing scientific explanations, depends centrally on the concept of mechanism, yet the lack of a ...

Digital objects such as computer programs, web-based programs, social media accounts etc. appear to change enormously. One position is that such changes are only results of some linguistic conventions rather than true ...

What is normativity? What is the mark of the normative? What distinguishes normative from descriptive properties, facts and propositions? A good start at answering these questions is to provide necessary and sufficient ...

This thesis investigates how rules and actions can be related to each other in an immanent way. To do this, I first focus on a prominent thinker, Ferdinand de Saussure, who defends the inevitability of separating rules and ...

This thesis extends Kit Fine’s exact semantics and account of counterfactuals to nonhabitual, non-predictive indicative conditionals. First, I provide Fine’s exposition of exact semantics and his extension to counterfactuals. ...

The Stoics have an intricate account of fate which is interconnected with many branches of their thought, their ontology, logic, physics, theology and ethics. It is the Stoic claim that agents could be held to be morally ...

In this thesis, my aim is to examine Hegel‟s notion of reconciliation in relation to the concept of freedom. In Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel claims that modern state has a rational core which makes it possible ...

If ontologists use quantifiers in different meanings, does it lead to a merely verbal disagreement or does their disagreement concern something substantive about how the world is? According to Theodore Sider, the disagreement ...

The subject matter of this thesis is Heidegger’s reading of Kant with temporality as the central concern. Heidegger interprets Kant’s project in Critique of Pure Reason as an ontological inquiry and appreciates Kant for ...

The use of the concept of infinite and of nonconstructive methods in mathematics needs justification. For this reason, we need to prove that these methods do not lead to inconsistencies. In order to achieve that, we formalize ...