...’ in relation to the school curriculum and the role of the philosopher of education in this task. Taking the Philippines as an example, this paper illustrates how coloniality has underpinned not only school curricula, but also entire systems of formal education in the post-colony. Following from this, it argues...

... comparing the intuitions of philosophers and lay people, see Schwitzgebel and Cushman (forthcoming). 7 It might be objected that, even though the intuitions of philosophers are not generated from previous experiences, they may nevertheless be shaped by such experiences (in the same way as, say...

...Frances M. Kamm FRANCES M. KAMM THE PHILOSOPHER AS INSIDER AND OUTSIDER* ABSTRACT. Philosophers may play the role of insider, e.g., serving as advisor to government commissions, or of outsider, commenting on the work of such commissions. Each role may raise dilemmas. It is argued...

...John R. Williams JOHN R. WILLIAMS COMMISSIONS AND BIOMEDICAL ETHICS: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE ABSTRACT. Canadians frequently have recourse to public commissions as a means of dealing with contentious public policy issues. This essay examines the role of philosophers...

...This chapter critically examines the most common way in which Anglophone philosophers have offered a subjectivist reading of Kant's own metaphysics, namely, by characterizing it as a system very similar to Berkeley's phenomenalist idealism. Numerous terminological complications, along...

... is upsetting because it presents a portrait of philosophy that is a betrayal of the tradition of philosophizing that began, in Europe, with the life of Socrates. In Taylor's film, philosophers are cultural authority figures who think deep thoughts and make deep pronouncements. Trouble begins with the basic...

...This chapter discusses the views expressed by the Scottish Enlightenment philosophers on the subject of political resistance and revolution in the later eighteenth century—in practical terms, the revolutions in America and France. It begins by considering the philosophical opinions they published...

...A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide an account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual...

...The chapters in this volume discuss a group of British moral philosophers active between the 1870s and 1950s and including Henry Sidgwick, Hastings Rashdall, J. M. E. McTaggart, G. E. Moore, H. A. Prichard, E. F. Carritt, W. D. Ross, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. After an opening chapter explaining...

...This appendix offers a brief outline of how philosophers of science since the 1960s have thought about the Bohr atomic theory. One group of problems that has attracted philosophical interest relates to the logical and conceptual structure of the theory — for instance, does it build...

... of patients were carried out according to general natural (“physical”) principles, much like the early Greek philosophers attempted to explain the world from simple fundamental ideas independent from religious views. Thus shamans and healers were gradually substituted by “physicians” in Greek cities...

... modifiers of the thought-object relation, they are implicated in one's possession of discriminating knowledge of objects. Having introduced modes of thought into the theory of meaning, the Indian philosophers of language are able to give a new account of two important kinds of terms which earlier writers...

... James Henry loss and bereavement “Fire of Life The” Rorty Heidegger Martin human condition ambiguity of individuality Kapferer Bruce madness Sinhalese sorcery Richard Rorty philosophers Lillian soothsayers human solidarity social injustice I have spent 40 years looking for a coherent...

...Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Nietzsche. This book sets out to show that a specifically Kantian-informed methodology lies at the heart of Nietzsche's approach to epistemology and metaphysics. The book claims that both Nietzsche's early and late writings may...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of a philosophical school that is now dominant in the Anglo-American world called “analytical philosophy.” The first form taken by analytic philosophy, now long since abandoned, was logical positivism or logical empiricism (the former sympathized...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the early modern English experimental philosophers' views about the cure and perfecting of the human mind, focusing on the works and views of Robert Boyle and John Locke who are considered as the key proponents...

...This book identifies interpretative concepts central to discussions of hermeneutical practices in Japan and presents English translations of works on basic hermeneutics by major Japanese thinkers. This book concentrates on Japanese philosophers and thinkers who have mediated these two extremes...

... by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. In relation to romanticism itself, he distinguishes between two aspects—“benign...

... philosophers historians cartographers Foucault spatialized reasoning I'm going to describe certain aspects of the contemporary world and its governmentality; this course will not tell you what you should do or what you have to fight against, but it will give you a map; thus it will tell you: if you want...

... these reflections, the chapter casts some light not only on the nature and forms of violence and their relevance to historical understanding but also on the larger question of the possibilities and limits of dialogue between existentialist and poststructuralist philosophers in general. intelligibility power Camus...