Pay to publish and open access have been studied extensively, but less so in disciplines such as philosophy and ethics. This study examines the habits and perceptions of researchers from these two fields in Spain. The study draws on data from a survey (completed by 201 out of 541 researchers...
- ordinary-language philosophers that ethics started to become an acceptable area of inquiry for analytic philosophers. Philosophers working within the...- sometimes even prior to philosophers traditionally considered "pre-Socratic" (e.g., the Atomists). The early Gr*** philosophers (or "pre-Socr...
Their goal was to convert the locals, and in their efforts they studied and translated Chinese philosophy in earnest. As this tide faded away, a new wave of Protestant missionaries took its place, with their own translation work. Enter the twentieth century and new generations of sinologists, ...
As a Christian, I have studied other religions and have no issues or concerns about studying Greek philosophies. One of the reasons I have no issue with studying secular things is I am strong in my faith. I know that God is the Father of life and holds the world in His hands. ...
Apart from that, I have been in close contact with various other projects where there was an ethics component. I have always felt a little dissatisfied with the place of philosophy in these projects. Continue reading "Should philosophers lead interdisciplinary projects? (Guest post by Mandi Astola...
His story began in his hometown of Athens, Greece but unfolded through the writings of his students and fellow philosophers. The field of ethics was the specialty of Socrates and introduced a concept that has been dubbed aselenchus, or the Socratic method. He contributed much to the field of...
Usually the way this question is asked, the implicit focus is on ‘analytic’. The question becomes “Who is ananalyticphilosopher?”, with a background presupposition that they are indeed a philosopher. There is, at least in the bits of the literature I’ve been reading, less attention to...
Peter Ungerstudied under A.J. Ayer at Oxford University and earned his Ph.D. in 1966. He currently holds the title of Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Unger's work is focused in metaphysics, epistemology, applied ethics, and philosophy of mind. He is well known for his boo...
In his booksColor Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996)andThe Ethics of Identity (2005), Appiah has approached the notion of “biological race” as conceptually problematic, and argues that such notions of group identitylike race, religion, gender, and sexuality harm the individual by...
a philosophical view of truth in a certain area of discourse may haveimplicationsfor aconceptionof what communication in that area consists of. If one is skeptical about the possibility of truth inethics, for example, one is more likely to think ofethicalcommunication as a kind of persuasion or...