Showing papers in "Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume in 2017"
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TL;DR: Most philosophers agree that lies are assertions as discussed by the authors, and most agree that they lie only if they assert something they believe to be false, and that lies can be avoided if they can avoid a false assertion.
Abstract: Introduction. Most philosophers agree that lies are assertions.1 In particular, most agree that you lie only if you assert something you believe to be false.2 You can avoid lying if you can avoid a ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a puzzle about how to intelligibly combine the active and passive elements of perception in De Trinitate has been solved, using a trinitarian account of perception.
Abstract: We begin with a puzzle about how to intelligibly combine the active and passive elements of perception. For counsel, we turn to Augustine’s account of perception in De Trinitate. Augustine’s trinitarian account of perception offers an attractive resolution of our puzzle. Augustine’s resolution of our puzzle, however, cannot be straightforwardly adopted. It must be adapted. We end with speculation about how this might be done.
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TL;DR: The Because Constraint as mentioned in this paper is the idea that moral facts depend on natural facts and that moral judgements ought to respect the dependence of moral facts on the natural facts, i.e., natural facts do not depend on moral facts.
Abstract: I explore the Because Constraint—the idea that moral facts depend on natural facts and that moral judgements ought to respect the dependence of moral facts on natural facts. I consider several issues concerning its clarification and importance.
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TL;DR: The authors explored the possibility of a philosophical contribution to understand Europe: an understanding based on the idea that Europe is itself a distinctively philosophical phenomenon, and that its modern geopolitical condition has an irreducibly geophilosophical significance.
Abstract: Studies of Europe and European identity today are dominated by the methods of the social sciences. Europe is understood as a geographical region of a global totality, and treated in political-economic terms; and European identity is largely investigated through social surveys. This paper explores the possibility of a philosophical contribution to understanding Europe: an understanding based on the idea that Europe is itself a distinctively philosophical phenomenon, and that its modern geopolitical condition has an irreducibly geophilosophical significance.