PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL KINDS

Philosophical Problems of Social and Human Cognition

The given article goes for the demarcation idea of social and intrascientific (cognitive) values. It is noted that the important component of social development is the world of things, which is created by the human in the process of writing and included into the social existence context. At the same time, as the world is humanized, a human as a social being is usually included in the object of ...

Created Kinds and Essential Natures: A Biblical and Philosophical Response to Evolutionists

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Properties and Kinds of Tropes: New Linguistic Facts and Old Philosophical Insights

Terms like ‘wisdom’ are commonly held to refer to abstract objects that are properties. On the basis of a greater range of linguistic data and with the support of some ancient and medieval philosophical views, I argue that such terms do not stand for objects, but rather for kinds of tropes, entities that do not have the status of objects, but only play a role as semantic values of terms and as ...

Law, Psychiatry, and Philosophical Analysis

Altruism – A Philosophical Analysis

Altruism is a malleable notion that is understood differently in various disciplines. The common denominator of most definitions of altruism is the idea of unidirectional helping behaviour. However, a closer examination reveals that the term altruism sometimes refers to the outcomes of a helping behaviour for the agent and its neighbours – that is, reproductive altruism – and sometimes to what ...