What is talent? How can it be identified? Who is responsible for identifying it? Are there universally valued talents, or are they all culturally bound? There are at least three different levels of analysis to explore these questions. On the government level, we must philosophically decide on how our country chooses and expresses its values through what is taught, to whom, and for what periods ...

Abstract We discuss three philosophically interesting epistemic peculiarities of black hole astrophysics: (1) issues concerning whether and in what sense holes do exist; (2) how to best approach multiplicity available definitions holes; (3) short (i.e., accessible within an individual human lifespan) dynamical timescales present many the recent, as well prospective, observations involving holes...

Surveys are the most widely used research tool in experimental philosophy. In this paper, I analyze two types of criticism questionnaire method put forward literature. The first type is metaphilosophical. It asserts that surveys by philosophers based on a flawed and unproductive cases. second methodological. argues currently questionnaires unfit to measure philosophically relevant phenomena. sh...

Is the cultural evolution of morality fairly contingent? Could have easily led humans to moral norms and judgments that are mostly false by our present lights? If so, does it matter philosophically? Yes, or so we argue. We empirically motivate contingency show makes two major philosophical contributions. First, shows objectivists cannot explain reliability thus strengthens debunking arguments. ...

Animal protection as an emerging field of legislation needs to be constitutionalized well comprehensively expounded by legal scholars. As it is a growing body regulation and accompanying theories, develop solid conceptual axiological framework, in particular set basic values principles on which detailed rules are founded. Lacking these, the domain animal law still pre-paradigm stage remains ass...

Starting from a recent ideological and political controversy regarding the devaluation of concept “nationalism” in relation to that ‘patriotism”, author – following his own years-long investigations on subject historically philosophically reframes each these concepts perspective rhetoric argumentation. It is shown, this context, arguments question are fallacious (and even, some applications, cl...

Abstract Let Nomological Bound be the thesis that there is nothing objectively possible beyond what physically possible. has struck many as a live hypothesis. Nevertheless, in this article I provide novel argument against it. Yet even though claim false, argue boundaries of objective possibility can still characterized intimately terms physical necessity. This philosophically significant, for o...

This paper argues that Internet access should be recognised as a human right because it has become practically indispensable for having adequate opportunities to realise our socio-economic rights. argument is significant philosophically informed public understanding of the and provides basis creating new duties. For instance, accepting minimally requires guaranteeing everyone protecting use fro...

De se exceptionalism is the view that de attitudes pose a distinctive problem for traditional theories of propositional attitudes. A recent argument attempts to prove has something do with role in explaining actions. The based on case where two subjects seem believe and desire all same propositions but perform different This most promising current literature. paper rejects by proposing novel mo...