Are written constitutions evil? In his new book, Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy, Brian Christoper Jones argues that they are. He claims fail to unite societies, degrade democratic engagement, obstruct necessary constitutional maintenance. This review of book he is mostly right about the effects American Constitution, but other will vary depending upon local facts.

In the conclusion to first book of Treatise, Hume’s skeptical reflections have plunged him into melancholy. He then proceeds through a complex series stages, resulting in renewed interest philosophy. Interpreters struggled explain connection between stages. I argue that repeated invocation four humors ancient and medieval medicine explains succession, sheds new light on significance skepticism....

External world skeptics are typically opposed to admitting as evidence anything that goes beyond the purely phenomenal, and equally typically, they disown the use of rules of inference that might enable one to move from premises about the phenomenal alone to a conclusion about the external world. This seems to bar any a posteriori resolution of the skepticism debate. This paper argues that the ...

Is there a plausible argument for external world skepticism? Robert Nozick’s well–known discussion focuses upon arguments which utilize the Sensitivity Requirement and the Closure Principle. Nozick claims, correctly, that no such argument succeeds. But he gets almost all the details wrong. The Sensitivity Requirement and the Closure Principle are compatible; the Sensitivity Requirement is incor...

The issue of formalizing skepticism relations between argumentation semantics has been considered only recently in the literature. In this paper, we contribute to this kind of analysis by providing a systematic comparison of a significant set of literature semantics (namely grounded, complete, preferred, stable, semi-stable, ideal, prudent, and CF2 semantics) using both a weak and a strong skep...

This paper provides a preliminary investigation towards the definition of a general framework for the comparison of extension-based argumentation semantics with respect to the notion of skepticism. We identify seven justification states for arguments and define two alternative skepticism relations between semantics, which induce a partial order on the justification states, reflecting the releva...

Just as knowledge contextualism offers a way out of skepticism in the face powerful skeptical arguments, counterfactual purports to answer many compelling arguments for thesis that most ordinary counterfactuals form ‘if A had happened, C would have happened’, are false. In this article I review few skepticism, before surveying various types contextualist responses. then discuss some recent obje...