This paper looks at the epistemological history of the opposition between general systematic knowledge and specific observations, and its relation to ethics in the philosophy and methodology of economics. Ethics is the study of human choice—an absolute decision in relative ignorance—and as such it is a choice arena for examining the complex relationship between absolutes and relatives. This is ...

In the past few years, there has been an increasing tendency in the application of formal and experimentalmethods to tackle philosophical issues.Weverymuch approve of this trend,whichweviewas part and parcel of the recent renewal of “scientific philosophy”: In our mind, the aim of a scientifically oriented philosophy is to adopt formal and experimental methods to address philosophical questions...

The premises of the emergence concepts about nature and environment led to new directions philosophy, represented by eco-philosophy ethics applied environment. These ideas result from interference philosophy with fields dedicated studying environment, all which have currents thinking that shown tendencies toward development pro-ecological movements, such as deep ecology movement or ecological h...

In this paper, I develop a new semantic criterion for evaluating universal quantifi cations based on problems of self-reference, and use it to evaluate theories in Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language, Cultural Criticism, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Action Th eory, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science, arriving at signifi cant results in each case. Th e criterion is that ...