Late TwenCen philosophical theories of concepts confine their movements within a surprisingly constrained Carnapian compass. Already in the Aufbau, Carnap had pictured empirical concepts as having contents that were both on the one hand derived from perceptual experience and on the other articulated by their logical form. Quine is a direct descendant of this tradition. But these two broad dimen...

Strictly speaking,modal logic studies reasoning that involves theuseof the expressions ‘necessarily’ and ‘possibly’. The main idea is to introduce the symbols∫ (necessarily) and∂ (possibly) to a system of logic so that it is able todistinguish threedifferentmodesof assertion:∫A(Aisnecessary), A (A is true), and ∂A (A is possible). Introducing these symbols (or operators) would seem to be essent...

This topic will provide readers with some general knowledge of philosophies. Basically, there are three general or world philosophies that are idealism, realism, and pragmatism. Educators confront philosophical issues on a daily basis, often not recognizing them as such. In fact, in the daily practice of educators, they formulate goals, discuss values, and set priorities. Hence, educators who g...

This paper examines the feminist ethics of care as an emergent ethical theory that casts ethical dispositions in a different way to the deontological focus on duties and rules and consequentialist–utilitarian focus on minimising harm. It is closer to, though different from, virtue ethics with its focus on moral character. The paper highlights the philosophical tensions within and between these ...

Experimental philosophers have empirically challenged the connection between intuition and philosophical expertise. This paper reviews these challenges alongside other research findings in cognitive science on expert performance and argues for three claims. First, evidence taken to challenge philosophical expertise may also be explained by the wellresearched failures and limitations of genuine ...