In recent years, there has been a flurry of work on the metaphysics of race. While it is now widely accepted that races do not share robust, biobehavioral essences, opinions differ over what, if anything, race is. Recent work has been divided between three apparently quite different answers. A variety of theorists argue for racial skepticism, the view that races do not exist at all. A second gr...

Folk theories—untutored people’s (often implicit) theories about various features of the world—have been fashionable objects of inquiry in psychology for almost two decades now (e.g., Hirschfeld and Gelman 1994), and more recently they have been of interest in experimental philosophy (Nichols 2004). Folk theories of psychology, physics, biology, and ethics have all come under investigation. Fol...

In their paper “Should Methodological Naturalists Commit to Metaphysical Naturalism?” Zargar et al. try show that the correct answer question title of poses is positive. They argue methodological naturalism has a metaphysical presupposition, namely causal closure, and an epistemological consequence, evidentialism. Causal closure evidentialism imply naturalism. Thus, they conclude, one who belie...

in a broader context of arguing against the view that conceivability provides epistemic access to the metaphysical modalities. His goal is “to identify the sources and forms of our knowledge of metaphysical possibility and metaphysical necessity” (205). 1 The account proceeds in two stages. First, he contends that “metaphysical necessity and metaphysical possibility can be reductively explained...

Spinoza’s philosophy argues for the freedom of individuals as singular beings in state. This is not perfect yet immanent. Freedom—according to Ethics—is a consequence true knowledge and virtue, which must be able develop can only realised gradually. The state laws establish framework that makes this possible. Freedom are basic concepts metaphysical system. Justice, however, appears legal politi...

As the medical sciences in part of human civilization is developing and humans distancing themselves from other sorts of life, rightfully or not, existence of certain tangible or metaphysical

As the medical sciences in part of human civilization is developing and humans distancing themselves from other sorts of life, rightfully or not, existence of certain tangible or metaphysical

despite the often false impression that the analytic philosophy as an anti-metaphysical movement has nothing to do with metaphysics, there can be found good reasons to grant the metaphysical dispositions of analytic philosophers, and thereby, to minimize the anti-metaphysical nature of analytic philosophy in its all phases. since analytic philosophy is a historical movement the main nature of w...