Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is knowledge’s voyage of self-discovery. It begins with the mere appearance of knowledge – that is, what knowledge at first seems to be. But what knowledge at first seems to be is not congruent with its reality, even in its first appearance. The incongruence creates an instability that pushes knowledge on to other ways to take itself, stopping only when a concept...

Abstract Wilfrid Sellars’ denunciation of the Myth Given was meant to clarify, against empiricism, that perceptual episodes alone are insufficient ground and justify knowledge. Sellars showed in order accomplish such epistemic tasks, more resources capacities, as those involved using concepts, needed. Perceptual knowledge belongs space reasons not an independent realm experience. Dan Hutto Eric...

My aim in this note1 is to disambiguate various senses of ‘conventional’ that in the philosophy of physics have been frequently confl ated. As a case study, I will refer to the well-known issue of the conventionality of simultaneity in the special theory of relativity, since it is particularly in this context that the above mentioned confusion is present. My plan is to start by sketching Reiche...

Wilfrid Sellars is widely known for two positions that he calls “nominalism.” On the one hand, there his “psychological nominalism,” according to which any awareness might have of abstract entities—be they properties, relations, or facts—is a thoroughly linguistic affair, and so cannot be presupposed in thinking about process learning (first) language. other ontological nominalism, world, as it...

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

The present study evaluated a video-based intervention designed to permit users of social networking to make informed decisions about the information they disclosed online. The videos provided information regarding potential risks of disclosure and well as step-by-step instructions on privacy setting use. Novice (n=40) and experienced (n=40). FacebookTM users were randomly assigned to either th...