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Philosophy
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Introduction In the last century, the philosophy and logic of human action received a lot of attention. Milestones in its development were Anscombe's Intention (1957), Davidson's 'Actions, reasons and causes' (1963) and von Wright's... more
Few distinctions in philosophy are as pervasive as the distinction between the subjective and the objective. Apparently, this distinction has less often been submitted to thorough examination than one would expect. Perhaps this is due to... more
In his Principia Ethica (1903) George Edward Moore notes that "the meaning of good [res-ists] correct analysis". This raises two questions: (i) What is the peculiar meaning of "good" and its cognates? This leads to the problem of moral... more
Zusammenfassung: Was ist Diskriminierung und warum ist Diskriminierung verwerflich, wenn sie es denn ist? Dies bleibt ungeachtet der seit fünfundzwanzig Jahren anschwellenden Forschungsliteratur unverändert eine harte Nuss. Larry... more
Moral subjectivism is commonly associated with out-of-favour theories like, e.g., Alfred Ayer’s emotivism or John Mackie’s error theory. This paper approaches the field against the background of the attitudinal character of morality and... more
Handeln ist im Deutschen ein Wort, das mindestens zwei Bedeutungen hat. Es kann zunächst im Sinne von Wirtschaften gebraucht werden, aber auch grundsätzlicher im Sinne eines (absichtlichen) Tuns. Ist dies mehr als ein... more
Adam Smith said that 'the propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.' Smith addressed the mark of the man economical, and there is no denying that this... more
The paper unfolds a non-modal problem for (moderate) meta-linguistic descriptivism, the thesis that the meaning of a proper name (e.g. 'Aristotle') is given by a meta-linguistic description of a certain type (e.g. 'the bearer of... more
The theory of the just price is commonly assumed to have three sources: Political philosophy of Greek antiquity, scholastic ethics of the High Middle Ages, and the Roman law of obligations of late antiquity. While closer inspection... more
The theory of the just price is commonly assumed to have three sources: Political philosophy of Greek antiquity, scholastic ethics of the High Middle Ages, and the Roman law of obligations of late antiquity. While closer inspection... more
Adam Smith said that 'the propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.' Smith addressed the mark of the man economical, and there is no... more
Around the eighteenth century, several theorists came to advocate the separation of re- ligion and state. In various ways they argued that all that concerns religion lies beyond the sphere of the state’s activity. This “wall of... more
Much of what has been discussed in the theory of reference in the last twenty-five years is strongly influenced by considerations centring on the business of devising a semantics for quantified modal logic. In this context, discussion of... more
The paper unfolds a non-modal problem for (moderate) meta-linguistic descriptivism, the thesis that the meaning of a proper name (e.g. ‘Aristotle’) is given by a meta-linguistic description of a certain type (e.g. ‘the bearer of... more