Children's Ideals as a Philosophical Topic

Childhood as Topic of Philosophy of Recognition On the Developmental Status of Children ’ s Ideals and their Philosophical Significance

Predicativism as a Philosophical Position1

Predicativity requirements of explicit presentability of objects and predicatively acceptable proof are distinguished from predicativist theses of a philosophical character. Familiar among these are expressions of skepticism about the objectivity of full power sets of infinite sets. Articulation of strong, limitative theses, however, turns out to be problematic: impredicative commitments creep ...

An Enduring Philosophical Agenda. Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method

Is there something like a philosophical method? It seems that there are as many methods as there are philosophies. A method is any procedure employed to attain a certain end. So, before going to a method, we have to ask: what is the aim of philosophy? At the origin of philosophy, there is a questioning about the world. Leo Apostel and Jan Van der Veken made more precise and explicit those funda...

Paperless Philosophy as a Philosophical Method

I discuss the prospects for new forms of professional communication in philosophy. I argue that online discussions and online surveys ought to play a more important role in communications between philosophers than they play today. However, there are major obstacles to the widespread adoption of these media as channels of communication between academics. I offer an overview of these obstacles an...

on “ Predicativity as a philosophical position ”

In his provocative article for this issue, Geoffrey Hellman has astutely attacked the philosophical grounds for predicativity from several angles. Though I am not now nor never have been a predicativist, I have to admit to being a sympathizer since I am an avowed anti-platonist, at least insofar as set theory is concerned, and I grant the natural numbers a position of primacy in our mathematica...