Philosophical Methodology and Conceptions of Evil Action

Philosophical Conceptions of Information

Thus boldly declares Euphranor, one of the defenders of Christian faith in Berkley’s Alciphron (Berkeley, (1732), Dialogue 1, Section 5, Paragraph 6/10). Evidently, information has been an object of philosophical desire for some time, well before the computer revolution, Internet or the dot.com pandemonium (see for example Dunn (2001) and Adams (2003)). Yet what does Euphranor love, exactly? Wh...

METAPHYSICS AND MANAGEMENT: Understanding how Eastern Philosophical Assumptions shape Conceptions of Self, Action and Performance

Interest in so-called Asian-styled Management and Japanese Management techniques and practices, so much written and talked about in the eighties and early nineties, has somewhat abated. Western management thought appears to have moved on to other preoccupations. What remains relatively unacknowledged and hence unexamined however is the metaphysical gulf separating Eastern and Western forms of t...

1 Philosophical Heuristics and Philosophical Methodology

Introduction Metaphilosophy is all the rage nowadays. Philosophers are becoming increasingly self-conscious about their methodology, as this volume showcases. And rightly so—it is part of our job description to put thinking under the microscope, and that obviously should include our philosophical thinking. Much as we want philosophers of physics, of biology, of mathematics, and so on to scrutin...

A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and Its Consequences

Philosophical Naturalism and Intuitional Methodology

code). All of this evidence gives suggestive empirical support to the notion that manipulating concepts -including applying them to examples -involves perception-related cognition, which clashes with the classical picture of non-experiential, a priori cognition.