Various Philosophical Ideas of Contemporary Philosophers

Analyzing Courtesy in Respect to Ideas of Ethics Philosophers in the Contemporary West

One of the important virtues in the field of ethics is “courtesy” and ethics philosophers have widely discussed the nature of courtesy and its components. The contemporary western philosophers’ viewpoints have been analyzed and explained in this paper. Their viewpoints could be classified into four groups: 1. the belief-oriented theory; 2. Ignorance-based theory; 3. Will-oriented theory; 4. Asy...

Abduction by Philosophers : Reorienting Philosophical Methodology ∗

A reorientation is needed in methodological debate about the role of intuitions in philosophy. Methodological debate has lost sight of the reason why it makes sense to focus on questions about intuitions when thinking about the methods or epistemology of philosophy. The problem is an approach to methodology which gives a near exclusive focus to questions about some evidential role that intuitio...

Philosophical Aspects of Fundamental Ideas: Ideas and Concepts

We consider the term aidea from a philosophical point of view. In particular we are interested in the concept s origins, its relevance to human thinking and in particular in its pedagogical value for computer science lessons in schools as well as universities. Since the concept of fundamental ideas in computer science has been seized, extended, and reviewed by other authors and applied to lesso...

Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Law

A Philosophical Perspective on Contemporary Evolutionary Economics

There has been a remarkable growth in evolutionary economics since the 1980s. But despite this outward success there has been inner disagreement on fundamental issues including the building blocks of evolutionary theory and the very meaning of ‘evolution’ itself. This essay provides a philosophical perspective on both the defining agreements and ongoing disputes within evolutionary economics. I...