1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a...

rationality of religious belief is one of the most important issues in the philosophy of religion and includes five epistemological approaches. up till recent times, evidentialism was the approach prevalent in the field of rationality of religious beliefs. and it was considered as a symbol of maximal rationalism. reformed epistemology, however, is a newly-emerged school which opposes evidential...

this paper intends to find an answer to the problematic description of the “thing in itself”, “phenomena” and the relation between the two in kant and allameh tabatabaei’s philosophy and to consider how allameh can solve the existing challenges in kant’s philosophy. this research shows that since kant accepts some necessary relation between “intelligible essences” and phenomena, he considers th...

Abstract We report the results of an experimental test whether preaching normative appeal sure-thing principle leads decision-makers to make choices that satisfy it. use Allais-type decision problems observe incentive-compatible 147 subjects, which either violate or adhere Subjects are presented with arguments support counterfactual behaviour and then repeat their decisions. violations robust i...

Kyburg goes half-way towards objective Bayesianism. He accepts that frequencies constrain rational belief to an interval but stops short of isolating an optimal degree of belief within this interval. I examine the case for going the whole hog.