Over the last 20 years, a number of central figures in moral philosophy have defended some version of moral rationalism, the idea that morality is based on reason or rationality (e.g., Gewirth 1978, Darwall 1983, Nagel 1970, 1986, Korsgaard 1986, Singer 1995; Smith 1994, 1997). According to rationalism, morality is based on reason or rationality rather than the emotions or cultural idiosyncrasi...

The commitment to the rational actor model of state behavior is said be a core assumption realist theory. This listed in most textbook accounts realism. Yet rationality supposition theory, and if so, what kind implied these claims? Debate on relationship between realism, often labeled as replete with misunderstandings. Authors deploy terms such rationality, rationalism, diverse contradictory wa...

Engineering deals with different problem situations than science, and theories in engineering are different to theories in science. So, the growth of knowledge in engineering is also different to that in science. Nonetheless, methodological issues in engineering epistemology can be explored by adapting frameworks already established in the philosophy of science. In this paper I use critical rat...

The main aim of this paper is to explore three connectionist stances on innateness. The argument is that connectionists can be nativists without necessarily being, for want of a better term, `symbolic nativists'. Also, connectionist versions of the innateness hypothesis can be just as strong in their commitment to nativism as symbolic versions. In addition, it will be claimed that these three c...