Arturo Tozzi
Arturo Tozzi
One of the criteria to a strong principle in natural sciences is simplicity. The conventional view holds that the world is provided with natural laws that must be simple. This common-sense approach is a modern rewording of the medieval phil...
Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
Like many governments in this COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigerian government imposed a lockdown on the country. As a consequence of the lockdown, many businesses shutdown and effectively had no source of revenue. Yet, without receiving any bail...
Aleardo Zanghellini,Mai Sato
Aleardo Zanghellini
Watsuji is recognised as one Japan's foremost philosophers. His work on ethics, Rinrigaku, is cosmopolitan in engaging the Western philosophical tradition, and in presupposing an international audience. Yet Watsuji's ethical thought is larg...
God and the Girl [0.03%]
上帝与女孩儿
Benoit Gaultier
Benoit Gaultier
Abstract Imagine you are an agnostic who wants to maximise your chances of getting the right answer to the question whether God exists. I show that theism and atheism are not on an epistemic par with one another because, under certain possi...
Per Sandin
Per Sandin
This paper discusses the application of the supreme emergency doctrine from just-war theory to non-antagonistic threats. Two versions of the doctrine are considered: Michael Walzer's communitarian version and Brian Orend's prudential one. I...
Defending the Democratic Argument for Limitarianism: A Reply to Volacu and Dumitru [0.03%]
捍卫民主限政论点：回复沃拉库和杜米特鲁教授们的批评
Dick Timmer
Dick Timmer
In this paper, I argue that limitarian policies are a good means to further political equality. Limitarianism, which is a view coined and defended by Robeyns (2017), is a partial view in distributive justice which claims that under non-idea...
Predicting Divine Action [0.03%]
预言神的作用
Hugh Burling
Hugh Burling
This article sets out a formal procedure for determining the probability that God would do a specified action, using our moral knowledge and understanding God as a perfect being. To motivate developing the procedure I show how natural theol...
David Deming
David Deming
In 1979 astronomer Carl Sagan popularized the aphorism "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (ECREE). But Sagan never defined the term "extraordinary." Ambiguity in what constitutes "extraordinary" has led to misuse of the a...
Guy Bennett-Hunter
Guy Bennett-Hunter
In the first two sections of this reply article, I provide a brief introduction to the topic of ineffability and a summary of Ineffability and Religious Experience. This is followed, in section 3, by some reflections in reply to the respons...
Constitutivism and Transcendental Practical Philosophy: How to Pull the Rabbit Out of the Hat [0.03%]
构成论与先验实践哲学：如何从帽子里变出兔子？
Sorin Baiasu
Sorin Baiasu
Constitutivism aims to justify substantial normative standards as constitutive of practical reason. In this way, it can defend the constructivist commitment to avoiding realism and anti-realism in normative disciplines. This metaphysical de...