https://hcommons.org/groups/analytic-philosophy/ Activity feed for the group, Analytic Philosophy. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2ace89221bf380edefd474ee53dd5a4d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889842/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:20 -0400 Книга представляет собой первый на русском языке систематический обзор метаонтологиии – дисциплины, которая пытается ответить на наиболее важные и глубокие вопросы относительно бытия и существования. Что мы подразумеваем под онтологическим вопросом «Что есть»? Что такое бытие и существование? Есть ли между ними разница? Как их лучше всего выра…[Read more]

]]> 0 689435585d16bb5a7ab64abc4597c98d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870634/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:00:26 -0500 This entry investigates the connections between neo-populism and neo-conspiracism in the USA. One central thread is the rhetoric of purity that fosters rigid dichotomies of thought about identities, contributing to both populism and conspiracism, eliciting a neologism: conspirapopulism.

]]> 0 9ef984eefd9e1ef542dde1ce5879c2d5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870633/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:00:24 -0500 A "good" arguer is like an architect with a penchant for civil and civic engineering. Such an arguer can design and present their reasons artfully about a variety of topics, as good architects do with a plenitude of structures and in various environments. Failures in this are rarely hidden for long, as poor constructions reveal themselves, often…[Read more]

]]> 0 380213598f909f905af85ec934666593 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859843/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:07:53 -0400 Книга представляет собой первый на русском языке систематический обзор метаэтики – дисциплины, которая пытается ответить на наиболее важные и глубокие вопросы относительно морали. Существуют ли моральные ценности? Какова их природа? Объективны ли они? Что означают наши моральные высказывания? При ответе на данные вопросы затрагиваютс…[Read more]

]]> 0 2191c410380f024dd951914c85dae0ad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853598/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:24:33 -0400 Two of the most fundamental distinctions in metaphysics are (1) that between reality (or things in themselves) and appearance, the R/A distinction, and (2) that between entities that are fundamental (or real, etcetera) and entities that are ontologically or existentially dependent, the F/D distinction. While these appear to be two very different…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dbf3dcc72c6b86ca726e816528ca603 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824194/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:24:39 -0500 People can laugh at almost anything. What's the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.

]]> 0 0c2abeedeb7359a35f7eacf6e4122281 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818574/ Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:25:16 -0400 The present study has been primarily provoked from the inadequacy of both late and present presuppositionalists to sufficiently answer or refute the more philosophical, transcendental challenges levelled against Van Til’s Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (hereafter TAG). Given this shortcoming—which, with it, comes an atm…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b9c9a90e13311a43475a733adaf1096 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816480/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 02:23:45 -0400 In two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e049cdc35ba098db6ea8032a367271b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778696/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:25:15 -0400 In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic vie…[Read more]

]]> 0 8252178790aec466a15581e6f51b864f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745146/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:33:59 -0400 I argue that an indirect and imaginative route through subversive humor offers a means to
raise consciousness about covert oppression and the mechanisms underlying it, reveal the errors
of those with power who complacently sustain systematic oppression, and even open those people
up to changing their minds. Subversive humor confronts serious…[Read more]

]]> 0 74861172d57b06463c12a82ee512b743 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743517/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:29:20 -0400 It is trivially true that comedians make jokes and thus are not serious; they are “just playing.” But watching Louis CK, especially his performances in Chewed Up, Shameless, and Hilarious, it is evident that he has more in mind than simply getting his audience to frivolously guffaw. I will make the case that this is so given the content of som…[Read more]

]]> 0 72770f7b5c86610e97b4b9ff0156ba65 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743509/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:28:35 -0400 In two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a5d88159d8cbd39462a8e182f054b6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741620/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:25:57 -0400 According to Manuel Davenport, “The best humorists--Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Bob Hope, and Mort Sahl--share [a] mixture of detachment and desire, eagerness to believe, and irreverence concerning the possibility of certainty. And when they become serious about their convictions--as Twain did about colonialism…they cease to be humorous”. I agree…[Read more]

]]> 0 94eea4c1aca72691cd6405ccff122d09 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741614/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:24:35 -0400 This chapter will focus on the overlap and benefits of a humorous and philosophical attitude toward the world and our place in it. The first part of this chapter’s title borrows from Kierkegaard and before him the Christian apologist Turtullian, who once quipped about the central contradictory tenets of Christianity, in putatively ironic f…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b877d63e56de9b05c74de02a98fecaa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741470/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:28:38 -0400 In the first part of this paper, I will briefly introduce the concept of incongruity and its relation to humor and seriousness, connecting the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer and the contemporary work of John Morreall. I will reveal some of the relations between Schopenhauer’s notion of “seriousness” and the existentialists such as Jean Paul Sartr…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e762577be520ddabc9db9ccf57d0e4b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741466/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:28:15 -0400 In this paper I borrow from Maria Lugones' work on playful " world-traveling " and W.E.B. Du Bois' notion of " double consciousness " to make the case that humor can facilitate an openness and cooperative attitude among an otherwise closed, even adversarial audience. I focus on what I call " subversive " humor, that which is employed by or on…[Read more]

]]> 0 fecfe4794ce8cbec9384ed494714b560 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741462/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:28:03 -0400 The majority of philosophers of religion, at least since Plantinga's reply to Mackie's logical problem of evil, agree that it is logically possible for an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God to exist who permits some of the evils we see in the actual world. This is conceivable essentially because of the possible world known as heaven.…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e8440092be3648fed808223d4e2d94b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740375/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:38 -0400 This is perhaps the world’s first book in which a philosopher himself illustrates his own philosophical investigation into hard problems on time, being, solipsism, and life, in the form of “Manga.” This book was originally published in Japanese in 2013 and translated into English by Robert Chapeskie in 2021.

]]> 0 83cbb3b574384490cad17c114b6e7a3e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738797/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:23:46 -0400 The Nonassertion Theory of Fiction implies that fictional discourse is quoted discourse. It can stand up against the critique in Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe, and avoids the undesirable consequences of that theory. The possibility of hearing music as discursive justifies thinking of (some) music as fiction, against Walton’s reservations.

]]> 0 cce54e6c7015426f3d6ae15234f9ab75 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677149/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 16:26:15 -0500 Studies of musical quotation generally downplay the possible parallels with linguistic quotation, and ignore the specialized debate around quotation in analytical philosophy. Basic to this debate is the idea that we can articulate (‘mention’) x without truly saying (‘using’) x. A quoted expression is set apart within the regular discourse in whic…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2e2d6fb99d70b2430d7f93d03ee8303 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667048/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:26:36 -0400 Episodic memory (EM) involves re-experiencing past experiences by means of mental imagery. Aphantasics (who lack mental imagery) and people with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) lack the ability to re-experience, which would imply that they don't have EM. However, aphantasics and people with SDAM have personal and affective…[Read more]

]]> 0 076aec523f7a34f91286d1c4a38bbace https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667045/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:26:05 -0400 (First paragraphs.) — The notion of “mental time” refers to the experience and awareness of time, including that of past, present, and future, and that of the passing of time. This experience and awareness of time raises a number of puzzling questions. How do we experience time? What exactly do we experience when we experience time? Do we actua…[Read more]

]]> 0 c685cccfd09b59b4e8eeeb6934299d0e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1661522/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:36:50 -0400 In "Real Patterns" Daniel Dennett developed an argument about the reality of beliefs on the basis of an analogy with patterns and noise. Here I develop Dennett's analogy into an argument for descriptivism, the view that belief reports do no specify belief contents but merely describe what someone believes, and show that this view is also supported…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a98b0b85f4cb646ca0b23eae68f742 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605694/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 04:13:10 -0400 Plausibilität spielt in allen Wissenschaftskulturen eine gewichtige Rolle - ob implizit oder explizit. Auffällig ist jedoch, dass es keiner spezifisch geschulten Kompetenz oder der Vermittlung eigenständiger Fähigkeiten bedarf, um einen Sachverhalt als "plausibel" zu beurteilen, während bei verwandten Begriffen wie etwa "logisch" je nach den meth…[Read more]

]]> 0 e81855ea94f22d1d5bb5aadb77023489 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604951/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 04:23:39 -0400 From the early nineteenth century up until the first half of the twentieth century, many leading scholars in the emerging field of linguistics were occupied with what would today be considered a kind of linguistic typology. The various classifications of languages they proposed were generally intertwined with speculation about the “racial” tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 41dfa8fd2cfd3266176687d2633b3f85 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594633/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:28 -0500 In today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have "philosophy of…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cbf07f98c76dba3af349ad063b8bbe7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594628/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:17 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3ef927cb9c03eece2be0ad0292b1f08 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593288/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:41:02 -0500 C.K. Ogden (1889–1957) and I.A. Richards’ (1893–1979) The Meaning of Meaning is widely recognised as a classic text of early twentieth-century linguistic semantics and semiotics, but less well known are its links to the ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), one of the foundational doctrines of analytic philosophy. In this paper a det…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c9bbdb10fbca7896810b4b609420fd6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593284/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:40:29 -0500 Although now largely forgotten, the international language movement was, from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War, a matter of widespread public interest, as well as a concern of numerous scientists and scholars. The primary goal was to establish a language for international communication, but in the early twentieth century an increasing…[Read more]

]]> 0 91df9453ddf14731602a8abf6872981a https://hcommons.org/groups/analytic-philosophy/forum/topic/group-image-header-image/ Thu, 31 Aug 2017 05:55:32 -0400 The current group image (Quine's passport photo) and group header image (a proposition from the Principia Mathematica) are mere placeholders awaiting more appropriate imagery. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post those (or links to them) here.

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