Le but de ce mémoire est d’expliciter en détail et de voir la portée d'un passage bien précis du traité des Topiques, ouvrage où Aristote tente d'élaborer une méthode qui permettra de raisonner de manière dialectique. Dans le deuxième chapitre…

In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…

“Pragmatic Encroachment and Epistemic Value”. Some philosopherswho defend “pragmatic encroachment” and “sensitive invariantism” argue thatchanges in the importance of being right and signiicant increases of the costsof error in given contexts can alter the standards of knowledge. If this view…

“Plato grammaticus. On the Platonic Concept of epistēmē in the Theaetetus’ Dream-theory”. Theaetetus’ third definition of epistēmē was traditionally labeled as a precursor of the so-called Justified True Belief Knowledge-Model. Nevertheless, Plato’s point in the last section of this dialogue…

The paper's purpose is to offer an interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason's chapter "On the schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding". Our hypothesis is that in the doctrine of the schematism the possibility of the ontological…

This paper makes the claim that in ?The Origin of the Work of Art,? Heidegger treats art as a primary phenomenon through which truth as unhiddenness is revealed at the locus of the work of art. Essays by Heidegger commentators…

This paper makes the claim that in ?The Origin of the Work of Art,? Heidegger treats art as a primary phenomenon through which truth as unhiddenness is revealed at the locus of the work of art. Essays by Heidegger commentators…

Husserl's overcoming of the Modern representationalist and immanentist notions of consciousness and knowledge is tied to the early development of bis sui generis concept of intentionality. This development is the result of logical and psychological studies, the latter laying open…

I propose this account of community formation, which finds bodies, ungraspable difference and the expression of meaning inextricably linked, in order to address a neglect of the sociality of the body in current models of community. That neglect, I submit,…

This paper discusses the traditional opposition between a foundationalist and a coherentist account of justification. pointing to their inconveniences and showing why neither can make for an adequate theory of knowledge. It is suggested that, in order to overcome this…