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…

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…

“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…

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Se plantea una aproximación crítica desde el punto de vista de la filosofía social para analizar aspectos de los sistemas vigentes de producción de conocimientos y tecnologías en promoción de la salud. Se analizan sus capacidades para generar perplejidades, dilemas…

Dans le présent mémoire, je revisite l’oeuvre de Foucault à la lumière des analyses qu’il offre entre 1981 et 1984 dans ses derniers cours au Collège de France. À l’encontre de l’avis qui voit une rupture dans la pensée foucaldienne…

The "anthropology of moral life", or "moral anthropology", is an approach to moral philosophy which I take to have been initiated by Peter Strawson, and developed, independently and in different ways, by David Wiggins and Daniel Dennett. I take the…

Depuis une trentaine d’années environ, les études sur la réfutation, ou elenchos (ἔλεγχος), se sont multipliées. Cet engouement n’est pas étranger à la publication d’un article de Gregory Vlastos, intitulé « The Socratic Elenchus », dans lequel sont abordées des…

In this dissertation I explore how Hegel conceives of the practice of religion. Religion for Hegel cannot be the relationship between humans and a transcendent being, since, as I argue, Hegel's God is not a being of the transcendent sort,…

The thesis offers a reconstruction of Plotinus' reading of the Theaetetus, and it presents an account of his epistemology that rests on that reading. It aims to show that Plotinus reads the Theaetetus as containing two anti-sceptical arguments. The first…