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…

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Con especial atención se discute sobre la esencia de la verdad en Occidente y sus repercusiones en una ciencia como la Historia. Por ello se indaga en los
procedimientos por los cuales la Historia busca y maneja los elementos…

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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…

The dispositional nature of aesthetic properties is taken by some to be a problem for aesthetic property realism.  Nick Zangwill argues that because aesthetic properties supervene on sensory properties such as color, they must be secondary qualities, and his response-dependence…

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…