Publisher’s Note: Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception was so controversial that…
What is it like to be…?
…we say that another organism is conscious we mean that ‘there is something it is like to be that organism . . . something it is like for the organism’…
The State of Leadership Ethics and the Work that Lies Before Us
…normative ideas from the descriptive and then put the two back together again. Like most philosophical endeavors, digging for the questions is the most difficult part. Once the questions are…
On three theories of implicature: default theory, relevance and minimalism
Abstract: Grice’s distinction between what is said by a sentence and what is implicated by an utterance of it is both extremely familiar and almost universally accepted. However, in recent…
Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction
…need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing…
Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century
Publisher’s Note: In this rich and detailed study of early modern women’s thought, Jacqueline Broad explores the complexity of women’s responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England…
Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics
…obscure some key issues. Specifically, I will argue that the version of radical contextualism they give is not radical enough, while their version of semantic minimalism is not minimal enough….
The Lamps in our House: Reflections on Postcolonial Pedagogy
…while Bentham and Mill often figure in my undergraduate courses. What does it mean to teach these canonical figures of the Western philosophical tradition to students in India? I have…
Diffusion Models and Fashion: A Reassessment
…Changes in the relationships between fashion organizations and their publics have affected what is diffused, how it is diffused, and to whom. Originally, fashion design was centered in Paris; designers…
Moral orientation and moral development
…one initially sees it in only one way. Yet even after seeing it in both ways, one way often seems more compelling. This phenomenon reflects the laws of perceptual organization…