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The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism. Moral particularism asserts that reasons for moral actions are not governed by general principles, but by a mixture …

At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore’s own arguments against ethical naturalism find lit …

Philosophy took a ‘linguistic turn’ in the twentieth century that was marked by the focus on theories of meaning, reference, description, predication and truth. Starting with the roots of the analyti …

Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. …

The philosophy of Jacques Derrida is one of the milestones of twentieth century thought and is still of great influence in many disciplines today. This book offers a survey of many aspects of Derrida …

What is desert? The aim of this book is to give an analysis of this notion. Starting from Feinberg’s seminal paper, the argument goes on to Chisholm, 18th-century British Rationalism, and Kant, who d …

On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the para …