download pdf Abstract. I am discussing three strategies of fitting supererogation within consequentialist frameworks, namely Slote’s (1984) and Scheffler’s (1994). My main claim is that not only the utilitarian or consequentialist framework is modified to accommodate supererogation, but also the concept of supererogation suffers transformations in the process. It is therefore questionable if the theories…
Month: June 2019
A CRITIQUE ON MCGINN COUNTERARGUMENTS ON RUSSELL’S THEORY OF EXISTENCE by PAULA POMPILIA TOMI
Download pdf BIBLIOGRAPHY Belnap, Nuel, D., ‘Gupta’s Rule on Revision Theory of Truth’, in Journal of Philosophical logic, 11, 1982, pp.103-116 Belnap, Nuel and Gupta, Anil, The Revision Theory of Truth, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993 McGinn, Colin, Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000, pp. 15-51 Gupta, Anil, ‘Truth and Paradox’,…
THE NATURE OF THE STRUCTURES OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS by CĂTĂLIN BĂRBOIANU
Download pdf REFERENCES J.R.B. Arenhart, O. Bueno, “Structural Realism and the Nature of Structure”, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, (2015) 5 (1): 111-139. A. Baker, “The Indispensability Argument and Multiple Foundations for Mathematics”, Philosophical Quarterly, (2003) 53: 49-67. M. Balaguer, Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. S. Bangu, The…
CAN POVERTY BE SUCCESSFULLY ERADICATED BY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT ONLY “CAPABILITIES”? by Ingrid Niculescu
Download pdf Abstract. In this article I focus on the implications of the capability approach to eradicate poverty and eliminate inequalities between human beings. Even if the existent social problems have been debated throughout time by numerous researchers, different analyses having been made, concerning poor, vulnerable groups, and marginalized communities, we must focus on the…