Is it Good to Conceive of One’s Life Narratively?Philosophia (United States) - Tập 51 Số 4 - Trang 2005-2014 - 2023
Sally Latham, Mark Pinder
AbstractGrace Hibshman has developed a new explanation for why narrative
self-conceptions might contribute to one’s flourishing: conceiving of one’s life
narratively, she argues, can facilitate an improved self-understanding. In this
short paper, we argue that, pace Hibshman, life narratives tend to misrepresent
and mislead. So while they may give the impression of an improved
self-understanding, ... hiện toàn bộ
Hitchcock and Sober on Weak PredictivismPhilosophia (United States) - Tập 40 - Trang 553-562 - 2011
Wang-Yen Lee
According to Hitchcock and Sober’s argument from overfitting for weak
predictivism, the fact that a theory accurately predicts a portion of its data
is evidence that it has been formulated by balancing simplicity and
goodness-of-fit rather than overfitting data. The core argument consists of two
likelihood inequalities. In this paper I show that there is a surprising
accommodation-friendly implica... hiện toàn bộ
Kant and Heidegger: The Place of Truth and the Shrinking Back of the NoumenaPhilosophia (United States) - Tập 49 - Trang 1507-1524 - 2021
Eben Hensby
There is much debate on how to understand Kant’s transcendental idealism in the
context of the Critique of Pure Reason. Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of
Metaphysics offers an innovative reading of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, but
is often overlooked due to the violence it allegedly does in its interpretation.
This paper offers a Heideggerian-inspired phenomenological or ontological
interpret... hiện toàn bộ
Humility’s IndependencePhilosophia (United States) - Tập 51 - Trang 2395-2415 - 2023
Derick Hughes
Philosophers often claim that humility is a dependent virtue: a virtue that
depends on another virtue for its value. I consider three views about this
relation: Specific Dependence, Unspecific Dependence, and Fittingness. I argue
that, since humility cannot uniquely depend on another virtue, and since this
uniqueness is desirable, we should reject Specific and Unspecific Dependence. I
defend a Fit... hiện toàn bộ