Christopher Merwin, New School for Social Research “I have the clear knowledge that I’m standing right on the threshold to a more experienced & simpler saying,” wrote Martin Heidegger in a letter to his wife in January 1945 as he worked on what he would later, with some hesitation, describe as a form of Platonic […]

Reviewed by Suzanne Jaeger, University of Central Florida Young has a vision for a democratic world order. Her scheme is inspired, at least in part, by feminist writings on emancipation that value utopian visions as important optimistic goals towards which people work together. She is not simply idealistic, however, for she argues subtly and persuasively, […]

What’s Wrong with Moral Deference? Presidential Address 63rdAnnual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2017 Jonathan Matheson, University of North Florida I want to begin by thanking those responsible for this great conference.  Laurie Shrage, for doing a superb job putting together these talks, and Ron Cooper, for all of his hard work as site […]

Web Resources on Women and Underrepresented Groups in Philosophy 1. American Philosophical Association (APA) Committees on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers, the Status of Hispanics and Latinos in the Profession, Inclusiveness in the Profession, the Status of Indigenous Philosophers, the Status of Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Philosophers, the Status of Black […]

Burkay T. Öztürk, University of Illinois at Chicago 1. Introduction Formalists of the early 20th century such as David Hilbert hoped to construct formal deductive systems where one can express and prove all truths of pure mathematics by manipulating a set of axioms according to logically sound inference rules. Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem showed that […]

Stephen G. Morris, The College of Staten Island/CUNY Despite the extensive amount of academic papers that have been written on the subject of free will, philosophers have yet to settle on a single definitive notion of what free will is. To get a glimpse of the various senses in which philosophers use the term “free […]

Contextualization and Reconstruction in Mainstream Philosophy: Defending the Relevance and significance of Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism Introduction Philosophers have traditionally viewed philosophy as a distinctively universal enterprise fully committed to methodological and theoretical detachment.  Among other things, this conception of philosophy, as the aim to avoid occupying any limited or distorted perspective, is […]

Are we able to find women in the history of European and Anglophone philosophy and, if so, how ought we to reclaim their contributions? In Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better, Sarah Tyson does not simply provide answers to these questions, but elucidates how competing approaches to reclamation are grounded […]

Presidential Address of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2015 Andrew Aberdein, Florida Institute of Technology An old friend from graduate school, who may have had unrealistic expectations about legal practice, used to claim that law was an ever-present vocational temptation for philosophers. As he put it, “Why argue with smart people […]

Thomas Brommage, Sam Houston State University Two Dogmas of Representationalism: Jokes as Speech-Acts The philosophy of language has historically taken the declarative sentence as the most basic form of linguistic expression, and tried to “shoehorn” all other forms of linguistic expression in terms of the fact-stating function of language. The “declarative fallacy” as it has […]