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Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy, 1958; Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, 1961; Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962/1996; Carl Gustav Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, 1965
PhilPapers is an interactive academic database of journal articles in philosophy. [1] It is maintained by the Centre for Digital Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, and as of 2022, it has "394,867 registered users, including the majority of professional philosophers and graduate students". [2]
Philosophical Papers is an international, generalist journal of philosophy, appearing three times a year. Philosophical Papers is primarily based in the Department of Philosophy at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and it is jointly edited by the philosophy departments of Rhodes and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. [2] [3]
Works originally published in philosophy magazines (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Philosophy papers" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Parfit rose to prominence in 1971 with the publication of his first paper, "Personal Identity". His first book, Reasons and Persons (1984), has been described as the most significant work of moral philosophy since the 1800s. [6] [7] His second book, On What Matters (2011), was widely circulated and discussed for many years before its publication.
A prominent question in meta-philosophy is that of whether or not philosophical progress occurs and more so, whether such progress in philosophy is even possible. It has even been disputed, most notably by Ludwig Wittgenstein, whether genuine philosophical problems actually exist.
The philosophy of self examines the idea of the self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes self have been proposed, including the self being an activity, the self being independent of the senses, the bundle theory of the self, the self as a narrative center of gravity, and the self as a linguistic or social construct rather than a physical entity.
Three of his published papers have been selected for "Philosopher's Annual," the best 10 philosophy papers published that year. He has three children, Jonathan, Sharon, and Betty. [2] His daughter, Sharon Achinstein, is the Sir William Osler Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University.