Analysis and Metaphysics http://denbridgepress.com/am.php Analysis and Metaphysics is an international journal in scope, submissions and readership. The journal publishes contributions fitting within various philosophical traditions, but manifests a preference of the analytic tradition in the broad sense of commitment to clarity and responsibility. Analysis and Metaphysics will serve both as a forum for and as a liaison among those who are dedicated to advancing the basic principles of philosophy as a constructive permeative reflective force in our culture rather than to restricting them to the advantage of a limited and closed society of professional philosophers. In accordance with these aims, we welcome papers which may best develop and sustain a philosophical continuum between philosophers and professionals of other academic disciplines. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT en-us Denbridge Press 300 Analysis and Metaphysics 100 142 http://denbridgepress.com/am.php http://denbridgepress.com/imaggen2/ANALISES100.jpg DISCLOSURE IN BANKING, MONETARY POLICY, AND E-BANKING TECHNOLOGIEShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=69Tadesse finds that disclosure regulation fosters banking system stability: banking systems are more likely to be stable in countries with regulations that require more comprehensive, more informative, more timely and more credible disclosure. Svensson demonstrates that optimal policy projections can easily be derived directly with simple numerical...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=69DETERMINANTS OF EQUITY ACCOUNTING DISCLOSUREShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=68Future research on the connection between governance use and capital markets use of financial accounting information is important for developing a more complete understanding of the effects of financial accounting information on economic performance (Bushman and Smith). The accountability paradigm of progressive public administration puts heavy...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=68JUSTICE THROUGH PUNISHMENThttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=67Garland maintains that the welfare penal mode is muted in favour of a punitive, expressive, risk conscious penal mode. Fagan examines how the spatial effects of crime impact a neighborhood's economic well-being, its social norm structure, family life, and the willingness of its members to support the political process. Dominant groups within...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=67RAWLS'S CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC JUSTIFICATION AND THE IDEAL STATES SYSTEMhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=66Rawls notes that outlaw states are aggressive and dangerous. Naticchia notes that Rawls produced two versions of the law of peoples that defend basic human rights as a minimum requirement of a just law of peoples. Rawls restricts membership of the original position to compatriots so that the scope of the chosen difference principle is limited to...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=66A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=65Institutions in democratic societies will better serve the public if they operate in accordance with democratically determined ethical principles (Thompson). From our understanding of instrumental relations among both animate and inanimate things, we have a sense of what it is to treat someone merely as a means (Audi). Rawls assumes that a...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=65PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA EFFECTS http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=64Media framing is to select some aspect of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text (Entman). Television has displaced traditional sources of socialization such as: the family, the church, and school (Gerbner). Communications technology always influences human organization (O'Neill). The public is not part of the...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=64 AN APPLICATION OF THE DUMMETTIAN MODEL OF COMMUNICATION TO JOURNALISM (I)http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=63Dummett claims that, on a holistic view, no model for the individual content of a sentence can be given; the way the truth of logically complex statements are determined in classical model theory is important. Habermas describes a normative role for journalists and media practitioners in relation to genuine public opinion. In a normative sense,...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=63MERLEAU-PONTY, SKLAR, AND PLURALIST ONTOLOGIEShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=62Merleau-Ponty claims that the phenomenal field places a fundamental difficulty in the way of any attempt to make experience directly and totally explicit. Sklar holds that the explanatory and predictive methods of science constitute a diverse plurality; science itself declares the continuous fluids of hydrodynamics to be merely "useful...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=62PUTNAM ON MEANING AND REALITYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=61Putnam does not accept meanings as entities that fix reference but takes them to be largely determined by causal connections. Putnam explains how a particular reference relation gets attached to our words; to say that what does the attaching is the fact that certain sentences are true is flagrantly circular. Putnam devises science fiction cases,...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=61HEGEL, HUMAN FINITUDE, AND CONTINGENCYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=60Hegel develops his own distinctive understanding of absolute knowledge as the product of a dialectical process of mediation and self-differentiation. Hegel conceives individual action as being necessarily embedded in a people's set of practical, ethical, and political institutions. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is implicitly in that,...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=60DERRIDA AND THE METAPHYSICS OF LANGUAGEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=59Derrida remarks that exteriority and alterity are concepts which by themselves have never surprised philosophical discourse; the call to recognize failure as an "internal and positive condition" ultimately leads to a structural critique of language's conditions of possibility. Derrida aims to reach the point of a certain exteriority...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=59WITTGENSTEIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO MUSICAL AESTHETICShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=58Wittgenstein's principle concern is to expand the notion of linguistic understanding (Dammann). Although we understand music in a similar way as we understand language, music is not a language because we still cannot communicate through music as we can through language. Wittgenstein emphasizes the role of performance in the understanding of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=58SARTRE'S THEORY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE EGO http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=57Sartre argues that perceptual experience has an active dimension, in that it is a way of interacting and dealing with the world. Sartre considers our talk of character traits to refer not to present facts about a person, but to that person's past behaviour. Sartre considers action to be free in a sense that requires the falsehood of all forms...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=57A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=56If either superintelligence, or molecular nanotechnology, or uploading, or some other technology of a similarly revolutionary kind is developed, the human condition could clearly be radically transformed. Even if one believed that the probability of this happening any time soon is quite small, these prospects would nevertheless merit serious...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=56HOW MANY WITTGENSTEINS?http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=55The paper maps out and responds to some of the main areas of disagreement over the nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy: (1) Between defenders of a "two Wittgensteins" reading (which draws a sharp distinction between early and late Wittgenstein) and the opposing "one Wittgenstein" interpretation. (2) Among...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=55DE LA IDENTITATE MENTALA/FIZICA LA DUALISMUL SUBSTANTEIhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=54Our normal understanding of ourselves which I analyze in this paper is that parts of our bodies (arms, legs, and so on) are parts of ourselves; and so we must think of whole bodies also as parts of ourselves. But, given that bodies are only contingent parts of human beings, we can think instead of ourselves merely as souls causally connected to...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=54MACROECONOMIC POLICIES IN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIEShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=53Menger develops a table showing assumed cardinal values for the declining marginal utilities of ten economic goods as envisioned by some economic man. Montiel argues that while macroeconomic policies in Indus- trialized countries often relate to business cycle developments, policy makers in emerging economies are compelled to spend much more time...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=53MONETARY POLICY AND PRICE LEVEL STABILITYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=52Jevons writes that since money has to be exchanged for valuable goods, it should itself possess value, and it must therefore have utility as the basis of value. The monetarists place the emphasis on the level of the money supply in the determination of price level changes and monetary control is exercised.http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=52MONETARY POLICY AND THE VALUE OF MONEYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=51Garrison demonstrates the relevance of capital-based macro- economics beyond its application to the business cycle by discussing a variety of fiscal and regulatory issues. The marginal-productivity theory of factor pricing implies that the price of any factor is determined by the marginal value product of that factor. Money must be analyzed in a...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=51MONETARY POLICY AS A PROCESS OF SEARCHhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=50Reisman demonstrates how the negative effects of multiple controls feed into one another and multiply the chaos. Schumpeter sunders capital completely from its embodiment in capital goods, and limits the concept to only a money fund used to purchase those goods. Von Mises argues that only free-market prices could accurately represent the value of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=50MONEY DEMAND AND MONETARY POLICYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=49The expected rate of return on capital adjusts to the interest rate in equilibrium through variations in the scale of investment. Uncertainty about the future resale price means that traders lack a terminal value from which to backwardize. Money has utility because it is a 'wealth-unit ready to be activated'; it also has the property of being the...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=49THE FUNCTIONING OF MONEY AND THE MONEY ECONOMIC SYSTEMhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=48Real money is a function of nominal money, and the effect of changing prices on the nominal budget of the individual financier/consumer is knowable only by the individual. Salvary argues that nominal money prices, specific price changes, and rates of return on nominal money guide the output decisions for the physical quantities. The preponderance...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=48RUSSELL ON REFERRINGhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=47Russell writes that genuine proper names would refer to something without ascribing any properties to it. Whatever the standards of coherence may be, it seems likely that alternative sets of propositions will meet them. The type of expression that comes closest to performing the function of the referential use of definite descriptions turns out to...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=47RAWLSIAN PLURALISM, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INDIVIDUAL ETHICShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=46In Political Liberalism, Rawls says that all modern societies show continuing differences about basic matters of value and the ultimate meaning of life. Liberal states are to exhibit due respect towards decent non-liberal societies by viewing them as authentic sources of the law of peoples. Rawls recognizes that very low levels of well-being can...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=46ARE WORKS OF MUSIC TYPES OF PERFORMANCE OR ARE THEY CONTINUANTS?http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=45Lerdahl develops the idea that relationships between chords and between pitch-classes may be represented by the concept of distance. Goehr argues that regulative concepts differ from constitutive ones: the latter constitute the fabric of a practice; they provide the rules of the game. Elliott writes that the nature of music is defined according to...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=45'JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS', A THEORY OF TOLERATIONhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=44In Political Liberalism, Rawls argues that justice as fairness should not be seen as uniquely grounded in a particular comprehensive conception of right. Rawls's political constructivism can be better understood in the very terms of its critical account of the foundations of a theory of justice. Rawls uses the procedural representation of the...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=44AUTONOMIE SI COMUNITATEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=43By recasting Kant's constructivism, Rawls aims at the normativity of practical reason in a contractarian context. The duty of justice requires us to support and comply with just institutions that apply to us. Raz holds that obligations are categorial reasons for actions that are protected by exclusionary reasons not to act on some of the competing...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=43THE PECULIARITY OF RAWLS' CONTRACTUAL PROCEDUREhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=42Rawls claims that we should take societies' existence as given, a fact of life for each individual. The original position is constructed such that it restricts the possible range of choices the parties in it can make in a way that models certain fairness conditions. The Rawls of Political Liberalism must confine the principles of justice to...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=42LIBERAL EQUALITY AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=41Rawls embraces two views of justice, a general conception that is supposed to be valid at all times, and a special conception that is valid under modern social conditions. According to Dworkin, law is not to be understood as trying to communicate anything at all; a subject considering his legal duties is not listening to the law. Rawls attacks the...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=41THE VALUES AND AIMS OF MUSIC EDUCATIONhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=40Adorno argues that in authentic art affirmation becomes the cipher of despair and the purest negativity of content contains a grain of affirmation. Schulz writes that expressive performance consists in the complete representation of the character and expression of the work. A refrain in a narrative retains its autonomy yet plays an indispensable...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=40TAKING RIGHTS SERIOUSLY AND THE DUTIES OF JUSTICEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=39Hart claims that while sanctions might mark circumstances in which people are obliged to conform, they have an obligation only when subject to a practiced social rule requiring an act or omission. Rawls states that as economic systems develop and basic material needs are met, beyond this point the fundamental interest in determining our plan of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=39LOGICAL FORM AND LANGUAGEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=38Frege's conception of the universal applicability of modern mathematical logic and its singular role in displaying the structure of genuinely objective judgment were the primary concerns of much of twentieth-century philosophy. Quine discredits a certain group of non-extensional notions, which includes those of logical necessity, logical...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=38THE ART OF PLATO AND SOCRATES' MISSIONhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=37Plato's dialogues provide us with two cases in which citizens become recruited as instruments of the state in carrying out unjust legal judgments made by the state. The claim that Socrates would violate a legally valid law proscribing philosophizing must provide an explanation of how such a law might be worded in a way that makes such a law...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=37MEANING, TRUTH, AND ONTOLOGYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=36Davidson thinks of meaning as determined by what individual speakers do with their words in communication. Davidson takes the idea that a formalization of what a theory of truth is explains something. Quine distinguishes between singular terms and general terms, and speaks of different 'positions' which terms may occupy in sentences, notably of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=36NUME, NUME FICTIVE SI 'REALMENTE'http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=35Fictional names pose at least two kinds of problem: how, if at all, do they mean anything? And how, if at all, do they affect the truth or other semantic value of sentences in which they occur? Answering the first question is especially difficult if one holds both of the two opinions (1) that all genuine names have bearers and (2) that fictional...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=35INDETERMINAREA CUANTICA SI ARGUMENTUL WITTGENSTEINIAN AL LIMBAJULUI PRIVAThttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=34The demand for 'criteria of correctness' to identify recurring particulars in Wittgenstein's private language argument favors an idealist interpretation of quantum phenomena. The indeterminacy principle in quantum physics and the logic of the private language argument share a common concern with the limitations by which microphysical or sensation...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=34FILOSOFIA RELIGIEI (EXISTENTA SI NATURA LUI DUMNEZEU)http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=33The philosophy of religion, as this is understood in the modern empiricist Anglo-American tradition of philosophy, is an examination of the meaning and justification of central religious claims. Most religions make claims about the cause of the existence of things, about the most fundamental principles governing the world, and about the purpose of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=33DESIRE, TIME, AND ETHICAL WEIGHThttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=32We want more than we can have. So we must somehow weigh our desires in order to determine which of them it is most important that we satisfy. All that an egoist of the present moment has to do is to introspectively ascertain these parameters, calculate (or intuitively estimate) the expected utility of the various choices, and then pick the one...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=32WHAT IF THINGS WERE DIFFERENT? (DELIBERATIONS REGARDING COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONALS AND NONEXISTENT WORLDS)http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=31A recourse to the epistemic priorities that govern our commitments to claims about the world is quite sufficient to deal satisfactorily with counterfactuals. We need not look outside this world of ours to other possible worlds but need only look inside to the epistemic priority status of our cognitive commitments. There is no need to enter into...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=31SOME QUESTIONS OF ONTOLOGYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=30'Individual' Laycock uses as a convenient term for any putative distinct object of reference, whether concrete or abstract, whether particular or universal. Generally, being concrete is closely related to being extended and, specifically, to solidity. Particulars Laycock takes to be standardly distinct, concrete, countable individuals, whose...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=30EDUCATIE SI ACTIVISM PEDAGOGIChttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=29Dewey reinforces Rousseau's childcentredness with the Baconian thought that what the child should be centring on are problems and practice. Education is a thoroughly classical concept, which since the time of Socrates and Aristotle has never entirely disappeared in institutions of learning. Education should involve the formation of habits of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=29ETICA PARADIGMEI LEGALISTE IN DREPTUL INTERNATIONALhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=28International law takes its project as governance, while comparative law stakes out the ground of cultural understanding. The division of international legal society into independent international and national realms is historically contingent, reflecting a certain view of the world legal order that found acceptance at a certain moment in the...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=28KANT, HUMAN NATURE AND PRACTICAL RATIONALITYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=27Kant's doctrine of radical evil might result from the sheer difference between the moral law, which applies to all rational beings, and the actions of beings like us who are sensibly conditioned. We can derive our duties from the supreme principle and bad effects beyond our control cannot undermine moral worth when we have acted from duty.http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=27IMPERIALISMUL ECONOMIC SI PROVOCAREA AMERICANAhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=26WTO Member States cannot impose local content or balancing requirements on foreign capital irrespective of their individual needs and concerns. The way to develop a free trade constituency is to engage the opposition and address their legitimate concerns. Normal domestic politics reigns with interest groups, including protectionist groups, having...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=26THE LAW AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIALIZATIONhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=25When the procedurally correct application of law leads to unfair results, a procedural justice focus has little to offer beyond the generalization that people care more about procedures and the suggestion that authorities should redirect public attention from the result to the method. The most fundamental assumption in psychological jurisprudence...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=25PEDAGOGIA CA TEORIE A EDUCATIEIhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=24Plato and Rousseau were at one in seeing education as part of an overarching political and social project. In the Republic, Plato is concerned with educating people in such a way that a just society is the outcome. Rousseau's work can be seen as the start of a pervasive interest in the details of child development in educational thought. Comenius'...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=24KANT: MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES OF JUSTICEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=23Kant suggests that right only commands compliance when there is an empirical motivation, but he claims that right requires that all individuals who can enter into the civil condition ought to. Right would need to presuppose that there is a providential 'coincidence' between enlightened self-interest and the demands of right holds for all of its...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=23WITTGENSTEIN SI ARHITECTONICA MUZICALA A LUMIIhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=22Wittgenstein tends to define a work of music in terms of an abstract sound pattern which is antecedent to its composition by any particular composer. Wittgenstein attempts to explain and justify the widespread descriptions of music in terms usually used to characterize human beings and he analyses the expressiveness of music as a compound of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=22KANT AND THE RATIONAL BASIS OF MORALITYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=21Kant's idea of virtue as moral strength in opposing passions can be linked to his notion of freedom and self-governance. Kant provides extensive arguments concerning which particular representations must be understood as derived from our own cognitive capabilities, and arguments that such representations must be understood as transcendentally...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=21THE RULE OF LAW AND THE CONSTITUTIONhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=20The most abstract and fundamental point of legal practice is to guide and constrain power of government. The Court should remain alert to developments in judicial procedures which further the defence of the rule of law. The role of the common law is to prevent the citizen from being subject to the arbitrary power of the state.http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=20PSIHOLOGIE SI EPISTEMOLOGIE GENETICAhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=19Piaget thought that genetic epistemology could be distinguished from developmental psychology. As the prime concern of ordinary epistemology is to show how knowledge is possible, so the aim of genetic epistemology should be to show how the acquisition and growth of knowledge is possible. Baldwin characterizes an account of the acquisition of...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=19RATIONALITATE SI STRUCTURA IN ECONOMIA POLITICAhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=18Economics has traditionally been more or less behaviouristic in orientation, preferring to build a picture of the human subject out of actions displayed rather than on a reflective or introspective basis. Economics has tended to be egocentrically reductionistic, assuming that the preferences which human agents seek to satisfy are, on the whole,...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=18THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF PROCEDURAL JUSTICEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=17The equity principle is especially compatible with modern anarchist theory, which generally views the development of state legal systems as the forced imposition of centralized control over societies with long-standing local norms. Mainstream legal scholars and authorities prefer to focus not on hard-to-define substantive justice but on...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=17THE ANALYTICITY OF KANT'S PRINCIPLE OF RIGHThttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=16Kant rejects the thesis that rightness of actions is independent of agent's motives because motives are elements of act descriptions, while are taken into account in moral assessment of actions. The concept of right should include any unconditional demand for 'juridical legality' (an unconditional and supra-positive demand that individuals act in...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=16RULES OF LAW AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=15International society has the ultimate capacity to enable all societies to promote the ever-increasing well-being of themselves and their members. Morality is discontinuous between the domestic and international spheres. Law is the progression of legal ideas in the social world which mediates between the social forces which generate the law and...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=15KANT'S TREATMENT OF MORAL CONFLICThttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=14Kant argues that a good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes. Practical freedom of will is based on the transcendental freedom of will. The Kantian path to ethical transcendence suggests the content of the categorical imperative. Moral anthropology is a kind of self-cultivation in the service of justified hope.http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=14KANT, THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS AND PRACTICAL ANTHROPOLOGYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=13Anthropology as conceived by Kant is a broad-based inquiry into the nature of human beings in general, and a discipline that is empirical and pragmatic. Kant deals with some of the same themes and concepts of his critical philosophy, such as self-consciousness, taste, and the highest good.http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=13HEIDEGGER'S HERMENEUTIC APPROACH TO FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGYhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=12Heidegger's thought is that metaphysics is prior to logic, in that an understanding of logic is required to have an adequate theory of logic. Heidegger, while defining the act of synthesis, resorts to the field of pure sensibility, as a siege of the ecstatic temporality. Heidegger recognizes the importance of the finitude of human cognition and he...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=12THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF MUSIC AND THE NATURE OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCEhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=11All components of musical experience are entirely different from those required for any other endeavor, listening connects us with the world in the most intimate way. Musical expression cannot be adequately explained as the disembodied perception of musical contour. Composers over the centuries have perpetually used the same emotive musical...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=11STRAWSON ON TRUTH, MEANING AND UNDERSTANDINGhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=10Strawson notes that the meanings of the sentences of a language are largely determined by the semantic and syntactic rules or conventions of that language. The meaning of a sentence is a syntactic function of the meanings of its parts and their arrangement. Strawson tries to explain the foundation of the basic combination of predication on which...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=10WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD, LANGUAGE AND LOGIChttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=9What Wittgenstein means by analysis generally understood can best be seen by contrasting it with 'explication'. The Tractatus has a 'therapeutic intent' to bring the reader to see the hopelessness of traditional philosophy and its problems. There are features of reality, or of languages's relation to reality, that cannot be expressed because the...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=9DESCOMPUNERI SI TRANSFORMARI: CONCEPTII ASUPRA ANALIZEI IN TRADITIILE FENOMENOLOGICA SI ANALITICA TIMPURIIhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=8The issue of analysis provides an ideal focus for investigating the relationships between what came to be seen in the twentieth century as the two main movements of Western philosophy ('analytic philosophy' and 'continental philosophy') and for assessing just what the divide was supposed to be. Beaney offers a framework for this investigation and...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=8METAFIZICA ADECVARII REALISMULUI STIINTIFIC LA INDETERMINAREA REFERENTIALAhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=7Scientific realism maintains that science seeks to uncover the one objective way that the world is. Although primarily a claim about the aim of science, it also presupposes a certain metaphysical claim about the nature of reality. Claiming that science seeks to describe the objective reality presupposes that there is such a reality. Scientific...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=7INTENSIONAL IDENTITIEShttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=6Slater shows that Edelberg's problems result from using an inadequate theory of descriptions: an alternative theory of descriptions facilitates a better expression for Intentional Identity in the contexts Edelberg is concerned with. As this theory of descriptions needs more articulation than is commonly provided, Slater wants to show how it is to...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=6INTELEGERE SI TEORII ALE INTELESULUIhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=5The issues Sainsbury wishes to discuss lie within the hypothesis that a theory2 of meaning (that relates to language in general) should essentially involve consideration of theories1 of meaning (that relate to a single language, L); a philosophical account of meaning should proceed by considering the nature of theories of meaning. Sainsbury's only...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=5THE FUTURE OF HUMAN EVOLUTIONhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=4Evolutionary development is sometimes thought of as exhibiting an inexorable trend towards higher, more complex, and normatively worthwhile forms of life. This paper explores some dystopian scenarios where freewheeling evolutionary developments, while continuing to produce complex and intelligent forms of organization, lead to the gradual...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=4ADEVAR NECESAR A POSTERIORIhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=3Swinburne distinguishes between sentences, statements, and propositions, and notes that there are other possible understandings of 'what is said' by a token sentence, additional to those of the proposition and the statement. If 'what is said' is necessary, and you can know what it is, then you can know a priori that it is true. There are no...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=3IN WILLIAM PALEY'S SHADOW: DARWIN'S EXPLANATION OF DESIGNhttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=2If Darwin's explanation of the adaptive organization of living beings is correct, evolution necessarily follows as a consequence of organisms becoming adapted to different environments in different localities and to the ever changing conditions of any given environment, and as hereditary variations become available at a particular time that...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=2INTENTIONALITY, SKEPTICISM, AND OBJECT-DEPENDENT THOUGHThttp://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=1No theory of intentionality can forestall skeptical doubts. The skeptic appeals to the claim that, for all a subject can tell, there is nothing that marks off a veridical experience from a falsidical one. We cannot hope for a view that rules such doubts out of court from the start. We should stop evaluating theories of intentionality on the basis...http://denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=1