Recently added articles from The Southern Journal of Philosophy:
Four Varieties of Character-Based Virtue Epistemology
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract The terrain of character-based or "responsibilist" virtue epistemology has evolved dramatically over the last decade-so much so that it is far from clear what, if anything, unifies the various views put forth in this area. In an attempt to bring some clarity to the overall ...
Putting the Burden of Proof in Its Place: When Are Differential Allocations Legitimate?
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract It is widely assumed that legitimate differential allocations of the burden of proof are ubiquitous: that in all cases in which opposing views are being debated, one side has the responsibility of proving their claim and if they fail, the opposing view wins by default. We argue ...
Merleau-Ponty's Pragmatist Ethics
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract Utilizing a characterization of pragmatism drawn from Joseph Margolis, and with reference to the thought of C. S. Peirce and John Dewey, this paper first exposes a pragmatist conception of rationality within the French philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It then explores how ...
A Phenomenology for Homi Bhabha's Postcolonial Metropolitan Subject
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract Homi Bhabha attends to the figure of the postcolonial metropolitan subject-a racialized subject who is not representative of the first world, yet a symbol of the metropolitan sphere. Bhabha describes their daily lives as inextricably split or doubled. His analysis cannot account ...
Hegel and Gadamer on Bildung
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract Hegel argues that Bildung (cultivation or education) involves an ability to reflect on one's habitual beliefs in a detached, uncommitted way. According to Hegel, the educated (gebildete) individual is able to consider a manifold of standpoints on a given issue through awareness ...
Malebranche and Descartes on Method: Psychologism, Free Will, and Doubt
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract The subject of this paper is Malebranche's relation to Descartes on the question of method. Using recent commentary as a springboard, it examines whether Malebranche advances a nonpsychologistic account of method, in contrast to the psychologism typically thought to characterize ...
Leibniz on Concurrence and Efficient Causation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Leibniz defends concurrentism, the view that both God and created substances are causally responsible for changes in the states of created substances. Interpretive problems, however, arise in determining just what causal role each plays. Some recent work has been revisionist, ...
Biological Species Are Natural Kinds
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper argues that typical biological species are natural kinds, on a familiar realist understanding of natural kinds-classes of individuals across which certain properties cluster together, in virtue of the causal workings of the world. But the clustering is far from ...
Tension within Triangulation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Philosophers disagree about how meaning connects with history. Donald Davidson, who helped deepen our understanding of meaning, even disagreed with himself. As Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig note, Davidson's account of radical interpretation treats meaning as ahistorical; his ...
A Biological Alternative to Moral Explanations
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Some moral realists claim that moral facts are a species of natural fact, amenable to scientific investigation. They argue that these moral facts are needed in the best explanations of certain phenomena and that this is evidence that they are real. In this paper I present part ...
Open your eyes and look harder! (An investigation into the idea of a responsible visual search)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract In this paper, I explore and defend the idea that we have epistemic responsibilities with respect to our visual searches, responsibilities that are far more fine-grained and interesting than the trivial responsibilities to keep our eyes open and "look hard." In order to have ...
Puzzles about Trust
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This article is an attempt to deepen our understanding of trust. To this end, several elements frequently present in trust-relationships are first identified, and then three underappreciated puzzles about trust are described. Next, it is argued that certain leading analyses of ...
Reasons, Motivations, and Obligations
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract I argue against Reasons Internalism, the view that possession of a normative reason for the performance of an action entails that one can be motivated to perform that action, and Motivational Existence Internalism, the view that if one is obligated to perform an action, then one ...