Externalism: A Failed Attempt to Escape Skeptical Anxiety
Ellie shows the inadequacy of externalism
Tag: Metaphysics
Hobbes and the Precarity of Scientific Knowledge
Varun analyzes how scientific knowledge is created.
The Trouble with Time “Flowing”
Anna explains the metaphysical troubles with time “passing.”
Understanding Art as Contingent: a Linguistic Approach to Metaphysics
Natalie takes a Wittgensteinian approach to the question “What is art?”
A Boundary Concept: Kant’s Thing-in-Itself as a Regulative Idea
By Amogha Sahu, University of Toronto Abstract: In this paper, I will analyze Kant’s concept of the ‘thing-in-itself.’ I will begin by providing a summary of Kant’s metaphysics leading into…
Indefiniteness, Infinity, and Descartes’s Cosmological Argument
By Charlie Schmidt, University of Colorado Boulder 1. Introduction Descartes’s Third Meditation presents a cosmological argument that has likely received more attention than any other alleged proof of God ever…