DiametrosPub Date : 2020-04-10DOI: 10.33392/diam.1448
Domingos Faria
{"title":"Is epistemic safety threatened by Frankfurt cases? A reply to Kelp","authors":"Domingos Faria","doi":"10.33392/diam.1448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1448","url":null,"abstract":"I intend to argue that the counterexamples inspired by the Frankfurt-type cases against the necessity of an epistemic safety condition for knowledge are not plausible. The epistemic safety condition for knowledge is a modal condition recently supported by Sosa (2007) and Pritchard (2015), among others, and can be formulated as follows: (SC) If S knows that p on basis B, then S’s true belief that p could not have easily been false on basis B. I will try to argue that the safety condition, expressed in (SC), is still necessary for knowledge and that, therefore, epistemic safety is not threatened by Frankfurt type cases. In particular, I want to show that Kelp’s counterexamples are ineffective against (SC).","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47775366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.33392/diam.1268
Morgan Luck
{"title":"A Puzzle from Elsewhere: Against the Standard Account of Elsewhere","authors":"Morgan Luck","doi":"10.33392/diam.1268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1268","url":null,"abstract":"The standard account of elsewhere is that it is any place that isn’t here. In this paper I argue against this account by demonstrating that (given some plausible assumptions) it results in a contradiction. In its place I offer a modifi ed account of elsewhere; where a place can only be elsewhere if it is in the same type of space as here.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45570845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2020-03-13DOI: 10.33392/diam.1321
Paweł Łuków
{"title":"Rola świadomej zgody rodziców w opiece nad noworodkami na granicy zdolności do przeżycia","authors":"Paweł Łuków","doi":"10.33392/diam.1321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1321","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł analizuje stosowanie standardu najlepiej pojętego interesu w opiece medycznej nad wcześniakiem na granicy zdolności do przeżycia. Stawia tezę, że jeżeli decyzje rodziców opierają się na rzetelnej lekarskiej ocenie stanu klinicznego i rokowania ich dziecka oraz nie wynikają z przesądów lub uprzedzeń, to profesjonaliści medyczni są zobowiązani respektować świadomą zgodę rodziców, nawet jeśli nie podzielają ich opinii. Profesjonaliści mogą kierować się przede wszystkim oceną kliniczną stanu i rokowania noworodka w ocenie jego interesów. Szczególne osobiste zaangażowanie rodziców w decyzję, wyznawane przez nich wartości oraz znany im rodzinny kontekst możliwej przyszłości ich dziecka czyni ich ocenę jego interesu istotnie bardziej wiarygodną od opinii innych podmiotów zaangażowanych w sprawę.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43572188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2020-03-07DOI: 10.33392/diam.1171
Damian Luty
{"title":"Sensy obiektywności. Henri Poincaré i Ernst Cassirer w kontekście realizmu strukturalnego","authors":"Damian Luty","doi":"10.33392/diam.1171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1171","url":null,"abstract":"Abstrakt: Celem artykułu jest częściowe uzasadnienie negacji tezy, którą nazywam tezą o genezie realizmu strukturalnego. Dotyczy ona postulowanych w obrębie pewnej metafi lozofi cznej narracji związków między współczesnymi stanowiskami zwanymi epistemicznym realizmem strukturalnym i ontycznym realizmem strukturalnym a poglądami fi lozofów z początku XX wieku. W artykule rekonstruuję wymienione dwa stanowiska, postulowane związki, jakie mają one mieć z dwoma fi lozofami, Henri Poincarém oraz Ernstem Cassirerem, a następnie przedstawiam, dlaczego te postulowane związki są nietrafnie rozpoznane. Niesie to za sobą wnioski dotyczące swoistości wymienionych stanowisk oraz pojęć obiektywności i rzeczywistości w ich kontekście. Słowa kluczowe: Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, epistem iczny realizm strukturalny, ontyczny realizm strukturalny, konwencjonalizm, idealizm, realizm, obiektywność.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45957158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2020-02-12DOI: 10.33392/diam.1447
Wim De Neys
{"title":"Morality, Normativity, and the Good System 2 Fallacy","authors":"Wim De Neys","doi":"10.33392/diam.1447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1447","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary, I warn against a possible dual process misconception that might lead people to conclude that utilitarian judgments are normatively correct. I clarify how the misconception builds on (1) the association between System 2 and normativity in the dual process literature on logical/probabilistic reasoning, and (2) the classification of utilitarian judgments as resulting from System 2 processing in the dual process model of moral reasoning. I present theoretical and empirical evidence against both premises.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45421762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2020-01-12DOI: 10.33392/DIAM.1161
T. Markiewka
{"title":"Konstruktywistyczny szacunek do nauki. O podejściu Richarda Rorty’ego i Bruno Latoura","authors":"T. Markiewka","doi":"10.33392/DIAM.1161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/DIAM.1161","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to answer how one can be a constructivist and treat science as one of the greatest achievements of contemporary societies at the same time. Since constructivism is a broad trend with many variations, the author focuses only on two of its members: Richard Rorty and Bruno Latour. He tries to show that, ,one can give a coherent answer to the question by combining selected aspects of their views. Although both Rorty and Latour reject a realistic account of science, they claim that science is an effective way of dealing with the world or, to use Latour’s term, with nonhumans. It is the pragmatic category of “dealing with reality”, rather than the philosophical ideas of representation or correspondence, that explains the high status of science. Both thinkers emphasize that the effective interactions with nonhumans are a consequence of the specific culture of cooperation and supervision which is typical of science.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46672686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2019-12-30DOI: 10.33392/diam.1264
Joseph Ulatowski
{"title":"What Is It Like To Be Immortal?","authors":"Joseph Ulatowski","doi":"10.33392/diam.1264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1264","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of an eternal and immortal life like the one we lead now seems quite appealing because (i) it will be sufficiently like our own earth-bound life and (ii) we will have the same kinds of desires we have now to want to live an eternal life. This paper will challenge the view that we have a conception of what the conscious experience of an immortal is like, regardless of whether we might want to live it. Given that for us to conceive of an immortal life we must project onto it our own view of what it is like to live our own life and given that an immortal life may not be anything like the life we live, we cannot conceive of what it is like to be immortal.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46144056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.33392/diam.1343
A. Tuboly
{"title":"Quine: a Naturalist in a Physicalist World","authors":"A. Tuboly","doi":"10.33392/diam.1343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1343","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Robert Sinclair (ed.). Science and Sensibila by W. V. O. Quine. The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. pp. xiv-210. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-04908-9. USD 79.99.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69657564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.33392/diam.1296
K. Saja
{"title":"The Functional Model of Analysis as Middle Ground Meta-Ethics","authors":"K. Saja","doi":"10.33392/diam.1296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1296","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of the paper is to present a new framework of meta-ethics which I call the Functional Model of Analysis. It presupposes that the most important meta-ethical question is not “What is the meaning of normative words, sentences and what is the ontological fabric of the moral world?” but “What should morality and ethics be for?”. It is a form of meta-ethics that focuses on finding theoretical resources that can be helpful in understanding ongoing ethical debates between disciples of Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, Augustine, Hobbes, utilitarians and Kant, and in building normative ethical theories that can help us to answer normative questions. As an example of such output I will present a formal sketch of Hybrid Function Consequentialism – a normative ethical theory based upon the meta-ethical framework proposed here.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42855649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DiametrosPub Date : 2019-11-09DOI: 10.33392/diam.1255
Urszula Lisowska
{"title":"A Contribution to a Politico-Liberal Model of Judgment","authors":"Urszula Lisowska","doi":"10.33392/diam.1255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1255","url":null,"abstract":"The paper intends to initiate a discussion on the politico-liberal concept of judgment. It is argued that whilst political liberalism (PL) – presented as an account of political objectivity – already appeals to judgment, this conception is an unsatisfactory one. This critical assessment is supported by the juxtaposition of PL with an Arendtian understanding of political objectivity which offers a more robust account of judgment. In the conclusion, the possibility of applying the Arendtian solution to PL is outlined.","PeriodicalId":42290,"journal":{"name":"Diametros","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43077621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}