Qing Zhao, Department of Philosophy and Science, Southeast University, Nanjing, PR China Abstract: In Kantian ethics, self-respect is a fundamental duty to oneself, embodying the commitment to uphold ...

Samuel Kahn, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA Abstract: In this paper I want to address an issue at the intersection of the philosophy of personal identity and the philosophy of transgender ident...

Miloš Kovačević, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Abstract: Unlike visible, stigmatised personal characteristics, sexual orientation can be relatively successfully hidden. By staying in the cl...

Enes Kulenović, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Abstract: The article attempts to reconstruct and offer a critical evaluation of the arguments put forward in debates concerning the nature of dem...

Carola Barbero, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyFabrizio Calzavarini, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Abstract: In The Performance of Reading (2006), Peter Kivy argues that reading literary texts i...

Y. Sandy Berkovski, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Abstract: A claim sometimes made in the literature on slurs is that slurs dehumanise their targets. Here, I look at several different versions of...

Jinghua Chen, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming City, PR China Abstract: Rawls regards the liberalism of Kant, Hegel and Mill as important exemplars in the history of the moral...

Timothy J. Nulty, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Abstract: Belief in universal moral equality—that all people have equal moral status—has wide cultural and political acceptance and holds f...

Current Issue — Vol. 26 No. 77 Articles Dehumanisation Through Slurs Y. Sandy Berkovski Repeatable Experiences of Music and Texts Carola Barbero and Fabrizio Calzavarini Athenian Democracy: A Debate b...

Davor Pećnjak, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia Abstract: In this article, I try to present a cumulative argument for libertarianism concerning free will and mainly from a theistic perspective...

Walter Veit, University of Reading, UKHeather Browning, University of Southampton, UK Abstract: The last decade has seen an explosion of meta-philosophical work on conceptual engineering. Beyond simpl...

Lukas J. Meier, Harvard University, USA Abstract: Which is better at doing medical ethics: conversational artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT or tools based on fuzzy cognitive maps? The article ...

Edoardo Datteri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Abstract: An increasing number of studies are attempting to determine, through quantitative experimentation, whether people adopt an intentional st...

Riccardo Viale, Herbert Simon Society and University of Milano Bicocca, ItalyShaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, USA Abstract: In this paper we review different conceptions of rationality as they ...

Current Issue — Vol. 26 No. 76 The Behavioral and Ethical Consequencesof Large Language Models Enactive Problem Solving and Chatbot Architectures Riccardo Viale and Shaun Gallagher The Attribution of ...

Mirela Fus-Holmedal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Abstract: Risky politically manipulative speech has unexpectedly been on the rise. This paper investigates the ro...

Alexandru Radulescu, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA Abstract: If I am confused, and I think two people are one and the same, that may impair my ability to refer to either of them. This is combi...

Indrek Reiland, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Abstract: This paper critically examines Unnsteinsson’s Collapse Argument, which contends that “Easy” views of saying something or expressing a pr...

Adam Michael Sennet, University of California, Davis, USATyrus Fisher, Independent scholar Abstract: This paper considers reverse Sobel sequences, NPI licensing, and related speaker judgments as they ...

Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Abstract: I critically examine Stojnić and Lepore’s key claim from their book Inflammatory Language that articulations are particularly important ...

Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Abstract: I defend a lexical account of slurs against criticisms mounted by Stojnić and Lepore, and present positive reasons for preferring a lexical account over the articulation account they put forward. A lexical account, I argue, explains why articulations of a slur […]

Christopher Hom, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA Abstract: In their Inflammatory Language, Stojnić and Lepore present four major criticisms of content-based views of pejorative language: 1) the Pr...

Una Stojnić, Princeton University, Princeton, USAErnie Lepore, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Abstract: In this précis, we summarize the key themes and arguments of the Inflammatory Language: Its Linguistics and Philosophy. Keywords: Slurs; pejoratives; content; taboo; pejorative tone; articulations.

Current Issue — Vol. 25 No. 75 In memoriam: Dunja Jutronić, 1943–2025 In memoriam Dunja Jutronić (1943–2025) Boran Berčić Eulogy for Dunja Jutronić (1943–2025) Barry C. Smith Swimming into Memory and ...

Sun Demirli, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey Abstract: This paper explores the metaphysical and normative dimensions of death within a biological naturalist framework. It defends the view that p...

Juha Räikkä, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandBarbora Baďurová, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Abstract: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorizing have raised various ethical qu...

Simon Dierig, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold: First, it is argued that Tyler Burge’s case for externalism in the philosophy of mind, which is based on Hilary Putnam’s twin-earth thought experiment, fails. Second, it is shown that a convincing argument for externalism can be nonetheless construed by relying […]

J. T. M. Miller, University of Durham, Durham, UK Abstract: A commonly held position in the literature on the metaphysics of words holds that intentions are either jointly or independently necessary o...

Lukas Ivanauskas, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Abstract: This paper aims to define political life as transcendentally ideal and empirically real by proposing an unorthodox reading of Kant’s ...

Serena Feloj, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Abstract: This paper explores the role of disgust education in Kant, considering its aesthetic and moral implications. Kant distinguishes between physical education, shared with animals, and moral education, which is essential for living according to freedom. Disgust, according to Kant, functions as a defense mechanism against one’s animality […]

Lara Ostaric, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Abstract: In this article, I give a short précis of my recently published book, The Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant’s Critical System, and...

Ted Kinnaman, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA Abstract: In my commentary, I focus on Ostaric’s account of the relation between the faculty of reflective judgment and empirical reality. She empha...

Andrija Šoć, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Abstract: In this paper, I explore the concept of unity in Kant’s system, as laid out by Lara Ostaric. One of the key claims Ostaric makes is that...

Monika Jovanović, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Abstract: In this paper, I examine the scope and relevance of Lara Ostaric’s thesis on “The ‘Moral Image’ of the ‘Supersensible within’” and ...

Luigi Filieri, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Abstract: In these comments, I focus on Chapter 9 of Lara Ostaric’s The Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant’s Critical System, titled “Kant’...

Current Issue — Vol. 25 No. 73 Safety and Future Dependence Bin Zhao The Holism of Doxastic Justification Erhan Demircioğlu Thought Experiments, Fictions, and Irrelevant Details Bojan Borstner, Tadej ...

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