This article starts with an examination of Saul Kripke’s views of the semantics of modal logic and concludes by pointing to some epistemological and ontological consequences of those views that seem to be incompatible with the way empirical science in fact works and progresses. In dealing with the problem of identifying the same objects in different possible worlds, Kripke is led to develop his original positions on topics such as the theses of the fixation of the reference independent of meaning (where he disagrees with Frege) and the noncoincidence between necessary and a priori truths (where he disagrees with Kant). In Kripke’s view, it is a particular type of knowledge – scientific knowledge – that determines what should be considered a...
The topic of this article is the concept of wisdom, which is very ancient and has been adapted in di...
In his introductory textbook, Philosophy of natural science, Hempel presents, as an illustration and...
The paper reconstructs and examines the meta-criterion of demarcation between science and pseudo-sci...
This brief paper seeks to assess the possibility of an ethic in Descartes\u27 philosophy, beyond the...
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Breno Hax JuniorDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Parana, Setor...
There follows a conjunction of working hypotheses about the presence of sceptical arguments in the E...
In this article, we aim to show, by means of several examples, that Pierre Duhem's logical distincti...
In this work, a philosophical account of two distinct, closely related dimensions of scientific know...
Discuto algumas dificuldades nos escritos de Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan e Michael Friedman, nas quai...
In this article, I propose to analyze some moments of Foucault's production in which one expresses a...
This article examines certain essential points of Cartesian method and its foundation. (1) If Descar...
The analysis of prescriptive and descriptive languages is something that Analytic Philosophy has und...
Traditional epistemology deals with questions such as the justification of empirical beliefs in a Ca...
The issue of the epistemological status of hypotheses postulating unobservable entities became promi...
Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília,Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Gradu...
The topic of this article is the concept of wisdom, which is very ancient and has been adapted in di...
In his introductory textbook, Philosophy of natural science, Hempel presents, as an illustration and...
The paper reconstructs and examines the meta-criterion of demarcation between science and pseudo-sci...
This brief paper seeks to assess the possibility of an ethic in Descartes\u27 philosophy, beyond the...
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Breno Hax JuniorDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Parana, Setor...
There follows a conjunction of working hypotheses about the presence of sceptical arguments in the E...
In this article, we aim to show, by means of several examples, that Pierre Duhem's logical distincti...
In this work, a philosophical account of two distinct, closely related dimensions of scientific know...
Discuto algumas dificuldades nos escritos de Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan e Michael Friedman, nas quai...
In this article, I propose to analyze some moments of Foucault's production in which one expresses a...
This article examines certain essential points of Cartesian method and its foundation. (1) If Descar...
The analysis of prescriptive and descriptive languages is something that Analytic Philosophy has und...
Traditional epistemology deals with questions such as the justification of empirical beliefs in a Ca...
The issue of the epistemological status of hypotheses postulating unobservable entities became promi...
Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília,Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Gradu...
The topic of this article is the concept of wisdom, which is very ancient and has been adapted in di...
In his introductory textbook, Philosophy of natural science, Hempel presents, as an illustration and...
The paper reconstructs and examines the meta-criterion of demarcation between science and pseudo-sci...