There have been many attempts to pin down exactly what makes certain things humorous. The goal of this paper is to review some of the main theories of humor, and to offer an alternative theory of what makes things funny. That...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor & Francis Website., How or in virtue of what does any one particular action differ from another? Available views on the issue of action individuation tend to emphasize...
Philosophers, theologians, and average people have debated the definition of a person for a long time. This thesis explores the ideas of an ethnic group that has not been adequately explored. The Akan people from southern and...
Crispin Sartwell is an American philosopher, an iconoclast, and an anarchist. He also teaches philosophy, political philosophy, and art theory and aesthetics at Dickinson College. He was a student of Richard Rorty and has been...
This thesis concerns the conditions of ascribing knowledge. It draws insight from Goldman’s reliabilism, McDowell and Brandom’s critique on reliabilism, Nozick’s tracking account, contextualism, and a novel approved-list...
For more information on the published version, visit Project Muse's Website., In a short, unpublished text, On the Art of Writing , the French Enlightenment natural historian Buffon described the process of translating...
Chauncey Maher is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit MIT Press's Website., Adams, Zed, and Chauncey Maher. "Constancy Mechanisms and the Normativity of...
In David Hume's early philosophical works, the Treatise of Human Nature and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Hume describes himself as an anatomist rather than as a painter of morals: that is, he analyzes how...