Author: Sapere Aude

  • Survival and the First Person Perspective

    Survival and the First Person Perspective Kathryn Carpenter   Let me be another to ask the question—what is it that matters in survival? When I imagine scenarios in which I have survived certain precarious situations, what do I imagine as being evidence of my survival? In most situations I imagine myself—just as I am now—a…

  • Two Accounts of a Change in Properties: Perdurantism and Endurantism

    Two Accounts of a Change in Properties: Perdurantism and Endurantism Jenna Wichterman   Two theories that attempt to explain how things persist over time in spite of change are endurantism and perdurantism, and I will be making the case that a certain version of endurantism (with time-modified properties) does not account for real change, while…

  • Response to Bernard Williams in “The Self and the Future”

    Response to Bernard Williams in “The Self and the Future” Seth Carter   In the essay, “The Self and the Future,” Bernard Williams presents two instances of a thought experiment that, when followed, lead the reader to intuit two distinct conclusions on the preservation of personal identity, in spite of the methodological similarity of the…

  • Understanding that We’re Getting Told: A Response to Richard Moran

    Understanding that We’re Getting Told: A Response to Richard Moran Kathryn Petroff   Abstract   According to Richard Moran’s view of testimony, hereafter the “assurance view,” the act of telling involves a speaker asking that listeners acknowledge his or her authority to invest an utterance with epistemic import. Moran claims telling and giving evidence can…

  • The Phenomenological Problem of Evil: Nietzsche’s Axiom and Pieper’s Solution

    The Phenomenological Problem of Evil: Nietzsche’s Axiom and Pieper’s Solution Rashad Rehman   Within philosophical literature, the problem of evil has been traditionally classified into two versions, namely, the ‘intellectual’ and ‘emotional.’ This has been, on both sides of the discussion, methodologically unchallenged. This paper, though, attempts at arguing that this classificatory assumption has created…