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” 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 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 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…