Introduction - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy https://www.argumenta.org Journal of Analytic Philosophy Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 The History and Philosophy of Free Will: An Introduction [Topical Collection] https://www.argumenta.org/article/the-history-and-philosophy-of-free-will-an-introduction-topical-collection/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:09:45 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2692 Free will has long occupied a central place in philosophical thought, tracing a rich trajectory from the reflections of the ancients to the systematic treatments of the contemporary age. Far from being a purely historical concern, it continues to command attention in current debates, especially within the analytic tradition, where the tension between alternative accounts […]

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]]> Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/introduction/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:15:52 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2522 The concept of human race has long occupied a contested space at the intersection of philosophy and science. While many philosophers and scientists have regarded the term with deep suspicion—often pointing to its lack of biological grounding and its entanglement with typological and hierarchical thinking—recent years have witnessed a notable resurgence of the concept within […]

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]]> Epistemology of Metaphysics: An Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/epistemology-of-metaphysics-an-introduction-special-issue/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:20:43 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2342 The widespread development of metaphysical debates in the last decades of analytic philosophy has been accompanied by deep-seated doubts about the very viability and ambitions of metaphysics. For instance, Hirsch’s quantifier variance has brought back into the spotlight the Carnap/Quine dichotomy on the status of ontology and metaphysics—indeed many share the suspicion that many issues […]

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]]> Introduction to the Special Issue The Phenomenological Turn in Analytic Philosophy of Mind [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/introduction-to-the-special-issue-the-phenomenological-turn-in-analytic-philosophy-of-mind-special-issue/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:10:55 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2226 Talk of “turns” is widespread in analytic philosophy—the linguistic turn, the cognitive turn, the naturalistic turn, and so forth. With the title of this special issue, we would like to capture an important trend that is currently emerging in the philosophy of mind. Looking back at what analytic philosophy was in the ’80s, one can […]

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]]> Epistemological Issues in the Manifest and the Scientific Images: An Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/epistemological-issues-in-the-manifest-and-the-scientific-images-an-introduction-special-issue/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:59:35 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2085 The national PRIN 2017 project “The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image” of the Universities of Macerata, Florence, Rome 3 and Urbino (prot. 2017ZNWW7F_004) was launched in December 2019 to investigate a serious problem in our understanding of the discoveries of contemporary science, extremely deep and rich in momentous practical consequences, but often also very […]

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]]> Contexts: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Context (But Were Afraid to Ask) [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/contexts-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-context-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:43:34 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1777 As Domaneschi and Penco (2013) say, context is said “in many ways”, like being for Aristotle. The topic of context in philosophy, as it is discussed today, was born with Frege’s principle of contextuality, extensively discussed by Michael Dummett (1973, 1981), and developed with the seminal works by David Kaplan (1972, 1989a, b) and Robert […]

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]]> The Source of Modality: Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/the-source-of-modality-introduction-special-issue/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:31:33 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1691 Ordinary experience and scientific investigation give us the impression that some things could or could not have been otherwise. Had we been more responsible, this special issue would have been published earlier. Had we decided to do so, we could have drunk tea rather than coffee for breakfast this morning. But no matter how different […]

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]]> Introduction: COVID-19 Models and the Difficult Balance between Methods and Values [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/introduction-covid-19-models-difficult-balance-methods-values-special-issue/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:37:10 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1475 The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact not only on the socio-economic and political conditions worldwide but also on the practices of the scientific community and on the public image of science itself. The scientific community suddenly found itself in the spotlight and was pressured to rapidly produce evidence applicable to the management of the […]

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]]> Conditionals and Probability: Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/conditionals-probability-introduction/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:41:17 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1389 This Special Issue aims to take stock of the philosophical debate about the relationship between conditionals and probabilities. Three of the contributions (Nulvesu, Baratgin, Mura) revolve around de Finetti’s truth-conditional theory of tri-events. The paper by Gilio (who was a student of his) and Sanfilippo concentrates on de Finetti’s view of probabilistic semantics as grounded […]

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]]> Metaphysics at the Table: Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/metaphysics-table-introduction/ Sat, 04 Jul 2020 10:38:52 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1197 Metaphysics at the Table: Introduction   Andrea Borghini* Donatella Donati** Nicola Piras* *University of Milan **University of L’Aquila   Contemporary philosophers have studied food and its consumption from several disciplinary perspectives, including normative ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, and aesthetics. Many questions remain, however, underexplored or unaddressed. It is in the spirit of […]

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]]> Hegel’s Jagged Understanding of Self-Conscious Life [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/hegels-jagged-understanding-self-conscious-life/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:25:10 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1015 The Hegelian studies have been recently improved and widened by an approach of analysis aimed at investigating the nature of the human self-conscious dispositions, which represent the core of the Hegel’s thought. In the past, analytical philosophy disregarded thinkers like Hegel and other German classical philosophers because of their frequent and very broad use of […]

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]]> The Background of Constitutive Rules Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/background-constitutive-rules-introduction/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 03:07:13 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=922 Two Revolutions in the Philosophy of Norms In the twentieth century two revolutionary turns were accomplished in the philosophical research on norms and normativity: The first was the creation of a full-fledged deontic logic, a decade-long development which went through stages1 before it culminated in the publication of the essay “Deontic Logic” by Georg Henrik […]

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]]> Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/conspiracies-conspiracy-theories-introduction-special-issue/ Tue, 22 May 2018 20:01:31 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=866 One Hundred Years of Donald Davidson. Introduction [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/one-hundred-years-donald-davidson-introduction-special-issue/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:03:18 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=763 Introduction: Thinking the (Im)possible [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/introduction-thinking-impossible/ Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:07:54 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=660  

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]]> New Trends in Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology: An Overview [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/new-trends-philosophy-mind-epistemology-overview/ Sun, 15 May 2016 20:13:32 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=493