(Voss-Andreae, 2009) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #1.[i], [ii] This essay is the first installment of a series on the role … [continue reading]

The basic link between Kant’s metaphysics of free will and his theory of practical agency is his theory of teleology, i. e., his theory of ends or purposes. In the first part of his essay “Freedom, Teleology, and Rational Causation,” Robert Hanna show how Kant’s theory of natural teleology, or the directedness of organismic life—biological … [continue reading]

(Robinson, 2014) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Distribution Theory 3. The Distributional Derivative: A Formal Trick 4. Pathologies and the Limits of Generalization 5. Constructivist and Finitist Concerns 6. Conclusion The essay below is being published in two installments; this one, the second and final installment, contains sections 4-6. But you can also download … [continue reading]