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Throughout history, our capacity to shed tears has attracted the attention of poets, writers, philosophers, and scholars. Moreover, humans' fascination with tears is evident in the significant roles they played in legend...

An attempt to compare the epistemological positions of two thinkers coming from different philosophical traditions requires turning to the sources of both philosophical programs. This will allow us to reveal the common a...

Latin American Jewish philosophy requires us to rethink the categories of Philosophy and Judaism. In order to articulate these two dimensions it is necessary to understand that Jewish philosophy must start from the attri...

Abstract While philosophers are and have always been interested in, if not obsessed by, questions of the kind What is x?, somehow ironically, the question What is knowledge of what x is? did not receive much attention. T...

ABSTRACT In order to account for our engagements with fiction, several philosophers have recently introduced a class of novel mental states which they have designated as ‘i-desires’ or ‘desire-like imaginings’. O...

Abstract This study argues that conspiracy theorizing essentially revolves around trust and distrust. Political conspiracy theories constitute symptoms of generalized political distrust -what I call the public trust appr...

When looking at the whole history of philosophy, from ancient philosophical traditions up to modern times, it is difficult to encounter an argument or approach which has been favored with general acceptance. Philosophy i...