journal: KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy

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KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy

ISSN: 2750-977X

Editors-in-chief: Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla, Alexander Gebharter

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KRITERION - Journal of Philosophy provides a forum for rational discussion in any field of philosophy. As dedicated to the analytic tradition, it publishes highly understandable and criticisable work making use of clear and thorough argumentation. We believe that this is the only possible way of contributing to progress in philosophy, which is the journal's main objective.

The journal was founded in 1991. Since 2021, it is published and distributed as an open access journal by De Gruyter. We are convinced that this collaboration will further increase the quality and visibility of the journal.

KRITERION - Journal of Philosophy accepts contributions in English language. All contributions go through a double-blind peer review process. Since we especially want to encourage early career authors, the journal's policy is to reach a decision on every submission within five weeks of receipt. The journal is known for providing friendly and helpful reviewer comments and suggestions of how to improve manuscripts. This becomes manifest also in our current statistics: The initial acceptance rate is 5%, the overall acceptance rate is almost 30%, and over 90% of authors receive reports from external reviewers.

KRITERION - Journal of Philosophy also publishes special issues and monographic sections. For more information on guest-editing a special issue or monographic section, please see the supplementary material below.

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Volume 37 Issue 2-4

June 2023

Publicly Available January 12, 2024

Frontmatter

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Research Articles

Open Access October 16, 2023

Populations of Neurons and Rocks? Against a Generalization of the Selected Effects Theory of Functions

Jakob Roloff

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Millikan’s (1984. Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism . MIT Press) selected effects theory of functions states that functions are effects for which the ancestors of a trait were selected for . As the function is an effect a thing’s ancestors produced, only things that are reproductions in some sense can have functions. Against this reproduction requirement, Garson (2019. What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter . Cambridge University Press) argues that not only processes of differential reproduction but also processes of differential persistence can lead to new functions. Since such “persistence functions” have the same explanatory power as traditional selected effects functions, selected effects theorists should include them in their theory. In this paper, I will defend Millikan’s theory against this argument. I will show that the proponents of the generalized theory have yet to provide a working notion of populations that avoids a liberality problem. Further, I will argue that persistence functions are at best a marginal case of functions due to their restricted explanatory power.

Open Access May 4, 2023

Are the Realist Bundle Theorists Committed to the Principle of Constituent Identity?

Marta Emilia Bielińska

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One of the key questions in the contemporary analytic ontology concerns the relation between the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles (PII) and the Bundle Theory (BT). The majority of authors believe that BT implies PII. Therefore, it is widely believed that the world violating PII presented by Max Black (1952. “The Identity of Indiscernibles.” Mind 61 (242): 153–64) is also devastating for BT. However, this has been questioned by Rodriguez-Pereyra (2004. “The Bundle Theory is Compatible with Distinct but Indiscernible Particulars.” Analysis 64 (1): 72–81), who formulated an interpretation of BT with instances . Recently Robert (2019. “Can the Realist Bundle Theory Account for the Numerical Difference between Qualitavely Non-discernible Concrete Particulars?” Theorema 38 (1): 25–39) argued that this version of BT is not a constituent ontology and, therefore, Rodriguez-Pereyra’s solution comes at a price of excluding bundle theory from the domain of constituent ontologies, and, in this sense, it fails. I question Robert’s point by claiming that his account of constituent ontologies is too demanding. In particular, I show that the instance version of BT is compatible with the constrains defining constituent ontologies in general, and therefore Rodriguez-Pereyra’s argument is correct.

Open Access April 27, 2023

Philosophical Assumptions Behind the Rejection of Computer-Based Proofs

Katia Parshina

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In 1977, the first computer-assisted proof of a mathematical theorem was presented by K. Appel and W. Haken. The proof was met with a lot of criticism from both mathematicians and philosophers. In this paper, I present some examples of computer-assisted proofs, including Appel and Haken’s work. Then, I analyze the most famous arguments against the equal acceptance of computer-based and human-based proofs in mathematics and examine the philosophical assumptions behind the presented criticism. In the conclusion, I talk about whether the philosophical assumptions are justified as they are, or one needs to take a specific philosophical position to accept them.

Open Access December 1, 2023

The Unity of Religious Experience: An Analytic Reading of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Second Speech On Religion

Jan Seibert

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In this paper, I present a conception of individual religiousness in terms of religious experience. Using ideas of the early Friedrich Schleiermacher, I will claim that religious experiences are contemplative experiences of the totality of being. This understanding of religious experiences presents an alternative to how religious experience is often epistemologically thought about in the more contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. Furthermore, it has systematic advantages: It can construe religious plurality in terms of different ways to experience the totality of being, it stays neutral to metaphysical and moral debates such as whether there is a God whose laws we should obey, and it allows for an explanation of how religious intuitions and religious emotions relate to one another as well as of why religiousness and art often go hand in hand. Even though understanding religiousness in terms of contemplative experience also bears revisionary potential, I will discuss how more doxastic elements of religious people’s lives can be reintegrated into this picture.

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Open Access January 5, 2024

Conference Report: SOPhiA 2023

Asja Ahatovic

Page range: 147-148

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Volume 37 (2023)

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Volume 35 (2021)

Volume 34 (2020)

Volume 33 (2019)

Volume 32 (2018)

Volume 31 (2017)

Volume 30 (2016)

Volume 29 (2015)

CiteScore	0.3	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.111	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.113	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Editorial

Editors-in-Chief:

Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla (University of Cologne, Germany)
Alexander Gebharter (Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy)

Contact: kriterion@degruyter.com

Advisory Board:

Elisa Aaltola (University of Turku, Finnland)
Dieter Birnbacher (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
Elke Brendel (University of Bonn, Germany)
Daniel Cohnitz (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Nadine Elzein (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Hilary Greaves (University of Oxford, UK)
Sally Haslanger (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Vera Hoffman-Kolss (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Max Kistler (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Jeanne Peijnenburg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA)
Maria Sekatskaya (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
Kordula Świętorzecka (UKSW, Warsaw, Poland)
Johanna Thoma (London School of Economics, London, UK)
Barbara Vetter (FU Berlin, Germany)

Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1515/krt-2021-0001

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Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1991
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year