Cultivating Honesty

The virtue of honesty has been seriously neglected in contemporary philosophy. Hardly any papers on the nature of the virtue have appeared in a leading philosophy journal in decades. Similarly, almost nothing has been said about how to cultivate the virtue of honesty. In recent work, Miller has offered a preliminary account of the nature of the virtue of honesty. In this chapter he aims to do the same with honesty cultivation. Specifically, he first looks to the psychological literature on cheating to see what dispositions most people actually possess in this moral domain. Central among them will be beliefs about the wrongness of cheating, as well as desires to cheat while also appearing honest both to others and to ourselves. With this baseline in place, Miller considers what strategies can be recommended to enhance the importance and salience of the wrongness of cheating, while weakening our desires to cheat.

Epistemology and Practice of Believing

Discussion: Butakov, P. A. 2020. “Vo chto i kak nado verit’: otvet sobesednikam [What to Believe and How to Believe It: A Response to My Interlocutors]” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 4(4), 167-184.

On the Use and Abuse of Analytical Philosophy for Non-Scientific Theorizing

Discussion: Butakov, P. A. 2020. “Vo chto i kak nado verit’: otvet sobesednikam [What to Believe and How to Believe It: A Response to My Interlocutors]” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 4(4), 167-184.

What to Believe and How to Believe It: A Response to My Interlocutors

Discussion: Butakov, P. A. 2020. “Vo chto i kak nado verit’: otvet sobesednikam [What to Believe and How to Believe It: A Response to My Interlocutors]” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 4(4), 167-184.

How to Believe?

Discussion: Butakov, P. A. 2020. “Vo chto i kak nado verit’: otvet sobesednikam [What to Believe and How to Believe It: A Response to My Interlocutors]” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 4(4), 167-184.

To Believe Firmly: Desiring Faith and the Cost of a Mistake

Discussion: Butakov, P. A. 2020. “Vo chto i kak nado verit’: otvet sobesednikam [What to Believe and How to Believe It: A Response to My Interlocutors]” [in Russian]. Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics] 4(4), 167-184.

The phenomenology of the subject-object relation

The publication of newly discovered materials from the archive of A.F. Losev relating to the original composition of the famous philosopher’s book “Philosophy of the Name” (1927) continues. Previously, the “Philosophy Journal” (No. 3, 2019) published “The gen­eral characteristic of tetractide dialectics”, a fragment which was intended to open the second, unreleased part of the book. In it, a kind of categorical system unfolds from the “dialectics of the first-entity” to the “dialectics of the name of the entity”. This new piece bearing the provisional title of “The Phenomenology of the subject – object rela­tion” presents the closing sections of the second part of the book. Here, Losev begins with treating the relationship of the primo-entity and the name of the entity in energetic terms (eidos, energy, energema). Then, in terms of the same notions he describes the rela­tions between the outside world and the subject of understanding. At the same time, all nuances of such connections and relations are expressed by a list of carefully selected an­tinomies (matter and essence, object and subject). This demonstrates the effectiveness of the phenomenological-dialectical method adopted by A.F. Losev. The very same dialecti­cal system is well found in other works of A.F. Losev (1920s), such as in the book “An­cient Space and Modern Science” (chapter “Name and its Dialectics”) and “Philosophy of the Name”. In those other works, it is presented in a slightly less detailed form, albeit still in terms of the same antinomies. In the excerpt presented here, the subtle distinction be­tween the two types of meon – the essence (internal) and material (external), receives a clearer exposition than in the above-mentioned books. This distinction is important be­cause it determined the specificity of Losev’s phenomenology in many ways.

The Open Field of Performance Philosophy

This editorial introduces issue 4.2 of the Performance Philosophy journal. As a culmination of an "open call" for proposals, this edition prompts the reflection, "What is open?" The editorial pursues that question in order to map the open field of Performance Philosophy as it currently presents itself in this historical moment.