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Common sense is a controversial concept in philosophy and the social sciences. It is generally understood as a shared intentionality, a set of self-evident intuitions and beliefs that guide our ideas and behaviors. But there is a tendency to disagree when it comes to discussing the origin and scope of this intentionality. From a critical reading of different contemporary approaches to common sense (G. E. Moore, C. Geertz, A. Gramsci, E. Laclau, C. Mouffe, and C. Pérez), in this paper I present two archetypal conceptions of this set of intuitions and beliefs and two criticisms in this regard, with a purpose of synthesis for practical philosophy. The general aim is to show the relevant correlation between new technologies and common sense and the need to understand this correlation critically for ethical and political reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to show that the main goals of Saul Kripke's theory of reference hang on the methodological usage of common sense, taking common sense as the natural way in which intelligence approach to reality and which is reflected in natural or ordinary language. The key to bring to light Kripke's ideas about common sense is analyzing the texts in which he talks about 'intuition'.

This article puts forward that according to Scottish philosopher, Thomas Reid (1710-1796), justice must be understood as a moral virtue of a natural kind among human beings, or as a matter of species regarding them; not as an artificial or a conventional virtue, which is a product of human collectivities or a matter of sociability in human beings. However, the article proposes as well that in his reflections on justice, Thomas Reid held an arguable notion of property, as the ownership of riches basically distributable or apportionable, but not as one of the goods that are mainly produced or generated, as his contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith stated it.

The main and foundamental topic of Pope John Paul II's Encyclical Fidesetratio is the epistemological value of theological science. In this context, what the Pope said about philosophy is understandable only basing the reflexion on the existence of "common sense", which contemporay epistemology recognises as the common epistemic root both of philosophy and Cristian faith.

This article attempts to show that Thomas Reid (1710-1796) specially argued not a "common" common sense, but a "sensible" one. In addition, it proposes that Reid's philosophy of common sense is quite important amongst those of its kind.