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  1. The Conquest of Time: The Forgotten Power of Art.Derek Allan - manuscript
    It’s common knowledge that those objects we regard as great works of art have a capacity to survive across time. But that observation is only a half-truth: it tells us nothing about the nature of this power of survival – about how art endures. -/- This question was once at the heart of Western thinking about art. The Renaissance solved it by claiming that great art is “timeless”, “eternal” – impervious to time, a belief that exerted a powerful influence on (...)
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  2. A Case Study in Acceleration AI Ethics: The Telus GenAI Conversational Agent.James Brusseau - manuscript
    Acceleration ethics addresses the tension between innovation and safety in artificial intelligence. The acceleration argument is that risks raised by innovation should be answered with still more innovating. This paper summarizes the theoretical position, and then shows how acceleration ethics works in a real case. To begin, the paper summarizes acceleration ethics as composed of five elements: innovation solves innovation problems, innovation is intrinsically valuable, the unknown is encouraging, governance is decentralized, ethics is embedded. Subsequently, the paper illustrates the acceleration (...)
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  3. Gazing at the World Through a Thousand Eyes - The divine feminine as the passageway to enlightenment.Pedro Carta - manuscript
    The universe may disguise what is most precious and essential to us—what holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of love, life, and higher consciousness. The divine feminine is woven into the fabric of our existence like a thread of gold glittering through ever so slightly and holding firm the stitches of human genius. If we, as a species, were to honor, care for, and recognize this aspect, it could open the universe to a state of incredible completeness and harmony, (...)
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  4. Reflection and Existence.Jason Costanzo - manuscript
    Following Kant, subjectivity is seen as an obstacle to any access into things themselves. For this reason, Kant concludes that metaphysics as the science of being as being is necessarily impossible. In this essay, the possibilities of metaphysics in light of the problem of subjectivity are reexamined. The nature of subjectivity and the subject’s encounter with being are analyzed yielding two fundamental relational structures that hold with respect to being and the subject. Further examination of the act of reflection coupled (...)
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  5. Unadaptive Consciousness In Evolutionary Psychology.Ron C. de Weijze - manuscript
    The role of consciousness in evolutionary psychology, apart from postponing, rerouting, reinterpreting or ignoring stimuli, may simply be independently confirming, as in any science’s methodology.
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  6. Bridging the Philosophical Gap Between East and West.Jorge J. E. Gracia - manuscript
    This article claims that communication within the same culture in the present and with the past and communication across cultures pose serious methodological challenges for philosophers. These challenges are particularly obvious when we engage in comparative philosophy between East and West. However, if (1) we understand philosophy as a discipline involved in problem solving, and (2) we use the Framework Approach advocated in this article, such communication does not seem impossible. Of course, this approach may not help us with the (...)
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  7. Semantic Equivalence and the Language of Philosophical Analysis.Jorge J. E. Gracia - manuscript
    For many years I have maintained that I learned to philosophize by translating Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputation V from Latin into English. This surely is a claim that must sound extraordinary to the members of this audience or even to most twentieth century philosophers. Who reads Suárez these days? And what could I learn from a sixteenth century scholastic writer that would help me in the twentieth century? I would certainly be surprised if one were to find any references to (...)
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  8. The Age of Trickery.Ghislain Guigon - manuscript
    This is partly fictional. It is chiefly a reconstruction (not always faithful) of Hume’s fundamental uses of notions of similarity, mostly based on Enquiry. It is the first part (out of four) of a monograph on the evolution of similarity toolmaking. Histories of doctrines are common in our discipline, not so for histories of tools; this is what it’s about. What’s disturbing: I write as if I were talking about the customs and beliefs of ancient tribes instead of real philosophers. (...)
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  9. Sulla Filosofia Italiana Recente di E. O. Burman.Täljedal Inge-Bert - manuscript
    Erik Olof Burman (1845–1929) was professor of practical philosophy at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, between 1896 and 1910. In 1879 he published a long essay entitled ”Om den nyare italienska filosofien” (”On recent Italian philosophy”). About half the essay is devoted to the philosophical system of Antonio Rosmini (1797–1855), the second half to that of Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–1852). The text is mainly descriptive, apparently aiming at informing Swedish colleagues about the situation in Italy. However, there are also passages revealing (...)
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  10. (1 other version)History of Western Philosophy from the quantum theoretical point of view; [Ver. 4].Shiro Ishikawa - manuscript
    In this paper, we will reconsider the history of dualistic idealism (i.e., the main stream of western philosophy: chiefly, Plato, Descartes, Kant, Wittgenstein, etc.) under the quantum mechanical worldview. Recall that quantum mechanics also has the aspect of being a scientifically complete form of dualistic idealism. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that almost all unsolved problems of philosophy (i.e., dualistic idealism) can be clarified under the linguistic Copenhagen interpretation. In this paper, we will show that the expectation is completely (...)
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  11. (1 other version)History of Western Philosophy from the quantum theoretical point of view; [Ver. 5] (5th edition). [REVIEW]Shiro Ishikawa - manuscript
    In this paper, we will reconsider the history of dualistic idealism (i.e., the main stream of western philosophy: chiefly, Plato, Descartes, Kant, Wittgenstein, etc.) under the quantum mechanical worldview. Recall that quantum mechanics also has the aspect of being a scientifically complete form of dualistic idealism. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that almost all unsolved problems of philosophy (i.e., dualistic idealism) can be clarified under the linguistic Copenhagen interpretation. In this paper, we will show that the expectation is completely (...)
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  12. History of Western Philosophy from the quantum theoretical point of view (Ver. 6).Shiro Ishikawa - manuscript
    I have recently proposed ‘quantum language’ (i.e. language in a world of dualistic idealism), which can be characterized as a metaphysical and linguistic turn of quantum mechanics (according to the Copenhagen interpretation). The turn from physics to language not only realizes a remarkable extension of quantum mechanics, but also brings about a quantum mechanical worldview. And this turn gives rise to the expectation that Western philosophy can be scientifically understood within a quantum-mechanical worldview. This means that Socrates’ absolutism is realized (...)
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  13. (6 other versions)Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead.Christian Thomas Kohl - manuscript
    Jede Philosophie bezieht ihre Farbe von der geheimen Lichtquelle eines Vorstellungshintergrunds, der niemals ausdrücklich in ihren Gedankenketten auftaucht.
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  14. A (sort of) new task for the philosophy of religion: Cultural containment through religion for the (hopefully not) coming new Middle Ages.Martin Korth - manuscript
    With the US hellbent on becoming a rhyme with the Roman empire including its fall, Western societies are potentially on their way into new Middle Ages, i.e. a period of substantially lower political, economic and cultural integration. (A possible scenario would be a bursting of the AI bubble, quickly deteriorating economic conditions in the US leading to a civil war like state, China taking Taiwan as the start of a rapid de-globalization and finally in the wake of all of this (...)
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  15. The Last Temptation of Giorgio Agamben? The Antichrist, the Katechon, and the Mystery of Evil.Eric D. Meyer - manuscript
    Abstract: Giorgio Agamben's recent works have been preoccupied with a certain obscure passage from St. Paul's 'Second Epistle to the Thessalonians,' which describes the portentous events that must occur before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ can take place---specifically, the appearance of a 'man of lawlessness' (the Antichrist?) and the exposure of who or what is currently restraining the 'man of lawlessness' from being exposed as the Antichrist: a mysterious agency called the 'katechon.' In 'The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI (...)
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  16. Recent Einstein's Letters (رسائل آينشتين الأخيرة).Salah Osman - manuscript
    تحمل قصة وفاة آينشتين، والصور الملتقة له قبل وبعد وفاته مباشرةً، عدة رسائل: الأولى هي صدمة المجتمع العلمي والدولي إزاء فقدان كلماته الأخيرة، فلربما كانت أهم كلماته على الإطلاق؛ والثانية مسحة الحُزن التي كست وجهه، والتي اجتهد كثير من الباحثين في تفسيرها؛ والثالثة هي صورة مجلة الفلسفة على مكتبه، وأراها مُوجهة بصفة خاصة إلى كثرة من العلماء الذين استغرقتهم بحوثهم النظرية والعملية ونتائجها دون فهم أو تأمل لأبعادها الفلسفية.
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  17. جمانزيوم العقل: مشَّاؤون في دروب الحكمة.Salah Osman - manuscript
    «جمباز العقل»، هكذا وصف الفيلسوف الأمريكي «رالف والدو إمرسون» نشاط المشي، بينما وصفه الكاتب الأمريكي «كريستوفر أورليت» بأنه «جمنازيوم العقل»، في إشارة إلى البُعد التأثيري للمشي كحافزٍ على الإبداع والتفكير. لقد كان «سقراط» يُمارس التفلسف مشيًا في شوارع أثينا؛ وسُمي تلاميذ «أرسطو» في اليونان القديمة بـ «المشائين» لأن مُعلمهم كان من عادته أن يُلقي عليهم دروسه ماشيًا، ولأنهم كانوا يقضون أغلب وقتهم في العصف الذهني مشيًا عبر بساتين أكاديمية أفلاطون؛ كما عُرفت المدرسة الرواقية بهذا الاسم نسبة إلى «الرواق»، وهو ممر (...)
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  18. (1 other version)M.P.::W.i.P.Jacob Parr - manuscript
    M.P.::W.i.P. Jacob Roman Parr has found a robust homomorphism between a collection of works and Deleuze and Guatarri's What is Philosophy[?] ; by asserting and defending the Minor Prophet books as being within their own ( idaontical ) genre Remonstration(s) and that W.i.P. is also an idaontical Remonstration for W.i.P.'s specific contexts ; thus through numerous shared functoral relations , or comports , does Jacob Roman Parr " discover " or ellucidate where 1970s-1980s Philosophy-at-large was ( projected ) vectorally .... (...)
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  19. Tornando a Verdade Explícita: Um Recurso Expressivo Crucial ainda que Explanatoriamente Deflacionário.Aislan Pereira - manuscript
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  20. In the Beginning was Chiasmus - On the Epistemology of Non-Quantified Modelling: Introduction.Tom Ritchey - manuscript
    Chiastic order is an ancient expression for cross-classification. Cross-classification, in turn, is one of many terms used for the operation of conjoining or cross-mapping one domain, class or set of concepts with another. As such, it is the primordial form of non-quantified modelling and combinatory heuristics. This article presents a brief epistemological history of non-quantified modelling: its prehistory in the form of rhetorical chiasmus; its early (pre-symbolic) use by Plato as a cross-order (paradigmatic) modelling method; and its “modern” (symbolic) use (...)
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  21. Illuminations On Ethics - An Analysis of Spinoza's Monistic Metaphysics Through The Lens of Kabbalah.Asher Rose - manuscript
    In this paper I will argue that Spinoza's metaphysics reflects the Kabbalist metaphysical system. In much of the contemporary literature, the influence of early modern thinkers such as Descartes has been aggrandized to the detriment of other influences on his thought, such as the Kabbalistic tradition. I will argue that there is strong historical evidence to suggest that Spinoza was exposed to and engaged in Kabbalah, such as his references to Kabbalah in his works and letters, the books he owned (...)
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  22. Aletheic Ethics: Toward a Normative Model of Truth as Disclosure.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    Traditional ethical theories operate under the assumption that truth is stable, knowable, and actionable. This paper proposes a shift: an ethics not of correctness, but of cognitive disclosure. Drawing on the concept of Aletheia—truth as unconcealment—it introduces aletheic ethics as a normative model grounded in frame-awareness, reflexive responsibility, and epistemic curvature. Ethical acts are reframed as gestures of structural invitation: they are good not because they conform to rules or outcomes, but because they allow the cognitive frame behind the act (...)
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  23. Not Without a Guide: The Role of Reason in the Orthodox Tradition.Todd Trembley - manuscript
    Reading only the contemporary and popular literature on the Orthodox spiritual life, it is possible to get the impression that Orthodox Christianity affirms only mystical theology and that it has no place for philosophical investigation, rational inquiry, or thinking for oneself. In this paper I show that this view of the relationship between philosophy and the Orthodox Christian life is one-sided and distorted. For while it is certainly true that reason is impotent to lay bare the very nature of God, (...)
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  24. Higher Reason and Lower Reason.John S. Uebersax - manuscript
    The word 'reason' as used today is used ambiguous in its meaning. It may denote either of two mental faculties: a lower reason associated with discursive, linear thinking, and a higher reason associated with direct apprehension of first principles of mathematics and logic, and possibly also of moral and religious truths. These two faculties may be provisionally named Reason (higher reason) and rationality (lower reason). Common language and personal experience supply evidence of these being distinct faculties. So does classical philosophical (...)
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  25. Truth and Toleration in Early Modern Thought.Maria Rosa Antognazza - forthcoming - In Whatmore Richard & Hunter Ian, Natural Law and Politics. Cambridge University Press.
    The issue discussed in this paper is as topical today as it was in the early modern period. The Reformation presented with heightened urgency the question of how to relate the system of beliefs and values regarded as fundamental by an established political community to alternative beliefs and values introduced by new groups and individuals. Through a discussion of the views on toleration advanced by some key early modern thinkers, this paper will revisit different ways of addressing this problem, focusing (...)
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  26. The Dilemma Between Euphoria and Freedom in Recommendation Algorithms.James Brusseau - forthcoming - Annali di Studi Religiosi is the Journal of the Centro Per le Scienze Religiose of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, University of Trento, Italy. 2025.
    Today's AI recommendation algorithms produce a human dilemma between euphoria and freedom. To elaborate, four ways that recommenders reshape experience are delineated. First, the human experience of convenience is tuned to euphoric perfection. Second, a kind of personal authenticity becomes capturable with algorithms and data. Third, a conception of human freedom emerges, one that promotes unfamiliar interests for users instead of satisfying those that already exist. Finally, a new human dilemma is posed between two types of personal identity. On one (...)
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  27. How AI Generates Creativity from Inauthenticity.James Brusseau & Luca Turchet - forthcoming - In Micalizzi A., Artificial Creativity. Springer.
    Artificial creativity is presented as a counter to Benjamin’s conception of an “aura” in art. Where Benjamin sees authenticity as art’s critical element, generative artificial intelligence operates as pure inauthenticity. Two elements of purely inauthentic art are described: elusiveness and reflection. Elusiveness is the inability to find an origin-story for the created artwork, and reflection is the ability for perceivers to impose any origin that serves their own purposes. The paper subsequently argues that these elements widen the scope of artistic (...)
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  28. The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities_, by Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat. Edited by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku, and Wendy Laura Belcher.Jonathan Egid - forthcoming - Mind.
    The Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and Ḥatäta Wäldä Həywät are two remarkable works of philosophy that were until recently virtually unknown to philosophers outside Ethiopia. The first is a philosophical autobiography narrated by the eponymous Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob, a scholar from Aksum in northern Ethiopia, exiled from his home country and forced to take refuge in a mountain cave, where he develops a philosophical system that encompasses a metaphysics of creation, an analysis of the relation between the divine and the human, an (...)
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  29. Illuminations: Philosophy Today.Rex Eloquens - forthcoming - Medium.
    Essentially, a complaint regarding philosophy in its most current iterations. This paper is not an attack on specific traditions, but its objective is to instead point out a betrayal of the classical philosophical praxis and tradition. It is a betrayal of questioning and being that pesky, Socratic gadfly regarding people and institutions of power. The key objective is to not only draw a link between the philosopher and said institutions but also to show that the philosopher does not exist in (...)
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  30. Philosophy of Boredom.Andreas Elpidorou & Josefa Velasco - forthcoming - Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy.
    The aim of this entry is to provide the reader with a philosophical map of the progression of the concept and experience of boredom throughout the Western tradition—from antiquity to current work in Anglo-American philosophy. By focusing primarily on key philosophical works on boredom, but also often discussing important literary and scientific texts, the entry exposes the reader to the rich history of boredom and illustrates how the different manifestations of boredom—idleness, horror loci, acedia, sloth, mal du siècle, melancholy, ennui, (...)
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  31. Skinner, Quentin.Dustin Garlitz - forthcoming - Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy.
  32. El pensamiento pedagógico de Balmes.Carmelo Garrochategi Azcárate - forthcoming - Espíritu: Cuadernos Instituto Filosófico de Balmesiana.
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  33. A moderate defense of the fall and original sin.T. Parker Haratine - forthcoming - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
    This article examines the importance of the historical fall and doctrine of original sin in context of allegorical doctrines of the fall and sin. The article provides a moderate defense of a historic fall by critiquing what I shall dub Allegorical Accounts. Contemporary Allegorical Accounts of the fall and original sin deny that any historical fall of our human ancestors occurred. These accounts also affirm that all individuals require Christ’s atoning work for sin, freely fall into sin, and are not (...)
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  34. Spengler, Wittgenstein and the Emergence of Language and Thought.Richard Michael McDonough - forthcoming - Oswald Spengler Online Journal.
    This paper discusses Wittgenstein’s striking remark at para. 608 of Zettel, hereafter Z608, which, according to most commentators, suggests that the order of language and thought might arise out of physical chaos or nothingness at the neural center of normal language users. In opposition to this orthodox interpretation, the present paper argues that Z608, following Spengler, who is himself influenced by Goethe and Nietzsche, is actually suggesting that the order in language and thought might arise out of the creative chaos (...)
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  35. EFFICIENT CAUSATION – A HISTORY. Edited by Tad M. Schmaltz. Oxford Philosophical Concepts. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. [REVIEW]Andreea Mihali - forthcoming - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
    A new series entitled Oxford Philosophical Concepts (OPC) made its debut in November 2014. As the series’ Editor Christia Mercer notes, this series is an attempt to respond to the call for and the tendency of many philosophers to invigorate the discipline. To that end each volume will rethink a central concept in the history of philosophy, e.g. efficient causation, health, evil, eternity, etc. “Each OPC volume is a history of its concept in that it tells a story about changing (...)
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  36. Kant and The Foundations of Contemporary Linguistics: An Historical Reconstruction of Language Studies from the 18th to 20th Centuries.Liam Tiernaċ Ó Beagáin - forthcoming - London: Routledge.
    Following the research developed in Kant's Place, Ó Beagáin presents a comprehensive examination of the influence of Immanuel Kant on language studies from the 18th to 20th centuries. The author argues convincingly that Kant’s mark can be seen in the comparative study of languages most eloquently put forward by Wilhelm von Humboldt and in later developments by Franz Boas and Edward Sapir. It is also felt in the turn to innate capacities by Noam Chomsky, in the search for meaning by (...)
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  37. Character of Language and its Engine: The Fundamental Role of the Form of Language in Wilhelm von Humboldt's Kantian Account of Linguistic Creativity.Liam Tiernaċ Ó Beagáin - forthcoming - Forum for Modern Language Studies. Oxford University Press.
    It is this paper’s contention that Wilhelm von Humboldt’s comparative study of the diverse nature of languages is founded on his Kantian philosophy of language. Such a worldview means that for Humboldt the ways in which languages unfold and develop is in the first instance due to language capacities found uniformly across the species. A language’s character, which is its truly creative aspect whereupon great insights drive a language forward, is dependent on an archetype that Humboldt calls form of language. (...)
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  38. Historical Treatments of Creativity in the Western Tradition.Elliot Samuel Paul - forthcoming - In Amy Kind & Julia Langkau, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity. Oxford University Press.
    This essay focuses on theories of creativity from six historical figures, while noting comparisons to several others. In Ancient Greece: (i) Plato advances the thesis that the poet is a passive vessel inspired by a muse. (ii) Aristotle replies with the antithesis that the poet creates through skilled activity. (iii) Longinus provides the synthesis. Plato is right that poets are passively inspired with original ideas – though the source is natural genius instead of some muse. But Aristotle is also right (...)
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  39. Zufall – rechtliche, philosophische und theologische Aspekte.Niki Pfeifer (ed.) - forthcoming - Berlin, Germany:
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  40. Die Zähmung des Zufalls: Ein Streifzug durch die Geschichte der Philosophie.Niki Pfeifer - forthcoming - In Zufall – rechtliche, philosophische und theologische Aspekte. Berlin, Germany:
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  41. Some resonances between Eastern thought and Integral Biomathics in the framework of the WLIMES formalism for modelling living systems.Plamen L. Simeonov & Andree C. Ehresmann - forthcoming - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 131 (Special).
    Forty-two years ago, Capra published “The Tao of Physics” (Capra, 1975). In this book (page 17) he writes: “The exploration of the atomic and subatomic world in the twentieth century has …. necessitated a radical revision of many of our basic concepts” and that, unlike ‘classical’ physics, the sub-atomic and quantum “modern physics” shows resonances with Eastern thoughts and “leads us to a view of the world which is very similar to the views held by mystics of all ages and (...)
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  42. Religion, Science, and Popular Beliefs.Timothy Stanley - forthcoming - In Torbjörn Wandel & Jason McDonald, A Cultural History of Historiography in the Modern Age, 1920-Present. London: Bloomsbury Press.
    By the end of the twentieth century, prominent historians such as Jonathan Z. Smith could aver that “religion is solely the creation of the scholar’s study.” Similar skepticism of the meaning of science was evinced by historians grappling with the history of that concept. Such statements recognized the precariousness of historiography after what has been described as a crisis of representation in the human sciences. Mid-twentieth-century critique of the referential capacity of language inevitably raised questions about the practice of historical (...)
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  43. Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown.Jonathan Y. Tsou, Shaw Jamie & Carla Fehr (eds.) - forthcoming - Cham: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Springer.
    This book (edited by Jonathan Y. Tsou, Jamie Shaw, and Carla Fehr) offers eighteen original historical and philosophical essays focused on values in science, scientific pluralism, and pragmatism. These themes have been central in the work of Matthew J. Brown, and the book frames these topics through an engagement with Brown’s broadly ranging work on values in science. The themes of this book are integrated and unified in the pragmatic and value-laden ideal of science defended by Professor Brown in his (...)
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  44. Doing History Philosophically and Philosophy Historically.Marcel van Ackeren & Matthieu Queloz - forthcoming - In Marcel van Ackeren & Matthieu Queloz, Bernard Williams on Philosophy and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Bernard Williams argued that historical and philosophical inquiry were importantly linked in a number of ways. This introductory chapter distinguishes four different connections he identified between philosophy and history. (1) He believed that philosophy could not ignore its own history in the way that science can. (2) He thought that when engaging with philosophy’s history primarily to produce history, one still had to draw on philosophy. (3) Even doing history of philosophy philosophically, i.e. primarily to produce philosophy, required a keen (...)
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  45. Kant on Believing in the Attainability of One's Ends.Michael Yuen - forthcoming - Kantian Review.
    Kant claims that we must Believe (or have faith, Glaube) in the attainability of our ultimate moral end – the Highest Good – and that God exists. According to a strand of orthodoxy, this claim rests on a rational principle, called Attainability: one can rationally will an end only if one thinks that it is attainable. However, this orthodox view faces four prominent objections concerning (1) acting as if, (2) the modal content of Beliefs, (3) approximation, and (4) not-believing. I (...)
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  46. Consent and the Social Contract in Suárez’s Political Thought.Valentin Braekman - 2025 - Vivarium 63 (1):47-71.
    This article examines Francisco Suárez’s views on consent and the social contract, challenging the interpretation that portrays him as a precursor to modern theorists like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. While Suárez’s political thought incorporates elements that may seem similar to contractarian principles, it fundamentally diverges from the modern social contract tradition. Rather than basing political legitimacy on individual consent, Suárez grounds it in the divine origin of power. He sees the community’s consent, expressed through a “virtual pact,” as a necessary (...)
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  47. Aristotle's Organon in Old and New Logic.King Colin Guthrie & Venanzio Raspa (eds.) - 2025 - London-New York-Oxford-New Delhi-Sydney: Bloomsbury.
    Aristotle's Organon in Old and New Logic 1800–1950 explores the reception and interpretation of Aristotle's logic over the last two centuries. The volume covers seminal works during this period by logicians, historians of logic, and historians of philosophy, including John Lloyd Akrill, Francesco Barone, Günther Patzig, Enrico Berti, and Mario Mignucci. Contributors consider the reception of the Organon in old logic and chart the appearance of formal approaches to logic beginning with Boole. This in-depth study of Aristotelianism also covers logic (...)
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  48. Philosophy as Therapy - Limitations of the Medical Model: A Historical View.Bruno Contestabile & Michael Hampe - 2025 - Philosophical Practice Appa 20 (1):3472-3484.
    For Nussbaum, Hadot and Foucault ancient philosophical therapy is a therapy of passions/desires, which can be understood in analogy to medical therapy. In Philosophical Papers, Vol. 43 (2014) Konrad Banicki suggests that the structure constituted by the three concepts health ideal, disease and process of treatment are generally accepted in thinking about medicine or therapy of any kind. Consequently, he demands that a therapeutic vision of philosophy must identify the diseases it attempts at curing. We disagree with this claim. The (...)
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  49. Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics).Phil Corkum - 2025 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    Neo-Aristotelian metaphysics comprises the topics in contemporary metaphysics which bear similarity to the interests, commitments, positions and general approaches found in Aristotle. Despite the current interest in these topics, there is no monograph length general introduction to the methodology and themes of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics. One underdiscussed question concerns demarcation: what unifies the topics that fall under the heading of neo-Aristotelianism? Contemporary metaphysicians who might be classified as ‘neo-Aristotelians’ tend towards positions reminiscent of Aristotle’s metaphysics—such as sympathy with grounding, substance ontology, (...)
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  50. The problem of toleration: Tacitus, Foucault and governmentality.Andrea di Carlo - 2025 - History of European Ideas 51 (1):93-108.
    This article proposes a novel interpretation of Montaigne’s and Bayle’s comments on Tacitus. My contention is that their Tacitism is a Foucauldian discourse on toleration. Toleration is an example of governmentality, a strategy to govern a population, not a genuine call for religious diversity. This novel reading applies to Michel de Montaigne’s Essays and Pierre Bayle’s Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet and his Historical and Critical Dictionary. Montaigne’s essay On the Useful and the Honourable, he shows that (...)
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