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Visionaries and Crackpots, Maniacs and Saints: Existential Risk and the Politics of Longtermism
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 268-278, December 2025.ABSTRACT Despite advancing strong claims about our collective priorities, longtermism has received little attention in debates in political philosophy. I first provide an account of longtermism that highlights the way it departs from established work on intergenerational justice.
Alex McLaughlin
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A Secondary Tool for Demarcation Problem: Logical Fallacies [PDF]
, 2017 According to Thagard, the behavior of practitioners of a field may also be used for demarcation between science and pseudoscience due to its social dimension in addition to the epistemic one.
Uyar, Tevfik
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Pascal’s wager and the origins of decision theory: decision-making by real decision-makers [PDF]
, 2018 Pascal’s Wager does not exist in a Platonic world of possible gods, abstract probabilities and arbitrary payoffs. Real decision-makers, such as Pascal’s “man of the world” of 1660, face a range of religious options they take to be serious, with fixed ...
Franklin, James
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The Linnaean revolution – A history of the Natural System
TAXON, Volume 74, Issue 5, Page 1011-1034, October 2025.Abstract A very brief history of the Natural System (NS) is presented, focusing on angiosperms. The account is divided into four parts. The first, “Setting the stage”, gives an outline of my understanding of evolutionary ontology and how this reflects on taxonomy.
Magnus Lidén
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Weak Scientism Defended Once More: A Reply to Wills [PDF]
, 2018 Bernard Wills (2018) joins Christopher Brown (2017, 2018) in criticizing my defense of Weak Scientism (Mizrahi 2017a, 2017b, 2018a). Unfortunately, it seems that Wills did not read my latest defense of Weak Scientism carefully, nor does he cite any of ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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The Greek Roots of the Ad Hominem-Argument [PDF]
Argumentation, 2002 In this paper, I discuss the current thesis on the modern origin of the ad hominem-argument, by analysing the Aristotelian conception of it. In view of the recent accounts which consider it a relative argument, i.e., acceptable only by the particular respondent, I maintain that there are two Aristotelian versions of the ad hominem, that have ...
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Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 351-362, October 2025.Abstract Both internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge typically propose analyses of the schematic ‘S knows that p’. What follows when we substitute ‘I’ (the first‐person pronoun) for ‘S’? In the first part of this paper, it is argued that the peculiarity of ‘I know…’ makes problems for both species of account. In the second part of the paper,
Roger Teichmann
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Building a new environmentalism: News media access and framing in Canada's environmental movement
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 192-211, August 2025.Abstract This study provides a content and frame analysis of the news media advocacy of prominent environmental non‐governmental organizations (ENGOs) in Canada. We find that these organizations have an important voice in shaping how climate change is framed in news media, but that ecological modernization frames and narratives, which avoid issues of ...
Nicolas Graham, Joanna Robinson
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