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Book review: Menachem Fisch, Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency.
Sheldon Richmond
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Action and Agency in The Red Shoes
In this paper, I argue that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ballet musical The Red Shoes (1948) is concerned with topics surrounding phenomenology, action, and embodied agency, and that it exploits resources that are uniquely cinematic in order ...
Paul Schofield
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Hegel and the Philosophy of Food [PDF]
In this review of Robert Pippin?s recent book [Hegel?s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)], elements of Hegel?s Practical Philosophy are assessed both against opposed philosophical ...
Martin, W
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Post-Modernism, Agency, and Democracy
This essay presents a general summary of post-modern philosophy’s conception of agency. It argues that while post-modern philosophers offer formidable intellectual tools for criticizing contemporary restrictions on agency, their conception falters ...
Matthew McManus
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The Ontology of Intentional Agency in Light of Neurobiological Determinism: Philosophy Meets Folk Psychology [PDF]
The moot point of the Western philosophical rhetoric about free will consists in examining whether the claim of authorship to intentional, deliberative actions fits into or is undermined by a one-way causal framework of determinism.
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The Contemporary Significance of Marxist Ecological Philosophy [PDF]
Marxist ecological philosophy carries profound implications and serves as the guiding principle for constructing an ecologically advanced society. The essence and fundamental principle of Marxist philosophy is to demand individuals to fully utilize their
Nguyen Phuoc Tai, Tran Mong Nghi
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Collective Action, Constituent Power, and Democracy: On Representation in Lindahl’s Philosophy of Law [PDF]
This contribution develops two objections to Hans Lindahl’s legal philosophy, as exhibited in his Authority and the Globalization of Inclusion and Exclusion.
Fossen, Thomas
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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods
The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from interdisciplinary angles in ...
Tracey Chirara, Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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Uchenna Okeja. Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. $30. Paper. ISBN: 9780253059918. [PDF]
Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí
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Abduction at the interface of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Despite their growing separation over the years, logic and philosophy of science should still be allies pursuing an agenda of rational agency ranging from specific mechanisms like abduction to the broader study of reasoning, belief revision, learning ...
Johan Van Benthem
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