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Suspicion: The politics of knowledge production when fieldwork and writing are uneasy

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract How might fieldwork anxieties serve as a productive site to revisit the theoretical presumptions that guide research practices? This article explores moments of suspicion and scepticism during fieldwork to reflect on the tensions of fixing anthropological lines of inquiry and conceptual lineages.
Randi L. Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging AI for Analysis of Digital Health Information on Cancer Prevention Among Arab Youth and Adults: Content Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesJMIR Infodemiology
Komsany A   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

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