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Alienation as a Social Pathology: Evaluating Jaeggi's Concept of Alienation

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Wouter Wiersma
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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'Mad agency', reflections on Goya's 'The Madhouse'. [PDF]

BJPsych Bull, 2021
Radden J.
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The Form of Agency

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology. [PDF]

Biol Theory, 2023
Dresow M, Love AC.
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Against the Desertist Case for Minimal Thresholds

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Huub Brouwer, Dick Timmer
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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Liberalism and Aristotelianism: Reflecting on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy
Alasdair MacIntyre marks liberalism as a key opponent standing in opposition to an Aristotelian virtue ethics framework, and of the ability of communities to base a way of life around virtues centered upon man’s telos and what makes a good human life ...
Tatia Basilaia
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale. [PDF]

Hist Sci, 2022
Basse Eriksen C.
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