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Contingent Grounding Physicalism

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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Against Proxy Optimization

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I discuss conditions under which maximizing a proxy utility function is harmful and suggest this poses problems for applying decision theory.
Sven Neth
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Richard Lemay. — Abu Ma'shar and Latin Aristotelianism in the Twelfth Century : the Recovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy through Arabic Astrology

open access: yes, 1965
Beaujouan Guy. Richard Lemay. — Abu Ma'shar and Latin Aristotelianism in the Twelfth Century : the Recovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy through Arabic Astrology. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 8e année (n°30), Avril-juin 1965. pp.
Beaujouan, Guy
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on the Five Intellectual Virtues

open access: yes, 2004
The thesis of this paper can be outlined thus: Kant was not only acquainted with the exposition of the intellectual virtues presented by Aristotle in Eth. Nic. VI or in Eth. Eud. V, he also used it for establishing the true nature and foundation of logic.
POZZO, Riccardo, R. POZZO
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