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Resemblance, Representation and Scepticism: The Metaphysical Role of Berkeley’s Likeness Principle
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Berkeley’s likeness principle states that only an idea can be like an idea. In this paper, I argue that the principle should be read as a premise only in a metaphysical argument showing that matter cannot instantiate anything like the sensory properties ...
David Bartha
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)—the principle that everything has a reason—plays a central role in Leibniz’s philosophical system. It is rather difficult, however, to determine what Leibniz’s attitude towards the modal status of the PSR is.
Sebastian Bender
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Animals and Cartesian Consciousness: Pardies vs. the Cartesians
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 The Cartesian view that animals are automata sparked a major controversy in early modern European philosophy. This paper studies an early contribution to this controversy.
Evan Thomas
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Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Soul
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2023 In the 1640’s Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes engaged in a philosophically rich correspondence. The most well-known aspect of the correspondence begins with a question Elisabeth asks Descartes about his account of the interaction between soul and
Eric Stencil
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Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2023 In this paper I defend an eudaimonistic reading of Spinoza’s ethical philosophy. Eudaimonism refers to the mainstream ethical tradition of the ancient Greeks, which considers happiness a naturalistic, stable, and exclusively intrinsic good.
Brandon Smith
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Cudworth and More on Immaterial Extension: A New Text with Analysis
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2023 Henry More famously argues that all substances are extended, body and spirit alike. In The True Intellectual System of the Universe, More’s friend and fellow Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth notes More’s position but refrains from criticizing it.
Matthew A. Leisinger
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Imagining Oneself as Forming a Whole with Others: Descartes’s View of Love
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021 In this paper, I address two widespread misconceptions about Descartes’s theory of love. Descartes defines love as a passion that ‘incites [the soul] to join in volition to the objects that appear to be suitable to it’ (AT XI: 387/Voss: 62).
Melanie Tate
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Nichilismo e linguaggio poetico nella riflessione “estetica” heideggeriana.
Differenz, 2020 La siguiente contribución quiere mostrar cómo la pregunta por la naturaleza de la Dichtung permite a Heidegger, por un lado, medirse plenamente con las contradicciones y ansiedades fundamentales de la contemporaneidad, y por otro, repensar (y recrear) la
Danilo Serra
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Donación y hogar mito-poético de la realidad
Differenz, 2019 Mediante selectos escritos de Heidegger sobre el vínculo entre poesía y verdad, se investigará cómo el lenguaje alberga al ser y cuáles son sus consecuencias. Para ello, se traerá a diálogo el pensamiento de Owen Barfield, pensador inglés contemporáneo a
Jon Mentxakatorre Odriozola
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Descartes as an Ethical Perfectionist
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 My main concern in this paper is to develop and defend an account of why we ought to devote our lives to virtue—of the ground or reason for why we ought to do so—according to René Descartes.
Frans Svensson
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