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The Contours of Locke’s General Substance Dualism

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022
In this paper, I will argue that Locke is a substance dualist in the general sense, in that he holds that there are, independent of our classificatory schema, two distinct kinds of substances: wholly material ones and wholly immaterial ones.
Graham Clay
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Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019
Was Robert Boyle an occasionalist? And if so, what kind of occasionalist was he? These questions have long troubled commentators, as Boyle’s texts often seem to offer both endorsements of occasionalism and affirmations of bodies’ causal powers.
Daniel Layman
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O que é um “mundo de avaliações'? Sobre os valores e o perspectivismo de Nietzsche [PDF]

Cadernos Nietzsche
: Resumo: Os muitos passos em que Nietzsche se refere às nossas avaliações como sendo “projetadas” e “impostas” à natureza parecem sugerir que o “mundo de avaliações” onde se joga a vida humana é meramente subjetivo, e que a natureza desprovida desses ...
João Constâncio
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Incompatibilism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant’s 'Nova Dilucidatio'

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022
The consensus is that in his 1755 'Nova Dilucidatio', Kant endorsed broadly Leibnizian compatibilism, then switched to a strongly incompatibilist position in the early 1760s.
Aaron Wells
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Locke’s Composition Principle and the Argument for God’s Immateriality

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022
Locke’s argument for God’s immateriality in 'Essay' IV x is usually interpreted as involving a principle that in some way prohibits the causation of thought by matter.
Tyler Hanck
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François Lamy’s Cartesian Refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019
François Lamy (1636–1711), a Benedictine monk and Cartesian philosopher whose extensive relations with Arnauld, Bossuet, Fénélon, and Malebranche put him into contact with the intellectual elite of late-seventeenth-century France, authored the very first
Jack Stetter
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Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019
Contemporary Humeans treat laws of nature as statements of exceptionless regularities that function as the axioms of the best deductive system. Such ‘Best System Accounts’ marry realism about laws with a denial of necessary connections among events.
Walter Ott
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Does Locke Have an Akrasia Problem?

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019
Starting in the second edition of the Essay, Locke becomes interested in the phenomenon of akrasia, or weakness of will. As he conceives it, akrasia occurs when we will something contrary to what we acknowledge to be our greater good.
Samuel C. Rickless
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Uma multitude: notas sobre a conferência global “Nietzsches Zukünfte”, os modos de ler e as muitas crianças de Zaratustra [PDF]

Cadernos Nietzsche
Resumo Inspiradas nas profícuas discussões que tiveram espaço na conferência global “Nietzsches Zukünfte”, promovida pela Klassik Stiftung Weimar, estas notas retomam certas questões ressoantes acerca da recepção e das formas de leitura da pesquisa ...
Gabriela Marchiori
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Redescobrir a poesia de Nietzsche [PDF]

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Resumo Este artigo apresenta ao leitor a primeira edição completa e tradução das poesias de Nietzsche. As edições publicadas até então são, na verdade, meras antologias.
Guillaume Métayer
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