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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
wiley   +1 more source

What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Boucher SC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Life and Death in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature (Naturphilosophie) has received significant renewed interest and reappraisal. This research has – like the majority of work in the philosophy of nature and the history of science more generally – focused on Schelling's understanding of life, but eschews any discussion of death.
Dalia Nassar
wiley   +1 more source

Calibration and transfer in indicator-based assessments of artificial consciousness. [PDF]

Neurosci Conscious
Koch F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Was there ever an Animal Dasein? Heidegger's Concept of Life in the 1924 Aristotle Lecture

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines Heidegger's interpretation of the Aristotelian concept of life in his 1924 lecture Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy. While scholars have emphasized the text's decisive role in the preparation of Being and Time, their readings have largely centered on the notions of praxis and human existence.
Antonino Firenze
wiley   +1 more source

The Contradictions in the Criteria for Diagnosing Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome as Reflecting Some of the Philosophical Debates about the Threshold between the Normal and the Pathological. [PDF]

J Med Philos
Rosàs Tosas M.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Argument for Minimalism about Action

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Minimalism is the view that the mark of action is object‐causation, rather than intentionality, voluntariness or goal‐directedness. Actions, on this view, are instances of objects causing change. Despite a recent surge of interest in the view, it is still seldom regarded as a serious alternative to orthodox theories of action, according to ...
Robin T. Bianchi
wiley   +1 more source

Peirce's revenge on the Chinese Room. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Loginov EV, Vasilyev VV, Kuznetsov AV, Volkov DB, Besedin AP, Mertsalov AV.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Naturalism : ups and downs

, 2015
This paper tries to show virtues and difficulties of naturalism as a philosophical projects. After a preliminary characterization of naturalism as a view admitting that only spatiotemporal facts exist and rejecting the existence of any supernatural ...
Woleński, Jan
core  

Creating Normativity and Responding to It: How Metaethical Constructivists Must and Can Have It Both Ways

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper pursues two aims. First, it develops a novel objection to metanormative constructivism, which I term the Duality Objection. Second, it proposes a dual‐role account of practical reason and argues that it can meet this objection. Constructivists like Korsgaard and Street maintain that normativity is constructed within agents' first ...
Leonhard Schneider
wiley   +1 more source