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Philosophy of Science in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Alison, Wylie
core  

A Case for Contingent Absurdity

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
wiley   +1 more source

Being Wrong About Personal Transformation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Transformative experiences are thought to change us in different ways. Some transform us epistemically by providing genuinely new, previously unimaginable experiences, while others bring about personal transformation by altering our values. Recent debates on transformative experiences have explored the challenges these experiences pose for ...
Adrian Kind
wiley   +1 more source

Marx's Concept of Life

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet accounts of objectification focus on objectifying treatment and leave the notion of objectifying perception unexplained.
Paulina Sliwa, Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

Silence as epistemic agency in mania. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Health Care Philos
Degerman D.
europepmc   +1 more source

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