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, 2000 Descartes a entrepris de réfuter l'atomisme et il s'est à plusieurs reprises élevé contre une interprétation atomiste de son œuvre. Pourtant, tout au long du XVIIe siècle, il a été rangé parmi les successeurs de Démocrite et d'Epicure. Il s'agissait donc à la fois de restituer les raisons pour lesquelles Descartes s'est opposé aux deux thèses ...
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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Profilo biografico di René Descartes
, 2005 Il contributo ricostruisce una sintetica biografia intellettuale di René Descartes, in cui vengono messe in relazione le vicende biografiche con alcuni testi particolarmente ...
Francesco Marrone
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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, 2014 Introduzione alla nuova edizione Einaudi del Discorso sul metodo di Descartes, cura e traduzione (con testo a fronte) di E ...
E. Mazza, R. Descartes, BORGHERO, Carlo
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Meinongian Theories of Perception
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most assume that the bad cases of illusion and hallucination are not perceptions. What I call ‘Meinongian Theories of Perception’ disagree: in the good case, I stand in a relation to existing objects—Macbeth perceives the existing dagger—whilst in the bad case, I stand in a relation to non‐existent objects—Macbeth perceives the non‐existent ...
Romanos P. Koutedakis
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Conniving With Continuations: Representing Goals in a Domain‐Specific Language of Thought
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Wanting composes flexibly with knowing: we can want to know, want to know what someone wants, and so on. In this paper, we develop a goal representation that allows for this type of rich integration between goals and other theory‐of‐mind concepts.
Kartik Chandra +3 more
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On the affinities between Bacon's philosophy and skepticism
KriterionThis text aims at examining the relations between Bacon's reflections on the limits of our faculties and philosophical skepticism - a theme not so dominant in the most recent literature, despite the many references to that philosophy.
Luiz A. A. Eva
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