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DESCARTES ON THE PHENOMENON OF MAN AND THE BOUNDARIES OF DOUBT

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2020
Purpose of the article is to reconstruct the ideological and philosophical context in which Descartes actualizes the phenomenon of man and the task of refuting scepticism.
A. M. Malivskyi
doaj   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect: Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011
For Descartes, nature must be interpreted through a limited number of simple laws used to describe the multiplicity of the real, focusing on the rule and normality rather than on the exception and monstrosity.
Filippo Del Luchesse
doaj   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Descartes: filósofo de la moral

open access: yesEstudios de Filosofía, 2017
Descartes se dedica a la ciencia con un fin práctico y no teórico, lo que permite verlo como un filósofo de la moral antes que como filósofo especulativo o de la ciencia.
Julio Morales Guerrero
doaj   +1 more source

Idealist Individualism or Indigenous Cosmology; Finding Entanglement across Species and Strata

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Science and technology have been associated with modern Enlightenment, in a manner that elevated the rational mind over emotions and the body, a separation of the subjective mind from the object of observation, universal categories, objective observation,
Ruth Irwin
doaj   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine and “True Philosophy” in Descartes

open access: yesSententiae
The article proves that the term “Descartes’ medicine” is appropriate to denote a “useful science” that had to be created. During his lifetime, Descartes never began to create it.
Oleg Khoma
doaj   +1 more source

Ideación, ocultación e interpretación del relato onírico cartesiano

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2022
Los famosos sueños de Descartes han constituido siempre para la historia de la filosofía un incómodo problema, pues dejaban la puerta abierta a la posibilidad de que el origen de la moderna racionalidad hubiese nacido de lo irracional.
Susana Gómez López
doaj  

Innovation in the Face of Necessity: A Mixed‐Method Study of Student's Experience From an Anatomy Education Program Focused on a Near‐Peer Tutoring Module

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following institutional changes that reduced access to cadaveric dissection, Paris‐Saclay University developed a two‐year elective anatomy pathway serving as a longitudinal progression toward near‐peer tutoring (NPT). Designed as a complement to the core curriculum, the program preserves engagement with human dissection while promoting ...
Maud Creze   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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