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Descartes on Modality and the Eternal Truths [PDF]
Public Reason, 2022 Descartes maintained that God freely created all eternal truths. Yet, while it is impossible for necessary truths to have been otherwise, if they are a matter of God’s free choice, then it seems that they could have been otherwise. Adrian W. Moore (2020)
Sarah Patterson
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Thinking Descartes in Conjunction, with Merleau-Ponty: The Human Body, the Future, and Historicity [PDF]
, 2019 This article addresses a debate in Descartes scholarship over the mind-dependence or -independence of time by turning to Merleau-Ponty’s "Nature" and "The Visible and the Invisible." In doing so, it shows that both sides of the debate ignore that time ...
Griffith, James
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Anthromes and terrestrial carbon
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthony P. Walker +5 more
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Imitation and ‘Infinite’ Will: Descartes on the Imago Dei [PDF]
, 2018 This paper investigates Descartes’s understanding of the imago Dei, that it is above all in virtue of the will that we bear the image and likeness of God. I challenge the key assumption of arguments that hold that Descartes’s comparison between the human
Jayasekera, Marie
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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La estética de «sensus» y «ratio» en la filosofía de Descartes
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2020 En este trabajo se investigan los conceptos de sensus (sensación, sentimiento) y ratio (razón, proporción) en la filosofía de Descartes, con el propósito de indagar sobre la posibilidad de una unión de ambos conceptos en la obra de arte.
Luis Hernández Mergal
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Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Naturalistic Dualist [PDF]
, 2018 Elisabeth was the first of Descartes' interlocutors to press concerns about mind-body union and interaction, and the only one to receive a detailed reply, unsatisfactory though she found it.
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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