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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem
ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
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Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions ...
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More Than Regulation: Challenging Habermas on the Future of the Public Sphere
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bernardo Ferro
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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In his book The Birth of Tragedy F. Nietzsche set out an influential diagnosis of culture in modern society. In this diagnosis, he put forward a metaphysics of the artist, his theory of art and his conception of the culture and society. With his analyses,
José Manuel Romero Cuevas
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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The wor(l)d of the animal. Adorno on art's expression of suffering
Although Adorno takes modern, autonomous art as the starting point for his aesthetics, this does not mean that his idea of art's truth content is restricted to the artworks of modernity.
Camilla Flodin
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Citizenship education and gender equality: A critique of action plans in Greek secondary schools
Abstract In the sociology of education, gender education follows current policies developed and promoted through citizenship education. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations addressing global social inequalities include gender equality (SDG 5).
Aikaterini Peleki +1 more
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Absolute Freedom in Anglophone Hegel Interpretation, and Its Implications for Technological Utopianism [PDF]
Contemporary Hegel scholarship either defends a theological metaphysics in which history is a teleological unfolding of cosmic Geist; or, the evolution of Geist represents the absolutization of human subjectivity, which undergoes a Bildung that prescinds
Daniel Dal Monte
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Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation. [PDF]
Haderer M.
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