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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy
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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The young Nietzsche and the failure of modern culture. Commentary on the paragraphs 24 and 25 of The birth of tragedy

open access: yesHYBRIS: Revista de Filosofía, 2014
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
doaj  

Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The wor(l)d of the animal. Adorno on art's expression of suffering

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2011
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
doaj   +1 more source

Citizenship education and gender equality: A critique of action plans in Greek secondary schools

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 641-655, September 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Absolute Freedom in Anglophone Hegel Interpretation, and Its Implications for Technological Utopianism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations
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
doaj   +1 more source

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