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Plutarque contre Colotès contre Empédocle
Aitia, 2013 In the section of Against Colotes dedicated to the polemic that the Epicurean, in his writing, developed against Empedocles, Plutarch uses what he considers a bad procedure to traverse the area of dialectic and to arrive at that ...
Alain Gigandet
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 249-268, July 2025.Abstract It is customary to present René Descartes as the initiator of the problem of other minds in modern philosophy. Briefly, the other minds problem is this. (1) Our acquaintance with thinking relies on inner observation or introspection. (2) In contrast, our observations of others can only access their body surfaces and behaviour.
Olli Lagerspetz
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Kenelm Digby's logic of common and natural notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 157-173, June 2025.Abstract In this article, I take a fresh look at the logic of common and natural notions contained in the Two Treatises published in 1644 by Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). Digby's doctrine of common notions was an attempt to retrofit Aristotelianism in order to bring it out of the shadows of scholasticism and into the age of the new experimental and ...
Mogens Lærke
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Plutarque juge et partie : à propos des débats entre l’Académie, le Jardin et le Portique
Aitia, 2013 In this article I show:(1) Plutarch’s inclusion of Heraclitus among the list of Presocratics at Adv. Col. 1121E-1122A should lead us to conclude that this philosopher was included by the New Academy among those ...
Carlos Lévy
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Happiness and well‐being: Is it all in your head? Evidence from the folk
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 234-268, March 2025.Abstract Despite a voluminous literature on happiness and well‐being, debates have been stunted by persistent dissensus on what exactly the subject matter is. Commentators frequently appeal to intuitions about the nature of happiness or well‐being, raising the question of how representative those intuitions are.
Markus Kneer, Daniel M. Haybron
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Lucrèce sur les origines et le développement des arts et des métiers
Aitia, 2020 Lucretius’ story of the stages of human development from the primitive condition of the first men to our own era occupies a substantial part of the fifth chant of DRN (925-1457).
Voula Tsouna
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Subjectivity and the “Shocking”: Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Ethical Limits of Pleasure
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2016 The article analyzes the “shocking” and so-called “immoral” as a response to the institution-imposed methods of surveillance. This leads to initiation of discourses over behavior or actions which may not be unethical but which may be questionable in ...
Ashmita Mukherjee
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Plutarch's Adversus Colotem and the Cyrenaics: 1120C-1121E
Aitia, 2013 A reading of Plutarch’s Adversus Colotem, 1120C-1121E, with reference to other surviving evidence for Cyrenaic epistemology. In particular, the discussion evaluates two claims made by Plutarch: (1) that Colotes is right to argue ...
James Warren
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