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, 2018 In the most general sense, the term“justification” refers to the act of providing reasons for the validity, legitimacy, and defensibility of (1) an action, (2) a belief, and/or (3) a social arrangement.
Susen, S.
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 62-71, March 2026.
Federico Tarragoni
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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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, 2020 172 pages ; Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. Philosophers have used this principle in arguments for the existence of something ontologically fundamental, an ultimate ground of being, such as God. But if everything has an explanation of its existence, so, too, does whatever is fundamental.
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Constructing a non-foundational theological approach to Christian ethics
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 Postmodernism challenges the idea of any foundational truth on which theoretical and operational systems may be built. This has led to a meta-ethical revision of the resuppositions underlying different ethical systems.
David A. van Oudtshoorn
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Augustine, AI, and the Two Models of Language
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 217-238, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the two models of language articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Augustine. It examines first, the central roles of language in humans and intelligent machines, and second, the implications of these models for understanding what it means to be human, as well as the promises and limits of AI systems.
Kevin Jung
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Is Wittgenstein a Foundationalist?
Ideas y Valores, 2011 The idea that On Certainty reveals a third Wittgenstein has become common in the recent literature. In particular, Avrum Stroll argues that said work sets forth a new and powerful version of non-homogeneous foundationalism.
Carlos Alberto Cardona S.
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Prospects For Peircean Epistemic Infinitism [PDF]
, 2009 Epistemic infinitism is the view that infinite series of inferential relations are productive of epistemic justification. Peirce is explicitly infinitist in his early work, namely his 1868 series of articles.
Aikin, Scott F.
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Does understanding individuals require idiographic judgement? [PDF]
, 2008 Idiographic understanding has been proposed as a response to concern that criteriological diagnosis cannot capture the nature of human individuality.
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Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 148-165, April 2025.Abstract This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting‐be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best ...
J. W. Olson
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