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The logic of idealization in political theory

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 930-942, July 2025.
Abstract The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fundamental ambiguity over idealization's intended inferential logic: the precise way in which idealizations might yield normative knowledge.
Jonathan Leader Maynard
wiley   +1 more source

Is Wittgenstein a Foundationalist?

open access: yesIdeas 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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Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Human rights sound a lot like moral rights: rights that we have because we are human. Many philosophers think it follows that the list of international human rights must therefore be founded on some philosophical account of moral rights or of human ...
Luban, David
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Karl Barth's Anti‐Ideological Theology: A Reconsideration of Barth's Approach to Philosophy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 372-400, July 2025.
Abstract Barth's approach to borrowing from philosophical figures and schools is underwritten by several convictions that made such an approach intelligible. These convictions entailed that (1) Barth had no firm commitment to a philosophical school; (2) Barth's use of philosophy and philosophical terminology displays a pragmatic though principled ...
Kimlyn J. Bender
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

open access: yes
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?

open access: yesPhilosophical 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
wiley   +1 more source

«Cogito Ergo Sum» and Philofsophy of Action

open access: yesSententiae, 2015
Analytical philosophy opens new perspectives of studies in the history of philosophy. There are (1) generalized history of analytical interpretations of Cartesian principle cogito ergo sum and (2) analysis of Cartesianism through the prism of ...
Anna Laktionova
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Rational Foundationalism

open access: yes, 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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Between Atomism and Superatomism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
There are at least three vaguely atomistic principles that have come up in the literature, two explicitly and one implicitly. First, standard atomism is the claim that everything is composed of atoms, and is very often how atomism is characterized in the
Dixon, T. Scott
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