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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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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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Some attitudes we usually do not have
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 300-324, July 2025.Abstract I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \psi \urcorner$ are about very different subject‐matters, we can assure ourselves that the strangeness is merely pragmatic because of the alethic ...
Daniel Drucker
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 424-437, June 2025.Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
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Daring to doubt! Shaftesbury, doubt, and polite conversation
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 192-210, June 2025.Abstract Shaftesbury thought that dogmatism was an epistemic vice that violated the norms of good inquiry by inhibiting the proper exercise of reason. One way that Shaftesbury attempted to defend against dogmatic thought and culture was to recommend that society followed the norms of what he called “polite conversation.” This notion has received a fair
Sean Maroney
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Relativization of justice through rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias as paradigm
, 2020 Through analysis of the works of Plato, particularly his dialogue Gorgia, the authors attempt to perceive prospective of rhetoric as the art of persuasion which could relativize truth and justice.
Dragutin Avramović, Ilija Jovanov
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Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
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Analytic Philosophy, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 453-472, December 2024.Abstract Platonic arguments often have premises of a particular form which is misunderstood. These sentences look like universal generalizations, but in fact involve an implicit qua phrase which makes them a fundamentally different kind of predication.
Rachel Barney
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Gorgias of Leontini. Fragments and Testimonies
ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 2020 Gorgias (483–375 BCE), a famous Ancient Greek philosopher and orator. According to ancient testimonies he was praised for his eloquence and published numerous literary works, but very little is preserved.
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