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Some attitudes we usually do not have
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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Friendship and War: True Political Art as the Alliance of Philosophy and Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias
El artículo explora la relación entre filosofía y retórica desde una nueva perspectiva al enfatizar la naturaleza dramática del diálogo y, por tanto, poniéndole atención no sólo a lo que se dice sobre filosofía y retórica, sino también a lo que se ...
Nicolás Parra
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Trilemmas: Gorgias’ PTMO Between Zeno and Melissus
The present paper makes the following points. (1) The summary given in Sextus Emp. Math. VII is of much greater value than usually acknowledged, since it preserves several key elements of Gorgias’ communicational strategy.
Livio Rossetti
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The history of the political thought on pleasure is not a cloistered affair in which scholars only engage one another. In political thought, one commonly finds a critical engagement with the wider public and the ruling classes, which are both perceived ...
Wimberly, Cory
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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
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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Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia
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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Editors' Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing. [PDF]
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Socrates vs. Callicles: examination & ridicule in Plato's Gorgias
The Callicles colloquy of Plato’s Gorgias features both examination and ridicule. Insofar as Socrates’ examination of Callicles proceeds via the elenchus, the presence of ridicule requires explanation.
David Levy
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