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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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Physicians of the Body Versus Therapists of the Word: Reflections On Medicine and Sophistry
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the connection between ancient medicine and sophistry at the end of 5th century B.C. Beginning with analyses of some passages from the De vetere medicina (VM), De natura hominis (NH) and De arte, the article
Roberta Ioli
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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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Editors' Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing. [PDF]
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
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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Pursuit of the concept of validity: A dialogue
Abstract This is a dialogue between Lisa and Max on Dag Prawitz's work concerning the concept of deductive validity. Lisa first explains Prawitz's criticisms of the presently prevailing non‐epistemic analyses of validity. Then Lisa describes three different ways in which Prawitz attempted to develop an epistemic concept of validity.
Cesare Cozzo
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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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Moral Psychology in Plato’s Gorgias
This essay intends to argue for the affinity between the Gorgias and the Republic concerning issues of moral psychology. To this end I will divide my argument into two halves.
Daniel Rossi Nunes Lopes
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Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 78-81, March 2026.
Menachem Kellner
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