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The Concept of Categoricity

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics [PDF]

, 2018
In this review of Abizadeh's book, I question whether identifying a human 'capacity for reason' really resolves the problems with Hobbes's philosophy's distinctive combination of mechanistic materialism and moral ...
Field, Sandra Leonie
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Apriorist self-interest: How it embraces altruism and is not vacuous [PDF]

, 1997
This essay is part of an attempt to reconcile two extreme views in economics: the (neglected) subjective, apriorist approach and the (standard) objective, scientific (i.e., falsifiable) approach.
Lester, J. C.
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The Shared Life

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We are social animals that seek to live a life that is, in some sense, shared with others. But what exactly do we want in wanting to live a shared life? First, I seek to show that this question is not as straightforward as it might initially appear. Second, I present an answer to this question, which makes reference to the thought that we have
James Laing
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Revisiting Hobbes: on freedom, political authority and civil disobedience

Aufklärung, 2018
This paper has two main sections. First, I argue that Hobbes was capable of providing a convincing model of political authority that strengthened the absolutist monarchy, due to two main factors: on the one hand, Hobbes’ conceptualization of freedom ...
Marta Nunes da Costa
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Reflections on Metaphysical Explanation [PDF]

, 2019
The nature of metaphysical explanation is a question that should be constantly on every metaphysician’s mind, and yet it is rare to see explicit statements about the methodological approach that writers take.
Ingthorsson, Rognvaldur
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Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age [PDF]

, 2010
The terms 'liberty' and 'security' are analysed against a background of contemporary concerns about terrorism and the decline of freedom. The influence of Hobbes’s approach to liberty has been pervasive, and the effect of this has been to promote an ...
Gearty, Conor
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 116-128, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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Thomas Hobbes and a chastened 'global' constitution the contested boundaries of the law [PDF]

, 2015
Hobbes’ account of politics, law and obligation has long been read, especially by realists in international affairs, as leaving no space for international law or institutions.
Lang Jr., Anthony F.
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