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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
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Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science [PDF]
, 2020 This book contextualizes David Hume's philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume's background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific ...
Slavov, Matias
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2012 [1945]) opens with a detailed critique of traditional philosophical accounts of sensation, generally understood as having Husserl's “content‐apprehension schema” among its targets. The schema sees perception as resulting from the interpretation (“apprehension” or “apperception”) of “raw ...
Yamina Venuta
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Difference and the Liberation of Sufficient Reason
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that every event and entity can be explained by a sufficient reason or cause. Philosophers have long struggled with the question of the PSR's compatibility with freedom, for if what occurs or exists follows necessarily from its sufficient reason then it seems it could not have been otherwise ...
Louis Matheou
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Naturalism, Skepticism and Reason in Hume's Treatise
, 1975 This dissertation is primarily concerned with a discussion of Human skepticism. It is divided into two parts: Part 1 is concerned with interpretative matters.
Keen, Nigel Clive
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Why Does Mengzi Consider Human Nature Good?
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This essay examines the theoretical relation between moral sentiments and the goodness of human nature in Mengzi's moral philosophy. Mengzi's claim that human nature is good is often understood through the heart of compassion and the sages' exemplary achievements.
Dobin Choi
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, 2014 A theory of property needs to give an account of the whole life-cycle of a property right: how it is initiated, transferred, and terminated. Economics has focused on the transfers in the market and has almost completely neglected the question of the ...
Ellerman, David
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Epistemic Humility and Science in Lady Mary Shepherd
Journal of Modern PhilosophyThis discussion analyzes Lady Mary Shepherd’s response to the skeptical question raised by Hume about necessary causation: how can we know that like causes will necessarily give rise to like effects?
Nathan Beaucage
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Hume's Influence on John Gregory and the History of Medical Ethics
, 1999 The concept of medicine as a profession in the English-language literature of medical ethics is of recent vintage, invented by the Scottish physician and medical ethicist, John Gregory (1724-1773). Gregory wrote the first secular, philosophical, clinical,
McCullough, Laurence B.
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