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The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 438-458, October 2025.
Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
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Ancestral Connections: Re-Evaluating Concepts of Superimpositioning and Vandalism in Rock Art Studies

Open Archaeology
The aim of this article is to comprehend the significance of superimpositions as social practices and processes and to deconstruct how notions of superimpositions and vandalism have been used in rock art studies.
Motta Ana Paula, Hampson Jamie
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How Love for the Image Cast out Fear of It in Early Christianity

Religions, 2017
Iconoclastic and iconophilic impulses have long vied for pre-eminence in Christianity, coming to one particularly fraught crisis point in the Byzantine Iconomachy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Natalie Carnes
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Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
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Kenosis, Economy, Inscription

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2013
Part of a roundtable on Julia Kristeva's The Severed Head:   Chapters Five and Six of Julia Kristeva’s The Severed ...
Elaine Miller
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Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S48-S61, September 2025.
Abstract This contribution celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication in this journal of an era‐defining debate between Roger Cotterrell and David Nelken. It reads the debate as the product of the communicative turn in legal theory, the absorbing and productive nature of which many of us – including the present author – are in danger of ...
ISOBEL ROELE
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Aristotle and Byzantine Iconoclasm

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2013
The defense of icons shifted gradually from a theory of mimesis to Aristotelian symbolism; this reflected not a revival of learning but arguments developed in the debate itself and hinted at already by Constantine V and at the Council of 787.
Thalia Anagnostopoulos
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Writing about the ymage in fifteenth-century England [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2020
Beginning in the late 14th century and continuing through the 15th century, religious reform movements in England made the use of images a matter of fierce dispute.
Marjorie Munsterberg
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‘A dialogue about the art of portraiture’ Originally published as ‘Gespräch von der Bildniskunst’, Österreichische Rundschau, Volume 6, 1906, 502—516, and republished: Julius Schlosser, Präludien Vorträge und Aufsätze, Berlin: Bard 1927, 227—247. Translated with an introduction by Karl Johns [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2011
In an unusually popular and readable dialogue form, Schlosser alludes to the classical education he takes for granted in any reader approaching his favourite ‘thorny’ questions from aesthetics and history.
Julius Schlosser
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Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth, 2023
Moen OM.
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