The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
Endeavoring to invigorate a Pascalian approach to Christian persuasion, this dissertation asks: How might the doctrine of the imago Dei strengthen Pascal’s anthropological argument?
Threlfall, Jonathan Mark
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ABSTRACTProbabilism is the thesis that the degrees of belief of rational agents behave like Kolmogorovian probabilities. There are quite different lines of argument for probabilism in the literature, including Dutch book arguments, arguments based on representation theorems, and epistemic utility arguments. This paper focusses on the Dutch book line of
Nicholas J. J. Smith
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Backgrounds and perspectives of San Antonio street sleepers. [PDF]
Paulo C +6 more
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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King Lear in the upper palaeolithic: searching for ethical principles in prehistory. [PDF]
Foster C.
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Vulnerability, Moral responsibility, and Moral Obligations: the case of Industrial Action in the Medical and Allied Professions. [PDF]
Adobor H.
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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Clinical benefit and predictors of response to momelotinib after ruxolitinib failure: A cooperative real-world study. [PDF]
Palandri F +41 more
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A Clarion Call for Change: The MLP Imperative to Center Racial Discrimination and Structural Health Inequities. [PDF]
Matthew DB, Benfer EA.
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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