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Becoming ‘more like a Finn’: In‐visibility and the struggle for belonging in Finland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Abstract Nationalist practices and visionaries have a profound influence on those who are categorized as ‘foreign’ or ‘non‐belonging’ to the nation. Based on ethnographic explorations among Russian‐speakers and people with diverse Middle Eastern backgrounds in Finland, this article revisits the concept of in‐visibility as one possible avenue to expose ...
Bruno Lefort, Vadim Romashov
wiley   +1 more source

On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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Process and individuation (on speculative realism and becoming)

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent developments in the continental tradition have taken a realist turn that reveals an oscillation between, on the one hand, an ontology of virtuality that thinks of reality as process and continuum (albeit a continuum of differences or events) and, on the other hand, the resurgence of an ontology of objects and essences guided by the ...
Pascal Massie
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Motivating reasons: The state of the question

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the state of the currently burgeoning debate on motivating reasons, which spans across theoretical and practical philosophy. I focus on the metaphysical project at the forefront of this debate, that is, the quest for an account of the nature of motivating reasons, which covers both reasons for which we act as well as ...
Jean Moritz Müller
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Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
wiley   +1 more source

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