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Marx's Concept of Life

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 163-190, March 2026.
Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
wiley   +1 more source

Seneca’s Etna: the Epicurean principle of multiple explanations, anti-sublimity and the Stoic sage (Ep. 79)

open access: yesDictynna, 2023
In his Letter 79 (probably written in c. AD 64) Seneca asks his addressee, Lucilius, who was then serving as procurator of Sicily, to send him a report on his travels around the island, including information specifically on Charybdis and Lucilius’ climb ...
Myrto Garani
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...Brevique Adnotatione Critica...: a preliminary history of the Oxford classical texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
On 3 July 1896, at one of the less regular meetings of the Delegates of Oxford University Press (OUP) held during the Long Vacation, approval was given to publication of the Oxford Classical Texts (OCT) series.
Whitaker, G.
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
wiley   +1 more source

A New ‘Idea of Nature’ for Chemical Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper recommends that chemistry educators shift to a different ‘idea of nature’, an alternative ‘worldview.’ Much of contemporary science and technology deals in one way or another with dynamic coherences that display novel and important properties.
Earley, Joseph E.
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Quark Matter and Nuclear Collisions: A Brief History of Strong Interaction Thermodynamics

open access: yes, 2012
The past fifty years have seen the emergence of a new field of research in physics, the study of matter at extreme temperatures and densities. The theory of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), predicts that in this limit, matter will ...
Adler C.   +20 more
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Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2326-2348, November 2025.
Abstract This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct regimes of motion (Nail 2020a; Marx in Motion: A New Materialist ...
Deborah Cowen
wiley   +1 more source

Kant's nutshell argument for idealism

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
wiley   +1 more source

Epicurus and Lucretius on the Creation of the Cosmos [PDF]

open access: yesФилософия и космология, 2015
: Although in the extants of Epicurus there is not a direct mention to the atomic swerve, other sources, among them Lucretius, confirm that the Athenian philosopher foresaw in the presence of this unpredictable atomic movement the solution for the ...
Eliopoulos Panos
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