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Kepler y el teorema fundamental de la óptica

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2021
En el artículo se ofrece un análisis de los argumentos que condujeron a Kepler a la defensa y demostración del teorema fundamental de la óptica. Según este teorema, un haz homocéntrico de luz que se ve obligado a atravesar una esfera transparente ...
Carlos Alberto Cardona
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The Gold‐Maker of Animal Oil and Prussian Blue Fame — The Chemical and Medicinal Science Philosophy of Johann Conrad Dippel

The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.
The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Malebranche, Nicolas (2015). Tratado de amor y Conversación de un filósofo cristiano con un filósofo chino

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2017
Malebranche, Nicolas (2015) Tratado de amor y Conversación de un filósofo cristiano con un filósofo chino Madrid: Encuentro, 153 p.
Alger Sans Pinillos
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Impact of culture on refugee women's conceptualization and experience of postpartum depression in high-income countries of resettlement: A scoping review.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundThe global refugee population has reached a staggering 25.9 million. Approximately 16% of global refugees resettle in high-income countries which are often culturally very different from their home countries.
Saarah Haque, Mary Malebranche
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Leibniz on Per Se Possibility

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Page 2-32, March 2025.
Abstract This essay critically examines a widely held assumption in interpreting Leibniz's modal metaphysics: that whatever is necessarily actual is necessary. I argue that Leibniz rejected this axiom for principled reasons having to do with his views on the grounding of metaphysical modalities in divine power and intellect (but not divine will).
Alireza Fatollahi
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The art of thinking as an intersubjective practice: Eloquence, affect, and association in the Port‐Royal Logic

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1015-1032, December 2024.
Abstract In the Port‐Royal Logic, Arnauld and Nicole argue that eloquence plays a crucial role in the cultivation of the art of thinking. In this essay, we demonstrate that Arnauld and Nicole's reflections on eloquence exemplify the need to reconceive the larger framework in which Cartesian theories of ideas operate.
Laura Kotevska, Anik Waldow
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Thing causation

Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 1050-1072, December 2024.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something.
Nathaniel Baron‐Schmitt
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O O Papel Epistemológico da Consciência na Recherche de la Vérité de Nicolas Malebranche

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
O artigo discute o papel epistemológico da consciência na Recherche de la Vérité de Nicolas Malebranche. Após apresentar o problema de como uma visão epistemologicamente negativa da consciência poderia representar um obstáculo para o projeto de ...
Vinícius França Freitas
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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 486-500, December 2024.
Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Facilitators and Barriers to Pre‐Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Willingness for Full‐Service Sex Workers: A Social–Ecological Approach

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 890-909, November 2024.
Full‐service sex workers (FSSWs) are at heightened risk of contracting HIV due to facing multi‐level challenges to sexual health. This study investigated factors associated with willingness to use Pre‐Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—a daily HIV preventative medication, among FSSWs. Using social–ecological theory, an online survey was developed with initial
Stephen D. Ramos, Steff Du Bois
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