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L’«acerrimus Malebrancius». Vico, il De antiquissima Italorum sapientia e Malebranche [PDF]

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2017
The «acerrimus Malebrancius». Vico, the De antiquissima Italorum sapientia and Malebranche. The article analyzes the contribution of Malebranche’s thought to the formation of the Vichian metaphysics as it is expressed in the De antiquissima Italorum ...
Geri Cerchiai
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Leibniz on the Metaphysics of Color [PDF]

, 2013
Drawing on remarks scattered through his writings, I argue that Leibniz has a highly distinctive and interesting theory of color. The central feature of the theory is the way in which it combines a nuanced subjectivism about color with a reductive ...
Puryear, Stephen
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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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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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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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Berkeley's "esse is percipi" and Collier's "simple" argument [PDF]

, 2006
Almost all who write on Collier note a striking similarity between a short passage in his Clavis Universalis and the famous claim that esse is percipi in Berkeley's Principles. This essay explores that similarity in more detail than has been done before.
Stoneham, T.
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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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Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism [PDF]

, 2019
Was Robert Boyle an occasionalist? And if so, what kind of occasionalist was he? These questions have long troubled commentators, as Boyle’s texts often seem to offer both endorsements of occasionalism and affirmations of bodies’ causal powers.
Layman, Daniel
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Humor, Contempt, and the Exemption from Sense [PDF]

, 2020
Building on the theory of humor advanced by Yves Cusset in his recent book Rire: Tractatus philo-comicus, I argue that we can understand the phenomenon in terms of what Jean-Luc Nancy, following Roland Barthes, has called the exemption from sense.
Lueck, Bryan
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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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