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Education Beyond the Program: Exploring the Eventive Possibilities of Education
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Modern education has often been criticized for reducing teaching and schooling to a matter of “program.” Critiques of this programmatic approach to education come from a variety of perspectives with a wide range of underlying reasons. This article presents a perspective that might contribute to the prevailing ways of theorizing about how ...
Haoyu Jin
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Metaphysics of Logical Realism
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2015 Despite the often false impression that the analytic philosophy as an anti-metaphysical movement has nothing to do with metaphysics, there can be found good reasons to grant the metaphysical dispositions of analytic philosophers, and thereby, to minimize
Mohammadreza Abdollahnejad
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Kant's Solution to the Trilemma of Concept Formation
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to a widespread assumption, Kant's logical account of concept formation starts with comparison, where the latter involves concepts. On this assumption, the formation of a concept presupposes other concepts, so that the argument is threatened either by circularity, regress, or break‐off.
Daniel Erlewein
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Kant on Rational Reference: Theology as transcendental philosophy
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract The Critical Kant famously held that our cognition requires intuition, or essentially singular representation. Kant is also often understood as taking a dismissive attitude toward his rationalist predecessors' accounts of how we cognize singulars or individuals.
Maya Krishnan
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Compositions of Being: Metaphysical and Non-Metaphysical Ways of Understanding and Discerning Them [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2017 This article discusses different ways of understanding compositions of being, and different methods for discerning them. It considers non-metaphysical (physical, scientistic, phenomenological, abstractionist) interpretations in order to decide whether ...
Andrzej Maryniarczyk
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2012 [1945]) opens with a detailed critique of traditional philosophical accounts of sensation, generally understood as having Husserl's “content‐apprehension schema” among its targets. The schema sees perception as resulting from the interpretation (“apprehension” or “apperception”) of “raw ...
Yamina Venuta
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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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Verbum VitaeThe subject of this article is the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth. Central to the analysis is an attempt to reconstruct the place and role of metaphysics in the Pope’s analysis and, more broadly, in his understanding of ...
Robert Józef Woźniak
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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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