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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller +2 more
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Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the potential effects of relationships with Large Language Model (LLM)‐based digital doppelgängers (DDs) on users' values, concerns, and interests, that is, on their practical identity. DDs are artificially intelligent conversational agents trained on individuals' data to replicate their speech patterns, mannerisms ...
Cristina Voinea +3 more
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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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Mediterranea, 2016 This study deals with Dominicus Gundissalinus’s discussion on metaphysics as philosophical discipline. Gundissalinus’s translation and re-elaboration of al-Fārābī’s Iḥṣā’ al-ʿulūm furnish him, in the De scientiis, a specific and detailed procedure for ...
Nicola Polloni
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The difference between epistemic and metaphysical necessity [PDF]
, 2017 Philosophers have observed that metaphysical necessity appears to be a true or real or genuine form of necessity while epistemic necessity does not. Similarly, natural necessity appears genuine while deontic necessity does not.
Glazier, Martin
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Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
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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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POST-METAPHYSICAL CHANGING IN METAPHYSICS
Innovative Solution in Modern Science, 2018 The relation of atheism as a form of negation of metaphysics and Christian theism, in particular their interpenetration, genesis and interdependence, is investigated. The development of post-metaphysical discourse in the philosophical theology of the XX-XXI centuries is highlighted.
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Categoricity and Possibility. A Note on Williamson's Modal Monism [PDF]
, 2020 The paper sketches an argument against modal monism, more specifically against the reduction of physical possibility to metaphysical possibility.
Toader, Iulian D.
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