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Whose Metaethical Minimalism? [PDF]

, 2018
T. M. Scanlon’s ‘Reasons Fundamentalism’ rejects any naturalistic reduction of normative truths and it also rejects the type of non-naturalism that invokes a ‘special metaphysical reality.’ Here I argue that this still does not commit Scanlon—as some ...
Birondo, Noell
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Self‐Knowledge and the Capacity to Judge

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Several philosophers have sought to explain certain features of self‐knowledge our beliefs on the basis of the relation which holds between them and our judgments. Typically, these philosophers presuppose that there is just a single relation between these, for instance the relation of identity.
Matthew Parrott
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Russell on Metaphysical Vagueness

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2001
Recently a fascinating debate has been rekindled over whether vagueness is metaphysical or linguistic. That is, is vagueness an objective feature of reality or is it merely an artifact of our language?
Mark Colyvan
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GLOBAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM AS A METAPHYSICAL CONSTRUCT: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE METAPHYSICS OF MONEY

Економіка та суспільство
This article explores the metaphysical dimensions of the global monetary system, treating money as a concept influencing human thought and culture beyond its economic utility.
Андрій Буз
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Menorah (No. 2, Winter, 1985) [PDF]

, 1985
Reflections On Membership -- Selma And Jacob Brown Annual Lectureship Established -- Deconstructing Jewish Consciousness -- Centaurs -- Death of a Charismatic -- Metaphysical Knot -- New VCU Course ...

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Questions Should Have Answers

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Making sense of the world often requires one to come up with new ideas, including ideas one had previously been unable to think of. How and when should this be done? I propose and defend a norm of rationality linking wondering, belief, and abilities to conceive: one must not both wonder a question and reject all answers to it that one can ...
Michael Deigan
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David Patterson, Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) [PDF]

, 2017
This is a critical review of David Patterson's book Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins (2015). In this review, I present the author's new explanation of the roots of anti-Semitism, which he finds in the anti-Semite's desire to become like God ...
Tremblay, Frederic
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Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
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Towards a Participatory Philosophical Religion: Foundations for a Sacramental Metaphysics of Psychedelics

Religions
This article explores the emergence of a new philosophical religion arising from the intersection of psychedelic ministry, transpersonal psychology, and participatory metaphysics.
Ayeh Kashani
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Harry Potter and metaphysical hospitality [PDF]

, 2007
Continuing the series of investigations of hospitality practices in different locations, Kevin O'Gorman and David Brooks explore what muggles can learn from the hospitality experienced in the world of wizardry.
Brooks, David, O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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