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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
PETROS SPANOU
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Defending Contingentism in Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2009 Metaphysics is supposed to tell us about the metaphysical nature of our world: under what conditions composition occurs; how objects persist through time; whether properties are universals or tropes.
Miller, Kristie
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The Quinean Roots of Lewis's Humeanism [PDF]
, 2017 An odd dissensus between confident metaphysicians and neopragmatist antimetaphysicians pervades early twenty-first century analytic philosophy. Each faction is convinced their side has won the day, but both are mistaken about the philosophical legacy of ...
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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Toying with the Toolbox: How Metaphysics Can Still Make a Contribution
, 2018 Current analytic metaphysics has been claimed to be, at best, out of touch with modern physics, at worst, actually in conflict with the latter (Callender, in: French, Saatsi (eds) The continuum companion to the philosophy of science, Continuum, London ...
S. French
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Thinking Poetically and Thinking Politically—Arendt, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Arendt's Benjamin
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jacob Abolafia
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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Kant and the problem of Meaningfulness or Meaningless of Metaphysics
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2016 One of the most important questions on Kant’s philosophy is the meaningfulness or meaningless of metaphysics. This article tries to answer two questions on Kant’s philosophy: 1- Is the metaphysics, in the philosophy of Kant, meaningful or ...
Masoud Omid
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Differentiating Averroes’ Accounts of the Metaphysics of Human Epistemology in his Middle and Long Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima [PDF]
, 2017 Averroes (an Islamic Andalusian philosopher in the 12th century) discusses the metaphysics of human epistemology extensively, and his socio-religious context sheds light on this discussion. Several of his works, most prominently his three commentaries on
Brown, Caleb H A
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Metaphysics as the Science of Essence
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018 What is metaphysics? And how is it to be pursued? Elsewhere, I have defended the view that the central task of metaphysics is to chart the possibilities of being: knowledge of what is actual presupposes knowledge of what is possible—of what is really or ...
Edward Jonathan Lowe
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