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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Materialism, Idealism and the Onto-Epistemological Roots of Geography [PDF]
, 2017 The present article has as proposal the discussion of the philosophical categories of Idealism and Materialism in the Geographical thought. Starting from the assumption that the knowledge is a fact, we explicit our onto-epistemological basis by a dialog ...
Paiva, Mikhael Lemos
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Social Science as a Guide to Social Metaphysics?
, 2018 If we are sympathetic to the project of naturalising metaphysics, how should we approach the metaphysics of the social world? What role can the social sciences play in metaphysical investigation? In the light of these questions, this paper examines three
K. Hawley
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Interface Focus, 2017 This paper briefly describes process metaphysics, and argues that it is better suited for describing life than the more standard thing, or substance, metaphysics.
J. Dupré
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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The Need for Empirically-Led Synthetic Philosophy [PDF]
, 2013 The problem of unifying knowledge represents the frontier between science and philosophy. Science approaches the problem analytically bottom-up whereas, prior to the end of the nineteenth century, philosophy approached the problem synthetically top-down.
Scoular, Spencer
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
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