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Don't Stare, Compare! Lotze on Attention

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Nineteenth century treatments of attention often argued that analysis (attention singles out an object) and synthesis (attention unifies some objects) are inseparable aspects of this activity. Subsequent philosophical work on attention concentrated on the analytic aspect and exploited William James's characterisation of attention as focussing ...
Mark Textor
wiley   +1 more source

Wolff's theory of consciousness, re‐examined

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I develop a new account of Wolff's theory of consciousness. In contrast to the received view, I argue that Wolff's texts can be better made sense of by reading ‘perception’ and ‘apperception’ as two radically different acts, each one accounting for radically different aspects of the consciousness of an object and both ...
Lorenzo Sala
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Tillich’s Theodicies

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 19-46, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay explores the development of Tillich’s writings on the relationship between divine providence and suffering, and his approach to theodicy. First, I attend to the various stations of his early life and his earliest writings in various genres.
Samuel Andrew Shearn
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Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains.
Cameron C. Yetman
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Hell: A Thomistic Critique of David Bentley Hart’s NeceSsitarian Universalism

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 47-67, January 2023., 2023
Abstract David Bentley Hart has recently argued that universal salvation is a metaphysically necessary outcome of God’s act of creating rational beings. A crucial premise of Hart’s argument is a compatibilist view of free will, according to which God can determine human choices without taking away their freedom.
Mats Wahlberg
wiley   +1 more source

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