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Dignity, conscience and religious pluralism in healthcare: An argument for a presumption in favour of respect for religious belief

Bioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 88-97, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Religious pluralism in healthcare means that conflicts regarding appropriate treatment can occur because of convictions of patients and healthcare workers alike. This contribution argues for a presumption in favour of respect for religious belief on the basis that such convictions are judgements of conscience, and respect for conscience is ...
David G. Kirchhoffer
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Pеter Lnitskyi as an Apologist Metaphysics in “Age of Science”

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2019
The article is about metaphysical studies of Peter Linitskyi’s (1839–1906), a professor of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics in the Kyiv Theological Academy. For many years P. Linitskyi taught students of the Academy all parts of metaphysics.
Viktor Kozlovskyi
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The evolution of the ideas of metaphysics and ontology

Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2020
The categories of metaphysics and ontology in aspect of their evolution are considered in the article. At the beginning of the article, we are talking about the absence of the term «being» in ancient languages and its birth as a philosophical term ...
D. V. Ankin
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Some Consequences of Physics for the Comparative Metaphysics of Quantity

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 12, 2020
According to comparativist theories of quantities, their intrinsic values are not fundamental. Instead, all the quantity facts are grounded in scale-independent relations like “twice as massive as” or “more massive than.” I show that this sort of scale ...
D. Baker
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When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?

Bioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 72-80, January 2023., 2023
Abstract There is ongoing debate within the bioethics literature regarding to what extent (if any) it is ethically justifiable for doctors to engage in religious discussion with their patients, in cases where patients cite religious considerations as influencing their medical decision‐making.
Lauren Notini, Justin Oakley
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Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach

Bioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 5-11, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper offers a general approach to ethics before considering its implications for the question of how to respond to religious preferences in healthcare, especially those of patients and healthcare workers. The first section outlines the two main components of the approach: (1) demoralizing, that is, seeking to avoid moral terminology in ...
Roger Crisp
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“God Has Not Died, He Became Government”: Use-of-Oneself and Immanence in Giorgio Agamben’s Work

Philosophies
This article delves into the theme of the death of God in Giorgio Agamben’s work from a political perspective, seeking to interpret the notion of “God” in Agamben through the concepts of “government” and “transcendence”.
Benjamim Brum Neto
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Agamben Reading Kafka: The Animal Way to Paradise

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
The aim of this paper is to revisit the theme of paradise and animality in the work of Kafka, whilst at the same time elucidate Agamben's complex understanding of these notions with the help of the literary imagery of Kafka.
Ype de Boer, Anke Snoek
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Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty

Religions
In this article, I argue that Newman’s emphasis on a gestaltic model of reasoning and the role played by the imagination in informal reasoning is a fruitful starting point for an exploration of convergence between the Grammar of Assent and Wittgenstein’s
Modesto Gómez-Alonso
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A Modal Account of Essence

Metaphysics, 2020
According to the simple modal account of essence, an object has a property essentially just in case it has it in every world in which it exists. As many have observed, the simple modal account is implausible for a number of reasons.
Michael De
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