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Ontology as Transcendental Philosophy [PDF]
How does the critical Kant view ontology? There is no shared scholarly answer to this question. Norbert Hinske sees in the Critique of Pure Reason a “farewell to ontology,” albeit one that took Kant long to bid (Hinske 2009).
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“God Has Not Died, He Became Government”: Use-of-Oneself and Immanence in Giorgio Agamben’s Work
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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Some Consequences of Physics for the Comparative Metaphysics of Quantity
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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The Distinction Between Physics and Metaphysics in Duhem’s Philosophy [PDF]
Pierre Duhem’s philosophy of science has influenced many philosophers in the twentieth century, and even today. Many of the subjects he addressed are still highly discussed today, especially the distinction between science and metaphysics. My aim in this
Miranda Vilchis, Rogelio
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Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty
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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The evolution of the ideas of metaphysics and ontology
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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In recent years philosophers have been interested in the methodology of metaphysics. Most of these developments are related to formal work in logic or physics, often against the backdrop of the Carnap-Quine debate on ontology. Drawing on Quine's later work, I argue that a psychological or cognitive perspective on metaphysical topics may be a valuable ...
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Detecting Introspective Errors in Consciousness Science
Detecting introspective errors about consciousness presents challenges that are widely supposed to be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. This is a problem for consciousness science because many central questions turn on when and to what extent we
Andy McKilliam
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Muslim Philosophers on the Relation between Metaphysics and Theology [PDF]
Muslim Philosopherson the Relation between Metaphysics and Theology Mohammad Saeedimehr* Received: 01/07/2019 | Accepted: 05/09/2019 In different parts of Metaphysics, Aristotle presents different (and apparently, conflicting) views on the ...
Mohammad Saeedimehr
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Metaphysics as History, History as Metaphysics
R. G. Collingwood’s writings do not sit neatly within any of the major approaches to metaphysics. Moore’s Evolution of Modern Metaphysics corrects the conventional exclusion of Collingwood’s thought, only to position him as contributing an ‘interlude’.
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