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A Guide to Ground in Kant’sLectures on Metaphysics
Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics, 2019 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that everything has a reason that fully explains it. Leibniz expresses the PSR in Latin and French, respectively, as the principle that everything has a ratio or raison.
Nicholas F. Stang
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1393-1408, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In the last decades, there has been a far‐reaching debate about whether reason is a natural power of the human animal or a socio‐historical achievement. This paper brings out and criticizes two paradigmatic views of reason entangled in that dilemma: the substantive view which construes reason as a primitive power possessing the basic forms of ...
Lucian Ionel
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John Cook Wilson on the indefinability of knowledge
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1547-1564, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Can knowledge be defined? We expound an argument of John Cook Wilson's that it cannot. Cook Wilson's argument connects knowing with having the power to inquire. We suggest that if he is right about that connection, then knowledge is, indeed, indefinable.
Guy Longworth, Simon Wimmer
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Metaphysics after Metaphysics: The Limitative Conception of First Philosophy in Kant [PDF]
Prolegomena, 2003 The essay examines Kant’s Enlightenment conception of metaphysics as a science (Wissenschaft) to be kept free of ideological prejudice and extrarational cognitive resources and to be established under the conditions of public, intersubjectively valid ...
Günter Zöller
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Realism and Instrumentalism in Philosophical Explanation
Metaphysics, 2019 There is a salient contrast in how theoretical representations are regarded. Some are regarded as revealing the nature of what they represent, as in familiar cases of theoretical identification in physical chemistry where water is represented as hydrogen
Ori Simchen
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انقلاب در زبان: مبانی نظریه‌ی معنا نزد کریستوا [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2018 نظریۀ معناکاوی کریستوا را میتوان متأثر از دو گرایش پدیدارشناسی و روانکاوی دانست. درواقع کریستوا با بیان عمل‌کرد معنازایی یا به عبارتی مواجهۀ فرایندهای دلالت (امر نشانهای و امر نمادین) به پدیدارشناسی و روانکاوی بازگشتی انقلابی دارد.
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Rehumanizing Higher Education: Fostering Humanity in the Era of Machine Learning
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised contentious questions and spawned divided opinions regarding the future of education. The polarization it brings to the academy seems to be breaking between the soft and hard disciplines and is reminiscent of the Science Wars of the 1990s. This chapter highlights the philosophical
Joseph Carver, Samba Bah
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Two sorts of natural history: On a central concept in critical theory and ethical naturalism
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1248-1267, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The concept of natural history has received a great deal of attention in contemporary practical philosophy, especially as a result of Michael Thompson's concept of natural‐historical judgments which aims to explain the normativity of the human life‐form.
Philip Hogh
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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems and Platonic Metaphysics [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 We argue by using Godel's incompletness theorems in logic that platonism is the best metaphysics for science. This is based on the fact that a natural law in a platonic metaphysics represents a timeless order in the motion of matter, while a natural law in a materialistic metaphysics can be only defined as a temporary order which appears at random in ...
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