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Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities
, 2020 This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with.
De Anna, Gabriele
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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The Metaphysics of Probabilistic Laws of Nature [PDF]
, 2010 In this thesis I treat success in explicating probabilistic laws of nature (e.g., laws of radioactive decay) as a criterion of adequacy for a metaphysics of laws.
Maclean, Duncan
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Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
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Two-Dimensional Theory of Scientific Representation
Metaphysics, 2013 Scientific representation is an interesting topic for philosophers of science, many of whom have recently explored it from different points of view. There are currently two competing approaches to the issue: cognitive and non-cognitive, and each of them ...
A Yaghmaie, H Sheikh Rezaee
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The metaphysics of ineffability [PDF]
, 2010 The existence of the phenomenon of ineffability enjoys wide recognition, and numerous examples can be found in the contexts of the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and philosophical aesthetics.
Jonas, Silvia +1 more
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Kant's Solution to the Trilemma of Concept Formation
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to a widespread assumption, Kant's logical account of concept formation starts with comparison, where the latter involves concepts. On this assumption, the formation of a concept presupposes other concepts, so that the argument is threatened either by circularity, regress, or break‐off.
Daniel Erlewein
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Kant on Rational Reference: Theology as transcendental philosophy
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract The Critical Kant famously held that our cognition requires intuition, or essentially singular representation. Kant is also often understood as taking a dismissive attitude toward his rationalist predecessors' accounts of how we cognize singulars or individuals.
Maya Krishnan
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Animal in Nietzsche's Philosophy: A Prolegomena to the Naturalisation of Human Values [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2014 Articulating his philosophical aims, Nietzsche has exploited animal similes and metaphors (i.e. fables, in a more technical term). It should be noted that he has not stepped on this style with the mere intention of splurge or embellishing his work with ...
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