Rapid start with bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) as initial treatment in people with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1): A systematic literature review of clinical and patient-reported outcomes. [PDF]
Abstract Background Treatment guidelines recommend rapid antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation among eligible people with HIV to improve treatment outcomes and reduce HIV transmission. Bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF), an integrase strand transfer inhibitor‐based single‐tablet regimen, is recommended for rapid start in US and
Ghosn J +11 more
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Effectiveness of community-based hypertension management on hypertension in the urban slums of Haiti: A mixed methods study. [PDF]
Abstract Hypertension is a leading contributor to mortality in low‐middle income countries including Haiti, yet only 13% achieve blood pressure (BP) control. We evaluated the effectiveness of a community‐based hypertension management program delivered by community health workers (CHWs) and physicians among 100 adults with uncontrolled hypertension from
St Sauveur R +18 more
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Aquinas and Anscombe on Connaturality and Moral Knowledge1
Abstract The idea of ‘connatural knowledge’ is attributed to Aquinas on the basis of passages in which he distinguishes between scientific and affective experiential knowledge of religious and moral truths. In a series of encyclicals beginning with Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris, popes have celebrated and commended Aquinas as the supreme guide in philosophy
John Haldane
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Normativity and the Critical Functions of Genealogy: The Case of Modern Science1
Abstract The first part of this article offers some general remarks about genealogical approaches to history, focusing on historical narratives that stress the role played by theological considerations in the formation of aspects of secular modernity. A central question is whether such genealogies can serve to critique the present without drawing upon ...
Peter Harrison
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The Return of Causal Powers? [PDF]
Powers, capacities and dispositions (in what follows I will use these terms synonymously) have become prominent in recent debates in metaphysics, philosophy of science and other areas of philosophy.
Hüttemann, Andreas
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Do you need to know in order to act? The case for a Suárezian legacy in early modern occasionalism
Abstract The goal of this article is to suggest that in early modern discussions of agency and causal efficacy it is possible to detect an attempt at pushing to its extreme consequences a specific account of agency and causality that was developed in late scholastic thought. More specifically, the article examines Francisco Suárez's (1548–1617) account
Andrea Sangiacomo
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Powers ontologies are currently enjoying a resurgence. This would be dispiriting news for the moderns; in their eyes, to imbue bodies with powers is to slide back into the scholastic slime from which they helped philosophy crawl.
Ott, Walter
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Hume’s Academic Scepticism: A Reappraisal of His Philosophy of Human Understanding [PDF]
A philosopher once wrote the following words:If I examine the PTOLOMAIC and COPERNICAN systems, I endeavour only, by my enquiries, to know the real situation of the planets; that is, in other words, I endeavour to give them, in my conception, the same ...
Wright, John P.
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La condición física del alma espiritual en Tomás de Aquino
Traducción de: "Physical Status of the Spiritual Soul in Thomas Aquinas", Nova et Vetera, English Edition,Vol. 3, N. 2 (2005) 231-258. Por Liliana lrizar y Carlos Domínguez La visión del hombre ofrecida por santo Tomás de Aquino es criticada a veces ...
Stephen L. Brock
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‘Let us imagine that God has made a miniature earth and sky’: Malebranche on the Body-Relativity of Visual Size [PDF]
Malebranche holds that visual experience represents the size of objects relative to the perceiver's body and does not represent objects as having intrinsic or nonrelational spatial magnitudes. I argue that Malebranche's case for this body-relative thesis
Chamberlain, Colin
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