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Continuous creation in the probabilistic world of the theology of Chance
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2015 The aim of the paper is to present and analyze the doctrine of continuous creation typical for theism. Continuous creation is conceived of as divine causal action consisting in God’s bringing about the existence of any being at every moment of its ...
Dariusz Łukasiewicz
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La condición física del alma espiritual en Tomás de Aquino
Studium: Filosofía y Teología, 2011 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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Dualist Approaches to Mental Causation
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Dualists take the mind to be non‐physical. Their position is widely taken to preclude causal interactions between the mind and the body. Not only do causal interactions across the physical and non‐physical boundary appear mysterious, the physical realm also appears to be self‐sufficient in a way that leaves no room for non‐physical causes.
Bram Vaassen
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this study, seven articles published between 2010 and 2023 that describe the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model's interrelatedness with Indigenous healing concepts were analysed for narrative content. Findings included the need to invite Indigenous language speakers into deeper dialogue in order to bridge worldview‐informed praxis; the use
Suzan A. M. McVicker
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Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 62, Issue 2, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT In Section One of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume distinguishes between two sorts of writing on human nature: first, one that appeals to common sense to make virtue seem attractive and, second, one that attempts to describe the principles governing the mind.
Michael Jacovides
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Ideas as the ‘Divinity of Our Soul’: Kant's Theocentric and Platonic Model of Human Cognition
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1375-1390, December 2025.Abstract I pursue Kant's characterization of the ideas of reason as the ‘divinity of our soul’ with the aim of correcting a highly influential reading of his philosophy as rejecting the theocentric cognitive model, one measuring human cognition against the norm of the divine intuitive intellect.
Kimberly Brewer
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 585-602, December 2025.Abstract The reception of Leibniz encompasses a wide range of authors influenced by his work, such as Wolff, Crusius, and Kant. In this article, I will address the problem of the reception of Leibniz's theory of principles in the context of the debate that arose during the eighteenth century about the meaning and purpose of metaphysics.
José Antonio Gutiérrez‐García
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Page 2-32, March 2025.Abstract This essay critically examines a widely held assumption in interpreting Leibniz's modal metaphysics: that whatever is necessarily actual is necessary. I argue that Leibniz rejected this axiom for principled reasons having to do with his views on the grounding of metaphysical modalities in divine power and intellect (but not divine will).
Alireza Fatollahi
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