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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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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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Abstract In the Port‐Royal Logic, Arnauld and Nicole argue that eloquence plays a crucial role in the cultivation of the art of thinking. In this essay, we demonstrate that Arnauld and Nicole's reflections on eloquence exemplify the need to reconceive the larger framework in which Cartesian theories of ideas operate.
Laura Kotevska, Anik Waldow
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Abstract According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something.
Nathaniel Baron‐Schmitt
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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism
Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Full‐service sex workers (FSSWs) are at heightened risk of contracting HIV due to facing multi‐level challenges to sexual health. This study investigated factors associated with willingness to use Pre‐Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—a daily HIV preventative medication, among FSSWs. Using social–ecological theory, an online survey was developed with initial
Stephen D. Ramos, Steff Du Bois
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The new evil demon problem at 40
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 478-504, September 2024.
Peter J. Graham
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De La Recherche De La Verité / Par N. Malebranche, Prêtre de l'Oratoire de Jesus
Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: A Paris, Chez Savoye, rue Saint Jacques, au-dessus de la Fontaine S. Severin, à l'Espérance. M.DCC.LXII.
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Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome in pregnancy: A case report. [PDF]
Al-Bakri O +5 more
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De la recherche de la verité par N. Malebranche... ; tome premier
Port. con viñeta xil.
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