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Contempt, Community, and the Interruption of Sense [PDF]
, 2017 In the early modern period, contempt emerged as a persistent theme in moral philosophy. Most of the moral philosophers of the period shared two basic commitments in their thinking about contempt.
Lueck, Bryan
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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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Berkeley on Voluntary Motion: A Conservationist Account [PDF]
, 2018 A plausible reading of Berkeley’s view of voluntary motion is occasionalism; this, however, leads to a specious conclusion against his argument of human action.
Oda, Takaharu
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Consciousness as Inner Sensation: Crusius and Kant [PDF]
, 2018 What is it that makes a mental state conscious? Recent commentators have proposed that for Kant, consciousness results from differentiation: A mental state is conscious insofar as it is distinguished, by means of our conceptual capacities, from other ...
Indregard, Jonas Jervell
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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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Berkeley's "esse is percipi" and Collier's "simple" argument [PDF]
, 2006 Almost all who write on Collier note a striking similarity between a short passage in his Clavis Universalis and the famous claim that esse is percipi in Berkeley's Principles. This essay explores that similarity in more detail than has been done before.
Stoneham, T.
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Air, lumière, et matière réfractive [PDF]
, 2009 International audienceAir, light and refractive matter "Air", "Atmosphere", "Refractive matter" and 'Heavy matter' were expressions used by several early 18th-century authors when discussing the positions of stars.
Mayrargue, Arnaud
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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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