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On the Incompatibility of Pragmatist Philosophy and Scientistic Philosophy

Pragmatism and/on Science and Scientism
In this paper we claim that pragmatist philosophical practice is incompatible with scientistic philosophy. The kind of pragmatism used for making this case follows the spirit and method of philosophical pragmatists such as William James, John Dewey ...
Nicolas Silva, R. Ames
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
wiley   +1 more source

What are the barriers and facilitators to advance care planning with older people in long‐term care facilities? A qualitative study

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To explore the views and preferences for advance care planning from the perspectives of residents, family members and healthcare professionals in long‐term care facilities. Design A qualitative descriptive design. Methods We conducted semi‐structured interviews with 12 residents of long‐term care facilities, 10 family members and 14 ...
Yuxin Zhou, Ariel Wang, Debbie Braybrook, Clare Ellis‐Smith, Haixia Feng, Ni Gong, Zhi Zhou, Richard Harding   +7 more
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The Debate over "Wittgensteinian Fideism" and Phillips’ Contemplative Philosophy of Religion [PDF]

, 2010
When surveying the scholarly literature over Wittgensteinian fideism, it is easy to get the sense that the principal interlocutors, Kai Nielsen and D.Z. Phillips, talk past one another, but finding the right words for appraising the distance between the ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
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Religion for Naturalists and the Meaning of Belief [PDF]

, 2019
This article relates the philosophical discussion on naturalistic religious practice to Tim Crane’s The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View, in which he claims that atheists can derive no genuine solace from religion. I argue that
Deng, Natalja
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
wiley   +1 more source

Revaluing the behaviorist ghost in enactivism and embodied cognition [PDF]

, 2019
Despite its short historical moment in the sun, behaviorism has become something akin to a theoria non grata, a position that dare not be explicitly endorsed.
Alksnis, Nikolai, Reynolds, Jack Alan
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Slow switching and the psychology of memory

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
This article presents elements of a theory of the representational contents of episodic memory and a new perspective on the relationship between memory and self‐knowledge. These two interrelated outcomes fall out of a novel naturalistic treatment of the debate concerning the compatibility between semantic externalism and a priori self‐knowledge.
Jay Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Realism and Anti-Realism outside the West: A Meta-Ethical Turn in Buddhist Ethics [PDF]

, 2013
In recent years, discussions of Buddhist ethics have increasingly drawn upon the concepts and tools of modern ethical theory, not only to compare Buddhist perspectives with Western moral theories, but also to assess the meta-ethical implications of ...
Davis, Gordon Fraser
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Error detection is not necessary for representation

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Some philosophers have recently proposed an error detection condition (EDC) for representation, such that for R$$ R $$ to be a representation for system S$$ S $$, S$$ S $$ must be capable of detecting errors in tokenings of R$$ R $$. We argue that this condition is unmotivated, and that it is too strong. We show that theories of representation that are
Ori Hacohen, Kenneth Aizawa
wiley   +1 more source