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Against Modal Humeanism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ted Sider defends mereological nihilism against the possibility of gunk. He argues that if we accept modal Humeanism, then the possibility of gunk poses no threat to nihilism. This paper argues that Sider's argument fails because nihilism remains vulnerable to the possibility of gunk, even under modal Humeanism.
Sanggu Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Nietzsche on nihilism [PDF]

, 2016
Nietzsche, though he used various senses of ‘nihilism’, had two main conceptions: nihilism as the belief that life is meaningless (which I term ‘value-nihilism’), and nihilism as negation of life.
Yates, Dominic
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On Our Cosmic (In)significance

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses three interpretations of cosmic significance, all of which reveal something important about the notion of significance. Along the way, it proposes a unified view of significance by combining elements of each of the views.
Oskari Sivula
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Film, nihilism and the restoration of belief

, 2013
Despite the clichés which govern much of its current forms, the cinema continues to have a vital political and aesthetic significance. Our commitment to, and our sincerity towards, our ways of being in the world have become catastrophically eroded ...
Ambrose, D.
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“We Can No Longer Live by the Domostroi”: The Riddles of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes the rebuses (picture riddles) of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva. It argues that despite their seemingly modest nature as artefacts of everyday leisure, Mordovtseva used these puzzles to make radical claims and assert herself as a public intellectual.
Ksenia Butuzova, Julia Mannherz
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Justification to Others Is Authorization by Non‐Rejectable Principles

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A compelling idea in ethics is that right and wrong is a matter of one's choices being justifiable to others. Contemporary contractualism in particular takes this idea as a starting point. There are, however, different ways to articulate the compelling idea within a contractualist theory.
Per Algander
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Renaissance of the Trinitarian: Erwin Schadel's Integral Perspective

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 979-994, October 2026.
Abstract Erwin Schadel (1946–2016), a central yet little‐known figure of the so‐called Bamberg School, developed a distinctive triadic ontology that deserves attention within the contemporary renaissance of Trinitarian thought. Drawing on Augustinian and Comenian sources, Schadel articulates a relational grammar of being through the categories of in ...
Matteo Raffaelli
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Russian Nihilism and Chinese Thought: The Experience of Integration in the Context of Tradition

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The exploration of nihilism in the context of traditional values concept formation concept in Russia and China is currently very relevant both because of the socio-cultural challenges facing both civilizations, and in connection with their foreign policy
Dmitriy D. Romanov, Yayue Liu
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Teaching Skepticism or Nihilism? Critical Thinking Education as a Signal Detection Problem

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT A central goal of critical thinking courses is to help students distinguish science from pseudoscience, and more generally, warranted from unwarranted claims. Prior studies show that such courses reduce belief in unwarranted claims, but whether this reflects improved discriminability, a response bias shift, or both remains unclear.
Anthony J. Bishara
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THE IMPACT OF THE LAW VALUES TO OVERCOME LEGAL NIGILISM

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна Серія: «Право», 2019
The article substantiates the idea that in the process of the formation and development of the foundations of a civil society and the rule of law, legal nihilism continues showing to a certain extent its potential and thus inhibiting progressive legal ...
M. Voronov, I. Voronova
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