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In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon’s Metaphysics after Lenin

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 210-236, January 2026.
Abstract Donald MacKinnon expressed a distinctly realist and actualist metaphysic. One aspect of his metaphysics that is less frequently commented upon, however, is his reception of Vladimir Lenin. While not an unqualified admirer of Bolshevism, it is readily apparent that MacKinnon incorporated elements of Lenin’s philosophy and theories regarding ...
Khegan M. Delport, Dritëro Demjaha
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Les réalités conceptuelles et leur ancrage matériel

Corela, 2007
After reminding us of the criticisms addressed both by and at cognitive (so-called “Californian”) semantics, in terms of referentialism, representationalism, realism or objectivism, the article proposes a reflection on the material anchoring points of ...
Guy Achard-Bayle
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Constructivism in the Shadow of a Dead God

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
Objectivism and/or positivism are dead, leaving constructivism as the dominant philosophical position in the SoTL and educational development communities.
Michael Potter
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Rational Internalism [PDF]

, 2016
I describe and motivate Rational Internalism, a principle concerning the relationship between motivating reasons (which explain actions) and normative reasons (which justify actions). I use this principle to construct a novel argument against Objectivist
Asarnow, Samuel
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1274-1290, December 2025.
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
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Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This provocation calls readers to think more deeply about the role anthropology could play in radically disrupting plant blindness. Thanks to Environmental Humanities, the natural world is no longer apprehended as a mere backdrop to human activity.
Laura Rival
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Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism [PDF]

, 2016
Subjectivism about reasons is the view that a person has a reason to perform act A if she has some motivation to do A, or would have motivation to do A in certain circumstances.
McDonald, Fritz J.
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The indispensable mental element of justification and the failure of purely objectivist (mostly “revisionist”) just war theories [PDF]

, 2020
The “right intention” requirement, in the form of a requirement that the agent must have a justified true belief that the mind-independent conditions of the justification to use force are fulfilled, is not an additional criterion, but one that constrains
Steinhoff, Uwe
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Defining mental disorder. Exploring the 'natural function' approach

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2011
Due to several socio-political factors, to many psychiatrists only a strictly objective definition of mental disorder, free of value components, seems really acceptable.
Varga Somogy
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The Moral Argument, Existential Problems of Evil, and a Non-Existential Alternative [PDF]

, 2019
Within this paper, it is shown that certain ethical assumptions are implicit within the claim that certain kinds of evil exist. When taken in tandem with the moral argument for the existence of God, these assumptions can be arranged in such a way as to ...
Smith, Jonathan
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