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The article looks at the foundations of Jan Patočka’s philosophy of negative Platonism. On the one hand, it pursues the negative-Platonic question of the essence of metaphysics and, on the other, Patočka’s analysis of the ontic-ontological difference as ...
Sladký, Pavel
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Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]
Abstract Ontic structural realism (OSR) is at its core the view that “structure is ontologically fundamental.” Informed from its inception by the scientific revolutions that punctuated the 20th century, its advocates often present the position as the perspective on ontology best befitting of modern physics. But the idea that structure
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Twisted at the Root: Capitalist Alienation, its Re‐Inscription, and Implications for Education
Abstract Capitalism inheres alienation as a fundament of modern life, twisting the root of being such that a sense of pervasive estrangement becomes the condition undergirding much of our phenomenal existence. Alienation, I argue, formed in the cleavage of capital mediation, leaves us reinscribing its tenor across multiple spheres, as we are compelled ...
Lana Parker
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The Absence of Self: An Existential Phenomenological View of The Anatman Experience [PDF]
This paper focuses on the Anatman experience as described by Guatma(6th century BCE). Many Buddhist philosophers consider the absence of self as a foundational experience of Buddhism.
Rudolph Bauer
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Experts, expertise and philosophy
This article outlines the relevance and significance of the philosophical analysis of the essence of expertise by drawing upon existing Western contributions within the “philosophy of expertise” and offering author’s vision of this issue.
Xenija Zborovska
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THE REVOLUTIONARY'S TWO TEMPORALITIES? Activism, Failure, and Uneventing
ABSTRACT Radical activists assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects and for their potential longer‐term consequences. Provisional failures can become resources for future victories, while erstwhile successes can dissolve after apparent achievement. Drawing from ethnography with Burmese revolutionaries, this article shows how activists
ELLIOTT PRASSE‐FREEMAN
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Towards an objectless ontology: A defence of ontic structural realism at the methodological level
In the context of contemporary debates on scientific realism, structural realism(SR), explicitly introduced by John Worrall (1989), has shown to be one of the most vigorous philosophical proposals.
Bruno José Borge
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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Juxtapositioning Populism and Professionalism
By denigrating expertise and challenging the value of evidence-based statements, advice and policies, populism challenges professions and professionalism. Arguably it is imperative for the professions to meet the challenge: but how?
Andrew Friedman
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Confined Ontic Open Systems [PDF]
Confined Ontic Open Systems is a new ecodynamic model based on Prigogine's thermodynamics, Ulanowicz's ontic openness and Coherence Domains with defined boundaries and constraints. The model has a wide range of applications, including ecosystems (e.g. invasive species, the lagoon of Venice), ecological economics, urban organization, the supra-molecular
TIEZZI, E., CECCONI, G., MARCHETTINI, N.
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