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On locational sensory individuals and spacetime

Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 40-52, February 2025.
Perception not only registers property instances, but also connects with and attributes properties to individual entities—so‐called sensory individuals, or SIs. But what are SIs? The most‐discussed answers are: (i) SIs are ordinary material objects—cohesive, temporally persistent objects extended and bounded in space, and (ii) SIs are locations or ...
Jonathan Cohen
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The Silence of Socrates: The One and the Many in Plato’s Parmenides

Studia Gilsoniana, 2020
Parmenides was not a metaphysician (he was a materialist), so there is no such thing as Parmenidean metaphysics. Plato’s Parmenides, however, offers metaphysical insights otherwise overlooked by readers unfamiliar to what St.
Steven Barmore
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The Truth about Parmenides\u27 Doxa

, 2016
In a recent article in this journal, Néstor-Luis Cordero has offered an interesting account of how scholars may have been misreading Parmenides\u27 poem for centuries, as well as some provocative suggestions on how to correct that misreading.
Kurfess, Christopher
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A Cognitive Approach to Parmenides’ Two Ways of Enquiry [PDF]

, 2017
This paper discusses the notions of sleeping and waking metaphors, activation of metaphoricity and deliberate metaphor use in the poem of Parmenides of Elea.
Ferella, Chiara
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Dialectical critical realism, complexity and the psychology of blame

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 384-401, December 2024.
Abstract This essay considers the question of how to frame social complexity from the point of view of critical realism as it was developed in the direction of dialectics by Roy Bhaskar. One of the main objectives of dialectical critical realism (DCR) was to see dialectics as offering a more open and flexible way of handling social reality.
Alan Norrie
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Paul Natorp on Plato’s Ideas

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The research is focused on the analysis of Paul Natorp’s work Plato’s Doctrine of Ideas . The paper consists of three sections: 1) a definition of Platonic idea; 2) an analysis of the dialogue Parmenides ; and 3) a commentary on Natorp’s interpretation ...
Maja E. Soboleva
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Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Preliminaries to an Ontological Approach [PDF]

, 2006
It will be shown in this article that an ontological approach for some problems related to the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics could emerge from a re-evaluation of the main paradox of early Greek thought: the paradox of Being and non-Being, and the ...
Coecke, B., Verelst, K.
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Platonic qua predication

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 453-472, December 2024.
Abstract Platonic arguments often have premises of a particular form which is misunderstood. These sentences look like universal generalizations, but in fact involve an implicit qua phrase which makes them a fundamentally different kind of predication.
Rachel Barney
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Heideggerian Concealment: On Katherine Withy's Heidegger on Being Self‐Concealing

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 803-820, June 2025.
Mark A. Wrathall
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Philosophies of being in India I: Pluralism, nihilism, and monism

Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2024.
Abstract Is Being a mere sum of separate things variously re‐combined over time? Or is it not there at all, arising from nothing more than the projection of a fevered metaphysical imagination? Or might it be the intrawoven phenomenon of all we experience, grounded in a single underlying all‐determining nature? This is the first of a pair of articles on
Jessica Michelle Frazier
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