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Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism

open access: yesRatio, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 158-167, September 2026.
ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
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Nietzsche: Style and Perspectivism

open access: yes, 1990
Friedrich Nietzsche represents a radical departure from alroost all of the philosophical tradition which preceded him. His stylistic differences from the tradition in philosophy find their basis in his perspectivism1 a strong form of relativism ...
Paton, Blake Alexander
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The Materiality of the Ancient Dead – Post-burial Practices and Ontologies of Death in Southern Sweden AD 800–1200

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2016
This text discusses reuse and modifications of older graves in southern Sweden during the Late Iron Age and early medieval period (c. 9th to 12th centu- ries AD).
Fredrik Fahlander
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Perspectival Quantum Realism

open access: yesFoundations of Physics, 2022
AbstractThe theories of pre-quantum physics are standardly seen as representing physical systems and their properties. Quantum mechanics in its standard form is a more problematic case: here, interpretational problems have led to doubts about the tenability of realist views.
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EX MACHINA: Emotional Break‐Ups and Digital Breakdown with AI Companions

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 595-620, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines romantic relationships between humans and AI companions, focusing on how technological breakdowns are experienced as emotional crises. Drawing on digital ethnography and interviews, it explores how users interpret their AI's malfunctions—such as hallucinations, memory loss, or sudden shutdowns—through metaphors of illness ...
JENNIFER CEARNS
wiley   +1 more source

System as a Unifying Process: An Onto‐Epistemic Notion of System

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 1763-1772, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article proposes an onto‐epistemic notion of system as a relational process of unifying a multiplicity of actuals and abstractions into an actual unity, thereby encompassing concreteness and abstraction onto the same plane. This notion rejects the opposition between constructivism and realism within systems studies, the excessive focus on
Felipe Rodrigues Oliveira e Silva   +1 more
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Nietzsche's perspectivism

open access: yes, 2023
Nietzscheov perspektivizam je spoznajno stajalište koje podrazumijeva decentriranje spoznajnog subjekta te objašnjavanje i pobijanje načina i sredstava kojima čovjek antropocentrično i antropomorfno pristupa spoznaji zbilje.
Pavičić, Dario
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Le point de vue du sociologue sur le point de vue du groupe

open access: yesMethodos
To want to describe the world objectively, instead of commenting on texts, sociologists have come to underestimate the contribution of writing and the inevitable presence of a point of view. What are the perceptible traces from the sociologist’s point of
Jacques Siracusa
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Perspectivism and Special Relativity

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2021
The special theory of relativity holds significant interest for scientific perspectivists. In this paper, I distinguish between two related meanings of “perspectival,” and argue that reference frames are perspectives, provided that perspectival means ...
Mahdi Khalili
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Perspectival Instruments [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2022
AbstractDespite its potential implications for the objectivity of scientific knowledge, the claim that “scientific instruments are perspectival” has received little critical attention. I show that this claim is best understood as highlighting the dependence of instruments on different perspectives. When closely analyzed, instead of constituting a novel
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