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The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
wiley   +1 more source

An Innate Despair: The Philosophical Limitations of Transhumanism and its Misplaced Hope in Human Enhancement. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Corby PM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Non-empirical methods for ethics research on digital technologies in medicine, health care and public health: a systematic journal review. [PDF]

Med Health Care Philos
Ursin F, Müller R, Funer F, Liedtke W, Renz D, Wiertz S, Ranisch R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prophetic promise: the lineal return of ‘lopp'd branches’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative power of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare's ...
Rana Banna
wiley   +1 more source

Gottfried Benn´s "brains" novella from 1916: implications for the philosophy of mind. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Wolf G.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Compassion in the justification of physician-assisted dying: Gandhi's non-violence vs. Aristotle's virtues and vices. [PDF]

Med Health Care Philos
Avci E.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Psychedelic Renaissance: A Catholic Perspective. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Carroll T.
europepmc   +1 more source