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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
wiley   +1 more source

Unvollendetes: the Oxford Plato lexicon [PDF]

, 2007
In one obvious sense this paper is a misfit within a book that otherwise charts so much achievement. The unfinished project that it describes occupied the attention of two Scottish professors and, in its later reincarnation, a distinguished German ...
Whitaker, G.
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on Rational Reference: Theology as transcendental philosophy

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The Critical Kant famously held that our cognition requires intuition, or essentially singular representation. Kant is also often understood as taking a dismissive attitude toward his rationalist predecessors' accounts of how we cognize singulars or individuals.
Maya Krishnan
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Word in Greek Philosophy [PDF]

, 1990
What does it take to settle an argument or debate, for the classical Greek philosophers, and how does this compare with our modern ideas about resolving disputes?
Kolb, David
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The Very Idea of Seriousness

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What norms govern aesthetic conversations? In Hansen and Adams (2024), we argue for a norm we call, following Stanley Cavell, “the hope of agreement”, along with a requirement of “seriousness”, the “discipline of accounting for one's judgments”.
Nat Hansen, Zed Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Socratic Silence in the Cleitophon

Plato, 2018
Plato’s Cleitophon is the only dialogue in which Plato presents an unanswered rebuke of Socratic philosophy by an interlocutor. Consequently, most commentators have thus rejected the dialogue as inauthentic, or have otherwise explained away the ...
Alan Pichanick
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The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
wiley   +1 more source

'Philosophy' in Plato's Phaedrus

Plato, 2015
The Phaedrus depicts the Platonic Socrates’ most explicit exhortation to ‘philosophy’. The dialogue thereby reveals something of his idea of its nature. Unfortunately, what it reveals has been obscured by two habits in the scholarship: (i) to ignore the ...
Christopher Moore
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Moral Notions, with Three Papers on Plato [PDF]

, 2004
Morality is often thought of as non-rational or sub-rational. In Moral Notions, first published in 1967, Julius Kovesi argues that the rationality of morality is built into the way we construct moral concepts.
Ewin, R. E., Kovesi, Julius, Tapper, Alan   +2 more
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