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On Holisms: Insular, Inclusivist, and Postmodern

Zygon, 1998
Nancey Murphy's offer to take us “beyond liberalism and fundamentalism” is an exciting one: Who wants to be caught in the clutches of a fruitless theological dispute?
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Waarheidsteorieë en interpretasie 1

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1991
In this article two theories for the evaluation of the truth of interpretations of ancient written texts arc considered, namely, a correspondence theory of truth and a coherence theory of truth. The author opts for a coherence theory of truth.
Jan Botha
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Knowledge and Argument

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that knowledge plays a distinctive role in psychological explanation that weaker epistemic states cannot because it is robust in the face of counterevidence in a way that they are not. Being robust in the face of counterevidence makes your belief robust in the face of counterargument.
Spencer Paulson
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Hacia una visión no fundacionalista del concepto de solidaridad: liberalismo y solidaridad en Richard Rorty

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2013
Rorty invites us to abandon the belief that moral foundationalism of a universalist nature is useful for the moral progress of our societies. Instead, he suggests that post-modern secular liberalism and solidarity, understood as a local identification ...
Santiago De Zubiría
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Is Hyperpluralism Compatible with Dualist Constitutionalism? On Alessandro Ferrara's Conception of Multivariate Democratic Polity [PDF]

, 2017
In this essay I first set out the advantages the " multivariate democratic polity " framework proposed by Ferrara offers in comparison to other more consensus-based notions of democratic legitimacy.
Testa, Italo
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Democracy vs. demography : Rethinking politics and the people as debate [PDF]

, 2021
Rise of populist politics in the 21s century calls scholars and politicians alike to reflect upon the question of how politics and democracy have been understood. Drawing on the theory of hegemony, this article establishes a distinction between democracy
Palonen, Emilia
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Anxiety and Evidence

Philosophical Issues, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 17-28, October 2025.
ABSTRACT When does an agent possess a proposition P as evidence? According to Timothy Williamson, the answer is when, and only when, they know that P. Call this view E = K. In this article, I point out an unwanted consequence of E = K, which is that people who suffer from anxiety have impoverished empirical evidence due to their anxiety.
Rhys Borchert
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Justification and Inquiry: Resolving the Easy Knowledge Problem

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Bootstrapping and the easy knowledge problem can be understood as puzzles about conflicting intuitions. On one hand, each step of the inference seems correct, but on the other, the overall process seems unacceptable. These puzzles will be resolved by establishing two distinctions.
Guido Melchior
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Social Theory and Navigating Indeterminacy: A Configurational Analysis of Iranian Youth’s Identity Construction in Contemporary Iran

Societies
An emerging disparity within contemporary social science highlights a disconnection between the world in the process of metamorphosing and cosmopolitanization and the knowledge of the social world that is still trapped in the cognitive assumptions of ...
Abbas Jong
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Everything for the Nation: The Re-founding and Return of the State in the Bolivarian Revolutions

Íconos, 2015
This article examines the so-called return of the state in the three Bolivarian Revolutions (Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador) analyzing the discourses of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa.
Felipe Burbano de Lara
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