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Aristotle on pre-Platonic theories of sense-perception and knowledge

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
This paper is an attempt to make sense of Aristotle’s polemic –and, if taken at face value, quite evidently wrong– contention that the ancient thinkers globally failed to distinguish thought and knowledge from sensation.
Luis Andrés Bredlow
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Tracing the Dynamics of Errors. Albert the Great and the Presocratics on the Void

Noctua
This article brings to light a complex ‘dynamic of errors’ which Albert, in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Physica, uses to elaborate on the problem of the void.
Federica Ventola
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Los Antecedentes Presocráticos de la Teoría Estoica de Conflagración

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2022
In this paper, I explore the Presocratic antecedents of the Stoic theory of conflagration and argue that, even though three central theses of this theory have solid antecedents in Presocratic physics, the logical connection between them is a Stoic ...
Ricardo Salles
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Class, race, gender and the production of knowledge: considerations on the decolonisation of knowledge [PDF]

, 2020
How do class, race and gender impact on the production of knowledge? Is it enough to include those who have been excluded from advanced knowledge? Or has knowledge itself been tainted by the exclusions of class, race, gender and colonial conquest? How to
Sheehan, Helena
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From polemic to exegesis: The ancient philosophical commentary [PDF]

, 2007
Commentary was an important vehicle for philosophical debate in late antiquity. Its antecedents lie in the rise of rational argumentation, polemical rivalry, literacy, and the canonization of texts.
Baltussen, J.
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Thoughts on the structure of the history of Africana philosophy

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue S1, Page 17-37, September 2024.
Abstract This article seeks to comment insightfully on the way things hang together as we try to chart the history of Africana philosophy. It does so through reflections on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast, part of Peter Adamson's larger series, the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps.
Chike Jeffers
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The Presocratics on the Origin of Evil

Religions
This paper argues that reflections on evil and its origin formed part of philosophical inquiry already in the times of the Presocratics. It considers only those thinkers whose contribution to the issue may be characterised as noteworthy: Anaximander, the
Viktor Ilievski
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Certa via cap a l’ànima del món

BRAC, 2023
L’any 2021 un col·lectiu d’artistes va inaugurar a Girona una instal·lació que mereix una anàlisi detallada, donada la densitat de referències que presenta. El col·lectiu va titular la instal·lació Incerta via, un projecta on explícitament pretenien fer
Roger Ferrer
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 401-414, July 2024.
Abstract This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's ...
Louis Groarke
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