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Skepticism and Ontological Parsimony
ABSTRACT External world skepticism is often thought to entail that we should suspend judgment about the existence of the external world. I challenge this orthodoxy by arguing that, when combined with a plausible principle of ontological parsimony, the skeptical challenge intensifies into an argument for outright disbelief in the external world.
James H. McIntyre
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A guest at the table of the gods: Religion and the origins of academic life
Proceeding from the Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, this paper is an attempt to survey the historical premises of the academic study of religion, both as a practice of detaching the subject matter of
Peter Jackson
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The Examination of Conscience: A Preliminary Study on the Effects on Metamemory After a 2-Week Practice. [PDF]
De Pisapia N, Dall'Avanzi M.
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The aim of this paper is to reconsider the meaning of two title concepts of essential importance for the development of the European thought. The author makes an attempt to reconstruct the origin of Greek reflection referring to Paideia written by Werner
Bogusław Maryniak
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Why do we need agent-based macroeconomics? [PDF]
Cincotti S, Raberto M, Teglio A.
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HELLENISTIC PYTHAGOREAN EPISTEMOLOGY [PDF]
The paper offers a running commentary on ps-Archytas’ On Intellect and Sense Perception, with the aim to provide a clear description of Hellenistic/post-Hellenistic Pythagorean epistemology. Through an analysis of the process of knowledge and of the faculties that this involves, ps-Archytas presents an original epistemological theory which, although ...
Giulia De Cesaris, Phillip Sidney Horky
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success.
Barbara Weiden Boyd
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Symmetry fundamentalism in quantum mechanics. [PDF]
Schroeren D.
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The philosophical origins of vegetarianism. Greek Philosophers and Animal World
Coeval philosophical texts provide no information about the extent to which the Ancient World practiced vegetarianism or about its concrete aspects. However, they offer a rich array of the arguments used to both justify and promote it.
Letterio Mauro
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