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Speculative Unity in Hegel's Restrictive Identity Claim

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel identifies thought with the ‘in itself’ of things. It is common to read the statement as an unrestricted claim regarding Hegel's metaphysical view of reality. I argue it should be read as the expression of what speculative truth achieves.
Ana Vieyra
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Le concept de vertu dans une perspective évolutive

Limbaj si Context, 2019
The results of the scientific interest in the concept of virtue presents a vast theoretical panorama extended in time and space. In antiquity as well as in the Age of Enlightenment, the notion of virtue is at the center of the concerns of philosophers ...
Ecaterina Foghel , Angela Coşciug
doaj   +1 more source

Difference and the Liberation of Sufficient Reason

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that every event and entity can be explained by a sufficient reason or cause. Philosophers have long struggled with the question of the PSR's compatibility with freedom, for if what occurs or exists follows necessarily from its sufficient reason then it seems it could not have been otherwise ...
Louis Matheou
wiley   +1 more source

Are rational expectations really rational? [PDF]

Economics Letters, 1992
Abstract This article investigates whether ‘rational expectations’ are really rational, i.e. whether they maximize agents' utilities in some way. For that purpose we construct a model where each agent may have a whole array of expectations schemes, including the rational expectations one.
openaire   +1 more source

Hume, Malebranche and 'rationalism'

, 2008
Traditionally Hume is seen as offering an 'empiricist' critique of 'rationalism'. This view is often illustrated - or rejected - by comparing Hume's views with those of Descartes'.
Kail, PJE
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Why Does Mengzi Consider Human Nature Good?

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines the theoretical relation between moral sentiments and the goodness of human nature in Mengzi's moral philosophy. Mengzi's claim that human nature is good is often understood through the heart of compassion and the sages' exemplary achievements.
Dobin Choi
wiley   +1 more source

THE KUHNIAN ASPECTS OF THE CHOMSKYAN SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM

Facta Universitatis Series: Linguistics and Literature, 2006
This paper analyzes Chomsky's system of grammatical description seeking elements that might prove that his approach, started in 1957 with the publication of Syntactic Structures, actually marked a scientific "leap" in the sense that Thomas Kuhn described
Đorđe Vidanović
doaj  

Why Bayesian Rationality Is Empty, Perfect Rationality Doesn't Exist, Ecological Rationality Is Too Simple, and Critical Rationality Does the Job [PDF]

Economists claim that principles of rationality are normative principles. Nevertheless, they go on to explain why it is in a person's own interest to be rational.
Max Albert
core  

Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Fundamentalism

Respectus Philologicus, 2016
The term fundamentalism was first used in 1910 in the United States with reference to the American Protestants who had literal understanding of the Bible and rejected the theory of evolution.
Marek Ruszkowski
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