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The Force of Habit

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 104, Issue 3, Page 529-558, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Habits figure in action‐explanations because of their distinctive force. But what is the force of habit, and how does it motivate us? In this paper, I argue that the force of habit is the feeling of familiarity one has with the familiar course of action, where this feeling reveals a distinctive reason for acting in the usual way.
William Hornett
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Working in the gig economy is boring: Non‐encounters and the politics of detachment in platform capitalism

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 188, Issue 4, Page 534-545, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper develops the concept of the non‐encounter for geography in the context of the changing experience of gig economy work during COVID‐19. Supplementing political economy insights with a cultural geographic sensitivity to embodiment, we explore the fluctuating bodily capacities of food delivery drivers during the first year of the COVID‐
Elizabeth R. Straughan, David Bissell
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Responsibility for implicitly biased behavior: A habit‐based approach

open access: yes, 2022
Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 239-254, Summer 2022.
Josefa Toribio
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A mood for Philosophy

open access: yesLabyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2018
A mood for Philosophy (Abstract)   In this dialogue with Francois Laruelle Anne-Françoise Schmidt suggests that Laruelle's non-philosophy, which begins with an indecision, could be conceived as something that in the history of painting has been called ...
François Laruelle   +1 more
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From Charles Secretan’s Сorrespondence with Felix Ravaisson. Secretan to Ravaisson

open access: yesHistory of Philosophy, 2023
The article is dedicated to an unexplored subject in the history of spiritualism in the 19th century and considers two of its prominent representatives – the famous French spiritualist Felix Ravaisson (1813–1900) and the Swiss thinker Charles Secrétan (1815–1895).
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"Der Mench [sic] ist ein Gewohnheitstier": Beckett and Habit

open access: yesCoSMO, 2014
Habit plays an ambiguous role in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre: on the one hand, as he claims in his essay Proust, habit is merely considered as “the guarantee of a dull inviolability”, a protective screen dividing the subject from reality; on the other hand ...
Federico Bellini
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Rethinking the Double Law of Habit with Maine de Biran

open access: yesJoLMA
The history and the prehistory of the ‘double law of habit’ (DLH) is here reconstructed, from its first formulation like ‘law of habit’ with Joseph Butler (1736) to what is commonly considered its richest version, with Félix Ravaisson (1838), passing ...
Piazza, Marco
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Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 2, June 2025.
Short Abstract Geographical and interdisciplinary literatures often focus on the enduring losses engendered by industrial closure and economic change, describing the moment of deindustrialisation as a cut in the fabric of history. Alongside the stories of three former coal mine workers in Australia and China, this article reorients these melancholy ...
Vickie Zhang
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