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From Charles Secretan’s Сorrespondence with Felix Ravaisson. Secretan to Ravaisson

History 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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The Backside of Habit: Notes on Embodied Agency and the Functional Opacity of the Medium [PDF]

, 2020
In this chapter what I call the “backside” of habit is explored. I am interested in the philosophical implications of the physical and physiological processes that mediate, and which allow for what comes to appear as almost magic; namely the various ...
Brincker, Maria
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Natura vivente e natura inerte. Bergson e la tradizione del vitalismo francese [PDF]

, 2015
Il saggio "Natura vivente e natura inerte. Bergson e la tradizione del vitalismo francese" costituisce un capitolo di un volume collettaneo che ha per titolo "Metamorfosi delle differenze". Il saggio indaga una questione centrale del pensiero bergsoniano:
CONTINI, Annamaria
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"Der Mench [sic] ist ein Gewohnheitstier": Beckett and Habit

CoSMO, 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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The Unity of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics: Book \u395 according to the Interpretation of the Ancient Commentators [PDF]

, 2018
This paper discusses the three ancient commentaries on Book E of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics, that have been handed down to us. It aims to demonstrate the fundamental part played by their particular interpretation of Aristotle\u2019s doctrines in the ...
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
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Rethinking the Double Law of Habit with Maine de Biran

JoLMA
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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On Newton's Third Law and its Symmetry-Breaking Effects

, 2011
The law of action-reaction, considered by Ernst Mach the cornerstone of physics, is thoroughly used to derive the conservation laws of linear and angular momentum.
Pinheiro, Mario J.
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Pass it on: towards a political economy of propensity [PDF]

, 2008
The paper argues that the work of Gabriel Tarde on imitation provides a fertile means of understanding how capitalism is forging a new affective technology which conforms to a logic of propensity rather than to means-end reasoning.
Thrift, N. J.
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Embodying industrial transitions: Melancholy loss, interrupted habit and transitional memory after the end of a coal mine

Transactions 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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Jaume Serra Hunter : el pensament a la vida [PDF]

, 1985
Exposaré molt breument les dades biografiques, . les obres de Jaume Serra Hunter a que he tingut accés i una bibliografia, ben poca, sobre la seva personalitat.
Salas i Coderch, Jordi R.
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