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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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Humanities, 2013 Richard Rorty was a strong contextualist in his approach to philosophical and political ideas, yet his own most characteristic arguments are typically evaluated without much reference to the historical circumstances that provoked them.
Brian Lloyd
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MORAL REALISM, ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’, AND TRANS+ RIGHTS
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 367-380, July 2025.Abstract Current debate on the validity of an ethical basis for trans+ rights is often expressed as a clash between moral norms based on a biological understanding of sex, and a social and cultural understanding of gender. I will argue a moral realist case for legal and political equality for trans+ people based on objective, universal, and shared ...
Maria Exall
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 249-268, July 2025.Abstract It is customary to present René Descartes as the initiator of the problem of other minds in modern philosophy. Briefly, the other minds problem is this. (1) Our acquaintance with thinking relies on inner observation or introspection. (2) In contrast, our observations of others can only access their body surfaces and behaviour.
Olli Lagerspetz
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Filozofia analityczna a filozofia transformacyjna (ANALYTIC AND TRANSFORMATIVE PHILOSOPHY) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2007 The paper was written in 1998 for a symposium organized in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the School of the Humanities at Stanford University, and first published in German translation in 2000.
Richard Rorty
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Rorty, Dewey, and the issue of metaphysics [PDF]
, 2010 „Rorty, Dewey, and the issue of metaphysics” című írásom keretében először összegzem a Rorty által Deweynak tulajdonított metafizika főbb vonásait, s az a felett gyakorolt, elsősorban a „természet” és a „tapasztalat” közti diszkontinuitást hangsúlyozó ...
Nyírő, Miklós
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Augustine, AI, and the Two Models of Language
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 217-238, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the two models of language articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Augustine. It examines first, the central roles of language in humans and intelligent machines, and second, the implications of these models for understanding what it means to be human, as well as the promises and limits of AI systems.
Kevin Jung
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Davidson between Wittgenstein and Tarski
Crítica, 2018 Davidson between Wittgenstein and ...
Richard Rorty
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A Modern Polytheism? Nietzsche and James [PDF]
, 2020 Polytheism is a strange view to hold in modernity. Connected as it is in the popular imagination with archaic, animistic, magical, prescientific systems of thought, we don’t hesitate much before casting it into the dustbin of history.
Rodgers, Jordan
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 607-628, May/June 2025.Abstract In conducting their research, academics engage in intellectual work. To illustrate the dynamic evolution of scholars collaborating over time, the development and use of critical systems heuristics (CSH) is taken as an example; historically, CSH consists of an intergenerational chain involving Churchman, Ulrich and Midgley, each a highly ...
Richard Ormerod
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