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Postmodernism is not a Relativism. Communication Practices and Ethical Attitudes in some Postmodern Thinkers [PDF]
, 2007 The different “postmodern” philosophies that arose from the 1970s to the 1990s have often been considered as a kind of irrationalist-skeptical-relativist “ideology” or assorted amalgam, which in our time would dangerously take over the philosophical ...
Paz, Miguel Angel Quintana
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Nothing Rather than Something: A Zhuangzian Reappraisal of Nihilism
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 483-502, December 2025.ABSTRACT Nihilism comes from the Latin nihil, meaning “nothing.” It is the belief that nothing inherently governs existence: no values, principles, or ultimate meaning. Many philosophers treat this as an existential crisis: If there is no meaning to our lives and actions, why bother? This work challenges the assumption that nihilism is terrifying.
Christine Abigail L. Tan
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An ‘axe for the frozen sea’ : Estrin’s magic agential realism, insect thigmotaxis, and the problem with Kafka [PDF]
, 2014 This paper seeks to demonstrate how Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams: the Half Life of Gregor Samsa constitutes the first piece of magic agential realist literature about insects.
Chen, Melvin
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Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 4, October 2025.ABSTRACT This paper explores from an ethical standpoint how higher education institutions in three different countries (Canada, UK, and USA) have framed their policies containing guidelines in regard to the student usage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).
Christos Orfanidis
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Pragmatic Elements of Rawls’s Theory of Justice [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2016 In this article, in order to demonstrate the pragmatic elements of Rawls’s viewpoint, the developmental path of his A Theory of Justice shall first be investigated. This development has two phases: In the first phase, justice has an ethical-philosophical
Shahla Eslami
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What is "true" in internal realism? [PDF]
, 1996 This paper is a critical examination of Putnam's theory of truth as it evolves from metaphysical to internal realism. First, I analyze the model-theoretic argument that led Putnam to abandon the metaphysical concept of truth as correspondence and to ...
Medina, José
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Cognitive Theories of Galant Music at the Margins of Experience
Music Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 293-339, October 2025.ABSTRACT Leading cognitive studies of galant music treat schematism as both a device and an ethos. The devices – whether called pre‐fabs, tiles or schemata – undergird a mechanistic and passive ethos of inventiveness. In vision and practice, this constellation of approaches directs inquiry away from a musical depth that one contemplates and towards a ...
Edmund J. Goehring
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Los nuevos ateísmos. Visión teológica-filosófica
Estudios Eclesiásticos, 2016 Se ofrece una visión panorámica de las principales formas actuales de ateísmo, con la intención de abrir la mirada más allá de los denominados «nuevos ateísmos».
Gabriel Amengual Coll
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Deflationist Rorty|Rorty deflazionista
, 2022 The aim of this paper is to propose a reconstruction of Richard Rorty’s philosophy of mind aimed at showing both its systematic structure and the originality of some outcomes, not adequately underlined by critics. My starting point is an early paper, titled Incorrigibility as the Mark of the Mental, in which Rorty takes sides on the venerable question ...
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Two Varieties of Moral Exemplarism [PDF]
, 2018 References to moral exemplars run deep into the history of philosophy, as we find them featured in rather disparate context and approaches which span from virtue ethics to moral perfectionism, from existentialism to moral particularism. In the varied and
Marchetti, Sarin
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