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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Analytic philosophy for biomedical research: the imperative of applying yesterday's timeless messages to today's impasses [PDF]
The mantra that "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" (attributed to the computer scientist Alan Kay) exemplifies some of the expectations from the technical and innovative sides of biomedical research at present.
A Armiento +166 more
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Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON +2 more
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ABSTRACT “Creative discretion”—defined as street‐level bureaucrats' use of their discretion to generate novel and useful ideas for customizing services to meet the needs of service users, superiors, and themselves—is vital as governments shift from traditional public management to a more user‐centered approach, emphasizing responsiveness over ...
Liesbeth Faas +3 more
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Signification et vérité dans les écrits philosophico-mathématiques de Jacob Klein
Jacob Klein’s account of historicity belonging to the basic units of meaning in ancient Greek and modern European thought is presented and examined in relation to the “meaning of Being” in Heidegger’s phenomenological thought and Husserl’s account of ...
Burt C. Hopkins
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Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato [PDF]
In this essay, we consider the formal and ontological implications of one specific and intensely contested dialectical context from which Deleuze’s thinking about structural ideal genesis visibly arises. This is the formal/ontological dualism between the
Bova, John, Livingston, Paul M.
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The Philosophical Basis of the method of antilogic [PDF]
The paper is devoted to the sophistic method of "two-fold arguments" (antilogic). The traditional understanding of antilogic understood as an expression of agonistic and eristic tendencies of the sophists has been in recent decades, under the influence ...
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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In Plato’s dialogue the Sophist, the subject of the image holds a central place. In fact, the sophist can be captured by the interlocutors in so far as this sophist – he him self a skilled image maker – is caught in one of the kinds of images.
Alfonso Flórez
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Dangerous Voices: On Written and Spoken Discourse in Plato’s Protagoras [PDF]
Plato’s Protagoras contains, among other things, three short but puzzling remarks on the media of philosophy. First, at 328e5–329b1, Plato makes Socrates worry that long speeches, just like books, are deceptive, because they operate ...
Olof, Pettersson
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