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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Criticism of Religion in the Philosophy of the Sophists

Ideas and Ideals, 2022
The article deals with the socio-historical conditions of the formation of criticism of religion in the philosophy of sophists. It is shown that there were two directions in the religious criticism of the sophists. The first direction was associated with religious agnosticism. Protagoras defended the idea of the incomprehensibility of the gods.
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Hermeneutics of Aristotle and Hermeneutics of Sophists in Terms of Dialogue Philosophy. Part II. From Sophists to Modernity

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2021
The article considers the logical and philosophical doctrine of sophists, which, according to some modern researchers, was more philosophical than their ancient critics recognized. A comparison of the provisions of Aristotle's hermeneutics with preserved fragments of Protagoras and Gorgias shows that the doctrine of sophists was a kind of holistic ...
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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City

Public Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 1022-1037, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
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Martin Heidegger’s Path to an Aesthetic ετηος [PDF]

, 2005
Martin Heidegger is infamous for his rejection of the validity of Ethics as a philosophical endeavour and moreover, for his aesthetic formulation of ετηος.
Brook, Angus
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Performing paideia: literature as an instrument for social promotion in the fourth century A.D. [PDF]

, 2013
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Van Hoof, Lieve
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence‐Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The epistemology of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) is said to clash with the culture of surgery: EBM demands contemplation, whereas surgeons prize decisive, and even heroic, action. How, then, have surgeons come to embrace EBM? To answer this question, I analysed evidence‐based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and interviewed 15 attending ...
Clay Davis
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato

Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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Qua‐Talk and Other Forms of Quackery: Part Two

Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This is the second part of a two‐part paper, the first part having appeared in issue 11 of volume 20 of Philosophy Compass. Part One covers the use of the “qua” locution in connection with David Lewis, Kit Fine, and Donald Davidson. Part Two covers the use of “qua” in Aristotle, Spinoza, and Kant.
James Van Cleve
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The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis

EPJ Data Science
We explore the influence and interconnectivity of philosophical thinkers within the Wikipedia knowledge network. Using a dataset of 237 articles dedicated to philosophers across nine different language editions (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German ...
Guillaume Rollin, José Lages
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