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Before the Trial: Taxonomic Inference, AIDS, and the Limits of Evidence Appraisal

open access: yesJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 32, Issue 8, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Rationale Evidence‐based medicine (EBM) was founded to inform decisions about the care of individual patients. Its most developed appraisal tools, however, are calibrated primarily to the reliability of estimates produced within already constituted reference classes.
Frederick Arthur
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The soul of sophistry: Plato’s “Sophist” 226a9–231b9 revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper argues that the so-called 6th definition of the sophist found in the outer part of Plato's "Sophist" is a methodological passage meant to point out how the sophist is to be pursued properly if he is to be distinguished from the ...
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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PHILOSOPHY, SOPHISTICS AND DIALECTICS IN WESTERN AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHIC PARADIGMS

open access: yesThe Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "The Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science", 2021
An analysis of what the concepts and practices of philosophy, dialectics, sophistics are in the context of Western and Chinese paradigms of philosophy, is suggested in the article. Western philosophic tradition is based on the so-called Antique paradigm that exceeds from the idea of attaining happiness and avoiding suffering before the face of alien ...
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 306-324, September 2026.
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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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 240-265, June 2026.
Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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Plato's "Theaetetus" and "Sophist": What False Sentences Are Not

open access: yes, 1982
Plato's Theaetetus rejects four explanations of how someone could falsely believe something. The Sophist accepts an explanation of how someone could falsely believe something.
Rudebusch, George Hilding
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 656-672, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis

open access: yesEPJ 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Exemplary Rhetor: On Anti-Philosophy and Sophistics in Alain Badiou

open access: yesDistinctio : Journal of Intersubjective Studies, 2023
This article investigates the ambiguous status of rhetoric, situated between proper philosophy and mere sophistry, through Alan Badiou’s three exemplary figures of thought: the philosopher, the anti-philosopher, and the sophist. With the recent return of the sophist in politics in the form of populist politicians, contemporary rhetorical studies have ...
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Who Knows the Patient Best? An Epistemological Approach to Family‐Centered Care for Unconscious Patients in the Adult Intensive Care Unit

open access: yesNursing &Health Sciences, Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The adult intensive care unit is a complex, high‐acuity environment where critically ill patients frequently cannot communicate their needs, values, or preferences due to altered consciousness, sedation, or neurological impairment. This Discussion paper develops an epistemological framework for family‐centered care in adult intensive care ...
Julie Joseph
wiley   +1 more source

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