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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 3-22, January 2026.
Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
wiley   +1 more source

D’Homère à la rhétorique : un certain art du mensonge

open access: yesCahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2014
There is an apology of lies – always shown as effective – and even a criticism of truth in the narratives in which Iphigenia, Philoctetes, Odysseus or the Trojan Horse are staged.
Alain Malissard
doaj   +1 more source

Legein to What End? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the 5th century a number of sophists challenged the orthodox understanding of morality and claimed that practicing injustice was the best and most profitable way for an individual to live.
Anderson, Merrick
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The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
At 252e1 to 253c9 in Plato’s Sophist, the Eleatic Visitor explains why philosophy is a science. Like the art of grammar, philosophical knowledge corresponds to a generic structure of discrete kinds and is acquired by systematic analysis of how these ...
Olof, Pettersson
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Teaching Students to Understand Knowledge: Stress‐Testing the ‘Justified True Belief Account’ for Critical Thinking

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 569-579, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
wiley   +1 more source

Sophisticated Monetary Policies [PDF]

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of Economics, 2008
In standard monetary policy approaches, interest-rate rules often produce indeterminacy. A sophisticated policy approach does not. Sophisticated policies depend on the history of private actions, government policies, and exogenous events and can differ on and off the equilibrium path.
Andrew Atkeson   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Infinite majesty : disabled and athletic métis in David Foster Wallace’s tennis writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As John Jeremiah Sullivan remarks in his introduction to String Theory, a collection of David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis, tennis “may be [Wallace’s] most consistent theme at the surface level.” As once an elite junior professional himself, Wallace
Rabe, Michelle Elizabeth
core   +1 more source

TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES

open access: yesHistory 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
wiley   +1 more source

ANTİK YUNAN’DA RETORİK ALGISI

open access: yesFelsefe Dünyası, 2014
Aristoteles’in Metafizik’teki ilk cümlesinden uyarlayarak söyleyecek olursak;her insan doğal olarak konuşmak ister. Konuşmaktan maksat bir kimseninkendini, yani düşüncelerini ifade etmesidir.
Kamil Kömürcü
doaj  

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