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Spinoza on Teleology, Action, and Explanatory Overdetermination

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that Spinoza rejects teleological explanations wholesale. This is because of three of his distinctive theses: his naturalism, according to which all things are governed by the same laws; his account of action, according to which we are active to the extent that we have adequate ideas; and his account of adequate causation, according to
Stephen Harrop
wiley   +1 more source

Prophetic promise: the lineal return of ‘lopp'd branches’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative power of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare's ...
Rana Banna
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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
wiley   +1 more source

Is There Such a Thing as Theological Medicine? [PDF]

open access: yesLinacre Q
von Schwarz ER   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

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