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Progress, Objectivism, and Philosophy of History: the Problem of Progress in Critical Theory

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I evaluate Rahel Jaeggi's theory of progress as outlined in her recent book Fortschritt und Regression. The central question of this paper will be whether Jaeggi's theory of progress in terms of an “accumulating problem‐solving process” can answer the critique of progress put forward by Amy Allen in The End of Progress.
Wouter Wiersma
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A Kantian Analytic of the Ugly [PDF]

, 2017
Kant’s theory of taste, as expounded in the Critique of Judgment, deals exhaustively with judgments of beauty. Rarely does Kant mention ugliness. This omission has led to a debate among commentators about how judgments of ugliness should be explained in ...
Buckman, Christopher
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From Craft to Nature: The Emergence of Natural Teleology [PDF]

, 2020
Thomas Johansen
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The Place for Form in Wollheim's Lectures on Formalism and Pictorial Organization

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract At the time of his death, Richard Wollheim was writing a short book on Formalism and Pictorial Organization. Much of it, but by no means all of it, had been published before (it has come out posthumously in its entirety in late 2025). Here I do two things. First, I have provided a rather detailed exegesis concentrating on the parts of the book
Gary Kemp
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A new social physic: The sociology of Gabriel Tarde and its legacy [PDF]

, 2013
This article aims to present a reconstruction of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology in order to highlight its current relevance. The author of the article attempts to show that its distinction lies in taking the immense diversity of ...
Tonkonoff
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The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
wiley   +1 more source

La razón y sus horizontes vitales en la fenomenología de Edmund Husserl [PDF]

, 2013
Husserl rejects the contrast between human life as an irrational factum and reason as an objectifying force that is hostile to life. Hence he moves away from the incompatibility between philosophy as science and philosophy of life.
Walton, Roberto Juan
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Why Does Pain Hurt?: How Evolutionary Theory Contradicts Materialism [PDF]

, 2023
In this essay I argue that Darwinian theory, far from supporting a philosophy of metaphysical materialism, actually calls materialism into question. Once this is recognized we see that evolutionary theory, for all its successes (which are considerable ...
Oxenberg, Richard
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Love and the Basis of Dignity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Vida y organismo: autopoiesis, teleología y posicionalidad plessneriana

Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía
In this paper, we argue that the Jonasian turn undergone by the Varelian autopoietic theory, which was intended to include a teleological complement to autopoiesis, can be replaced by the phenomenology of biology in the German philosopher Helmuth ...
Cristián Martínez Bravo
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