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Tanabe Hajime's Understanding of Kantian Teleology
Tanabe Hajime's Treatise on Kant's Teleology (1924) was very significant in two respects. First, his understanding of Kant's philosophy was well above the common level of Japanese students of that subject at that time.
3503, HIMI, Kiyoshi
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Finding Aristotle: An Unspoken Debt in Kant's Teleology [PDF]
[Winner of the 2024 Review of Metaphysics dissertation essay contest.] In the Critique of the Power of Judgment—Kant’s seminal work on teleology—Kant never once mentions the philosopher who is widely credited with inventing teleology, namely, Aristotle ...
Gonzalez, Juan Carlos
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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This paper introduces Modal Teleology, a novel metaphysical framework addressing three persistent philosophical challenges: the tension between free will and determinism, the hard problem of consciousness, and the conflict between cosmic purposelessness ...
孙瑞
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ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Structural Injustice and Self‐Development
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Azizjon Bagadirov
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ABSTRACT Causalists contend that you see a specific object (rather than a lookalike, or no object at all) because that object sits at the beginning of an appropriate causal chain that terminates in your visual experience. We argue that neither standard causalists nor their non‐causalist opponents can adequately accommodate a striking asymmetry between ...
Dominic Alford‐Duguid, Umrao Sethi
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A classification of teleology in biology & cosmology
Despite, or perhaps because of, its widespread use and contentiousness, there has sometimes been confusion about what exactly constitutes ‘teleology’.
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A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting
ABSTRACT This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and
Bruce D. McDonald III +9 more
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Difference‐Making Under Metaphysical Indeterminacy
ABSTRACT Many of the most pressing moral problems we face involve collective harms generated by large numbers of individually insignificant actions. Unlike triggering cases—where a threshold exists such that a single act could be decisive—non‐triggering cases lack any such sharp cutoff.
Jessica Li
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