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Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
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Empirical vitalism: observing an organism's formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Hueck CJ.
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That's Not a Thing: Reification as a Tool for Ethical Critique

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reification is a social pathology that occurs when we treat social relations as things independent of our collective agency. It is not simply a category mistake, nor is it an isolated error that any single individual can correct. Rather, reification involves a collective and systematic reflexivity deficit caused by the unjust, oppressive, or ...
Sonia Maria Pavel
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What homeostasis leaves out: Kinorhesis, a physiological principle of transformation. [PDF]

J Physiol
Horseman ND.
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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Natural history museum visitors' use of key concepts and misconceptions in written explanations of evolutionary scenarios. [PDF]

Public Underst Sci
Moormann A, Beniermann A, Fiedler D.
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Games Without Rules

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely assumed that all games essentially have rules. This paper challenges this apparent truism. We argue that rules are merely one means for generating obstacles: features that make success more difficult. We propose that obstacles, not rules, are essential to games. This shift comes with several theoretical benefits.
Alexandre Declos, Olivier Massin
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The epistemological foundations of organicism: a reconstruction of Steiner's Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung (1886). [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Hueck CJ.
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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The psychoneuroimmuneendocrine system, epigenetics, and the integration of morphogenetic fields: a systematic review of their role in unconscious ontogenesis. [PDF]

Front Syst Neurosci
Mundo SR, Moreno CF, Saldaña RB.
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