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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Categoricity

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 268-275, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 128-141, July 2026.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 531-561, July 2026.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Is Hobbes Really an Antirealist about Accidents?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2018
In Metaphysical Themes, Robert Pasnau interprets Thomas Hobbes as an anti-realist about all accidents in general. In opposition to Pasnau, we argue that Hobbes is a realist about some accidents (e.g., motion and magnitude).
Sahar Joakim, C. P. Ragland
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking the Normative Foundations of the Stakeholder Theory Through the Civil Economy Approach: Insights From a Relationality‐Based Anthropological Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1593-1603, July 2026.
ABSTRACT A growing enthusiasm to reconsider the normative foundations of the stakeholder theory is spreading in related literature. Current research mainly focuses on religious, spiritual, and philosophical underpinnings to reexamine these foundations.
Roberta Sferrazzo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

El contrato social en Hobbes: ¿absolutista o liberal? Hobbes’ Social Contract: Absolutist or Liberal?

open access: yesEstudios Políticos, 2010
En este artículo se presentan los elementos centrales del modelo contractualista clásico de legitimación del Estado, expuesto por Thomas Hobbes en el Leviatán. Se cuestiona la interpretación propuesta por Leo Strauss sobre la filosofía política de Hobbes,
Francisco Cortés Rodas
doaj  

Thomas Hobbes, fundador de la filosofía política moderna

open access: yesEstudios de Derecho, 1975
Thomas Hobbes, fundador de la filosofía política moderna.
Hernán Valencia Restrepo
doaj  

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