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The Changing Discourse of the Supreme Court [PDF]
, 2014 [Excerpt] “Academics, judges, and other commentators complain that, for the past few decades, the Justices on the Supreme Court have been increasingly writing opinions that are unreadable for most American citizens.
Johnson, Stephen M.
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De‐Coupled Water and Nitrogen Translocation From Subsoil to Canopy of Temperate Forest Trees
Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Water and nitrogen (N) transport from soil to canopy play a central role in tree functioning, yet direct evidence for their timing and coupling in mature forests remains scarce. We report results from a paired dual‐isotope (2H, 15N) tracer experiment in a temperate forest, comparing water and nitrate uptake patterns across tree species ...
Klara Mrak +7 more
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Moral Luck from Bernard Williams’ Point of View
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2016 Moral luck is an important issue in meta- ethics. Its conflict to principle of control make challenges to moral moral assessment, moral judgment and moral responsibility.
Zahra Khazai ; Fatemeh Tamaddon
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Próba analizy typologii racji Thomasa Nagela z uwzględnieniem kategorii archetypu
Logos i Ethos, 2019 Artykuł jest próbą spojrzenia na zaproponowaną przez Thomasa Nagela typologię racji do działania w świetle teorii archetypów, w celu wstępnego zbadania, czy kategoria archetypu może przyczynić się do lepszego rozumienia poszczególnych typów racji.
Weronika Wojtanowska
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Epistemological Realism and Onto-Relations [PDF]
, 2014 The traditional concept of knowledge is a justified true belief. The bulk of contemporary epistemology has focused primarily on that task of justification. Truth seems to be a quite obvious criterion—does the belief in question correspond to reality?
Andrews, Max Lewis Edward
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Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clothing. But this raises a puzzle: How can you touch someone without directly touching the surface of their body?
William Hornett, Robert Morgan
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A Hyporeflective Response to the Absurd
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If life is absurd in that we cannot help but desire the unattainable, then there is prima facie reason to lament the absurd whenever we are confronted with it. This is an intuitive idea: it is fitting to be disappointed by what is essentially disappointing.
Thom Hamer
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THOMAS NAGEL E A TELEOLOGIA ARISTOTÉLICA-TOMISTA
Journal of Teleological Science, 2021 A concepção materialista do mundo, apoiada pela teoria da evolução, tem sido oposta à prova da existência de Deus pela ordem do mundo (a quinta via de São Tomás). Embora a explicação darwiniana não se oponha diretamente à existência de Deus, em algumas de suas formulações contemporâneas (Dawkins, Gould, Wilson e Lewontin, por exemplo) isso é assumido ...
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Foucault states that escaping from Hegel “requires knowing to what extent Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it requires knowing what remains Hegelian in that which allows us to think against Hegel, and measuring to what extent our maneuvers against him are perhaps a ruse he has set for us, at the end of which he awaits us, motionless
Bruce Baugh
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A Match Made in (Rational) Heaven? How Credences Relate to Probability Beliefs
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much has been said about the relation between credences and beliefs. Surprisingly little, however, has been said about how credences more specifically relate to probability beliefs. In this paper, I will argue that they are normatively related. This proposal goes against belief‐first reductionism, which says that credences just are probability
Roman Heil
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