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Sidgwick’s coherentist moral epistemology [PDF]
, 2012 I discuss the ideas of common sense and common-sense morality in Sidgwick. I argue that, far from aiming at overcoming common-sense morality, Sidgwick aimed purposely at grounding a consist code of morality by methods allegedly taken from the natural ...
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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SENSORY EXPERIMENTS, SENSORY ORDERS, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 146-155, March 2025.ABSTRACT Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
Premesh Lalu
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 35-51, January 2025.Abstract Some philosophical pluralists argue that a top‐down and a bottom‐up approach serve as equally justified methods for engaging in ontological inquiry. In the top‐down approach, we start with an analysis of theory and extrapolate from there to the world.
Ragnar van der Merwe
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Discussion: Darwin's argument in the origin [PDF]
, 1992 Various claims have been made, recently, that Darwin's argumentation in the Origin instantiates and so supports some general philosophical proposal about scientific theorizing, for example, the "semantic view".
Hodge, M.J.S.
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Getting to know you: Accuracy and error in judgments of character [PDF]
, 2020 Character judgments play an important role in our everyday lives. However, decades of empirical research on trait attribution suggest that the cognitive processes that generate these judgments are prone to a number of biases and cognitive distortions ...
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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Slavery's absence from histories of moral and political philosophy
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue S1, Page 54-67, September 2024.Abstract At a time when many institutions of higher learning are reflecting on their past complicity with chattel slavery, either in terms of the sources of their funding or their use of slave labor, philosophy as an academic discipline has been largely silent about its own complicity. Questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a
Robert Bernasconi
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 3, Page 604-639, May 2024.This article considers the extra‐judicial work of Lord Diplock in the domain of national security in the context of his life and judicial work. It first considers briefly the role of judicial biography in understanding the work of judges and then the particular considerations which apply to such biography in the context of national security law and ...
Paul F. Scott
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Beyond the "common context" : the production and reading of the Bridgewater Treatises [PDF]
, 1998 The Bridgewater Treatises were among the most widely circulated books of science in early nineteenth-century Britain, yet little is known of their contemporary readership.
Topham, J.R.
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Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.Abstract This essay reads Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843–1853) as an example of Victorian imitative art by reading it through the lens of Victorian domestic handicraft. It does so in order to resituate Atkins's work within the history of scientific visualization and to contribute to the increasing complexity ...
Sophia Franchi
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