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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 104-122, March 2026.Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]
, 2012 It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T. Ryan
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Future in Educational Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 569-579, December 2025.ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
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Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and Vice
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1466-1485, December 2025.Abstract Recent approaches are unable to make full sense of Nietzsche's distinction between weak and strong skepticism (BGE 208–209; A54). In this paper, I propose an alternative interpretation. My suggestion is that this distinction is best understood in the context of his virtue epistemology.
Lorenzo Serini
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The Rule of St. Benedict and Modern Liberal Authority [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper I examine the sixth century ’Rule of St. Benedict’, and argue that the authority structure of Benedictine communities as described in that document satisfies well-known principles of authority defended by Joseph Raz.
Zagzebski, Linda
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Using Celebrity to Advance Equality
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
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The Epistemic Value of Expert Autonomy [PDF]
, 2018 According to an influential Enlightenment ideal, one shouldn't rely epistemically on other people's say-so, at least not if one is in a position to evaluate the relevant evidence for oneself.
Dellsén, Finnur
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The virtue of ignorance: How epistemic agency needs cognitive limitations
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 603-618, December 2025.Abstract The thesis defended in this article is that epistemology should treat some of our cognitive limitations not as unfortunate defects or external perturbations to be idealized away in theories of epistemic agency, but as necessary underpinnings of good reasoning.
Benjamin T. Rancourt
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Robust Pluralism About Philosophical Progress
Philosophical Issues, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 7-16, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article argues that there are two fundamentally different types of alethic and epistemic progress in philosophy. It is widely assumed that such progress is to be assessed by reference to the quantity or quality of philosophy's product (i.e., a type of output or outcome, such as true answers, coherent views, knowledge, or understanding ...
John Bengson +2 more
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