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Complexity, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Complexity, Alan Richard Baker

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Ockham, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Ockham, Alan Richard Baker

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Incorporeal, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Incorporeal, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Food Crises And Global Warming: Critical Realism And The Need To Re-Institutionalize Science, Hugh Lacey, M. I. Lacey Jan 2010

Food Crises And Global Warming: Critical Realism And The Need To Re-Institutionalize Science, Hugh Lacey, M. I. Lacey

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Wittgenstein On Aspect-Seeing, The Nature Of Discursive Consciousness, And The Experience Of Agency, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2010

Wittgenstein On Aspect-Seeing, The Nature Of Discursive Consciousness, And The Experience Of Agency, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Smooth Space, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Smooth Space, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Majoritarian, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Majoritarian, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Oedipalisation, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Oedipalisation, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Inference To The Best Explanation, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Inference To The Best Explanation, Alan Richard Baker

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Epistemic Malevolence, Jason Baehr Jan 2010

Epistemic Malevolence, Jason Baehr

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Against the background of a great deal of structural symmetry between intellectual and moral virtue and vice, it is a surprising fact that what is arguably the central or paradigm moral vice—that is, moral malevolence or malevolence proper—has no obvious or well-known counterpart among the intellectual vices. The notion of “epistemic malevolence” makes no appearance on any standard list of intellectual vices; nor is it central to our ordinary ways of thinking about intellectual vice. In this essay, I argue that there is such a thing as epistemic malevolence and offer an account of its basic character and structure. Doing …


Review: Back To Darwin, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2010

Review: Back To Darwin, Timothy Shanahan

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Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2010

Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor

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The article discusses the rights of the human fetus involving a prejudice on a preference for one's own kind. It explains the important features, different theological justifications, and arguments for and against speciesism or birthism, which is like sexism and racism. It also cites the views of philosopher Immanuel Kant on human superiority over animals and the rights of handicapped newborns that does not justify giving similar rights to great apes.


Neither One Nor Many: God And The Gods In Plotinus, Proclus, And Aquinas, Eric Perl Jan 2010

Neither One Nor Many: God And The Gods In Plotinus, Proclus, And Aquinas, Eric Perl

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A Clever Ruse, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2010

A Clever Ruse, Timothy Shanahan

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What Writers Do. The Value Of Literary Imagination, Richard Thomas Eldridge Dec 2009

What Writers Do. The Value Of Literary Imagination, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Entrevista: Hugh Lacey, Revista, Hugh Lacey Nov 2009

Entrevista: Hugh Lacey, Revista, Hugh Lacey

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Hugh Lacey is Scheuer Family Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Senior Research at the Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), where he taught for thirty years, and researcher collaborator in the thematic project: "Gênese e significado da tecnociência: relações entre ciência, tecnologia e sociedade", USP/FAPESP. Between 1969 and 1971 he was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo and ever since he has developed an intense interaction with Brazilian Universities and Research Institutes, with many others visits. Some of his main research interests are: the interplay between facts and values, the relevance of the development of …


O Lugar Da Ciência No Mundo Dos Valores E Da Experiência Humana, Hugh Lacey Oct 2009

O Lugar Da Ciência No Mundo Dos Valores E Da Experiência Humana, Hugh Lacey

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Anthropological, Theological, And Ethical Aspects Of Human Life And Procreation, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2009

Anthropological, Theological, And Ethical Aspects Of Human Life And Procreation, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Procreative Beneficence, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2009

Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Procreative Beneficence, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Notes On The Human Embryo Debates, Christopher Kaczor Jul 2009

Philosophy And Theology: Notes On The Human Embryo Debates, Christopher Kaczor

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Was Moore A Moorean? On Moore And Scepticism, Peter Baumann Jun 2009

Was Moore A Moorean? On Moore And Scepticism, Peter Baumann

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Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Jeff Mcmahan, Christopher Kaczor Apr 2009

Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Jeff Mcmahan, Christopher Kaczor

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Review Of Tempoperformance Und Expressivität: Eine Studie Zwischen Musikpsychologie Und Musiktherapie, Jeffrey L. Wilson Apr 2009

Review Of Tempoperformance Und Expressivität: Eine Studie Zwischen Musikpsychologie Und Musiktherapie, Jeffrey L. Wilson

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Review Of "Art And Ethical Criticism" Edited By G. L. Hagberg, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2009

Review Of "Art And Ethical Criticism" Edited By G. L. Hagberg, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Review Of Russ Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford Studies In Metaethics, Vol 3, Eric Wiland Jan 2009

Review Of Russ Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford Studies In Metaethics, Vol 3, Eric Wiland

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The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2009

The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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This introductory article explains the coverage of this book, which is about the relations of complementarity and opposition between philosophy and literature. This book explores the interests for human life of specific genres of literature, considers broad modes of attention that have marked off certain large cultural periods from one another, traces workings of certain central literary devices for achieving attention and evaluates the use of literature as a practice in relation to the practices of inquiry, morality and politics. It also discusses the significance of the works of some philosophers in analyzing literary practice.


Reliabilism—Modal, Probabilistic Or Contextualist, Peter Baumann Jan 2009

Reliabilism—Modal, Probabilistic Or Contextualist, Peter Baumann

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This paper discusses two versions of reliabilism: modal and probabilistic reliabilism. Modal reliabilism faces the problem of the missing closeness metric for possible worlds while probalistic reliabilism faces the problem of the relevant reference class. Despite the severity of these problems, reliabilism is still very plausible (also for independent reasons). I propose to stick with reliabilism, propose a contextualist (or, alternatively, harmlessly relativist) solution to the above problems and suggest that probabilistic reliabilism has the advantage over modal reliabilism.


Is There A Value Problem?, Jason Baehr Jan 2009

Is There A Value Problem?, Jason Baehr

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Evidentialism, Vice, And Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2009

Evidentialism, Vice, And Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Xavier Zubiri: An Introduction, Brad E. Stone Jan 2009

Xavier Zubiri: An Introduction, Brad E. Stone

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In this essay, I seek to present Zubiri the man, the teacher, and the writer. Zubiri's influence as a philosopher is quite apparent given the large body of translations and secondary literature on him in many different languages and cultures.