Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2389869
Fatema Amijee
I show that unlike her rationalist predecessor Leibniz, Du Châtelet is committed to epistemic causal idealism about natural causes. According to this view, it is constitutive of natural causes that...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2376165
Clelia V. Crialesi
This paper presents a taxonomy of divisibilism, a philosophical perspective advocating for the infinite divisibility of continua. The taxonomy is founded on various conceptualizations of indivisibl...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2379977
Oliver Thomas Spinney
I argue that Helen Knight and Margaret Macdonald expressed views on the nature of ‘good’ in aesthetic contexts which anticipate to a striking extent the dispute between Peter Geach and R. M. Hare o...
我认为,海伦-奈特(Helen Knight)和玛格丽特-麦克唐纳(Margaret Macdonald)就美学语境中 "善 "的本质所表达的观点,在很大程度上预示了彼得-盖奇(Peter Geach)和R-M-黑尔(R. M. Hare)之间关于 "善 "的争论。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2373131
Nicholaos Jones
Fazang is a seminal figure for the tradition of Huayan Buddhism. Essay on the Golden Lion is the most widely translated into English of his writings. Yet systematic English-language scholarship on ...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2376169
Evgenia Mylonaki, Megan J. Laverty
It is often remarked that Iris Murdoch’s thought deeply influenced the landscape of twentieth-century moral philosophy. It is certainly true that she inspired a generation of Anglo-American philoso...
人们常说,艾里斯-默多克的思想深深影响了二十世纪道德哲学的格局。诚然,她启发了一代英美哲学家。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2376176
Roberto Zambiasi
This paper compares the conception of substantial change put forth by Peter of Mantua (d. 1399) in his De primo et ultimo instanti with the one developed by Albert of Saxony (ca. 1320–1390). Accord...
本文比较了曼图亚的彼得(卒于 1399 年)在其 De primo et ultimo instanti 中提出的实质性变化概念和萨克森的阿尔伯特(约 1320-1390 年)提出的概念。根据...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2373133
Johannes Lenhard
This paper revisits Wittgenstein’s heavily criticized claims about the admissibility of inconsistencies in mathematics. It argues from the perspective of mathematics as a tool and combines material...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2364032
Josh Wilburn
In 2019 I designed and taught two iterations of “Plato and Black Feminist Thought”, a special topics version of a course on Plato. It combined a reading of the Republic with texts from the Black fe...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2363388
Ekrem Çetinkaya
Aristotle grants perceptible qualities the power to generate sense perception in animals. But it is unclear whether, for him, these qualities can produce any effect other than perception. In this p...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2363390
Peter West
A number of recent papers or monographs have examined Susan Stebbing's criticisms of Arthur Eddington's scientific-philosophical writing. These papers focus on Stebbing's critique of Eddington's at...
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