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Philosophy
Brandon Smith
Summary: This article explores Spinoza's distinctive contribution to the eudaimonistic tradition, highlighting how he considers mind and body to be ontologically and ethically identical and equal.
DIALOGUE-CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW
(2023)
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Philosophy
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Summary: Indigenous language activists often discuss incommensurability, linking language and knowledge as integral elements of Indigenous ways of life that cannot be separated. According to these scholar-activists, what cannot be translated in Indigenous languages often reflects what is incomparable in Indigenous worlds. This article draws upon Indigenous language-reclamation work to outline a nonexhaustive taxonomy of incommensurability in Indigenous philosophy of language, and suggests ways in which coalition relationships can be built to accommodate different varieties of incommensurability.
HYPATIA-A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
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Philosophy
Zachary J. Joachim
Summary: "Prolegomena to Pure Logic" is Husserl's definitive statement on early logic, presenting two conflicting ideas of what logic is - Austrian Semanticism and German Idealism.
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Ethics
Giannis Ninos
Summary: This article provides a detailed analysis of Ilyenkov's conception of the relationship between the logical and the historical. It argues that Ilyenkov's approach marks a significant advance in the understanding of dialectics in the history of Marxism, particularly in his deeper understanding of the inner unity of the method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete and the relation of the logical and the historical.
STUDIES IN EAST EUROPEAN THOUGHT
(2023)
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Francesca Poggiolesi
Summary: This paper examines internal mathematical explanations, which refer to the proofs of mathematical theorems that seem to provide an explanation for the theorem itself. The paper aims to rigorously analyze these explanations in two steps: first, by demonstrating how to transform informal proofs into a formal presentation using proof trees and element decomposition; second, by showing that math proofs with explanatory power exhibit an increase in conceptual complexity from assumptions to conclusions.
PHILOSOPHIA MATHEMATICA
(2023)
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Louis Gularte
Summary: This paper argues that if anyone fully understands another person's suffering, their only possible evaluative attitude towards that suffering is to be intrinsically against it. The author argues that any evaluative attitude other than being against suffering would make our own suffering less emotionally aversive, and that understanding another person's suffering requires us to represent their experiential instance of that suffering. Therefore, suffering is objectively bad and indifference towards someone's suffering is only possible if we don't fully understand their experience.
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Vida Yao
Summary: Recent interest in transformative experiences is motivated by L. A. Paul's arguments that these experiences challenge our pursuit of rational self-realization. If these experiences reveal information that was previously unavailable to us, how can we be rational, authentic, and autonomous masters of our own lives? The author challenges the ideal of rational self-realization proposed by Paul.
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Philosophy
John Martin Fischer
Summary: In this article, the author revisits their previous work and argues against Bernard Williams's claim that immortality would inevitably be boring. They point out the biased and distorted treatment of the issues by Williams in subsequent debates.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Philosophy
Pierrick Bourrat
Summary: The paper discusses the possibility that the level at which selection occurs, either at the multilevel or individual level, may be a matter of convention rather than fact. It proposes an alternative perspective that considers groups as a target of selection, supported by theoretical basis.
Article
Ethics
Anna Yu Lee, Curtis Lehmann, Pengchong Zhou, Bin Xie, Kim D. Reynolds, Alan W. Stacy
Summary: This study develops and evaluates a novel survey measure for assessing moral evaluations of patient substance misuse (ME-PSM). The results suggest that ME-PSM is higher among younger health professionals, nurses, and Chinese health professionals.
PHILOSOPHY ETHICS AND HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE
(2023)
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Ethics
Jim Hutchinson
Summary: Frege's systematic conception of science, which emphasizes the Simplicity Requirement, has a significant influence on his work. Acknowledging the central role of this requirement helps illuminate several aspects of his work in new ways.
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC
(2023)
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Ethics
Markus Bohlmann
Summary: Conceptual engineers should consider the learnability of concepts in their designs, as implementing a concept requires institutional learning in society. The learning sciences have four key implications for conceptual engineering, including adequacy criteria, conceptual prevalence, the normativity of concepts, and empirical evidence, which are significant for future interdisciplinary exchanges between the learning sciences and conceptual engineering.
INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
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Philosophy
Barbara Chyrowicz
Article
Philosophy
Christopher Mole
Summary: In recent philosophical research on attention, some authors have argued that attention is not the same as any cognitive process, while others have criticized this argument. This article addresses these criticisms and demonstrates the validity of the original argument. It also shows that the argument cannot be countered by considering attention as a combination of different processes, as a genus composed of various species, or as a process-determinable with specific cognitive processes as determinates. The metaphysical position that best accommodates the conclusion of this argument is a version of adverbialism. It should be understood as a claim about the essence of attention. Some of the confusion in this area stems from the difficulty of explaining this claim in modal terms.
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
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Philosophy
Pierre Steiner
Summary: Enactivism's primary philosophical roots are in phenomenology, not pragmatism. However, there can still be benefits from interpreting enactivism through a pragmatist lens and vice versa. This paper focuses on the concept of intentionality and examines how enactivists and pragmatists differ in their views. It questions whether they can converge on a shared, non-representational conception of intentionality.
PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2023)
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Asian Studies
David E. Soles, Deborah H. Soles
Summary: This paper examines Zhuangzi's ethical standpoint and the debate with Ivanhoe's viewpoint, concluding that Zhuangzi is an ethical nihilist who rejects all ethical positions.
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Education & Educational Research
Kenneth Driggers, Deron Boyles
Summary: This article discusses the controversy surrounding truth in the current era of fake news and misinformation. The author examines the epistemic commitments of foundationalism and coherentism, as well as the potential intersections between the two through pragmatism. The goal of the paper is to clarify the role of truth and facts in cognitive thinking and to highlight the untenable position of relativism in education.
STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
(2023)
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Philosophy
Fredrik Svenaeus
Summary: This paper explores the possibility of leading a good life during the process of aging, despite the physical decline and loss of close relationships that often accompany old age. Drawing insights from phenomenologists, it emphasizes the importance of embodied experiences, life choices, and intergenerational intersubjectivity, offering a different perspective from Simone de Beauvoir's model of becoming old.
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY REVIEW
(2023)
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Jakub Wegrecki
Summary: This paper discusses the Operator Argument against eternalism, presents two strategies to address the argument, and argues in favor of adopting Timestamp Semantics as a superior approach.
Article
Philosophy
Felix Kopecky
Summary: Computational models have shown that polarization can occur among deliberating agents. This paper further supports this thesis and suggests that polarization is not dependent on memory restrictions or biased evaluations. Deliberation is modeled through introduction of arguments and rational reactions, which in turn induce polarization dynamics. The size of polarization effects is correlated with specific types of argumentative behavior. Taking others' opinions into account can mitigate polarization effects, while reinforcing one's own beliefs can amplify them. These results underline the relevance of argumentation in social-epistemic processes and challenge the assumption that rising polarization indicates epistemic shortcomings.
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
(2023)
