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Ressentiment in the Manosphere: Conceptions of Morality and Avenues for Resistance in the Incel Hatred Pipeline Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tereza Capelos, Mikko Salmela, Anastaseia Talalakina, Oliver Cotena
This article investigates conceptions of morality within the framework of ressentimentful victimhood in the manosphere, while also exploring avenues for resistance among young individuals encountering the “hatred pipeline”. In Study 1, we use the emotional mechanism of ressentiment to examine how incels construct narratives of victimhood rooted in the notion of sexual entitlement that remains owed
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Ecological Grief Observed from a Distance Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ondřej Beran
The paper discusses ecological grief as a particular affective phenomenon. First, it offers an overview of several philosophical accounts of grief, acknowledging the heterogeneity and complexity of the experience that responds to particular personal points of importance, concern and one’s identity; the loss triggering grief represents a blow to these. I then argue that ecological grief is equally varied
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Kierkegaard’s Theories of the Stages of Existence and Subjective Truth as a Model for Further Research into the Phenomenology of Religious Attitudes Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Andrzej Słowikowski
There are many religions in the human world, and people manifest their religiousness in many different ways. The main problem this paper addresses concerns the possibility of sorting out this complex world of human religiousness by showing that it can be phenomenologically reduced to a few very basic existential attitudes. These attitudes express the main types of ways in which a human being relates
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Contempt and Invisibilization Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Laurent Jaffro
Why is contempt seen as potentially lacking in the respect for persons and therefore prima facie subject to negative moral evaluation? This paper starts by looking at a distinctive feature of contempt in the context of thick relationships, such as those of friendship, close professional collaboration, or romantic love: there is an irreversibility effect attached to the experience of contempt. Once
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Animal Pneuma: Reflections on Environmental Respiratory Phenomenology Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lenart Škof
This essay is an attempt to propose an outline of a new respiratory animal philosophy. Based on an analysis of the forgetting of breath in Western philosophy, it aims to gesture towards a future, breathful and compassionate world of co-sharing and co-breathing. In the first part, the basic features of forgetting of breath are explained based on David Abram’s work in respiratory ecophilosophy. This
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Thankfulness: Kierkegaard’s First-Person Approach to the Problem of Evil Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Heiko Schulz
The present paper argues that, despite appearance to the contrary, Kierkegaard’s writings offer promising argumentational resources for addressing the problem of evil. According to Kierkegaard, however, in order to make use of these resources at all, one must necessarily be willing to shift the battleground, so to speak: from a third- to a genuine first-person perspective, namely the perspective of
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Forms of Life and Public Space Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sandra Laugier
New words have found their way into the public sphere: we now commonly talk about “confinement”, “barrier-gesture” or “distancing”. The very idea of public space has been transformed: with restrictions on movement and interaction in public; with the reintegration of lives (certain lives) into the home (if there is one) and private space; with the publicization of private space through internet relationships;
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A Critique of the Inclusion/Exclusion Dichotomy Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Cathrine Victoria Felix
In contemporary discourse, inclusion has evolved into a core value, with inclusive societies being lauded as progressive and inherently positive. Conversely, exclusion and excluding practices are typically deemed undesirable. However, this paper questions the prevailing assumption that inclusion is always synonymous with societal progress. Could it be that exclusion, in certain contexts, serves as
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Subjunctivity Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Timothy Morton, Treena Balds
We explore the value of the subjunctive mood as a template for understanding ethical action and the theological ontology that undergirds it. We do this by examining the use of a strange but very precisely used word in the writing of a theologian and minister and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "silly." We do so in the name of exploring the value of contingency, accidentality and abjection to a general
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Time Travelers (and Everyone Else) Cannot Do Otherwise Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-17 G. C. Goddu
Many defenders of the possibility of time travel into the past also hold that such time travel places no restrictions on what said time travelers can do. Some hold that it places at least a few restrictions on what time travelers can do. In attempting to resolve this dispute, I reached a contrary conclusion. Time travelers to the past cannot do other than what they in fact do. Using a very weak notion
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The Rise of Particulars: AI and the Ethics of Care Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 David Weinberger
Machine learning (ML) trains itself by discovering patterns of correlations that can be applied to new inputs. That is a very powerful form of generalization, but it is also very different from the sort of generalization that the west has valorized as the highest form of truth, such as universal laws in some of the sciences, or ethical principles and frameworks in moral reasoning. Machine learning’s
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Ecocosmism: Finitude Unbound Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Giovanbattista Tusa
Western modernity was born with a revolution of limits. Western man, who has become the creator of his own destiny, has identified freedom with a conscious and systematic violation of the given conditions, with a future that constantly transcends the present. This modern condition is thus characterised by the fact that it is limited by boundaries that are mobile and can change. From this observation
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Dangerous and Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams for Alternate Nursing Futures Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jess Dillard-Wright, Danisha Jenkins
Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever dream of what could be, we set out to think about what nursing and care might look like after it all
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Book Review: Jannel, R. Yamauchi Tokuryū (1890–1982): Philosophie Occidentale et Pensée Bouddhique; Éditions Kimé: Paris, France, 2023; ISBN: 978-2-38072-114-0 Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Joseph E. Brenner
A recent book by Romaric Jannel on the work of the 20th Century Japanese philosopher Yamauchi Tokuryū is reviewed as a prolegomenon in this journal to more detailed studies of Oriental philosophy. Emphasis is placed on the similarities and overlaps of Eastern and Western thought.
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Virtue Ethics and the Ecological Self: From Environmental to Ecological Virtues Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Gérald Hess
This article examines how a non-anthropocentric virtue ethics can truly avoid an anthropocentric bias in the ethical evaluation of a situation where the environment is at stake. It argues that a non-anthropocentric virtue ethics capable of avoiding the pitfall of an anthropocentric bias can only conceive of the ultimate good—from which virtues are defined—in reference to an ecological self. Such a
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Reason, Emotion, and the Crisis of Democracy in British Philosophy of the 1930s Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Matthew Sterenberg
This article examines how British philosophers of the 1930s grappled with the relationship between reason, emotion, and democratic citizenship in the context of a perceived “crisis of democracy” in Europe. Focusing especially on Bertrand Russell, Susan Stebbing, and John Macmurray, it argues that philosophers working from diverse philosophical perspectives shared a sense that the crisis of democracy
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Ubuntu in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Educational, Cultural and Philosophical Considerations Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Mahmoud Patel, Tawffeek A. S. Mohammed, Raymond Koen
Ubuntu has been defined as a moral quality of human beings, as a philosophy or an ethic, as African humanism, and as a worldview. This paper explores these definitions as conceptual tools for understanding the cultural, educational, and philosophical landscape of post-apartheid South Africa. Key to this understanding is the Althusserian concept of state apparatus. Louis Althusser divides the state
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Feminist Re-Engineering of Religion-Based AI Chatbots Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hazel T. Biana
Religion-based AI chatbots serve religious practitioners by bringing them godly wisdom through technology. These bots reply to spiritual and worldly questions by drawing insights or citing verses from the Quran, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, the Torah, or other holy books. They answer religious and theological queries by claiming to offer historical contexts and providing guidance and counseling to
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A Virtue Ethics Interpretation of the ‘Argument from Nature’ for Both Humans and the Environment Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Nin Kirkham
Appeals to the moral value of nature and naturalness are commonly used in debates about technology and the environment and to inform our approach to the ethics of technology and the environment more generally. In this paper, I will argue, firstly, that arguments from nature, as they are used in debates about new technologies and about the environment, are misinterpreted when they are understood as
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Academics’ Epistemological Attitudes towards Academic Social Networks and Social Media Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jevgenija Sivoronova, Aleksejs Vorobjovs, Vitālijs Raščevskis
Academic social networks and social media have revolutionised the way individuals gather information and express themselves, particularly in academia, science, and research. Through the lens of academics, this study aims to investigate the epistemological and psychosocial aspects of these knowledge sources. The epistemological attitude model presented a framework to delve into and reflect upon the
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Amplified Solidarity with Future Generations Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Irene Gómez-Franco
A recent trend in bioethics has highlighted the decisive role that solidarity plays in global health. However, given the impact and extent of the effects of climate change, which reach beyond present generations, it is important to consider whether this concept can be applied intergenerationally. Does it make sense to talk about solidarity with future generations? The objective of this article is to
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Virtue, Environmental Ethics, Nonhuman Values, and Anthropocentrism Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Marcello Di Paola
This article discusses the encounter between virtue ethics and environmental ethics and the ways in which environmental virtue ethics confronts nonhuman axiology and the controversial theme of moral anthropocentrism. It provides a reasoned review of the relevant literature and a historical–conceptual rendition of how environmental and virtue ethics came to converge as well as the ways in which they
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Vox Populi, Vox ChatGPT: Large Language Models, Education and Democracy Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Niina Zuber, Jan Gogoll
In the era of generative AI and specifically large language models (LLMs), exemplified by ChatGPT, the intersection of artificial intelligence and human reasoning has become a focal point of global attention. Unlike conventional search engines, LLMs go beyond mere information retrieval, entering into the realm of discourse culture. Their outputs mimic well-considered, independent opinions or statements
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The Philosophy of Philosophies: Reflection on the Eight-Year Journey and the Outlook for the Future Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Marcin J. Schroeder
This editorial complements the editorial opening Philosophies eight years ago. The success of the original vision of the journal has been confirmed by the high quality of published works and its institutional recognition. The journal Philosophies evolves, but this evolution is an adaptation to the conditions of better realization of its original mission to promote the reintegration of fragmented by
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Perspective and Boundary Exploration of Privacy Transfer Dilemma in Brain–Computer Interface—Dimension Based on Ethical Matrix Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Tong-Kuo Zhang
The advent of intelligent technologies, notably Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs), has introduced novel privacy dilemmas. Ensuring judicious privacy transfer is imperative for the application of BCI technology and pivotal for fostering economic and technological progress. This study adopts privacy transfer as the research perspective and employs an ethical matrix as the research method. It establishes
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Caregivers and Family Members’ Vulnerability in End-of-Life Decision-Making: An Assessment of How Vulnerability Shapes Clinical Choices and the Contribution of Clinical Ethics Consultation Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Federico Nicoli, Alessandra Agnese Grossi, Mario Picozzi
Patient-and-family-centered care (PFCC) is critical in end-of-life (EOL) settings. PFCC serves to develop and implement patient care plans within the context of unique family situations. Key components of PFCC include collaboration and communication among patients, family members and healthcare professionals (HCP). Ethical challenges arise when the burdens (e.g., economic, psychosocial, physical) of
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Ecological Virtuous Selves: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Environmental Virtue Ethic? Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Damien Delorme, Noemi Calidori, Giovanni Frigo
Existing predominant approaches within virtue ethics (VE) assume humans as the typical agent and virtues as dispositions that pertain primarily to human–human interpersonal relationships. Similarly, the main accounts in the more specific area of environmental virtue ethics (EVE) tend to support weak anthropocentric positions, in which virtues are understood as excellent dispositions of human agents
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Consciousness in Pain: A New Model for Analysing Its Transformation Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Roni Naor-Hofri
When looking for an account that explains how pain changes consciousness, one finds that most studies in the phenomenology of pain focus either on the outcome of the change, or on how it affects the self, as a conscious object, and the self’s experiences in the world of objects. This paper focuses on the mechanism of consciousness, exploring the nature of the change that pain creates in consciousness
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Nietzsche Was No Perspectivist Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Michael Lewin
There is a widespread agreement that Nietzsche has developed a kind of position or doctrine called ‘perspectivism’. Scholars go on and develop metaphysical, semantic, epistemic, and psychobiological interpretations of the supposed Nietzschean perspectivism or even ‘perspectivisms’. They engage in debates about whether this perspectivism is relativistic, realistic, or anti-realistic and what the tenets
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Mark Burgin’s Contribution to the Foundation of Mathematics Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Felix M. Lev
In this paper, I attempt to describe Mark Burgin’s results in non-Diophantine mathematics, which are important for the foundation of mathematics and its application in quantum field theory. In particular, the elimination of divergences in quantum electrodynamics is described.
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Mutual Flourishing: A Dialogical Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Esteban Arcos
Environmental virtue ethics is about how things (nature) matter, and this is explicated through the virtues (character and dispositions of the agent). It has been suggested that human virtue should be informed by what constitutes our flourishing and by what constitutes nonhuman entities flourishing. Our flourishing, in other words, involves recognising their flourishing and autonomy. My purpose in
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Pharmaco-Analysis of Psychedelics—Philo-Fictions about New Materialism, Quantum Mechanics, Information Science, and the Philosophy of Immanence Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Stefan Paulus
Recent developments regarding the pharmacology of psychoactive substances are significant for treating depressions or opioid addictions. Current theories, hypotheses, and models of drug effects assume a cause–effect narrative, which is based on a stimulus/response mechanism. These narratives prioritize effects rather than conscious experiences. In this sense, drug experiences are quickly subsumed into
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Temperance, Humility and Hospitality: Three Virtues for the Anthropocene Moment? Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Jean-Philippe Pierron
As social and ecological transition and climate change raise issues that go far beyond individual responses, how can these challenges be balanced with ethical and political responses? This article intends to show that the strength of virtue ethics lies in the fact that it translates these abstract issues into concrete biographical events that shape lifestyles. The search for the good life in these
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The People and Their Animal Other: Representation, Mimicry and Domestication Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Laurin Mackowitz
Animal stereotypes are used to describe, circumscribe and label people. They also serve to negotiate what counts as familiar and what is expelled as foreign. This article explores the composition of animal stereotypes and examines why they continue to influence the way humans understand themselves. Referring to dehumanising language in contemporary political discourse, anthropological theories of mimicry
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Wittgenstein and Forms of Life: Constellation and Mechanism Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Piergiorgio Donatelli
The notion of forms of life points to a crucial aspect of Wittgenstein’s philosophical approach that challenges an influential line in the philosophical tradition. He portrays intellectual activities in terms of a cohesion of things held together in linguistic scenes rooted in the lives of people and the facts of the world. The original inspiration with which Wittgenstein worked on this approach is
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Blockchain Ethics Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Peter G. Kirchschlaeger
There is no question about the innovation force and the economic potential of blockchain technology. As the basis for new currencies, financial services, and smart contracts, blockchain technology can be seen as the fifth disruptive computing paradigm, after mainframes, personal computers, the Internet, and mobile devices. However, there are questions about its ethical implications, which have the
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Definition of Economics in Retrospective: Two Epistemological Tensions That Explain the Change of the Study Object in Economics Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Daniel Durán-Sandoval, Francesca Uleri
Throughout history, schools of economic thought have defined political economy—or economics—and its object of study in multiple ways. This paper reflects on the definitions of economics by schools of economic thought and also proposes the concepts of value and scarcity as key concepts to explain the differences between them. The most important findings of the paper are: (a) the ontological and epistemological
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Accomplice Neighborhood: Everyday Life Politics Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Héctor Fernández Medrano
This paper delves into the conceptual delineation of the institution of the neighborhood as a catalyst for innovative political discourse and practice. It aims to set the basis for an upcoming reevaluation of the work of Andrés Ortiz-Osés, pioneer of Gadamerian hermeneutics in Spain, considering the neighborhood’s potential: its co-implicated and co-implicative nature connects consistently with his
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The Close Possibility of Time Travel Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Nikk Effingham
This article discusses the possibility of some outlandish tropes from time travel fiction, such as people reversing in age as they time travel or the universe being destroyed because a time traveler kills their ancestor. First, I discuss what type of possibility we might have in mind, detailing ‘close possibility’ as one such candidate. Secondly, I argue that—with only little exception—these more outlandish
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The Receptive Theory: A New Theory of Emotions Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Christine Tappolet
Cognitive Theories of emotions have enjoyed great popularity in recent times. Allegedly, the so-called Perceptual Theory constitutes the most attractive version of this approach. However, the Perceptual Theory has come under increasing pressure. There are at least two ways to deal with the barrage of objections, which have been mounted against the Perceptual Theory. One is to argue that the objections
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Vulnerability, Embodiment and Emerging Technologies: A Still Open Issue Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Annachiara Fasoli
When reflecting on the human condition, vulnerability is a characteristic which is clearly evident, because anyone is exposed to the possibility of being wounded (and is, therefore, vulnerable, from the Latin word "vulnus", wound). In fact, human vulnerability, intended as a universal condition affecting finite and mortal human beings, is closely linked to embodiment, intended as the constitutive bond
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Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Humans are complex systems, ‘macro-entities’, whose existence, behaviour and consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the physical world. But an explanation of what humans do and think cannot be found through ‘tracking us back’, so to speak, to micro-particles. So, in explaining human behaviour, including linguistic behaviour on which this paper focuses
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The Concept of a Substance and Its Linguistic Embodiment Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Henry Laycock
My objective is a better comprehension of two theoretically fundamental concepts. One, the concept of a substance in an ordinary (non-Aristotelian) sense, ranging over such things as salt, carbon, copper, iron, water, and methane—kinds of stuff that now count as (chemical) elements and compounds. The other I will call the object-concept in the abstract sense of Russell, Wittgenstein, and Frege in their
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Anarchism Is the Only Future Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 James Martel
In this paper I argue that archism, a form of political power that is ubiquitous in the world and is based on hierarchy and violence, effectively denies us a future. Archism in invested in continuing the current power dynamics. Accordingly, it projects a false sense of the future which is actually only a continuation of the present on and on forever. I look at two thinkers, Walter Benjamin and Hannah
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What I Am and What I Am Not: Destruktion of the Mind–Body Problem Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Javier A. Galadí
The German word destruktion is used here in the sense that philosophy should destroy some ontological concepts and the everyday meanings of certain words. Tradition allows the transmission of knowledge, but it can perpetuate certain prejudices. According to Heidegger, tradition transmits, but it also conceals. Tradition induces self-evidence and prevents us from accessing the origin of concepts. It
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Beyond Fictionality: A Definition of Fictional Characterhood Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera
While the nature of fictional characters has received much attention in the last few years within analytic philosophy, most accounts fail to grasp what distinguishes fictional characters from other fictional entities. In this paper, I propose to amend this deficiency by defining fictional characterhood. I claim that fictional characters are fictional intentional systems, a thesis that I label as FIST
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The Ecological Community: The Blind Spot of Environmental Virtue Ethics Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Rémi Beau
Since their emergence in the 1980s, environmental virtue ethics (EVEs) have aimed to provide an alternative to deontological and consequentialist approaches for guiding ecological actions in the context of the global environmental crisis. The deterioration of the ecological situation and the challenges in addressing collective action problems caused by global changes have heightened interest in these
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The Virtue of Open-Mindedness as a Virtue of Attention Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Isabel Kaeslin
Open-mindedness appears as a potential intellectual virtue from the beginning of the rise of the literature on intellectual virtues. It often takes up a special role, sometimes thought of as a meta-virtue rather than a first-order virtue: as an ingredient that makes other virtues virtuous. Jason Baehr has attempted to give a unified account of open-mindedness as an intellectual virtue. He argues that
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Ambifictional Counterfactuals Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Andrew D. Bassford
In this paper, I argue that David Lewis’s possible world semantics for counterfactual discourse and for fictional discourse are apparently inconsistent and in need of revision. The problem emerges for Lewis’s account once one considers how to evaluate ambifictional counterfactuals. Since this is likely not a concept familiar to most, and since it does not appear that the problem has been previously
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What Attentional Moral Perception Cannot Do but Emotions Can Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-11 James Hutton
Jonna Vance and Preston Werner argue that humans’ mechanisms of perceptual attention tend to be sensitive to morally relevant properties. They dub this tendency “Attentional Moral Perception” (AMP) and argue that it can play all the explanatory roles that some theorists have hoped moral perception can play. In this article, I argue that, although AMP can indeed play some important explanatory roles
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The Theoretical Virtues of Theism Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Joshua R. Sijuwade
In this article, I seek to assess the extent to which a ‘trope-theoretic’ version of Theism is a better theory than that of a theory of Atheism, as posited by Graham Oppy. This end will be achieved by utilising the systemisation of the theoretical virtues proposed by Michael Keas (as further modified by an application of the work of Jonathan Schaffer), the notion of a trope, introduced by D.C. Williams
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Rethinking the Environmental Virtue of Ecological Justice from the Interdependencies of Non-Human Capabilities and Synergetic Flourishing Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Cristian Moyano-Fernández
The capabilities approach has largely addressed individual capabilities via a liberal framework common in its literature. However, a growing number of scholars concerned with sustainable human development are analyzing theories and methodologies that are both suitable for human flourishing and display a respect for nature. This paper explores several forms of considering the value of non-animal and
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The Practical Price of Pyrrhonism Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Jeremy Byrd
Sextus Empiricus presents Pyrrhonism as a skeptical lifestyle that is appealing, in large part, because of the tranquility it appears to afford. Addressing concerns about the practicality of such a lifestyle, Sextus suggests that Pyrrhonists can lead sufficiently ordinary lives while suspending belief about everything unclear. Here, I aim to offer a partial examination of the practicality and appeal
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Looking East and South: Philosophical Reflections on Taijiquan and Capoeira Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-31 George Jennings, Sara Delamont
In a precarious occupation, martial arts instructors must be inspiring and build a shared philosophy. Drawing on Taijiquan and Capoeira, which have their philosophical or epistemological roots in Asia and Africa, this article explores core concepts that feature in students’ enculturation. These concepts are grounded in epistemologies contrasting with Papineau’s work on popular and elite sport, Knowing
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Beyond Choice: Reading Sigmund Freud at the End of Roe Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Karen McFadyen
After Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, pregnant people lost their Constitutional protection of abortion. The new, visible politics of susceptibility have invited a revisitation to the psychoanalytic work of Sigmund Freud. This article examines the trauma narrative of Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle and the theory of the death drive in elaborating the enduring cultural investment
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The Metaphysical Turn in the History of Thought: Anaximander and Buddhist Philosophy Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Aldo Stella, Federico Divino
The present study, primarily of a theoretical nature, endeavors to accomplish two distinct objectives. First and foremost, it endeavors to engage in a thoughtful examination of the metaphysical significance that Anaximander’s philosophy embodies within the context of the nascent Western philosophical tradition. Furthermore, it aims to investigate how it was contemporaneous Buddhist thought, coeval
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Self-Transcendence and the Pursuit of Happiness Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Andrea Hurst
This philosophical investigation is motivated by the common association between happiness and self-transcendence, and a question posed by Freud: “Why is it so hard for men to be happy?” I consider the answers given in three key texts from the psychoanalytic tradition, Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, and Abraham Maslow’s The Farther Reaches
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Plant-Centered Virtue Ethics: A Cross-Talk between Agroecology and Ecosophy Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Sylvie Pouteau
The claim that environmental virtue ethics (EVE) is anthropocentric appears inherently aporetic since it implies that either anthropocentrism is virtuous or the whole environmental issue is anthropocentric, thus translating vices into virtues or vice versa. Another interpretation is that both the environment and humanity are thought with a vicious conception of centeredness. Conversely, if centeredness
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Exilic Ecologies Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Michael Marder
A term of relatively recent mintage, coined by German scientist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, ecology draws on ancient Greek to establish and consolidate its meaning. Although scholars all too often overlook it, the anachronistic rise of ecology in its semantic and conceptual determinations is noteworthy. Formed by analogy with economy, the word may be translated as “the articulation of a dwelling”, the logos
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Epistemic Challenges in Neurophenomenology: Exploring the Reliability of Knowledge and Its Ontological Implications Philosophies Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Anna Shutaleva
This article investigates the challenges posed by the reliability of knowledge in neurophenomenology and its connection to reality. Neurophenomenological research seeks to understand the intricate relationship between human consciousness, cognition, and the underlying neural processes. However, the subjective nature of conscious experiences presents unique epistemic challenges in determining the reliability