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Emerson’s Heroes of Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson takes a dim view of the certainties of church doctrine, moral rationalism, and virtue-based wisdom. His aim is to confront evil by looking straight at all the hideous facts of history. This...
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The Difference Between Hegel and Schelling on Freedom and Negation
This paper addresses the relationship between freedom and negativity in the early works of G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. Its guiding concern is to locate the role of negativity (and positivity) in giving ...
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Others
Each of us has their own experience. I cannot see out of another person’s eyes, nor feel through the Other’s skin. Neither can the Other access directly my own experiences. Given this, Husserl has to ask, “How...
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Nothing [Christoph Asmuth; Translator: Niels Feuerhahn]
In contrast to being, there seems to be nothing to say about nothingness. The impression, however, is deceptive. A shrewd sophist, who greatly annoyed Plato, has left us a dazzling piece of ancient rhetoric th...
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Introduction
Since the last quarter of the twentieth century there has been growing interest in women’s contributions to the histories of science, philosophy, and literature dating back to the very beginnings of these disc...
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Review: Meike G. Werner (Ed.), Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein, Wallstein Verlag 2021
In 1917/18 the German publisher Eugen Diederichs organized three “closed meetings” at Lauenstein castle in Upper Franconia (Germany) where about 60 representatives of science, art, and “the youth” discussed “t...
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Federigo Enriques and the Philosophical Background to the Discussion of Implicit Definitions
Implicit definitions have been much discussed in the history and philosophy of science in relation to logical positivism. Not only have the logical positivists been influential in establishing this notion, but...
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Individuality and Freedom
In this article, Ellen Bliss Talbot explores the free will/determinism debate through an examination of the notions of individual unity, uniqueness, and self-sufficiency.
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Transcendentals Explained Through Syncategoremata: Is Being as Truth a Transcendental According to Thomas Aquinas?
Being as truth has a greater extension and universality than being as an act of being in Aquinas’s metaphysics, because it also includes privations and negations. In order to better understand this aspect, it ...
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In Search of the Redeeming Word: Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks 1914–16 and the Making of the Tractatus
I shall discuss my forthcoming edition/translation of Wittgenstein’s Private Coded War Notebooks of 1914–16. My first question will be: Why have these Notebooks never been published? We have Notebooks 1914–16, bu...
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Plato on Mathematics and the Mathematicals
Mathematical realism has almost come to be synonymous with platonism, not only because his is the first well-articulated mathematical ontology, but because the place of mathematicals in platonic ontology gener...
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The Courage of Natural Living
Epicureanism and Stoicism explain how the mind and the habit of courage can help people master all fears and useless desires and reach a state of personal happiness through natural living. Since death awaits a...
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A Role for Cognitive Agents from a Kuhnian Point of View: A Comment to Juan Vicente Mayoral
In his paper, Juan Vicente Mayoral presents various aspects of Kuhn’s thought from a historical perspective. Besides the interesting approach that Mayoral proposes for several problems, in this commentary I am...
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Caput Mortuum: Truth, Freedom, and Negation in Fichte’s Institutiones Omnis Philosophiae
Rejecting the tendency to regard Fichte as merely a transitional figure in the development of German idealism, the following paper argues that, in the years following his dismissal from Jena, Fichte will come ...
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The Collaboration Between Writer and Reader
Plato’s is a kind of higher-order pedagogy in which the readers are not the passive receptors of a content but they discover themselves as authors of the content. I have chosen to respond to the Platonic intel...
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The Relation between Zarathustra and the Planned The Free Spirit (Book 2 of the Revaluation)
In this chapter we will compare the rather complex metaphorical and poetical Also sprach Zarathustra with the planned contents of the first of three largely unwritten books. We will do so on a relatively prelimin...
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Transcendence as the Quasi-Agency of Beyng
This chapter and 10 present the trajectory by which transcendence, particularly its performatively active nature leading to the transformation of Dasein, establishes the...
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Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think
The paper puts Kant’s second paralogism in the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason into the context of eighteenth century debates on materialism. In the second paralogism, Kant argues that neither dua...
