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The Uneasy Relation between Chinese and Western Philosophy
The article considers the relation between Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline and Western philosophy. In the academy there are three ways...
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The Theological Philosophy of William Temple: A Desire Argument and a Compassionate Theodicy
In this paper, I will investigate the early work of William Temple (1881–1944). My contention is that Temple’s systematic philosophy contains...
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Moral Philosophy, Moralism, and the Socialist Imagination
This chapter examines the relationship between moral philosophy and moralism. While Murdoch’s contemporaries saw linguistic analysis as a way to...
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Religious conversion, philosophy, and social science
I argue that empirical studies into the phenomenon of religious conversion suffer from conceptual unclarity owing to an absence of philosophical...
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From the Philosophy of Punishment to the Philosophy of Criminal Justice
While punishment is a longstanding object of philosophical scrutiny, other controversial aspects of the justice system, such as policing, have flown...
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Social Philosophy in Selected African Languages and Proverbs
In this chapter, African social philosophy is discussed as reflections on the origin of African societies, their ways of life, and the expression of...
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When philosophy (of science) meets formal methods: a citation analysis of early approaches between research fields
The article investigates what happens when philosophy (of science) meets and begins to establish connections with two formal research methods such as...
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A brief history of western philosophy in Thailand: mid seventeenth to the end of twentieth century
The paper gives a narrative of the reception of Western philosophical ideas into Thailand (formerly Siam) from the middle part of the seventeenth...
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Introduction: Equality, Inclusion and Alienation in Learning Philosophy
When we are talk about the underrepresentationUnderrepresentation of women in philosophy, what do we mean, and what kind of data do we have on it?...
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On Decolonizing Philosophy and the Arts
The text introduces decolonial debates in philosophy. In the first step, the historical horizon of decolonial debates is described, which is found in...
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Philosophy and its children: logic, computation, and the emergence of natural and social science
The middle chapters of Soames’s The World Philosophy Made (comprising his accounts of developments in logic, computation, linguistics, probability and...
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The Limits of Modern Moral Philosophy
This chapter provides an analysis of Murdoch’s responses to post-war British moral philosophy. It provides an overview of one major current, ethical...
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Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Approach to Philosophy
This chapter opens with a biographical overview of Michael Polanyi’s life and work before focusing on the post-critical orientation of his...
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On the ‘Very Idea of a Philosophy of Science’: On Chemistry and Cosmology in Nietzsche and Kant
Beginning with a reflection on ‘conceptual schemes’ and ‘very’ ideas and proceeding to examine different approaches to thinking philosophy of science...
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Critical notice of Christopher J. Insole: Kant and the Divine: from contemplation to the Moral Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)
In this Critical Review I mainly discuss two predominant features of Christopher J. Insole’s Kant and the Divine . The first concerns his argument...
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From the Philosophy of Art to Metaphysics (Vita Contemplativa)
For much of his professional career, Scruton’s philosophy had two focuses: on the one hand, he was interested in political philosophy and on the...
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Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease
If one had to identify the biggest change within the philosophical tradition in the twenty-first century, it would certainly be the rapid rise of...
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The early days of contemporary philosophy of science: novel insights from machine translation and topic-modeling of non-parallel multilingual corpora
Topic model is a well proven tool to investigate the semantic content of textual corpora. Yet corpora sometimes include texts in several languages,...
