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Meta-fictionalism about the non-present
Presentists deny that past or future things exist. Some presentists also deny that there are any underlying truths about the past or future. While...
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Historic Injustices as Matters of the Present
In this paper we engage with and contribute to the critical project of highlighting the dilemmas that arise from structurally unequal and unjust...
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Present records of the Past Hypothesis
A striking feature of our world is that we only seem to have records of the past. To explain this ‘record asymmetry’, Albert and Loewer claim that...
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Locating the future of ESG in India’s present sustainability framework
India’s present sustainability framework for corporates largely consists of scattered obligations across various legislative frameworks. The purpose...
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Present Risks, Future Lives: Social Freedom and Environmental Sustainability Policies
One topic of growing interest in the debate on intergenerational justice is the duty to respect the freedom of future generations. One consideration...
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Does the Present Overdetermine the Past?
In an influential series of papers, Cleland (2001, 2002, 2011) argued that historical natural scientists employ a distinctive methodology—which...
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Marian Zdziechowski’s work On Cruelty (1928–1938). Between past and present
The following article begins with my recollection of the only academic conference on Zdziechowski that was organised still under the communist regime...
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The Future of the Present
Some theories of time entail that the present can change before or after it has happened. Examples include views on which time-travelers can change...
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Borderline consciousness, when it’s neither determinately true nor determinately false that experience is present
This article defends the existence of borderline consciousness. In borderline consciousness, conscious experience is neither determinately present...
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Pyrrhonism Past and Present Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality
This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only...
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African Epistemology: Past, Present, and Future
The chapter explores African epistemology by taking a historical approach to examining its nature and character. By doing so, it seeks to explain...
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MAID: Pasts, Present, and Futures
Others have carefully described the history of MAID in CanadaCanada and its ramifications, legal and social. This short piece attempts to consider...
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Compact spaces and privileged times; what the video game asteroids can teach us about the present
The A-Theory of time has long struggled with the results of special relativity. One proposed solution is to stipulate the existence of a physically...
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The Meaning of Equal Treatment of Present and Future Events—Time Discounting
The discussion up to this chapter has assumed that equal treatment of present and future events is desirable. This chapter considers whether equal...
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Beyond the mere present: Husserl on the temporality of human and animal consciousness
My aim in this paper is to reconstruct Edmund Husserl’s views on the differences between human and animal consciousness, with particular attention to...
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Instead of a Conclusion: Seven Lessons for the Present and an Outlook
In this closing chapter, I summarize my main results, but not in the form of narrative conclusion. Rather, I define seven lessons for the present...
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Present and Emerging Ethical Issues with tDCS use: A Summary and Review
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a brain stimulation technique known for its relative safety and minimal invasiveness. tDCS has...
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The Faces of Tourism in Hvar from Ancient Times to the Present
Hvar is a typical Mediterranean town overwhelmingly influenced by tourism. Its tourist past is particularly long and exhilarating: from the country...