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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms
The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European...
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Kee** Hohfeld Simple
In this paper, I want to engage in, and move forward, a heated contemporary debate over certain normative positions within the well-known Hohfeldian...
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Moves & Rules: Addressing the Puzzle of Social Rule-Following
I explore a puzzle at the heart of the so-called ‘practice theory of rules’: how can rules, operating as normative standards, be determined by the...
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Arbitrary Power: Caricature and Concept
Arbitrary power is often understood as bearing some kind of relation to tyrannical rule, a relation that is thought to explain why arbitrary power is...
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Recourse, Litigation, and the Rule of Law
Recent high-profile lawsuits have supported competing narratives that alternately depict civil litigation as an essential instrument of the rule of...
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A step in the right direction, or more of the same? A systematic review of the impact of human rights due diligence legislation
Recently, there has been a strong push for binding human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation, both at the national and European levels. As...
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Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts
By supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological...
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Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing
This essay accomplishes two goals. First, contra accepted interpretations, I reveal that the early Husserl executed valuable and extensive...
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Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating
This article gives an anarchist account of politics as war to theorise an anarchist Realpolitik . Mikhail Vereshchagin’s killing in War and Peace ...
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Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience
This article is a theo-phenomenological study on discernment in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, particularly as it is described in the Philokalia and...
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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition , an Ideal continuum ,...
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The Power to Exclude: The (Mis)Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors under the Trump and Biden Administration
In “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants” (hereinafter “Biden Plan“), then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “reassert...
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“The Union of the Soul and the Body”: Merleau-Ponty on Being in the World
Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the body is often depicted as emphasizing the distinction between the physical and the conscious dimension of the body....
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Rights, Wronging, and Equality of Status
Two problems about rights have received so far little attention. One is the problem of identifying a general value in the practice of rights. The...
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The Question of Adequacy, from Hermeneutics to Writing Strategies
The postulate of adequacy had been extensively questioned and deepened in the area of hermeneutics and interpretive social sciences. Some of the...