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Eco-sabotage as Defensive Activism
I argue for the conditions that eco-sabotage (sabotage involving the protection of animals or the environment) must meet to be a morally permissible...
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A fallible narrator and an inscrutable object: desire as structure in Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband
This article argues that one of the means by which Dostoevsky achieves polyphony in the limited point-of-view narration of The Eternal Husband (1870)...
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Bergson’s Fundamental Intuition
The following text is a translation of Semyon Frank’s “L’intuition fondamentale de Bergson” published in Henri Bergson: Essais et témoignages inédits ,...
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Is Shame a Global Emotion?
The notion that shame is a global emotion, one which takes the whole self as its focus, has long enjoyed a near consensus in both the psychological...
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The Normative Power of Consent and Limits on Research Risks
Research regulations around the world do not impose any limits on the risks to which consenting adults may be exposed. Nonetheless, most review...
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Questioning the boundary between “Us” and “Them” with Waldenfels and Derrida
Between what we call “us” and what we call “them”, a line must be drawn, which immediately becomes a contentious border, or a divide, that brings to...
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Zdziechowski, Masaryk and Russian philosophy
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Marian Zdziechowski are well-known personalities from the Czech and Polish cultural environments, respectively. Their...
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The generation and suspension of meaning in Dostoevsky’s Demons
This paper examines the relationship between the generation and suspension of meaning in Dostoevsky’s Demons with reference to Bakhtin’s thesis that...
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Moral Transformation as Shifting (Im)Possibilities
The phenomenon of moral transformation, though important, has received little attention in virtue ethics. In this paper we propose a virtue-ethical...
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Zdziechowski’s distinctiveness: on the distinctive differences between Marian Zdziechowski’s thought and the Russian Renaissance
The article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the views of Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938), a...
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Czechoslovak praxeology—a discipline that did not exist?
On the basis of contemporary Czech and Slovak texts and correspondence between Czechoslovak scientists and Polish praxeologists, the study shows how...
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Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)
The built environment matters for democracy: certain forms of political action require particular types of physical space, and decisions about...
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Prison Violence as Punishment
The United States carceral system, as currently designed and implemented, is widely considered to be an immoral and inhumane system of criminal...
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The perceived object in media-based empathy: applying Edith Stein’s concept of Wortleib
The question of how other consciousnesses appear via media has forced us to re-think the classical phenomenological accounts of sociality. However,...
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Liberty, Secrecy, and the Right of Assessment
In this article we argue that governmental practices of secrecy threaten the epistemic dimension of rights. We defend the view that possessing a...
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Partiality and Meaning
Why do relationships of friendship and love support partiality, but not relationships of hatred or commitments of racism? Where does partiality end...
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Rawls and Economic Liberties
There is widespread agreement among political philosophers that there is a core set of civil and political liberties that ought to be given special...