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On the Analysis of Brentano’s Intentional Inexistence in Light of the Historical Background
Brentano spoke of things in the mind as having “intentional inexistence,” and he said he was following the medieval Scholastics in speaking this way. Thomas Aquinas spoke of things in the mind as having “inten...
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Arguments Showing that Descartes’ Physics is Mathematical
I would like to present four arguments in support of the thesis that Cartesian physics was a mathematical physics. The first two are historical, the other two of a systematic nature. I believe that together th...
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Susan Stebbing and Russell’s Logical Atomism
Susan Stebbing held that Russell’s Doctrine of External Relations was incorrect. Interestingly, she also held that Bradley’s Doctrine of Internal Relations was problematic. In this paper, I’ll explain why she ...
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Conclusion
This chapter provides a summary of all the arguments put forth in the individual chapters of this book and highlights the influence of the occult in other African post-colonies besides Ghana. It further points...
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Against Prescriptions. Why Values?
The chapter titled “Against Prescriptions: Why Values?” explores the perplexing question of why humans need and use values, even though values themselves are inherently ambiguous and lacking in concrete existe...
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Introduction to the Book
All over the world, people and organisations are living with highly destabilising events—a pandemic, economic and political instability and threats to environmental and has the capacity to disrupt the status...
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Truth in Reformed Empiricism
In this short piece, I show that there is a tension regarding the twofold nature of experience. Experience is powerful enough to alter our entire view of the world and the self; simultaneously, it is so vulner...
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Comments on Christopher Peacocke
Christopher Peacocke distinguishes two kinds of explanation, content-structured and non-content-structured. I ask two sets of clarificatory questions about this distinction.
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Incarnation and “Déchirure”; Annunciation and Crucifixion
This chapter proposes a typology of paintings in Western art based on the themes of the annunciation and the crucifixion and inspired by the way that Georges Didi-Huberman reflects upon these themes in Devant l’i...
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Afterword
This casebook offers a window into important aspects of the ethical landscapes that researchers, communities, health professionals, policy makers – and ethicists – had to navigate during the first 15 months of...
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Beyond Words and Images
It should be clear that I understand the story of human cultural evolution importantly (but by no means exclusively) in terms of how, what, and with whom humans communicate. We became humans, and change what i...
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The Aporetic Relationship Between the Unconditional Ethics of Hospitality and Politics
This chapter explores a number of issues that arise from the possibility of transforming the ethics of hospitality, characterized by infinite responsibility and unconditionality, into concrete politics and law...
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Dorothy Wrinch and the Man of the Century
“Dear Sir,” the Girton College student wrote to her hero on September 9, 1914, “would you be so good as to tell me what you refer to in your article on Mysticism and Logic…” And so the long Russell-Wrinch frie...
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The Characteristics and Diversity of Experimentation in the Sciences
This introduction aims at raising the central questions that will be discussed throughout the book in a variety of ways, adapted to each scientific discipline. What is experimentation, and what distinguishes i...
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Introduction
The rational and motivation for writing this book.
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Conclusions
This conclusion provides a summary of the work that has been done, shows the achievements of the book, outlines the problems still open and suggests some lines of research into Smith’s thought. In sum, Adam Sm...
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History According to Cattle
This creative and poetic endeavour explores the limits and potentialities of perceiving cattle history through the lens of a bovine perspective. It is imaginatively written by cattle. It contends that because ...
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Investigating the Ontology of AI vis-à-vis Technical Artefacts
Artificial intelligence is the new technological buzzword. Everything from camera apps on your mobile phone to medical diagnosis algorithms to expert systems are now claiming to be ‘AI’, and many more facets o...
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Introduction
This introduction presents the aim of this book—an argument for a standpoint approach to phenomenology and the presentation of three methodologies that support this approach. I provide a summary of the chapter...
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Capacitism and Phenomenal Variance
In this chapter, I focus on one challenge to Schellenberg’s capacitism, which can be straightforwardly captured by the following trilemma:
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