Catholicism and the Support for European Integration: A Critique of the Methodological Underpinnings by Rosita Garškaitė

“…Yet, the scholarly discussion of its meaning has seldom gone beyond statistical analyses that show robust correlations, but cannot provide an understanding of why and when Catholics tend to choose commitment to European Union over skepticism or indifference to it. Three philosophical arguments are presented in the paper which indicate the flaws of positivist research and show how an interpretivist approach could shed light on the topic studied. …”
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BACON VE VICO'DA İLÂHÎ VE ÎNSANÎ BİLGİ by Sema Önal Akkaş

“…For Vico, the sphere of knowledge is human deeds. For both philosophers, the sphere of being is different. Bacon asserted that knowledge of nature could be gained, but for Vico it cannot. …”
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Noncoding RNAs in Health and Disease by Davide Barbagallo, Gaetano Vittone, Massimo Romani, Michele Purrello

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Modern Theological Debates of Hell in the USA by Sydney Sadowski

“…The positions of annihilationism, universalism, and the traditional viewpoint are be surveyed. The differing philosophical, theological and biblical are presented for each general category. …”
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Le retour de Bouvard et Pécuchet by Patrizia Oppici

“…Bouvard et Pécuchet, the work that Flaubert devoted entirely to stupidity, is often taken up and commented from a philosophical point of view, rather than taking into consideration the psychological plausibility of the two protagonists. …”
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Death and Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature by Brigita Gelžinytė

“… The text discusses the problem of the relationship between nature and thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830). By considering the dialectics of natural life and the significance of death of the individual for the emergence of spirit in nature, it is argued that spirit, in the Hegelian perspective of speculative thinking, does not emerge from nature as its otherness, as „a more beautiful nature“ that has overcome death. …”
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« Tuer pour saisir la vie » : neutralisation épistémologique et politique des animaux dans l’Antiquité by Benedetta Piazzesi

“…Retracing the intellectual background of the interviewee, we show the emergence of a new historiographical and philosophical interest in animals in ancient societies from the 1970s onwards, questioning the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, historical epistemology and structuralism. …”
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Philosophy of economics: the analysis of alternative directions by Gerashchenko Igor Germanovich

“…Alternative directions in modern economic theory assume philosophical justification. The paper provides methodological analysis of the following alternative directions in economics: the new Austrian school, modern institutionalism, radical political economy, post-Keynesian economics, natural-scientific economic theory, traditionalist economics, agricultural economics, feminist economic theory. …”
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Spatialisation de l’apparaître : le volume et le rythme by Éliane Escoubas

“…The appearing turns out to be the “volume”, by its co-genesis with the human body, and in the “rhythm” as a field of tensions in permanent movement. Thus, two philosophers –phenomenologists are summoned: Max Loreau and Henri Maldiney.…”
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Possibilia: Possible Worlds and the Limitless in Architecture by Sean Pickersgill

“…Employing some basic structural clarity from contemporary modal logic, and from studies in fictionality, it is possible to see a renewed value in the ‘worlds’ that speculative projects describe, and to understand the profound philosophical value in imagining an existence in an ‘other’ world.…”
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Pedagogical content knowledge as a model for academic development practice in the third space by Erik Brogt

“… In this opinion piece, I make the case for the use of Shulman’s concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge as both a practical and philosophical approach to academic development work in the third space. …”
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Locke's Diagnosis of Akrasia Revisited by Samuel C. Rickless

“…In this essay, we aim to recapitulate part of this debate, defend a previously articulated interpretation by responding to Leisinger’s criticisms of it, and explain why Leisinger’s own interpretation faces textual and philosophical problems that are serious enough to disqualify it as an accurate reconstruction of Locke’s views.  …”
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Dziecięce filozofowanie na tle romantycznej wizji szlachetnego dzikusa J.J. Rousseau by Maria Szczepska-Pustkowska

“…Reflection on the phenomenon of childlike philosophizing conducted exactly from the perspective of this romantic vision of the child is the purpose of this paper. …”
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Primates et Sociétés : La sortie de l’état de nature by Thomas Robert, Gabriela Daly Bezerra de Melo

“…Historical studies are combined with philosophical investigations in order to emphasis the complex relations between primatologists and their object of study. …”
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CRISIS OF PEDAGOGICAL CULTURE AND SOME PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT by R. M. Asadullin, O. V. Frolov

“…The study is based on the philosophical-cultural analysis of the problems of formation and realization of pedagogical culture of norms in the context of the destabilization of modern axiological standards of professional teaching. …”
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GENDER EQUALITY AS A MODERN PHENOMENON by S. V. Storozhuk, I. M. Hoyan

“…At the same time the study applies the basic principles of philosophical hermeneutics and the contextual analysis method. …”
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An Analysis of the Debate between al-Ṭūsī and al-Kātibī on Contingency Argument by Mehmet Tayfun Küçük

“…It is also significant in the sense that it reveals one of the best examples of the interdisciplinary discussion between kalām and philosophical schools, and the application of classical logic to theoretical disciplines. …”
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Child-Centred Care in HIV Service Provision for Children in Resource Constrained Settings: A Narrative Review of Literature by Chipo Mutambo, Kemist Shumba, Khumbulani W. Hlongwana

“…We synthesised literature from primary and secondary publications exploring the philosophical underpinnings of the concept of child-centred care, and its application to HIV service delivery for children in resource constrained settings. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGIZATION OF SCIENCE: FROM THE SUBJECT OF COGNITION TO THE RESEARCHER’S PERSONALITY by N. V. Kryvtsova, I. A. Donnikova

“…With the consideration of anthropological tendencies in modern science, the purpose of the article is to analyze the problem of the subject of cognition, philosophical-psychological rationale for the need to complement it by the concept of "the researcher’s personality". …”
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METHAPHYSICS OF DEATH PENALTY by V. E. Gromov

“…The paper studies the problem of death penalty justifiableness in terms of democratic society from the metaphysical viewpoint. Philosophical argumentation to justify death penalty is proposed as opposed to the common idea of inhuman and uncivilized nature of court practice of sentencing to death. …”
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