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To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
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How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion (2023)
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This chapter provides an overview of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of religion, highlighting its rather ambiguous treatment in scattered remarks throughout his corpus. The discussion begins by considering Schopenhauer’s account of the source of religion... Read More about Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion.
Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism (2023)
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I begin with a defence of both Gyekye’s universalist and African metaphilosophies. In light of these metaphilosophies, I discuss the contemporary Western hegemony of materialist philosophy of mind and its origins in Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind... Read More about Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism.
Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes (2023)
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There is a tension at the heart of much contemporary work in philosophy of psychology—specifically, within representational theories of mind. On the one hand, the central insight of this tradition is that mental and behavioral processes are understoo... Read More about Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes.
Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS (2023)
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When the Islamic State group reinvented itself as the new Caliphate in 2014, this illocutionary act followed from an extended process of semantic Islamization of brute politics. Its unholy violence, which for over half a decade made it the scourge of... Read More about Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS.
Conway's World Soul and Monism (2023)
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This paper considers the place of the ‘Middle Nature’ in Anne Conway’s philosophy, as a kind of ‘World Soul’-type figure that is both intimately present in all things in nature and acts as a mediator between God and creation. It is argued that consid... Read More about Conway's World Soul and Monism.
Introduction (2023)
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After more than 15 years of state securitisation, hostile media coverage and rising levels of Islamophobia, many Muslims in the UK express a widespread sense of being held ‘under siege – spied on, interrogated, routinely asked to “put their house in... Read More about Introduction.
Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics (2023)
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In Sect. 1, I point out the tension in Rorty’s commitment to both pragmatism and materialism. In Sect. 2, I explain how Rorty sought to justify this combination, and argue that his account is not only implausible but incomplete. In Sect. 3, I explain... Read More about Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics.