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Hace 4 días · Zusammenfassung. Heidegger’s philosophy of the ontological difference can be interpreted as a reference to a withdrawn Absolute, which can be found already in the heritage of negative theology, especially in Plotinus and in Neoplatonism. Heidegger knew Plotinus’ philosophy only superficially, but was indirectly influenced by Plotinus ...
Hace 2 días · May 31, 2024. Josh Mcloughlin. Themes: Islam. Despite being widely considered the greatest philosopher in modern Islamic thought, the Persian ‘theosopher’ Mullā Ṣadrā (1571-1635), who flourished under the Safavid dynasty, remains little known to non-specialist Western readers. Geometric shaped interior in the Jameh Mosque in Isfahan.
Hace 3 días · Collingwood's logic could, claims Carr, lead to the dangerous idea that there is no certainty or intrinsicality in historical meaning - there are only (what I would call) the discourses of historians - a situation which Carr refers to as "total scepticism" - a situation where history ends up as "something spun out of the human brain" suggesting there can be no "objective historical truth ...
Hace 1 día · This kind of simulation through excessive reality overload, which in turn can lead to a denial of reality, entails a new escalation of obesity (Baudrillard), which finally becomes visible in rubbish of all kinds: Nuclear waste, chemical waste and industrial waste, but also the excess of opinions, laws, and texts.
Hace 2 días · The issue of statistical power, meaning the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis (in this case, that all the authors in our set are equally likely to have authored the document or fragment in question) when it should be rejected is an important consideration: in our experiment, enough classifiers passed cross-validation at a high accuracy cut-off that our tests can be considered to ...
Hace 5 días · Robert Archer started his academic career lecturing at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath, UK. His main publications are Education Policy and Realist Social Theory (Routledge) and, with Professor Martin Thrupp, Education Management in Managerialist Times: Beyond the Textual Apologists (McGraw Hill). His current research interests include psychosocial studies, philosophy of psychology, and ...
Hace 3 días · Professor Justin Champion, review of Religio Medici. Medicine and religion in seventeenth century England, (review no. 41) This is a timely collection of essays that sets out to address a key relationship in early modern historiography. Over the last decade the histories of religion and of medicine in the early modern period have developed a ...
