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hpla, 14 days ago to philosophy

📢 New Advance Access at HPLA:

Leon Glüsing, Zur Bedingung der Möglichkeit von Erfahrung. Eine modallogische Analyse

https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/aop/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10096/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10096.xml

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hpla, 14 days ago to philosophy

📢 New open access review at HPLA:

📄 Menno Lievers, Perception and Reality in Kant, Husserl and McDowell, written by van Mazijk, Corijn

https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/aop/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10098/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10098.xml

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hpla, 1 month ago to philosophy

📢 New open access review at HPLA:

📄 Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle , written by Scott, D.

https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/aop/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10090/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10090.xml

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hpla, 1 month ago to philosophy

📢 New open access reviews at HPLA:

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hpla, 2 months ago to philosophy

📖 New journal issue

HPLA 26.2 Special Issue: Now, Exaiphnēs, and the Present Moment in Ancient Philosophy, edited by Barbara M. Sattler and Anna Pavani with the assistance of David Roochnik

https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/26/2/hpla.26.issue-2.xml

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hpla, 3 months ago to philosophy

📄 New article in advance access:

Douglas A. Shepardson, Nativism and Plato’s Epistemology: Knowledge, Awareness, and Innate True Belief in the Meno

Abstract: This article provides a rigorous defense of innate true belief in the Meno, to my knowledge, the first of its kind. While several commentators have proposed innate true belief in the past, the position has never been defended or explained in detail. Instead, the most thorough discussions of Plato’s innatism have opted for different innate objects. I defend my proposal against these recent alternatives by showing that the passages often thought to imply innate knowledge can arguably be better read in other ways. I then argue that they should be so read, because of an “awareness condition” Plato had on knowledge at the time.

https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/aop/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10075/article-10.30965-26664275-bja10075.xml?ebody=abstract%2Fexcerpt

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hpla, 9 months ago to philosophy

📄 New article in advance access:

Vangelis Triantafyllou, Aristotle’s Syllogistic as a Form of Geometry

Abstract: This article is primarily concerned with Aristotle’s theory of the syllogistic, and the investigation of the hypothesis that logical symbolism and methodology were in these early stages of a geometrical nature; with the gradual algebraization that occurred historically being one of the main reasons that some of the earlier passages on logic may often appear enigmatic. The article begins with a brief introduction that underlines the importance of geometric thought in ancient Greek science, and continues with a short exposition of Aristotle’s views and methods in regard to logic. We then offer an interpretation of syllogisms, as well as of the main proof methods that are utilized by Aristotle, in terms of diagrams that can be seen as analogous to those of Euclidean geometry; where the various proofs proceed by appropriately manipulating an initially drawn diagram, in a way parallel to constructions that occur in Euclid’s Elements. In this way, logic is presented as following, to a large degree, methodological tenets established by the practice of geometry. Finally, we present a diagrammatic decision procedure that allows one to directly read off the validity of syllogisms from a corresponding diagram, in a way such that no further manipulation of it is necessitated.

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hpla, 10 months ago to random

HPLA 26.1 is out with 5 articles and 5 reviews:

Articles

• I-Kai Jeng,
  Elenchos in Plato’s Sophist (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10055)
• Emanuele Costa, Spinoza and the Hybrid Distinction of Attributes (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10063)
• Charles Girard, “No Change for Relatives”: The Strategy of Initial Presence (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10065)
• Max Wade, Formless Matter in Gersonides’ Cosmology (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10068)
• Christopher Erhard,
  Husserls Irreversibilitätsargument gegen den Materialismus (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10064)

Reviews

• Guido Tana, Review of Skepticism. Historical and Contemporary Inquiries , written by G. A. Bruno & A. C. Rutherford (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10069)
• Matteo Parente, Review of Anselm. A Very Short Introduction, written by Williams, T. (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10071)
• Sanderson Molick, Review of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic , written by Cohnitz, D. & Estrada-González, L. (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10067)
• Guido Tana, The Threat of Solipsism: Wittgenstein and Cavell on Meaning, Skepticism, and Finitude , written by Techio, J. (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10070)
• Cody Spjut, Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics , written by Marmodoro, A. (https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10074)

hpla, 11 months ago to philosophy

HPLA currently has two CfPs for special issues:

• New Social Perspectives in Medieval (https://fediphilosophy.org/web/@hpla/109998353890439551)
• Metaphilosophy in History (https://fediphilosophy.org/web/@hpla/109948693469579886)

In addition, HPLA always accepts submissions on any subject in the history of philosophy for its open issues.

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hpla, 1 year ago to philosophy

📢 Call for papers: New Social Perspectives in Medieval #Philosophy

Guest editors: Jenny Pelletier and Ana María Mora-Márquez (both University of Gothenburg)

In the past forty years, the analytical tradition in philosophy has experienced a social turn with the result that areas such as social epistemology, social philosophy of science, and social ontology are at present some of the most innovative and vibrant. We have reason to think, however, that this recent turn must have had a precedent in past philosophical traditions where the social was part and parcel of philosophical discussions and elucidations. In particular, we believe that the late Middle Ages is one of those past traditions.

With this in mind, we have proposed a special issue to the Brill journal History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, with a focus on the social in medieval philosophy. The journal has accepted to publish the special issue in a rolling model in which articles appear online first upon acceptance after peer review.

We welcome abstracts that shed light on aspects of medieval philosophy where the social is crucial, particularly in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of science and social ontology or metaphysics. The following is a list of possible topics:

• For social epistemology and philosophy of science: the roles of testimony, trust, epistemic authority, peer disagreement, social objectivity and rational criticism (for instance the role of fallacies in critical examination) in the production and dissemination of (scientific) knowledge; pragmatics in reasoning; the sociology of medieval science.

• For social metaphysics: the nature and production of social entities (or objects or facts) such as social groups (e.g. religious orders, corporations, political communities, the family, nations), money, property, artifacts, and so forth; the role of language and the will in their production; the role of obligations, norms, and practices in structuring and individuating social groups; the possibility of non-human social groups.

Submission information
Please email an abstract of 500-800 words and a short CV by 30 June, 2023 to either of us at:

jenny.pelletier@gu.se or ana.maria.mora.marquez@gu.se

We plan to organize a workshop in early 2024 to discuss full drafts of the contributions with a final deadline for submission in March 2024.

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hpla, 1 year ago to philosophy

📢 Call for papers: #Metaphilosophy in History

Guest editors: Catherine Dromelet and Willem Lemmens (both University of Antwerp)

What is #philosophy? How does a philosopher proceed and what goals do they pursue? How do they distinguish between good and bad philosophy? Being interested in such questions is sometimes labeled as metaphilosophy. Recent publications on metaphilosophy are essential references when it comes to these questions. The prevailing tendency in these and related contributions is to address methodological and systematic problems relevant in contemporary discourses, while the historical context of metaphilosophical issues is typically ignored (with few exceptions showing, for instance, historical affinities within the Marxist tradition). The present issue aims to address this hiatus. The meaning of the word ‘philosophy’ has undergone profound transformations over time. What we consider ‘modern science’, for instance, emerged in early modern times within the bounds of what was then considered ‘philosophy’. Similarly, ‘experimental philosophy’ had a specific meaning in the early modern period: it came close to what we would call ‘empirical science’, but today the latter means largely an empirical survey of conceptual intuitions, while the former has now a very different meaning for several contemporary philosophers. These are just conspicuous illustrations of how the meaning of the word ‘philosophy’ has been changing over time. The special issue ‘Metaphilosophy in History’ aims at surveying the most significant changes in the self-conception of philosophy and at introducing historical insights and considerations into contemporary discourses on metaphilosophy. It provides an opportunity to focus on specific authors and schools of thought, to highlight distinctive aspects and phases in the evolution of the self-understanding of philosophy. So, while much of metaphilosophical work so far has been concerned with systematic issues, our aim is (1) to provide a historical perspective on metaphilosophical enterprises through a reconstruction of the self-conception of philosophy up to the very recent past, and (2) to infuse contemporary problems of metaphilosophy with historical consciousness and sensitivity.

For this special issue of History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis we are looking for articles (up to 10.000 words) that seek to provide a new, diversified outlook on historically informed metaphilosophy, based on in-depth original research. The questions that we are interested in include: Did metaphilosophy play any important role in the past philosophers' agenda? If they held metaphilosophical views, did their philosophical practice follow them? Was there more agreement on the metaphilosophical level than in the argumentative practice, or vice versa? Papers should focus on specific historical figures, presenting their case as illustrative of a more general tendency or movement. This is less pressing in the case of very central figures like #Aristotle, #Hegel, #Wittgenstein, etc., but it is desirable in the case of less influential authors.

Submission deadline:
The articles will appear in HPLA 27.1 (2024)

Articles should be submitted by September 30, 2023, via Editorial Manager (see https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/hpla-overview.xml?contents=artsub)

Please direct any questions to the guest editors at

catherine (dot) dromelet (at) uantwerpen (dot) be
willem (dot) lemmens (at) uantwerpen (dot) be

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