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    O Problema da Representação na Metafísica Analítica: Analisando a Falácia Representacional no debate sobre o Tempo.Ricardo Barroso Batista - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):841-882.
    This paper critiques the contemporary reliance on linguistic analysis in metaphysics, arguing that it leads to the representational fallacy – a tendency to derive ontological conclusions from linguistic properties rather than from reality. We trace the historical roots of this issue to the Kantian and linguistic turns, which shifted metaphysical focus from ontology to semantics, situating language at the center of the philosophical inquiry. We examine how this fallacy manifests in the debate between A-theorists and B-theorists of time. Both camps (...)
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    Book Review - Poslajko, Krzysztof. Unreal Beliefs. An Anti-Realist Approach in the Metaphysics of Mind. Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. [REVIEW]Ricardo Barroso Batista - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1249-1256.
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    Explorations in Contemporary Analytic Metaphysics: Grounding, Modality, and the Nature of Reality.Ricardo Barroso Batista & Bruno Nobre - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):741-750.
    Analytic Metaphysics represents a recent evolution of one of the oldest philosophical disciplines, now redefined by the methods of analytic philosophy. This contemporary approach reformulates the traditional ontological questions about existence, reality, and the nature of the Universe, prioritizing rigorous logical analysis and language. Analytic metaphysics, contrasted with continental ontology or traditional metaphysics, has surpassed the popularity of classical metaphysics, establishing itself as the predominant metaphysical stream in philosophical thought. In this special issue of the Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (Portuguese (...)
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    Symmetry-breaking Indeterminism as a Challenge to Generalism.Tomasz Bigaj - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1041-1056.
    The debate between individualism and generalism (qualitativism) concerns, inter alia, the question of whether qualitative identity implies numerical identity. One important argument against the affirmative answer to this question is based on an analysis of cases known as symmetry-breaking indeterministic processes, including the case of a collapsing tower. Generalism implies that all processes of that kind are deterministic, contrary to our snap judgment. This article contains a multifaceted analysis of the above argument against generalism, taking into account its metaphysical, scientific (...)
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    A Model-based Form of Naturalised Metaphysics.Niccolò Covoni, Alberto Corti & Vincenzo Fano - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):783-818.
    The paper addresses the main meta-metaphysical question, i.e., whether it is possible to do metaphysics and, in the case of an affirmative answer, how should we do it? With such an aim in mind, we sketch the broad context in which these meta-metaphysical questions arose in the philosophical literature (§ 1); then, we present what we take to be the three most widespread conceptions of metaphysics that are available in the analytic tradition: the neo-Quinean (§ 2), metaphysics as the science (...)
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    Scepticism About Neo-Aristotelian Essences.Benjamin Curtis & Harold Noonan - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):885-904.
    Many philosophers today accept the broadly Aristotelian view that one can explain de re necessary properties by invoking essence. These ‘Neo-Aristotelian essentialists’ hold that a property F is an essential property of x iff specifying F gives a correct answer to the Aristotelian ‘what is x?’ question. We are sceptical. According to neo-Aristotelian essentialists, essential properties are not themselves de re modal properties, but they are supposed to explain why things have their de re modal properties. Neo-Aristotelian essentialists accept the (...)
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    Some Notes on the Role of the Identity of Indiscernibles in Metaphysics.Francesco Maria Ferrari - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1215-1242.
    The Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII) asserts that if putative objects x and y share all properties P, then they must be one and the same entity. Since the usual formal rendering of the PII has the same formal structure as the Leibniz Identity, it may be unclear whether it can be used to define identity and objectuality. As identity and objectuality are closely related, this study aims to examine their relationship within the framework of formal ontology. Crucial (...)
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  8. David Lewis on Ways Things Might Be: An Examination of Modal Realism through Lewis’s Correspondence.A. R. J. Fisher - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1059-1080.
    David Lewis is widely known for maintaining the bizarre thesis known as genuine modal realism (hereafter, modal realism). He argued for modal realism on grounds of serviceability in On the Plurality of Worlds. However, earlier in Counterfactuals, he proposed a different kind of argument: from talk of ways things might be to possible worlds. In this paper, I examine the evolution of the latter argument in Lewis’s thought and evaluate its place in his overall case for modal realism, especially in (...)
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  9. Book Review - Hernández Royo, Simón. Anarkía/Anarcolepsis. Ensayo-Filosofía. Madrid: Editorial Manuscritos, 2024. [REVIEW]Concha García González - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1245-1248.
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    Dispositional Harmony: Examining the Causal Connection Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties.Jan Hauska - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1135-1144.
    Having recently emerged from the philosophical doldrums, the view that there are extrinsic dispositions has provoked questions about some aspects of their nature. One of the questions is whether causal bases of such dispositions would be extrinsic as well. Adopting the dominant causal conception of dispositional properties, I argue for the thesis of dispositional harmony, or for the proposition that dispositions agree with their bases in respect of intrinsicness (or lack thereof). The proposition is at odds with the claim that (...)
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    Fundamental Ontology and Esoteric Metaphysics: How to settle the Question.Thomas Hofweber - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):753-782.
    How can we settle whether key metaphysical questions should properly be stated by relying on a substantial notion of metaphysical priority, like grounding or being metaphysically more fundamental than? Relatedly, how can we settle whether ontology should properly be seen as the disciple that studies either what there is or else only what there is fundamentally? Which way of thinking about ontology brings out its proper metaphysical significance? One challenge to giving notions like grounding or fundamentality key roles in metaphysics (...)
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    Lewis on Existence and Actual Existence.Christopher Hughes - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1081-1122.
    David Lewis holds that only some of the things that exist actually exist. He concedes that this is, on the face of it, an incredible view, but he argues that if we do enough philosophy, we can come to see that it is true. I examine and evaluate Lewis’s arguments to that effect.
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    Two Problems of Ontology of States of Affairs: Negative States of Affairs and the Slingshot Argument.Tomasz Kąkol - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1123-1132.
    In this article I briefly discuss two problems of ontology of states of affairs: the issue of negative states of affairs and the so-called slingshot argument. In particular, I consider several objections against negative states of affairs, including this one: if one accepts the existence of negative states of affairs, why not accept the existence of conjunctive states of affairs (or, alternatively, Shefferian ones, or even binegative ones), which results, it seems, in the acceptance of the existence of states of (...)
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    A Modal Argument for Determinism Qua Universal Necessity.Uwe Meixner - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):997-1008.
    This paper states and examines a modal argument for universal necessity, that is: for the necessary truth of every true proposition. Deep issues in the metaphysics of modality are bound up with the argument, as is revealed in the attempt to defend, or refute, it.
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    The Same Objects, Self-Identities, Existential Bases.Bo Mou - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1145-1186.
    When doing philosophy, there is one norm-like common basis of which we have our pre-theoretic understanding (the “same-object-recognizing” understanding for short) to the effect that, given an object (to be under examination), there is a way that the object objectively is such that we can all talk about that same object even though we may say different things about it, neither resulting in “anything goes” nor bringing about radically different objects thus without genuine engagement. A theoretic examination of the metaphysical (...)
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    Why Contextualist Approaches to Essences are worth Pursuing.Cristina Nencha - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):971-994.
    In this paper, my goal is to delve into several reasons that support adopting modal contextualist frameworks for understanding essences, and to show why they deserve further consideration. Contextualist approaches, in my view, are often dismissed because too much emphasis is placed on their disadvantages. For this reason, I advocate for a discussion that encompasses not only the advantages but also the drawbacks, some of which I believe have been overestimated. Although my main focus will be on David Lewis’s proposal, (...)
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    Temporal and Atemporal Asymmetries in Causation.Daniel Saudek - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1009-1040.
    This article proposes a new account of causal asymmetry and of how it relates to temporal asymmetry. The key concept on which the account is based is that of inclusion, i.e. of an object being “in” another. Thus, part I develops the notion of what is “possible with respect to” a given object, and what is not, based on what is included in it. This leads to a counterfactual dependence asymmetry which is independent of the direction of time. Part II (...)
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  18. Grounding and Inference to the Best Explanation: A Novel Argument for Theism.Joshua Sijuwade - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):925-70.
    This article presents a novel argument for the existence of God based on the metaphysical concept of grounding. Using the methodology of Inference to the Best Explanation, as conceptualised by Peter Lipton, it evaluates six foundationalist theories: Trope-Theoretic Theism, Monistic Substantivalism, Pure Stuff Theory, Mereological Bundle Theory, Extended Simples Theory, and Priority-Based Structural Realism-for their ability to explain the existence of grounding relations in reality. Through rigorous internal and external assessments focusing on coherence, simplicity, unification, and evidential virtues, the paper (...)
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    Rethinking Grounding: From Necessitation to Metaphysical Probability.Joshua Spencer - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):905-924.
    This paper challenges the conventional view that grounding relations necessitate the truth of grounded propositions, a principle often denoted as (N). The author proposes an alternative principle (P), suggesting that grounding should instead be understood in terms of “metaphysical probability.” By drawing an analogy with causation, which does not guarantee but increases the probability of an effect, the paper argues that grounding relations similarly support metaphysical probability rather than necessity. Using the framework of possible worlds, the author articulates the concept (...)
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    The Logical Rise of Analytic Metaphysics.Andrea Strollo - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):819-840.
    Analytic metaphysics is usually considered a contemporary form of traditional, pre-Cartesian metaphysics. This paper examines the epistemic legitimacy of analytic metaphysics in the face of scientific dominance. While naturalized metaphysics has found its place within science, analytic metaphysics remains challenged. To meet the challenge, I propose interpreting analytic metaphysics as a form of logical inquiry, positioning logic as its foundation, similarly to how science grounds naturalized metaphysics. The argument is developed through three key points: (1) tracing the historical connection between (...)
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    The Category Mistake of Locating Properties in Spacetime and Platonic Immanence.Ruoyu Zhang - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):1187-1214.
    This paper challenges the traditional metaphysical assumption that properties can be located in spacetime and examines the ontological implications of categorizing spacetime itself. By introducing a two-category ontology, we argue that attempts to locate properties in spacetime represent a category mistake, as this notion fails to address the fundamental categorization of spacetime. We propose that the notion of instantiation should be conceptually separated from spatiotemporal location, thereby allowing for properties that are Platonic yet immanent. Furthermore, we reevaluate the debate between (...)
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    Experience, Experiments, and the History of Empiricism.Barry Allen - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):805-812.
    This paper discusses arguments from my recent book, Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene (2021). I discuss the origin of empiricism in ancient Greek medicine, and its merger with experimental research in the modern period. I also discuss the arguments of recent critics of empiricism, including W. V. Quine, Donald Davidson, and Richard Rorty. I introduce a distinction between theorematic and problematic empiricism and show how this difference divides the various empiricisms of history. My conclusions are: 1. (...)
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    Ceasing to Exist and Harm Due to Loss of Vitality: A Different Approach to Metaphysics of Death.Murat Baç - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):979-994.
    According to the Epicurean tradition, there is something misleading about our common intuition that we are harmed at death. In contemporary literature, we find proponents of the anti-Epicurean view as well as staunch defenders of the no-harm theory. In this paper, I first deal with the question of the possibility of worldly presence after death and, secondly, with the idea of harm due to death of a person. The gist of my claim is that a non-absolutistic approach to the whole (...)
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    Book Review - Turkis, Martin E.. The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi Toward a Post-Critical Platonism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. [REVIEW]Ricardo Barroso Batista - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):1079-1082.
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    Explorations in Contemporary Analytic Metaphysics: Mind, Identity, and Society.Ricardo Barroso Batista & Bruno Nobre - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):733-742.
    Analytic Metaphysics represents a recent evolution of one of the oldest philosophical disciplines, now redefined by the methods of analytic philosophy. This contemporary approach reformulates the traditional ontological questions about existence, reality, and the nature of the Universe, prioritizing rigorous logical analysis and language. Analytic metaphysics, contrasted with continental ontology or traditional metaphysics, has surpassed the popularity of classical metaphysics, establishing itself as the predominant metaphysical stream in philosophical thought. In this special issue of the Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (Portuguese (...)
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    The Social and the Individual: Reduction without Identity.Peter Baumann - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):1027-1048.
    This paper explores the relationship between social and individual phenomena, advocating for a form of analytical individualism that incorporates both ontological and explanatory holism. The first part of the paper addresses foundational ontological questions, arguing for the reduction of social facts to individual behaviors without equating them in identity. In the second part, the discussion focuses on collective intentionality, particularly through a critical examination of John Searle’s account. I argue that while collective intentionality offers useful insights into the nature of (...)
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    Social Metaphysics, Social Ontology and the Possibility of Social Reality.Michaël Bauwens - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):997-1026.
    One of the emerging fields within analytic metaphysics is social ontology. This paper argues for a distinction between social metaphysics and social ontology in order to clear up some of the confusion that is plaguing the field. That terminological distinction has deep historical and philosophical roots which are relevant for the specific case of social reality. According to the proposed distinction, social metaphysics takes up the most fundamental questions pertaining to the very nature and being of social reality, whereas social (...)
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    The Metatheoretical Location of our Commitments: Heterodox Truthmaking as a Case Study.Nikk Effingham - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):745-758.
    This paper explores the ‘metatheoretical location’ of principles in metaphysical theories, using the debate between Cameron and Goff as a case study. These principles can be situated either in a pre-theoretical framework or within the process of theorizing itself. Traditional truthmaking theorists, like Goff, view truthmaking principles as pre-theoretical assumptions that guide metaphysical inquiry. In contrast, Cameron advocates for a heterodox approach, where such principles are treated as theoretical conclusions reached through contentious debate and argumentation. This distinction has significant implications (...)
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    Reassessing Kripke’s Anti-Materialism and Almog’s Challenge.Brian Garrett & Jeremiah Joven Joaquin - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):815-818.
    In this text, we point out some obvious commitments of the identity theory of mind which allow the identity theorist to sidestep Saul Kripke’s famous anti-materialist argument. We also argue that a recent paper by Joseph Almog fails to undermine Kripke’s internalism about sensations.
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    Indeterminacy and the Immateriality of Thought: Ross on Natural and Formal Structures.Joshua Lee Harris - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):841-862.
    This paper addresses a debate on the immateriality of thought, focusing on James Ross’s argument regarding the indeterminacy of physical processes with respect to pure functions. Ross posits that some human cognitive processes, particularly logical reasoning and mathematical functions, exhibit a formal determinacy that no physical process can have, challenging physicalist accounts of mind. A critical response by Peter Dillard, known as the “schmitosis objection,” attempts to undermine Ross’s argument by drawing a parallel between biological processes like mitosis and formal (...)
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    Fregean Aletheic Objectualism, the Flaw of False Assertion, and Truth as a Norm of Assertion.Junyeol Kim - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):785-804.
    Gottlob Frege is an aletheic objectualist who regards truth as an object. For him, truth is the truth-value True, which is an object referred to by true sentences. Some interpreters argue that Frege’s claim that the True is an object is merely a byproduct of the technical features of his formal logic, Begriffsschrift. However, Frege’s works instead suggest that aletheic objectualism constitutes his philosophical position on the metaphysics of truth. Although Fregean aletheic objectualism may seem counterintuitive and unfruitful, it is, (...)
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    Non-philosophers’ Judgements of Metaphysical Explanations are Context-Sensitive.Andrew J. Latham & Kristie Miller - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):759-804.
    Empirical investigation of the conditions under which people prefer, or disprefer, causal explanation, has suggested to many that our judgements about what causally explains what are context-sensitive in a number of ways. This has led many to suppose that whether or not a causal explanation obtains depends on contextual factors: that causal explanation is context-sensitive. Surprisingly, most accounts of metaphysical explanation, by contrast, suppose it to be context insensitive. Only recently have accounts been developed of metaphysical explanation on which it (...)
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    Degree of Causal Contribution and Degree of Moral Responsibility: Using Shapley Values as a Measure.Cei Maslen - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):895-916.
    This paper is about the pros and cons of measuring degree of causal contribution by Shapley Value (a concept from cooperative game theory). The Shapley Value approach defines degree of causal contribution for a causal factor in terms of a kind of average of its marginal contributions across a range of possible groupings of factors. Some existing literature already explores applying Shapley Values to degrees of causal contributions. This paper supplements this literature by evaluating a range of justifications for applying (...)
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    Personal Identity: Analytic Metaphysics in Dialogue with Thomistic Anthropology.Michael Salvatore Politz - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):917-942.
    This paper investigates personal identity theories within analytic philosophy and their relation to the Thomistic conception of the human subject. Within it, I argue that by adopting one theory of personal identity over another some distinct feature of the human individual is left out. To encapsulate the underlying truth of what these theories of personal identity seek to present, an examination of the concept of “the self” is given in an attempt to provide cohesion to the various theories of personal (...)
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    Brute Fact Cosmology and the Fundamentality of Consciousness.Ben Schermbrucker - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):863-892.
    What is the fundamental nature of the physical universe? This paper generates new insights into this question through examining how brute fact metaphysics intersects with our best cosmological theories of the universe’s origin. To do this, I first make the case that fundamental physical things are – by necessity – ontologically brute. Ontological bruteness, I maintain, provides a rationale for the counterfactual claim that there is no reason why a fundamental has one physical identity rather than another. The paper then (...)
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    La Artefactificación: Un nuevo problema para el Esencialismo Intencional de los Artefactos.Adrián Solís - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):943-978.
    The debate on the nature of the artefacts is very important for contemporary metaphysicians. In this paper we will discuss the standard position in the debate, what we will call it Artifacts’ Intention-Essentialism – such as Baker, Evnine or Thomasson –, that considers the essence of artifacts in terms of intentions of the makers. The aim will be to introduce a new criticism to this proposal based on the undesirable metaphysical and moral consequences that this proposal involve. To do this, (...)
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    The Cognitive Order of Society: Radicalizing the Ontological Turn in Critical Theory.Piet Strydom - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):1049-1076.
    Investigating Habermas’s radicalization of the ontological turn in the philosophy of language that eventuated in his universal or formal pragmatics, this article finds that he has not pursued his avowed radicalization far enough. By contrast with his claim that due to its conceptual thrust his type of formal pragmatics is required over and above the empiricist approach to sharpen social analysis, it emerges that his three world-concepts are social-theoretically underspecified. The direction in which the proposed radicalization beyond Habermas is pursued (...)
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    Semantic Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Inter-personal Mental Ascription: A Neglected Puzzle.Ryo Tanaka - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):819-840.
    In this article, to revitalize the discussion on semantic externalism’s implications on the issue of content self-knowledge, I will argue that semantic externalism generates in fact two related but distinct skeptical puzzles concerning the presumption of truth attached to our mental self-ascriptions. The first is to explain how I can correctly ascribe mental states to myself, and the second is to explain how others can ascribe thoughts to me by taking my expressions of such self-ascriptions at face value. In my (...)
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    Marxisme et communisme.Alain Badiou - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):27-48.
    This article examines the trajectories of contemporary academic Marxism through three hypotheses: Marxism as an economic science, a science of history, and a political ideology. We criticize the reduction of Marxism to mere economic or historical science, highlighting the intricate relationship between Marxism and revolutionary politics. And we argue that Marxism, as a philosophy, must be intrinsically linked to revolutionary practice to maintain its significance. In this sense, the term ‘Marxism’ refers to a multifaceted framework that encompasses all levels of (...)
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    Book Review - Azzano, Lorenzo. Dispositional Reality: A Novel Approach to Power Ontology and Metaphysics. Synthese Library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 482, Cham: Springer, 2024. [REVIEW]Ricardo Barroso Batista - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):705-708.
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    Louis Althusser, le matérialisme de la rencontre, une anti-philosophie.Jean-Claude Bourdin - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):151-178.
    If the object of Althusser’s main theoretical work was Marx’s historical materialism, the form this work took was philosophy. Philosophy was his most important object. His reflections focused on the question of the existence of a Marxist philosophy, on philosophy as practice, the practice of philosophy and its role in ideological and political class struggles. This article sets out to understand how what is somewhat improperly called Althusser’s ‘last’ philosophy, the materialism of the encounter or aleatory materialism, is the philosophy (...)
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    Michel Henry interprete di Karl Marx: un dialogo sulla vita.Carla Canullo - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):337-362.
    After the publication of L’essence de la manifestation and his research on Maine de Biran, Michel Henry devoted two volumes to the work of Karl Marx. Published in the 1970s, at a time when Marxism dominated the cultural and political scene, Henry is quick to gloss over the Marxist debate of the time, without interesting for political implications of Marx’s work and questioning it in the light of the phenomenological proposal he had initiated in his early works. In particular, he (...)
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    Le Don du Rêve. Regard sur le Témoignage de Louis Althusser.Helena B. Catalão - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):131-150.
    In this study, we aim to revisit the autobiography of Louis Althusser, titled «L’avenir dure Longtemps, suivi de Les Faits», in order to reflect upon the author’s substantiated belief that his dream, of 10 August 1964, is premonitory of the homicidal act he committed against his wife, Hélène Rytmann, on 16 November 1980. Based on the revisitation of this autobiographical testimony, we propound the following theses: 1) a sacrificial interpretation of the aforementioned dream by the French philosopher, in retrospect of (...)
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    Davis, Tocqueville, and the Isolated Individual: Gender Equality and the Possibility of Reform.Eric W. Cheng - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):419-434.
    This article places Angela Davis’s analysis of why the modern individual trends towards self-isolation in conversation with Alexis de Tocqueville’s competing account in Democracy in America. I argue that Davis misidentifies the problem of isolation as a ‘systems problem’, rather than as a ‘people problem’ (as Tocqueville implies), and that she underestimates the extent to which people’s self-understanding can evolve within the capitalist system. She argues that women’s oppression is a consequence of the isolation which emerges under capitalism, so she (...)
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    «È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo». Mark Fisher e lo spettro del marxismo.Antonio Di Chiro - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):271-308.
    In this paper I will attempt to reconstruct Mark Fisher’s theoretical path, his analysis of capitalism and his revival of marxism. Therefore, I will focus in the first part of the essay on Fisher’s text, Capitalist Realism, to examine the structural features of today’s capitalism and, in a second part, on Fisher’s 2016 lectures and conferences at Goldsmiths University in London, in which the libidinal link between desire and capitalism is investigated. Finally, I will analyze Fisher’s other writings in which (...)
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    Critical Theory and ideology critique, the weapons of Marx to expose material reality as mystified unreality of the authoritarian and populist moment.Christian Garland - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):73-94.
    In our present early Twenty-First Century epoch, in bold contradistinction with the 1989-91 end of the Cold War and subsequent reassurances of the 90s, that ‘The End of History’ had arrived, the past decade has seen the rise of populism and authoritarian would-be leaders worldwide. Similarly, both nationalism and outright fascism have once again become credible threats, whilst ‘the left’ has largely failed to respond or offer feasible answers to multiplying social problems. This belated and misfiring reaction to capitalism in (...)
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    Marx de Michel Henry: Materialização de uma Fenomenologia da Práxis Subjetiva.Silvestre Grzibowski - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):363-376.
    The aim of this study is to present the influence that Marx’s philosophy of praxis had on the formation and consolidation of Henry’s phenomenology of subjective praxis. From Marx’s philosophical work, Henry emphasizes the primacy of the practical over the theoretical. This is a theme that he had been developing in his works, but a new perspective opens up with Marx. He shows that work is carried out by a living subjectivity, therefore, subjectivity performs the action and is carried out (...)
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    As Sucessivas Metamorfoses do Conceito de Estado em Marx.Rémy Herrera - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):49-72.
    This article intends to return to Marx’s theory of the State to show that this author left us numerous and fruitful elements, the analyzes of which deserve to be meditated on today. From the conception of the State as an alienated expression of civil society to that of the organization of the dominant class, then from that of the apparatus or machine to that of the lever of the revolution, Marx’s interpretation has evolved to become more complex, and enriched. We (...)
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    Can Human Rights Be Reconciled with Modern Citizenship? Reconsidering Marx’s Zur Judenfrage Today.David Ingram - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):435-464.
    This essay critically re-examines Marx’s youthful analysis of the separation of church and state and his complex views about the function of rights in the modern state. I argue that Marx’s condemnation of Christian nationalism and endorsement of citizenship for Jews is consistent with his view that the modern, secular state cannot emancipate itself entirely from religiosity, as evidenced by the continuing legacy of nationalism and cultural identity politics today. Although Marx correctly follows Hegel in identifying modernity with a structural (...)
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    Teilhard et le marxisme : du dialogue au dépassement.Dominique Lambert & Andreas Gonçalves Lind - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):611-634.
    This article analyzes Teilhard’s references to Marxism, highlighting his dialogue with the influential Marxist thought of the 20th century. Despite not deeply engaging with Marx’s works, Teilhard acknowledges the significance of Marxist ideas within the cultural context of the last century. Positioned within the framework of grand narratives, Teilhard’s Christian perspective offers an alternative to Marxism, emphasizing a comprehensive understanding of reality that integrates spiritual and material dimensions. By exploring Teilhard’s interactions with Marxism, this study sheds light on the complex (...)
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    The Specter of Marxism in Contemporary Philosophy.Andreas Gonçalves Lind & Ricardo Barroso Batista - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):13-24.
    In Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1960 declaration that Marxism was the “unsurpassable philosophy of our time,” he acknowledged the relationship between the Marxist interpretation of history and an existentialist philosophy focused on the individual’s subjective experience. However, in the decades since Sartre’s assertion, the philosophical landscape has undergone significant transformations. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union seemed to mark the final triumph of liberal capitalism over socialist alternatives. At the same time, the (...)
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    The Class Foundations of Anti-Marxism Today: Why the Specter Persists.Joshua Lew McDermott - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):555-584.
    This article argues that dominant social thought is rooted in the material interests of the capitalist class, taking serious Marx’s maxim that “the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.” The article identifies three broad tendencies within dominant thought, namely: centrist liberalism, postmodern leftism, and neo-fascist reactionary thought. The article goes on to identify the correlation between each of these tendencies’ inherent anti-Marxism with the ruling class location of each tendency’s primary proponents. In so doing, (...)
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    Lo que Marx “dio a pensar” a Ricœur con la metáfora de la cámara oscura.Ana Lucía Montoya Jaramillo - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):311-336.
    This article explores the intellectual relationship between Paul Ricœur and Karl Marx, focusing on the metaphor of the camera obscura used by Marx to describe ideology in The German Ideology. It provides an overview of Ricœur’s significant references to Marx, which began with a critical appropriation of Marxism in an attempt to reconcile it with a Christian worldview, continuing throughout the 1960s and beyond with the exploration of concepts such as “false consciousness” and ideology. After this overview, the article examines (...)
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    Un Hombre “terrenal”. Objetividad del Mundo, Conocimiento y Naturaleza Humana en Gramsci.Diana Napoli - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):179-196.
    The author aims to highlight how Antonio Gramsci’s reflection, particularly as conveyed in the Prison Notebooks, represents an effort to reinterpret Marxist philosophy as an autonomous worldview, countering any attempt to reduce the validity of Marx’s categories solely to the economic sphere or as tools of historical interpretation. Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis presents us with a “terrestrial” world and humanity, and a history that unfolds, against all determinism and utopianism, as a field of possibilities and relationships that the subject, collectively (...)
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    The Specter of Value: The Beginning of Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic of Being.Andrea Ricci - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):95-128.
    The beginning of Marx’s Capital has references to Hegel’s Logic of Being. From the individual commodity considered in isolation, Marx derives the value form as the germ cell of capitalist society. Marx’s materialist inversion of the Hegelian dialectic posits the value form as a spectral objectivity that constitutes the real abstraction specific to capitalism. As the most abstract expression of capital, it rules unconsciously the totality of social praxis as an absolute fetish. Value arises from a double mystification: the reification (...)
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    Sinisation of Marxist Epistemology: Feng Qi’s Dialectical Transformation from Knowledge to Wisdom.Jana S. Rošker - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):519-544.
    The present article introduces the theory of knowledge of the modern Chinese philosopher Feng Qi (1915–95), who is known as both an explorer of old, and a creator of new systems of comprehension. Although he was a versatile theorist and thinker, he saw epistemology as both the core and mainspring of all his theoretical endeavours. Already before the establishment of the P.R. China, he published his first epistemological thesis under the title On Wisdom and consequently, he never completely abandoned this (...)
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    Karl Marx and Alasdair MacIntyre. What Telos? Whose Good?Christophe Rouard - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):585-610.
    Alasdair MacIntyre’s relationship to Karl Marx and Marxism has been and remains fundamental in his work. Drawing on a number of important MacIntyrean texts, this paper shows how it has animated his Marxist early years, how it has been a crucial element in the epistemological crisis he experienced and how it has left him an important legacy. At the heart of the history of this relationship are the question of truth, the problematics of the right telos of human action, of (...)
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    Revolutionizing Labor: Marx and Michel Henry on the Power of Praxis.Max Schaefer - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):377-398.
    This paper will address the concept of labor through a study of Karl Marx and Michel Henry. While Henry claims to uncover, against the tradition of Marxism itself, the truth of Marx’s philosophical conception of the human being as a laborer within a social context, I will argue that both Marx and Marxism (i.e., Étienne Balibar) can help rectify certain shortcomings in Henry’s view of the matter. Toward this end, I will begin by laying out Henry’s account of Marx’s theory (...)
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    Ontologie naturaliste et travail abstrait : Relire Marx après Descola et inversement.Benoît Sibille - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):401-418.
    Descola’s work has profoundly renewed ecological thought by suggesting that the global planetary crisis is linked to the ‘naturalist ontology’, by which modern Westerners distance themselves from non-humans. This article proposes to re-read Descola with Marx in order to critically assess question the genesis of this ontology. Rather than looking to the history of ideas in search of what prepared this naturalism, a close reading of Marx allows to hypothesise a practical origin of naturalism, in the worldly occupations that make (...)
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    L’eredità del marxismo nella “società opulenta” tra Del Noce e Rodano.Simone Stancampiano - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):465-486.
    This essay aims to investigate, from Augusto Del Noce’s perspective, the two possible outcomes of Marxism following the advent of the affluent society in the 1960s. One is its fulfilment into the new bourgeois spirit, depriving itself of the dialectical-salvific aspect and preserving materialism to the utmost. The other is its opening up to the religious option, on pain of its defeat. It is precisely this last issue, for a possible dialogue between Marxists and Catholics, that measures the distance of (...)
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    Twenty-Five Theses on the Task of the Translator: With, against, and beyond Walter Benjamin.Simon Susen - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):197-270.
    The main purpose of this paper is to reflect on processes of translation. To this end, it is divided into two parts. The first part provides an in-depth analysis of the central claims made by Walter Benjamin in his seminal essay “The Task of the Translator” (1986 [1968/1955/1923]), also known as “The Translator’s Task” (1997 [1923] & 2021 [2000/1923]), originally published in 1923 under the title “Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers” (1992 [1923]). The paper argues that these claims can be presented, (...)
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    A Insuficiência da Equivalência na Tradução.Íris Fátima da Silva Uribe - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):683-702.
    This article explores the concept of equivalence in translation in the context of Francesca Ervas’ book, Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell’equivalenza nella traduzione. The aim is to demonstrate that equivalence in translation is insufficient because it fails to account for human understanding of others and the world. To understand the breadth of this concept, three fundamental questions were analyzed: what is a translation? What is the relationship that is maintained with the so-called “original”? What exactly is this relationship? To (...)
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    Crépuscule d’une idole. Une critique nietzschéenne du marxisme.Paul Valadier - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):547-554.
    Nietzsche is an excellent antidote to Marxism-Leninism, which dominated much of the political life in some countries and philosophy during the 20th century. Indeed, it shows that this ideology has remained a prisoner of a will to believe that it thought it was getting rid of. Much more enlightening for our present, Nietzsche’s philosophy can help us to think for ourselves, without locking ourselves into frameworks of thought that have become foreign to us and that can lead to the worst (...)
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    Jésuites et Herméneutique du Marxisme chinois.Yves Vendé - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):489-518.
    The contribution begins by giving an account of the Jesuits’ relationship to philosophy – a relationship nourished by Thomism but not solely dependent on it. The Jesuit perspective is concerned with maintaining a balance between, on one hand, a unified vision of knowledge and human life, and an openness to developments in the world; and on the other hand, emphasizing the link between knowledge effort and moral transformation. This approach, anchored in the Greek tradition, guided the Jesuits in their encounter (...)
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    Communities of Transmission: The Texts of Aristotle from Antiquity to the Renaissance.Jeffrey Dirk Wilson - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (1-2):637-682.
    Only through a long series of accidents do we have “The Works of Aristotle” at all—the Corpus Aristotelicum. When Aristotle died in 322 B.C., he is said to have left behind a body of 156 “published” works (“exoteric,” namely, available for public consumption). They survive only in fragments, too short and too few to give much sense of them. That his esoteric works, the Corpus Aristotelicum, have survived at all has been called “miraculous.” This paper traces how those esoteric works (...)
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    Book Review - Wallace, Meg. Parts and Wholes. Elements in Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [REVIEW]Ricardo Barroso Batista - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1845-1848.
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    Il «Scio cui credidi» pascaliano. Il senso di un sigillo.Domenico Bosco - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1723-1756.
    This article delves into Blaise Pascal’s religious philosophy, focusing on his use of the phrase “Scio cui credidi” (I know whom I have believed) to explore his understanding of faith. It analyzes Pascal’s “Memorial” and the “Summary of the Life of Jesus Christ”, highlighting how Christ is central to Pascal’s belief system. The discussion reveals the transformational nature of Pascal’s faith, particularly after his mystical experience on November 23, 1654. This experience is crucial in understanding his shift from a philosophical (...)
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    Les nombres parfaits chez Mersenne : des mystères pythagoriques à la science et à l’exégèse.Claudio Buccolini - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1337-1344.
    In responding to a question posed by Professor Vincent Carraud regarding a passage in a letter by Etienne Pascal in which he mentions an author who speaks of the mysteries of Pythagorean numbers we have resumed our dossiers on number theory in Mersenne. We have pointed to texts from Mersenne’s correspondence, printed books, and unpublished theological manuscripts between 1638 and 1648 in which the mysteries of the Pythagorean numbers are mentioned with reference to the theory of perfect numbers and with (...)
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    Fausses fenêtres : Étienne Pascal et Étienne Noël, saint Augustin et Jean Duvergier de Hauranne.Vincent Carraud - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1297-1336.
    This article examines the philosophical and theological nuances in the works of Étienne Pascal and Étienne Noël, focusing on their interpretations of Saint Augustine and Jean Duvergier de Hauranne. It explores the concept of antithesis (ἀντίθεσις) in both rhetorical and philosophical contexts, drawing upon Platonic and Aristotelian texts. The article highlights the use of antithesis in Augustine’s explanation of evil and its integration into the universal order, connecting this to 17th-century French thought, especially in relation to Blaise Pascal’s ideas on (...)
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    Pascal’s “Order of the Heart” in Phenomenological Value-Theory.Matthew Clemons - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1527-1548.
    Among those enthused by Pascal’s pithy remark that “the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing” are phenomenological value-theorists. What makes Pascal particularly attractive to these phenomenologists is the suggestion that the heart has reasons, and reasons of its own, which resonates with the quasi-cognitive function that they ascribe to feeling. Feelings apprehend values, which are genuine objects that display an essential order and a rank distinct from the objects of reason. In this paper, I introduce and evaluate (...)
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    Pascal au-delà des contrariétés : silence et présence.Marie-Jeanne Coutagne - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1575-1592.
    Pascal places man at the heart of fundamental “contraries”: “Nature has put us so well in the middle that if we change one side of the scale, we also change the other (…). This makes me believe that there are springs in our head, which are so arranged that whoever touches one also touches the opposite”. The “middle” «which has fallen to us in share» can only be understood through the “divine milieu” and the role of a Mediator: this is (...)
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    Le clair-obscur pascalien – de la Révélation au nihilisme.Jérôme de Gramont - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1643-1660.
    This article explores the concept of divine revelation as presented by Blaise Pascal, examining the fundamental dichotomy between the hidden and revealed aspects of God. Beginning with the premise of human existence as inherently obscure and lost in the universe without apparent reason, the study delves into Pascal’s inquiry into the origins of human existence and the role of God as both a part of and apart from this primordial darkness. Pascal’s reflections on the incomprehensibility of man before that of (...)
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    Pascal. Ni être ni néant : le vide de notre nature.Laurence Devillairs - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1473-1490.
    Against the “universal consent of the people” and “the crowd of philosophers”, Pascal proves the existence of the void, thus re-establishing the truth where only the force and falsity of opinions had prevailed. Nature “has no repugnance for the void”, it “makes no effort to avoid it” but “admits it without difficulty or resistance”. Pascal defines the void as neither matter nor nothingness. Can this definition be found in Philosophy, in the Anthropology of the Pensées? We would like to show (...)
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    Sulla scelta della filosofia secondo Fichte.Federico Ferraguto - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1803-1828.
    The paper offers an interpretation of the thesis developed by Fichte in the Erste Einleitung in die Wissenschaftslehre following “the philosophy one chooses depends on the man one is” as a deepening of symbolic practices and dispositions that philosophy shares with ordinary consciousness. To support this interpretation, the paper describes how Fichte defines individual character formation and how it relates to a historical determinate is presented through a quick excursion in the Nicolaischrift of 1801 (§2). Through a critical and synthetic (...)
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    O silêncio das coisas (outra vez...) e a solidão.Nuno Ferro - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1593-1640.
    This article provides a critical reexamination of Blaise Pascal’s fragment on the “eternal silence of infinite spaces”, challenging the conventional objections, notably those by Paul Valéry. It presents an analytical journey through the philosophical and existential dimensions of Pascal’s text, exploring the unique interplay between human solitude and cosmic silence. The discussion navigates the intricate relationship between individual perception and the overarching sense of existential dread evoked by the universe’s vastness. This exploration is enriched by contrasting Pascal’s insights with broader (...)
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    Rilegature gianseniste. Appunti su Pascal e il giansenismo.Nicolò Germano - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1367-1382.
    In this work, I attempt to outline a critical history of Jansenism and its reception, especially in Pascal. In particular, in the first part, I will outline the interpretive lines that led to the formation of Jansenist thought and its main ideas, concerning the interpretation of predestination. In the second part, I will turn my attention to Jansenism as conceived in Port-Royal, with particular regard to Pascal’s interpretation and use of Jansen’s ideas, especially in relation to the complex dialectical relationship (...)
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    José Jiménez Lozano. Un lector español de Pascal.Carmen Herrando - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1383-1413.
    The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the presence of Pascal’s thought in the work of the Spanish writer José Jiménez Lozano (1930-2020). In fact, it could be considered that this writer is almost a kind of Pascal come alive, especially in terms of understanding and experiencing Christianity, since, for both Pascal and Jiménez Lozano, the orientation of the human soul towards God is not only a part of the essence of man but also is his most (...)
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    „Stammt alles vom Heiligen Geist“?Sylvain Josset - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1699-1722.
    Although Pascal is a thinker of the figure of Christ, he seems to neglect the other Persons of the Trinity, in particular the Holy Spirit. This article examines the place Pascal gives to the third Person of the Trinity. It shows that, for Pascal, the Holy Spirit plays an important role in the conversion of man, insofar as he spreads in his heart the grace of Christ sent by the Father. Finally, this study comes to a difficult fragment of Pascal’s (...)
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    Pascal, penseur du désordre.Lucie Lebreton - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1493-1526.
    The doctrine of the three orders which distinguishes and hierarchizes flesh, spirit and charity is obviously one of the major themes of Pascal’s thought. But it appears that Pascal meditates as much on the disorder – and dis-order – induced by sin and the corruption of our nature as on the hierarchy and the heterogeneity of these three kinds of reality. In the world he describes, in fact, not only is everything overturned – the lowest order, that of the flesh, (...)
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    Book Review - Gabellieri, Emmanuel. Être et Gr'ce. Simone Weil et le christianisme. Collection « Philosophie & Théologie ». Paris : Les Éditions du Cerf, 2023. [REVIEW]Andreas Gonçalves Lind - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1831-1836.
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    The Reasons of the Heart: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on the 400th Anniversary of His Birth.Andreas Gonçalves Lind & Nuno Ferro - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1289-1294.
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    O Problema dos Pensadores Artificiais: Um Debate Metafísico.Hugo Luzio - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1777-1802.
    The possibility of artificial intelligence is usually discussed by philosophers as a problem about artificial thought: can an artificial system think? The production of intelligence in an artificial system would, however, give rise to an intelligent artificial being: an artificial thinker. As such, there is another, less explored way of discussing the possibility of artificial intelligence: can there be an artificial thinker? This is the problem of artificial thinkers (Olson 2018). In this essay, I discuss this problem. To do so, (...)
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    O Que Vê o Coração. Pascal e a distinção das ordens.Jean-Luc Marion - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1759-1774.
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    Le sentiment dans les Pensées de Pascal: son origine, ses fonctions, son statut.Antony McKenna - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1549-1574.
    Pascal founds his interpretation of the Augustinian doctrine of the corruption of human nature on a philosophy of faith inherited from Montaigne: « we are Christians in just the same way as we are Périgordians or Germans » (Essais, II, 12) : this conception of « human faith » is analysed, in turn, by means of concepts drawn from Descartes (passion) and Gassendi (imagination). He thus leads us to a very modern conception of « human faith » – without grace (...)
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    « Je vous dis que vous y gagnerez en cette vie ». Réflexions sur la stratégie apologétique dans le « pari » de Pascal.Denis Moreau - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1441-1472.
    In Pascal’s Pensées, at the very end of the so-called “wager” fragment, we find this intriguing remark intended to win once and for all the whole conviction of the “libertine” the apologist is addressing to : “I will tell you that you will win thereby in this life”. This article endeavours to reconsider this remark seriously, as it has been somewhat neglected by the canonical commentaries on the “wager”. We begin by determining the reasons that lead the apologist to this (...)
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    Suficiente luz y suficientes sombras. Descripción fenomenológica de la muerte de Cristo en los escritos de Blaise y Jacqueline Pascal.Manuel Palma Ramírez - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1661-1698.
    Le Mystère de la mort de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, by Jacqueline Pascal, constitutes a work of interest, in which not only the literary virtues of Blaise Pascal’s sister are reflected, but also a glimpse of her “phenomenological” capacity. After an approach to the biography of this 17th century author, an analysis of the work and its philosophical and theological scope, in connection with the writings of Blaise Pascal, is presented, as a reference to her genius and the impact of the (...)
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    Grandeur de l’homme, selon Pascal.Laurent Thirouin - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1419-1440.
    A long tradition of criticism, which has its roots in the Romantic era, admires Pascal as a dark, a tortured writer, an incomparable representative of human misery, of the anguish of existence, of the abysses that threaten us all. It is commonly understood that he is a magnificently sinister writer. This perspective, well established today in most minds, in the honest man as well as in the student or teacher, reduces Pascal’s work to a poor apologetic manoeuvre and transforms his (...)
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    Lecture de l’Écriture et écriture des Pensées.Benoît Vermander - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1345-1366.
    Throughout the manuscript of the Pensées and in other writings, Pascal crisscrosses his research on what the art of writing achieves and entails, on the one hand, and on the way to read and interpret the Holy Scriptures, on the other hand. Reading and writing practices are critically interwoven. This article offers a synthesis on Pascal’s reflexive account of such practices. After a summary of previous findings on the subject, it examines Pascal’s approach to (a) the rules that govern scriptural (...)
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    Book Review - Vermander Benoît. The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies: A Critique. Berlin & Boston, MA: De Gruyter, 2023. [REVIEW]J. Robbert Zandbergen - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4):1837-1844.
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