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    Aristotle on the Suffering of Priam.Matthew Cashen - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):57-74.
    When developing his account of happiness (eudaimonia) in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle twice invokes the fate of Priam to caution readers about the potential devastations of misfortune. He states that “no one calls happy” (oudeis eudaimonizei) a person who has suffered such a fate, but his reasoning on the topic is the subject of debate. In this paper, I give a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s account of Priam and argue that, according to the most consonant reading of the text, Priam’s (...)
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    Merleau-Ponty’s Consideration of the Crisis of Western Thought.Douglas Low - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):17-31.
    Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty each consider what was taken to be the decline of Western thought. The works of Husserl and Heidegger will be briefly considered, along with Merleau-Ponty’s evaluation of his two great predecessors, while Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy will be featured here in some detail. The case will be made that Merleau-Ponty challenges the veracity of Western thought but finds in it the seeds of a new form of rationality. What Merleau-Ponty regards as a rationality that focused exclusively on abstract (...)
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    Berkeley’s Doctrine of Signs by Manuel Fasko, and Peter West (eds.).Alberto Luis-López - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):85-89.
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    Artificial Intelligence Does Not Do a Single Thing Better than Human Beings.Arman Rahmim - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):75-83.
    In this work, we make the claim that artificial intelligence (AI) machines do not compare with human-beings in task performance. We explore how the human-being interacts with the world, with beings and the being of beings, and how it circumspects reality. We argue that AI arrives on the scene too late; or just on-time-enough to perform a given task assigned to it, as extension of the human-being. We discuss that it is short-sighted to claim that AI will exceed all levels (...)
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    Spiritualism in the Philosophy of Socrates.Ramala Sarma - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):47-56.
    The quest for knowledge, for Socrates, is a holistic approach in which the subject is required to transform himself. This brings Socrates’ philosophy closer to the self-enhancement practice of spiritualism. The present study tries to explore the spiritual hue in the key thoughts of Socrates, viz., self-knowledge, goodness, knowledge and virtue, conscious ignorance, training for death, and the investigative methods he used like irony, midwifery method, and dialectic method, etc. The work is an analytical study based on the relevant published (...)
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    Sidgwick’s Dualism of Practical Reason and the Possibility of Divine Sanctions.Jim Staihar - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):33-46.
    In the concluding chapter of The Methods of Ethics, Henry Sidgwick proposes a religious solution to a “fundamental contradiction” of practical reason. In this paper, I raise an objection to Sidgwick’s religious solution to his assumed dualism of practical reason. Then I describe ways of amending his solution in order to avoid the objection. The amendments have shortcomings. I conclude that Sidgwick’s dualism is in need of a non-religious solution.
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    Causal Language in Context.Alberto Tassoni - 2024 - International Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1):3-15.
    What, if anything, does singular causal language teach us about causation? I start with some observations about causal language and then explore some lessons about causation. This note has two major parts. First, I rehearse and reinforce some arguments that purport to show that the context-sensitivity of causal language is semantic. Second, I discuss how this could inform the metaphysics of causation, ultimately arguing that it leads to a novel form of causal pluralism. The main claim is conditional: if the (...)
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