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The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy
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In this paper, a range of phenomena, which, in the first four sections of the paper, are suggested by some examples, are connected with the thought of Stanley Cavell.Abstract:
I am concerned in this paper with a range of phenomena, which, in the first
four sections of the paper, I shall suggest by some examples. In the last three
sections, I try to connect the topic thus indicated with the thought of Stanley
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Being nature: interspecies articulation as a species-specific practice of relating to environment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that one species-specific practice of human relating to environment, interspecies articulation, is argued as one way of being nature and find and compose connections to our surrounding nonhuman world with a focus on as if the joints comprising meaningful connections between us and the not us.
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Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain
TL;DR: A bestiary's taxonomy of creatures can be found in this paper, with a focus on wolf, man, and wolf-man taxonomy, as well as the Noble Hunt as a Ritual Practice.
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On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
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Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy
TL;DR: The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early 20th century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions as discussed by the authors, but it can also serve as a medium of personal transformation and self-care.
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Flesh and Finitude: Thinking Animals in (Post)Humanist Philosophy
TL;DR: In this article, a kind of philosophical or theoretical spectrum that moves from humanist approaches to posthumanism (or anti-anthropocentrism) is mapped from a cluster that includes Martha Nussbaum's Aristotelian "capabilities approach," Peter Singer's utilitarianism, and Tom Regan's post-Kantian animal rights philosophy at one end, through the post-Wittgensteinian work of philosopher Cora Diamond (itself inflected by Stanley Cavell's writings on philosophical skepticism), to, finally, the later work of Jacques Derr
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The claim of reason : Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy
TL;DR: The author has provided a new Preface as discussed by the authors, in which he discusses the reception and influence of the work, which occupies a niche between philosophy and literary studies, and provides a new preface.
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Must we mean what we say
TL;DR: This paper argued that the feeling of oppression in the new philosophy at Oxford is due to misunderstanding, and that the frequent attacks upon it are misdirected, and argued that it is worth trying to bring out their differences as fully as possible.
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The Lives of Animals
TL;DR: Costello, a distinguished novelist, has been invited to the United States to give a university lecture on animal rights, a subject which has come to obsess her Her son, his wife and his university colleagues confront her with reactions that run the range from sympathy to irritation and scepticism.
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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy.
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Eating Meat and Eating People
TL;DR: In this article, a response to a certain sort of argument defending the rights of animals is given, and a brief explanation of the background and of the sort of arguments I want to reject is given.