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In this article I suggest a way of overcoming the traditional dichotomy between analytic and continental philosophy by pointing at some similarities between apparently disparate philosophical approaches, viz. those of Michael Dummett and Jurgen Habermas.

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Philosophers of action tend to take for granted the concept of basic actions--actions that are done at will, or directly--as opposed to others that are performed in other ways. This concept does foundational work in action theory; many theorists, especial

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Nightingale suggested that there should be no distinction between men of thought and men of action and that an Ideal or philosophy should not be isolated but incorporated into everyday activities. This construct is analogous to the belief that nursing the

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There is a long history connecting philosophy and learning that dates at least back to Plato's dialogues and includes such distinguished modern scholars as Dewey, Piaget, and Vygotsky. More recently the discussion about the relationship between philosoph

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One-third of all human deaths are due to poverty-related causes, to malnutrition and to diseases that can be prevented or cured cheaply. Yet our politicians, academics, and mass media show little concern for how such poverty might be reduced. They are mor

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This is a broad survey of the chronology of the rift between continental and analytic philosophy, starting in 1899. Whereas at that time there was no discernible divide, as the twentieth century progresses we can see a gradual parting of the ways in which

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This paper traces conceptual links between the works of Georges Cuvier and Auguste Comte. The primary conceptual link between the two, and the focus of this paper, is the 'principle of the conditions of existence'. This principle lies at the heart of Cu

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Medicine, as Byron Good argues, reconstitutes the human body of our daily experience as a medical body,'' unfamiliar outside medicine. This reconstitution can be seen in two ways: (i) as a salutary reminder of the extent to which the reality even of the

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I attempt to show that Marx was driven by a systematic philosophical goal expressed already in his doctoral dissertation and present throughout his mature political economic theory as well as in his practical political writings. I reconstruct this systema

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Aside from his remarkable studies in psychology and the social sciences, Donald Thomas Campbell (1916-1996) made significant contributions to philosophy, particularly philosophy of science, epistemology, and ethics. His name and his work are inseparably l

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Drawing heavily on Wittgenstein, Winch's The Idea of a Social Science advanced a forceful and still valuable critique of positivist/empiricist conceptions of social science. In its more self-confident assertions concerning the nature of philosophy and so