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Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution

Posted on January 30, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Canons of intellectual “greats” anchor the history and scope of academic disciplines. Within international relations (IR), such a canon emerged in the mid-twentieth century and is almost entirely male. Why…

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Authorship in top-ranked mathematical and physical journals: Role of gender on self-perceptions and bibliographic evidence

Posted on June 17, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…journals. According to the self-reported responses, a larger number of articles submitted to prestigious venues correlates rather with aspects associated with pronounced research activity, a well-established network, and academic seniority….

Tagged bibliometric data analysis, gender bias, peer review, scholarly communication, statistical modelingLeave a comment

An Animating Principle in Confrontation with Christianity? De(re)constructing the Nahua ‘Soul’

Posted on June 24, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…also scrutinize the very origin of -Yolia in academic discourse. this analysis, based on broader historical and linguistic evidence referring to both pre-Conquest beliefs and Christianization in sixteenth-century central Mexico,…

Tagged ancient nahuas, classical nahuatl, cross-cultural studies, ethnohistory, history of religion, indigenous peoples, indigenous studies, nahuatlLeave a comment

Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception

Posted on October 7, 2024June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…oppressed person moves from an environment where she is readily perceived as an active subject to one where she is perceived as a passive instrument of others’ wills and desires….

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Modern Moral Philosophy

Posted on May 15, 2017May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: I will begin by stating three theses which I present in this paper. The first is that it is not profitable for us at present to do moral philosophy; that…

Tagged consequentialism, deontology, duty, Hume, obligation, psychologyLeave a comment

Logic and African Philosophy

Posted on September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 by Viviane Fairbank

…logic; contributions are written by members of the budding African philosophy movement called the “Conversational School of Philosophy” based at the University of Calabar, and the main objective of their…

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Philosophy of Logics

Posted on May 23, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack’s book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its…

Tagged fuzzy logic, logic, truthLeave a comment

The Ontology of Mind: Events, Processes, and States

Posted on May 23, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: This book puts forward a radical critique of the foundations of contemporary philosophy of mind, arguing that it relies too heavily on insecure assumptions about the nature of some…

Tagged causation, change, event, metaphysics, mind, ontologyLeave a comment

On the Philosophy of Logic

Posted on September 9, 2016June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: Jennifer Fisher’s On the Philosophy of Logic explores questions about logic often overlooked by philosophers. Which of the many different logics available to us is right? How would…

Tagged classical logic, logic, modal logic, philosophy of logic, quantifiers, quantum logicLeave a comment

The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective

Posted on August 20, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s note: This important work does much to extend and redefine the ground of the philosophy of religion, which has been conducted in a purely Western context. The discussion, whether…

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