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The Gap of Presence: Challenges in Describing Perceptual Phenomena 存在的差距：描述感知现象的挑战

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-29 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9040094

André Dias de Andrade

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Is God Sustainable? 上帝是可持续的吗？

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9040093

Eugene Halton

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Doing for Circular Time What Shoemaker Did for Time without Change: How One Could Have Evidence That Time Is Circular Rather than Linear and Infinitely Repeating 将舒梅克（Shoemaker）对不变时间的研究成果用于循环时间：如何证明时间是循环而非线性和无限重复的？

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9040092

Cody Gilmore, Brian Kierland

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Elements of a First-Person Ecology: Historical Roots, Recognition and Ecospirituality 第一人称生态学的要素：历史根源、认知和生态精神

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9040091

Esteban Arcos, Damien Delorme, Gérald Hess

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The Perception of God through Light in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite 柏拉图和狄奥尼修斯（Dionysius the Areopagite）通过光对上帝的感知

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9030090

Konstantinos Laparidis

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The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance 柏拉图《斐多篇》中的神话揭示了灵魂的本体论意义

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9030089

Marina Marren, Kevin C. Marren

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The Fruit of Contradiction: Reading Durian through a Cultural Phytosemiotic Lens 矛盾之果：从植物文化的角度解读榴莲

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9030087

John Charles Ryan

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Dancing in God in an Accelerating Secular World: Resonating with Kierkegaard’s Critical Philosophical Theology 在加速世俗化的世界中与上帝共舞：与克尔凯郭尔的批判哲学神学共鸣

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9030088

Curtis L. Thompson

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Kierkegaard’s Descriptive Philosophy of Religion: The Imagination Poised between Possibility and Actuality 克尔凯郭尔的描述性宗教哲学：介于可能性与现实性之间的想象力

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9030084

David J. Gouwens

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Relationality and Metaphor—Doctrine of Signatures, Ecosemiosis, and Interspecies Communication 关系性与隐喻--签名学说、生态迷信和物种间交流

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Philosophies Pub Date : 2024-06-07 DOI: 10.3390/philosophies9030083

Keith Williams, Andrée-Anne Bédard

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