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Home and Exile – Dancing in the Mess of Contradictions 家乡与流亡——在矛盾的混乱中舞蹈

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0210

L. Hellsten

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Second-Order Recursions of First-Order Cybernetics: An “Experimental Epistemology” 一阶控制论的二阶递归:一个“实验认识论”

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0207

W. Jeon

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Epistemology, Political Perils and the Ethnocentrism Problem in Feminism 认识论、政治危机与女性主义中的民族中心主义问题

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0208

O. Davanger

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On the Concept of Real Use of Reason 论理性的真正运用概念

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0205

Mario Pedro Miguel Caimi

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Selfhood in Question: The Ontogenealogies of Bear Encounters 问题中的自我:熊遭遇的本体谱系

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0211

Anne Sauka

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Attentional Structure and Phenomenal Unity 注意结构与现象统一

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0197

W. Wiese

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Socratic and Cartesian Personae: Undismembering and Liquidation 苏格拉底与笛卡尔人格：解构与清算

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0206

Richard Polt

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Between Old and New Teleology. Kant on Maupertuis’ Principle of Least Action 介于新旧目的论之间。康德论毛的最小作用原理

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2020-0196

R. Meer

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Kant on the Status of Ideas and Principles of Reason 康德论理性的观念与原则的地位

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0202

G. Gava

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The Witching Body: Ontology and Physicality of the Witch 女巫身体：女巫的本体论与身体

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0212

Katherine R. Devereux

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