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Frantz Fanon’s Decolonized Dialectics: The Primacy of the Affective Weight of the Past 法农的非殖民化辩证法:过去的情感重量的首要地位

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2243

Elyse MacLeod

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Extending Similarity-Based Epistemology of Modality with Models 用模型扩展基于相似性的情态认识论

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2246

Y. Wirling

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Power by Association 团体权力

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2230

Travis LaCroix, Cailin O’Connor

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Social Inconsistency 社会矛盾

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2258

Thomas Brouwer

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Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder 丑陋存在于旁观者的内心

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2261

Ryan P. Doran

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Yet Another Victim of Kripkenstein’s Monster: Dispositions, Meaning, and Privilege 克里普肯斯坦怪物的另一个受害者:性格、意义和特权

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2256

A. Guardo

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Two Problems of Self-Blame for Accounts of Moral Standing 道德地位的两个自责问题

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2255

Kyle G. Fritz, Daniel J. Miller

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Gender Fictionalism 性别Fictionalism

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2229

Heather Logue

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Race and the Politics of Loss: Revisiting the Legacy of Emmett Till 种族与失去的政治:重新审视埃米特·蒂尔的遗产

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2250

Ashley Atkins

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What Is Non-Naturalism? 什么是非自然主义?

IF 0.6 3区哲学

Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.3998/ergo.2253

Stephanie Leary

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