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- Can aggressive cancers be identified by the “aggressiveness” of their chromatin?KaterinaGurova -2022 -Bioessays 44 (7):2100212.Phenotypic plasticity is a crucial feature of aggressive cancer, providing the means for cancer progression. Stochastic changes in tumor cell transcriptional programs increase the chances of survival under any condition. I hypothesize that unstable chromatin permits stochastic transitions between transcriptional programs in aggressive cancers and supports non‐genetic heterogeneity of tumor cells as a basis for their adaptability. I present a mechanistic model for unstable chromatin which includes destabilized nucleosomes, mobile chromatin fibers and random enhancer‐promoter contacts, resulting in stochastic transcription. I (...) suggest potential markers for “unsettled” chromatin in tumors associated with poor prognosis. Although many of the characteristics of unstable chromatin have been described, they were mostly used to explain changes in the transcription of individual genes. I discuss approaches to evaluate the role of unstable chromatin in non‐genetic tumor cell heterogeneity and suggest using the degree of chromatin instability and transcriptional noise in tumor cells to predict cancer aggressiveness. (shrink)
- Chromatin Stability as a Target for Cancer Treatment.Katerina V.Gurova -2019 -Bioessays 41 (1):1800141.In this essay, I propose that DNA‐binding anti‐cancer drugs work more via chromatin disruption than DNA damage. Success of long‐awaited drugs targeting cancer‐specific drivers is limited by the heterogeneity of tumors. Therefore, chemotherapy acting via universal targets (e.g., DNA) is still the mainstream treatment for cancer. Nevertheless, the problem with targeting DNA is insufficient efficacy due to high toxicity. I propose that this problem stems from the presumption that DNA damage is critical for the anti‐cancer activity of these drugs. DNA (...) in cells exists as chromatin, and many DNA‐targeting drugs alter chromatin structure by destabilizing nucleosomes and inducing histone eviction from chromatin. This effect has been largely ignored because DNA damage is seen as the major reason for anti‐cancer activity. I discuss how DNA‐binding molecules destabilize chromatin, why this effect is more toxic to tumoral than normal cells, and why cells die as a result of chromatin destabilization. (shrink)
- Borie byde'n &Katerina Ierodiakonou.Katerina Ierodiakonou -2011 - In John Marenbon,The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy. Oxford Up. pp. 29.No categories
- Attitudes toward chemistry among 11th grade students in high schools in Greece.Katerina Salta &Chryssa Tzougraki -2004 -Science Education 88 (4):535-547.
- Boris D. Grozdanoff, Zdravko Popov and Silviya Serafimova (eds.). Rationality and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.LiliaGurova -2024 -Balkan Journal of Philosophy 16 (1):88-91.No categories
- The Uses of Truth: Is There Room for Reconciliation of Factivist and Non-Factivist Accounts of Scientific Understanding?LiliaGurova -2022 -International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 35 (3):211-221.One of the most lively debates on scientific understanding is standardly presented as a controversy between the so-called factivists, who argue that understanding implies truth, and the non-factivists whose position is that truth is neither necessary nor sufficient for understanding. A closer look at the debate, however, reveals that the borderline between factivism and non-factivism is not as clear-cut as it looks at first glance. Some of those who claim to be quasi-factivists come suspiciously close to the position of their (...) opponents, the non-factivist, from whom they pretend to differ. The non-factivist, in turn, acknowledges that some sort of ‘answering to the facts’ is indispensable for understanding. This paper discusses an example of convergence of the initially rival positions in the debate on understanding and truth: the use of the same substitute for truth by the quasi-factivist Kareem Khalifa and the non-factivists Henk de Regt and Victor Gijsbers. It is argued that the use of ‘effectiveness’ as a substitute for truth by both parties is not an occasional coincidence of terms, it rather speaks about a deeper similarity which have important implications for understanding the essential features of scientific understanding. (shrink)
- What a Kantian Can Know a priori? A Defense of Moral Cognitivism.Katerina Deligiorgi -2011 - In Sorin Baiasu, Howard Williams & Sami Pihlstrom,Politics and Metaphysics in Kant. University of Wales Press.
- Зерван: Поняття часу в зороастризмі та його вплив на релігію та філософію.GololobovaKaterina -2017 -Схід 1 (147):89-92.The concept of time is an integral part of any religious and philosophical system. It creates a universal cognitive strategy: seeing the world in its change and development, finding temporary relationships and order in everything. In Iranian mythology, where the cult of time was highly developed, time was personified by the higher deity Zurvan, who initially was imagined as an endless time, eternity, existing at the beginning of the universe, and then, in the latter part of the "Avesta" takes an (...) image of the final, natural, world time, who forecasts not only its beginning, but the end, death. Zurvan Akarana in Zoroastrianism - is unlimited Time or Eternity; one of the two primary forces that are mentioned in "Avesta" and "Yasna". Zurvan - is the Сreator who did not make a creation. He is only the foundation, the idea that gives impulse, like an explosion. It is similar to the concept of "dharma" in the Indian tradition, the "Logos" of Heraclites, the law by which the universe exists. Helps to the time, the main essence of space is the duration, the matter has the opportunity to come into effect. Late Avesta makes a distinction between endless time and time, which has a long duration, but finite. Later theologians interpreted endless time as eternity of being, and a long time was regarded as the duration of the world, which was created and will have an end. These ideas can be correlated with ideas that later we can find in Christianity, that person has a freedom of choice, and even later - in Islam, that person's fate is determined in advance. But Zoroastrianism is talking about the same thing, the fate of this material world in which evil is present is determined in advance, but in the world of Ahura Mazda person has the right to choose and there will get whatever deserves. The unconditional departure from mythological beliefs is also the idea of the linearity of time that we meet in Zoroastrianism and which later gets its continuation in Christianity. But in Zoroastrianism time is endless, and therefore is reversible and linear, and therefore simultaneously is irreversible. (shrink)No categories
- Fodor vs. Darwin: A methodological follow-up.LiliaGurova -unknownIn a series of recent publications Jerry Fodor has attacked what many believe is the core of Darwinian theory of evolution – the theory of natural selection. Not surprisingly, Fodor’s attack has provoked a strong negative reaction. Fodor’s critics have insisted both that his main argument is unsound and that his central claim that the theory of natural selection “can’t explain the distribution of phenotypic traits in biological populations” is untenable. I can generally agree with the first part of the (...) launched criticism: Fodor’s “putative argument” does rely on controversial premises which make it unsound. However, I don’t think that Fodor’s critics have succeeded in their attempts to refute his central claim. The refutation strategy that most of them have undertaken is to show examples of successful evolutionary explanations by natural selection. In what follows, two of these examples are put into scrutiny. The analysis reveals that: (1) The theory of natural selection should be only partially credited with the explanatory success of evolutionary explanations by natural selection because these explanations rely on additional empirical hypotheses which might be true or false. That means that the selectionist explanations are fallible statements the truth value of which depends crucially on the truth value of the empirical assumptions which have been premised. (2) In both cases alternative non-selectionist explanations can be found that fit the same empirical data and no reason has been given (or could be given) why these alternative explanations should be ignored a priori as inferior. The observations (1) and (2) stand against the claim that theory of natural selection is the only legitimate explanance for the distribution of phenotypic traits. This does not mean, of course, that natural selection does not play any explanatory role or that the theory of natural selection is a false theory (as Fodor is inclined to argue for). This only means that there is indeed a problem of understanding the proper explanatory role of natural selection and that this problem is not only Fodor’s problem. The paper ends with a suggestion of what should be admitted in order to get to a better understanding of the proper role that the theory of natural selection plays in evolutionary explanations. (shrink)
- Inference, consequence, and meaning: perspectives on inferentialism.Lilii︠a︡Gurova (ed.) -2012 - Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.Inferentialism as a theory of meaning builds on the idea that what a linguistic expression means depends exclusively on the inferential rules that govern its use. Following different strategies and exploring various case studies, the authors of this collection of essays discuss under what circumstances and to what extent the central tenets of inferentialism are tenable. The essays in this volume present the results of a three-year research project "Representation and Inference" which was conducted from the beginning of 2008 to (...) the end 2010. The aim of the project was to assess the research program of inferentialism as it has been pursued recently by Robert Brandom, Mark Lance, and Jaroslav Peregrin. Earlier versions of these texts were presented at the conference "Inference, Consequence, and Meaning" held in Sofia on the 3rd and 4th of December, 2008. (shrink)
- Innovative technologies in the formation of future English teachers’ intercultural communicative competence.TetianaGurova,Serhii Gurov &Liudmyla Moskaliova -2017 -Science & Education 26 (6):44-50.
- Obi︠a︡snenie, razbirane i izvod.Lilii︠a︡Gurova -2019 - Sofii︠a︡: Nov bŭlgarski universitet.
- On Some Non-trivial Implications of the View that Good Explanations Increase Our Understanding of Explained Phenomena.LiliaGurova -2017 -Balkan Journal of Philosophy 9 (1):45-52.The central argument in this paper is the following: if we agree that one of the aims of explanation is to provide or increase understanding, and if we assess understanding on the basis of the inferences one can draw from the knowledge of the phenomenon which is understood, then the value of an explanation, i.e. its capacity to provide or increase understanding of the explained phenomenon, should be assessed on the basis of the extra-inferences which this explanation allows for. The (...) extra-inferences which a given explanation allows for constitute its inferential content. The analysis of the explanation’s inferential content could be applied to all kinds of explanations with the aim of assessing their goodness. I show how such an analysis helps us to better understand a number of difficulties that have puzzled contemporary philosophers of explanation: the flagpole counterexample to the deductive-nomological model of explanation, the conjunction problem, the difference between good and bad circular explanations. (shrink)
- Roli︠a︡ta na problemite.Lilii︠a︡Gurova -1998 - Sofii︠a︡: IK "Bogianna".
- The Principle Based Explanations Are Not Extinct in Cognitive Science: The Case of the Basic Level Effects.LiliaGurova -2014 -Philosophia Scientiae 18:203-214.On observe une nouvelle tendance dans la philosophie des sciences cognitives, manifeste dans les écrits de Betchel et al. qui met en avant l’importance des explications mécanistes au détriment du rôle explicatif des principes. Cet article est un plaidoyer pour rétablir l’équilibre. Il met l’accent sur l’effort d’explication des effets du niveau de base, l’une des plus importantes découvertes empiriques dans l’histoire de la recherche en catégorisation. L’analyse de trois différentes périodes de cette histoire révèle que le recours aux principes (...) y a joué un rôle crucial. Cependant, afin de reconnaître pleinement le rôle explicatif des principes, nous devrions nous préparer à admettre que les explications déductives-nomologiques ne sont pas les seuls types d’explications basées sur des principes. (shrink)
- VII. Sparse and dense categories: what they tell us about natural kinds.LiliaGurova -2011 - In Vesselin Petrov,Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy. De Gruyter. pp. 157-168.
- Frontmatter.Katerina Ierodiakonou &Pantelis Golitsis -2019 - In Katerina Ierodiakonou & Pantelis Golitsis,Aristotle and His Commentators: Studies in Memory of Paraskevi Kotzia. Berlin: De Gruyter.No categories
- Logic and knowledge.Katerina Ierodiakonou -2013 - In Frisbee Sheffield & James Warren,The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 438.
- Preferences and Compliance with International Law.Katerina Linos &Adam Chilton -2021 -Theoretical Inquiries in Law 22 (2):247-298.International law lacks many of the standard features of domestic law. There are few legislative or judicial bodies with exclusive authority over particular jurisdictions or subject matters, the subjects regulated by international law typically must affirmatively consent to be bound by it, and supranational authorities with the power to coerce states to comply with international obligations are rare. How can a legal system with these features generate changes in state behavior? For many theories, the ability of international law to inform (...) and change individual preferences provides the answer. When voters care that treaty commitments be kept, or that international norms be honored, the theory goes, leaders are more likely to be able to make choices consistent with international obligations. Over the last decade, a literature has emerged testing these theories using surveys and experiments embedded in surveys. Multiple U.S. studies find that international law and international norm arguments shift public opinion in the direction of greater compliance by 4 to 20 percentage points. However, studies in foreign contexts are more mixed, with some backlash reported in countries in which international law is highly politicized. This Article describes the state of current knowledge about whether international law actually does change preferences, explains the limitations with existing research, and proposes avenues for future study. (shrink)No categories
- Sarah Carvallo, L’Homme parfait. L’anthropologie médicale de Harvey, Riolan et Perrault.Katerina Lolou -2019 -Journal of Early Modern Studies 8 (2):163-167.No categories
- Godard Alone?: Michael Temple, James S.Williams and Michael Witt, eds. (2004) For Ever Godard.Katerina Loukopoulou -2006 -Film-Philosophy 10 (1):28-45.
- Rhetorics and Realities of Access in Community Mental Health Care.Katerina Melino,Janet Rankin,Joanne Olson,Jude Spiers &Carla Hilario -2025 -Nursing Inquiry 32 (2):e70014.Recent discourse emphasizes the need to integrate social and structural determinants of health—such as poverty, violence, houselessness, and discrimination—into mental health care service design and delivery. This study investigates how psychiatric‐mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) navigate the conflicting demands of an efficiently organized clinic and the realities of patients experiencing chronic mental illness along with structural adversity. Using an institutional ethnographic approach, this research focused on the everyday work practices of nine PMHNPs in outpatient community mental health clinics in a (...) major American city. The findings revealed disjunctures within two powerful discourses related to patient access to care that circulate in mental health settings: (1) “every door is an open door,” and (2) “meeting people where they are.” PMHNPs believe in the values promoted by the rhetoric while also being required to work outside institutional structures to meet real patient needs. By illustrating how the institutional coordination expected to improve health systems overlooks PMHNPs' expert knowledge, we highlight how addressing the “structural determinants of health” in clinical care for people with serious mental illnesses remains an ideological aspiration. We call for a reevaluation of mental health care practices and systemic transformation through the informed, ground‐level interventions of PMHNPs. (shrink)No categories
- A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Mental Disorders.Katerina Naumova -2022 -Годишен зборник на Филозофскиот факултет/The Annual of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje 75:173-184.No categories
- Fehler, Tricks und Käfer. Zwei Gespräche zwischen Künstler und Technik.Kateřina Svatoňová -2019 -Internationales Jahrbuch Für Medienphilosophie 5 (1):231-242.No categories
- Why do we want to talk?Katerina Semendeferi -2018 -Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 19 (1-2):102-120.Cognitive and emotional processes are now known to be intertwined and thus the limbic system that underlies emotions is important for human brain evolution, including the evolution of circuits supporting language. The neural substrates of limbic functions, like motivation, attention, inhibition, evaluation, detection of emotional stimuli and others have changed over time. Even though no new, added structures are present in the human brain compared to nonhuman primates, evolution tweaks existing structural systems with possible functional implications. Empirical comparative neuroanatomical evidence (...) is presented here in support of such changes in the limbic system, including the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex. Given their possible functional significance, these alterations may further enable and enhance human interest and motivation to communicate beyond what is seen in other primates living in complex social groups. The argument here is that even though emotion processing is likely needed for increased social complexity independent of language, the reason why humans want to talk may be related in part to the enhancement of socioemotional processes resulting from the reorganization and rewiring of underlying neural systems some of which are interconnected to the language areas. Neurodevelopmental disorders in humans affecting both language and sociability fuel such arguments. (shrink)No categories
- The scope of autonomy: Kant and the morality of freedom.Katerina Deligiorgi -2012 - Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.Katerina Deligiorgi offers a contemporary defence of autonomy which is Kantian but engages closely with recent arguments about agency, morality, and practical reasoning.
- Strategies of othering through discursive practices: Examples from the UK and Poland.Katerina Strani &Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak -2018 -Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 14 (1):163-179.This article discusses findings of a qualitative study on strategies of othering observed in anti-immigrant discourse, by analysing selected examples from the UK and Polish media, together with data collected from interviews with migrants. The purpose is to identify discursive strategies of othering, which aim to categorise, denigrate, oppress and ultimately reject the stigmatised or racialised ‘other’. We do not offer a systematic comparison of the data from the UK and Poland; instead, we are interested in what is common in (...) the discursive practices of these two countries/contexts. In using newspaper together with interview data, we are combining representation and experience in identifying not only strategies of othering, but also how these are perceived by and affect the othered individuals. The paper uses the following data: 40 newspaper articles – 20 from the UK and 20 from Poland, and 19 interviews – 12 from Poland and 7 from the UK. The analysis that follows identifies five shared strategies of othering: a) Stereotyping; b) Whiteness as the norm; c) Racialisation; d) Objectification; e) Wrongly Ascribed Ethnicity. We conclude with the research limitations and outlining possible next stages, such as working with a larger corpus, investigating frequency, or including other media genres. (shrink)No categories
- Universalisability, publicity, and communication: Kant's conception of reason.Katerina Deligiorgi -2002 -European Journal of Philosophy 10 (2):143–159.
- L S Stepelevich , Selected Essays On G W F Hegel, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993, pp viii + 228, Hb $39.95.Katerina Deligiorgi -1994 -Hegel Bulletin 15 (2):91-92.No categories
- Świadomość i doświadczenie.Katerina Alekseeva -2009 -Colloquia Communia 86 (1-2):125-136.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Peitho in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia.Katerina Carvounis -2014 - In Konstantinos Spanoudakis,Nonnus of Panopolis in Context: Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World. De Gruyter. pp. 21-38.No categories
- Work and pray.Katerina Elbakyan -2016 -Ukrainian Religious Studies 79:33-48."I believe in the principle of faith and works, and that the Lord will more abundantly bless a man who realizes everything he prays, and not the one who only prays." These words belong to the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ezra Taft Benson.Economic and labor ethics is an important component of the moral foundations of society. The historical evolution of different modes of production, trade, exchange, etc. is deeply connected with the history of religions. (...) All the national and world religions engaged not only in spiritual and moral issues, but also directly interfered in the daily economic and economic activities of people, forming in them a certain type of socio-economic thinking, authorizing the divine authority of property, property, a certain type of property relations of people, blessing some economic activities and negatively related to others. (shrink)No categories
- Арабо-перська філософія та вплив зороастризму.Katerina Gololobova -2016 -Схід 5 (145):81-85.The Arab-Persian Islamic philosophy is very interesting and diverse. This philosophy turned back to the Western tradition the majority of ancient Greek philosophers and gave the world a lot of interesting ideas and thoughts. But it did not appear out of nowhere. Islam and its philosophy combine a lot of cultures and traditions. Why should we distinguish between Arabic and Persian Medieval philosophy? Of course, they both occur on the soil of Islam, but for the Arabs it is a fundamental (...) step from paganism to a monotheistic religion, and for the Persians it is just the transition from one revealed religion to another. This fact affected these two philosophies, making them not conciliating foes. The influence of Zoroastrianism is present in Islamic Shiism and its thoughts and ideas have become traditional for Muslims. Sufism, Shiism and other Muslim confessions enriched and expanded Islam and the philosophical ideas of Zoroastrianism have enriched the Arab-Persian philosophy. Zoroastrian Persian culture has played a leading role in forming not only Shiism, but also the transformation of Islam in a multicultural and multilingual culture and religion. Iranian civilization has played the same role in the development of Muslim culture as Greek civilization in the formation of Christianity and its culture. (shrink)No categories
- Michael Psellos.Katerina Ierodiakonou -2011 - In H. Lagerlund,Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer. pp. 789--791.No categories
- Rule Of Law – Condition For Economic Development.Katerina Kocevska -2015 -Seeu Review 11 (1):183-196.In this essay I will attempt to explain the relation between the rule of law and the economic development. First I will describe the rule of law and its role through the years. Then, I will continue with the connection between economic development and the rule of law. I will try to clarify Macedonia’s legal framework and emphasize the constitution and its role regarding the rule of law and economic development. Latter, I will focus on the EU’s report on our (...) economy in our journey towards the union. And finally I will give something to think about for future researchers. (shrink)No categories
- Inercialita v kontextu Leibnizovy korespondence s Clarkem.Kateřina Lochmanová -2020 -Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 42 (2):201-229.This study deals with a controversy between Leibniz and Clarke concerning the relativity of space. Although substantivalism, i.e. an approach treating space as a substance, is to be indicated as the main target of Leibniz’s attack, it has usually been replaced by Newtonian absolutism instead, as a proper opposition to Leibniz’s relationalism. However, such absolutism has not been defined ontologically, but dynamically, as if the difference between their conceptions consisted of a different approach to the inertiallity of motion. However, this (...) would mean that while Leibniz intended to reduce all motion to an inertial one, Newton reduced it to a noninertial one instead, or that only one of them acknowledged the existence of noninertial motion at all. Nevertheless, none of them actually denied the existence of noninertial motion, and although all motion indeed seemed noninertial to Newton, Leibniz never responded to such a challenge in the course of their correspondence. (shrink)
- Inexactness? Yes, but yet Masterfully Defined: The Role of the Humorous Comic in Concluding Unscientific Postscript.Kateřina Marková -2012 -Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2012 (1).
- Dans l’intimité de la Vierge. Dévotions au féminin et au masculin en Grèce contemporaine.Katerina Seraïdari -2002 -Clio 15:55-68.Sur l’île de Nissyros (Dodécanèse), lors de la fête patronale du 15 août en l’honneur de la Vierge Marie, les hommes choisissent, comme lieu d’activité, le centre du village et la préparation des grands festins. Ce sont les femmes qui, en adoptant un comportement pénitentiel, sont les médiatrices du religieux. Figures emblématiques de la fête, les niameritisses restent pendant neuf jours dans le monastère de la Vierge, où elles accomplissent quotidiennement des génuflexions devant son icône miraculeuse. Cet article examine la (...) manière dont chaque sexe forge son image et revendique sa part du sacré lors des festivités communautaires, ainsi que les pratiques dévotionnelles qui permettent aux femmes de s’approprier l’espace sacré du monastère et l’icône mariale qui y est révérée. (shrink)No categories
- Communicative rationality and the challenge of systems theory.Katerina Strani -2010 - In Colin B. Grant,Beyond Universal Pragmatics: Studies in the Philosophy of Communication. Peter Lang.Export citation Bookmark
- Subjectivity as a play of territorialization: Exploring affective attachments to place through collective biography.Katerina Zabrodska &Constance Ellwood -2011 -Human Affairs 21 (2):184-195.In this paper the authors seek to contribute to a new ontology of an embodied, desiring subject through an exploration of their own subjectivities and of the ways in which subjectivities are produced and transformed through affective attachments to place. Using the method of collective biography (Davies, Gannon 2006) and drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of desire and territorialization they examine their affective responses and attachments to place: Australia and the Czech Republic. As a point of departure for their (...) analysis, the authors ask: What does it mean to be homesick for a place which is not one’s home? What does it mean to desire a place? What of the other place is inscribed in the body? In asking this, the authors show the extent to which place is a zone of immanence in which a continual play of de- and re-territorialization occurs. (shrink)
- Is It Wrong to Benefit from Injustice?Katerina Psaroudaki -2024 -Moral Philosophy and Politics 11 (2):397-418.According to the beneficiary-pays principle, the involuntary beneficiaries of injustice ought to disgorge their unjustly obtained benefits in order to compensate the victims of injustice. The paper explores the effectiveness of the above principle in establishing a robust and unique normative connection between the rectificatory duties of the beneficiaries and the rectificatory rights of the victims of injustice. I discuss three accounts of the beneficiary-pays principle according to which the rectificatory duty of the beneficiaries towards the victims is grounded in (...) (a) their duty to oppose injustice and mitigate its effects, (b) their duty to give up benefits that are causally linked to an act of wrongdoing, or (c) their duty to not sustain wrongful harm against the victims. By criticizing these accounts, I intend to highlight the complexities of articulating a distinct rectificatory duty that applies uniquely to the beneficiaries of injustice qua beneficiaries. I conclude that, while it may seem complicated to defend the beneficiary-pays principle as an independent moral principle, it is more plausible to think of it as being derivative of more general principles such as the principle of fair play. (shrink)No categories
- Early byzantine philosophy.Katerina Ierodiakonou &George Zografidis -2010 - In Lloyd P. Gerson,The Cambridge history of philosophy in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--843.
- ‘Understanding it makes it normal’: is it a reasoning fallacy or not?LiliaGurova -2013 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19 (3):524-527.
- The vice of nationality and virtue of patriotism in 17th century Czech Lands.Kateřina Šolcová -2022 -Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 12 (3-4):183-189.While the emancipatory efforts of the Czech national revival culminated at the end of the 18th and in the 19th century, manifestations of national feeling in the 17th century Czech Lands were rather rare. The article focuses on the concept of nationality as it was treated by scholars from the monastic orders such as the German provincial of the Czech Franciscan province, Bernhard Sannig (1637–1704), or the Czech Jesuit Bohuslav Balbín (1621–1688), whose views are briefly compared with those of the (...) most significant representative of the Czech Protestant emigration – Johann Amos Comenius (1592–1670). By the means of analysis and comparison of several texts, the article investigates how the concept of nationality was gradually rationalized and moralized through the ethical categories of vice and virtue. These reflections on nation, nationality, and patriotism and their moral assessment demonstrate that their authors anticipated some elements of the later formulated doctrine of the natural law of nations, which theoretically justified the demands of the Czech national revival and formed the basis for the concept of Czech history. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)Beyond Suppressing Testosterone: A Categorical System to Achieve a “Level Playing Field” in Sport.Katerina Jennings &Esther Braun -2023 -American Journal of Bioethics 24 (11):4-17.Regulations implemented by World Athletics (WA) require female athletes with differences of sexual development to suppress their blood testosterone levels in order to participate in certain women’s sporting competitions. These regulations have been justified by reference to fairness. In this paper, we reconstruct WA’s understanding of fairness, which requires a “level playing field” where no athlete should have a significant performance advantage based on factors other than talent, dedication, and hard work over an average athlete in their category. We demonstrate (...) that by placing regulations only on testosterone levels, while ignoring physical as well as socioeconomic advantages, WA consistently fails to meet its own definition of fairness. We then discuss several ways in which this definition could be met. Our analysis shows that a categorical system, in which athletes are divided into categories based on properties leading to significant performance advantages, is best suited for meeting WA’s definition of fairness. (shrink)
- Wille, Willkür und moralische Zurechnung bei Johann Christoph Hoffbauer.Katerina Mihaylova -2025 -Kant Studien 116 (1):113-134.Moral judgements usually concern the moral responsibility of an acting person. Someone is considered praiseworthy or blameworthy for an action based on whether that action is in accordance with or against moral norms. On a Kantian account, the essential issue is the motivation of the acting person, as this is a criterion for being a moral cause of the action i.e. for intending it. Only moral causation permits the moral imputation of the action to the acting person, and moral motivation (...) always implies the use of practical reason as the capacity of acting in accordance with rules (categorical or hypothetical). Giving priority to one of these leads to either moral merit or moral guilt. The morally guilty person treats himself or others merely as a means rather than respecting himself or others as persons, i.e. as individuals able to act according to their own aims. We find such an account in Johann Christoph Hoffbauer’s interpretation of Kant’s theory of free will. While Kant is occasionally accused of inconsistency in claiming both that evil actions are real and imputable and that only good actions are free (and therefore imputable), Hoffbauer offers a consistent version of Kant’s theory of free will. In this paper, I analyze his interpretation, first sketching its pre-Kantian theoretical context and then discussing Hoffbauer’s Kantian interpretation of the concepts of will and the faculty of choice, using the case of a lie as an illustration. (shrink)
- Pictorial perception as illusion.Katerina Bantinaki -2007 -British Journal of Aesthetics 47 (3):268-279.The focus of this paper is on E. H. Gombrich's claim that pictorial perception is a case of illusion. My aim is to point out that, on the one hand, the interpretation of this claim that is widely accepted in pictorial theory is not supported by Gombrich's analysis of pictorial perception; and, on the other hand, that the interpretation of the claim that I see as more compatible with Gombrich's analysis is not consistent with relevant facts about our relation to (...) pictures. However, I will argue, Gombrich's elaboration of the claim of illusion is significant to the extent that it highlights important aspects of the system of pictorial representation. (shrink)
- Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès, by Aimé Césaire.Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann -2022 -Simone de Beauvoir Studies 32 (2):347-354.No categories
- Move over Big Brother.Katerina Hadjimatheou -2013 -The Philosophers' Magazine 63:72-76.No categories
- Preface.Katerina Ierodiakonou &Pantelis Golitsis -2019 - In Katerina Ierodiakonou & Pantelis Golitsis,Aristotle and His Commentators: Studies in Memory of Paraskevi Kotzia. Berlin: De Gruyter.No categories
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David Bourget (Western Ontario)
David Chalmers (ANU, NYU)
Area Editors:
David Bourget
Gwen Bradford
Berit Brogaard
Margaret Cameron
David Chalmers
James Chase
Rafael De Clercq
Ezio Di Nucci
Esa Diaz-Leon
Barry Hallen
Hans Halvorson
Jonathan Ichikawa
Monte Johnson
Michelle Kosch
Øystein Linnebo
Paul Livingston
Brandon Look
Manolo Martínez
Matthew McGrath
Michiru Nagatsu
Susana Nuccetelli
Giuseppe Primiero
Jack Alan Reynolds
Darrell P. Rowbottom
Aleksandra Samonek
Constantine Sandis
Howard Sankey
Jonathan Schaffer
Thomas Senor
Daniel Star
Jussi Suikkanen
Aness Kim Webster
Other editors
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