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Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics (edited book, 2nd ed.)Bloomsbury. 2021.This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute. This volume bridges the gap between Aristotle's philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part I draws on Aristotle's texts and Thomas Aquinas' Aristotelianism to examine the Aristotelian…Read more
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Keep the chickens cooped: the epistemic inadequacy of free range metaphysicsSynthese 197 (5): 1867-1887. 2020.This paper aims to better motivate the naturalization of metaphysics by identifying and criticizing a class of theories I call ’free range metaphysics’. I argue that free range metaphysics is epistemically inadequate because the constraints on its content—consistency, simplicity, intuitive plausibility, and explanatory power—are insufficiently robust and justificatory. However, since free range metaphysics yields clarity-conducive techniques, incubates science, and produces conceptual and formal…Read more
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Van Eyck: An Optical RevolutionBritish Journal of Aesthetics 60 (2): 223-225. 2020.
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The Phenomenal Conservative Approach to Religious EpistemologyIn John M. DePoe & Tyler Dalton McNabb (eds.), Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 61-81. 2020.
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Aesthetics: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press. 2019.
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The Open Future Square of Opposition: A DefenseSophia 56 (4): 573-587. 2017.
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You Can’t Handle the Truth: Knowledge = Epistemic CertaintyLogos and Episteme 10 (2): 225-227. 2019.
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Existential Nihilism: The Only Really Serious Problem in PhilosophyJournal of Camus Studies 2018 211-232. 2018.Since Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophers have grappled with the question of how to respond to nihilism. Nihilism, often seen as a derogative term for a ‘life-denying’, destructive and perhaps most of all depressive philosophy is what drove existentialists to write about the right response to a meaningless universe devoid of purpose. This latter diagnosis is what I shall refer to as existential nihilism, the denial of meaning and purpose, a view that not only existentialists but also a long line o…Read more
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Enhancement technologies and inequalityProceedings of the IX Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. 2018.Recognizing the variety of dystopian science-fiction novels and movies, from Brave New World to Gattaca and more recently Star Trek, on the future of humanity in which eugenic policies are implemented, genetic engineering has been getting a bad reputation for valid but arguably, mostly historical reasons. In this paper, I critically examine the claim from Mehlman & Botkin (1998: ch. 6) that human enhancement will inevitably accentuate existing inequality in a free market and analyze whether proh…Read more
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On Ordered PluralismAustralasian Philosophical Review 3 (3): 305-11. 2019.This paper examines Miranda Fricker’s method of paradigm-based explanation and in particular its promise of yielding an ordered pluralism. Fricker’s starting point is a schism between two conceptions of forgiveness, Moral Justice Forgiveness and Gifted Forgiveness. In the light of a hypothesis about the basic point of forgiveness, she reveals the unity underlying the initially baffling plurality and brings order into it, presenting a paradigmatic form of forgiveness as explanatorily basic and ot…Read more
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Against the fallacy of Education as a source of EthicsMCDSARE 3 33-41. 2019.For centuries, the major story of enlightenment was that education is and should be the cornerstone of our society. We try to educate people to make them respectable members of society, something which we inherently relate to being "better persons", firmly believing that education makes humans less prone to evil. Today, modern research seems to validate that premise: statistics verify that more education results to less crime. But is this picture accurate and does this mean anything regarding mo…Read more
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Model PluralismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 50 (2): 91-114. 2019.This paper introduces and defends an account of model-based science that I dub model pluralism. I argue that despite a growing awareness in the philosophy of science literature of the multiplicity, diversity, and richness of models and modeling practices, more radical conclusions follow from this recognition than have previously been inferred. Going against the tendency within the literature to generalize from single models, I explicate and defend the following two core theses: any successful an…Read more
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Modeling MoralityIn Matthieu Fontaine, Cristina Barés-Gómez, Francisco Salguero-Lamillar, Lorenzo Magnani & Ángel Nepomuceno-Fernández (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation, Springer Verlag. 2019.Unlike any other field, the science of morality has drawn attention from an extraordinarily diverse set of disciplines. An interdisciplinary research program has formed in which economists, biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and even philosophers have been eager to provide answers to puzzling questions raised by the existence of human morality. Models and simulations, for a variety of reasons, have played various important roles in this endeavor. Their use, however, has sometimes b…Read more
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Alexander Pushkin: On the Philosophical Significance of His Literary WorkRussian Studies in Philosophy 57 (3): 223-227. 2019.
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Factivity and Epistemic Certainty: A Reply to SankeyLogos and Episteme 10 (4): 443-444. 2019.
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The Case Study Method in Philosophy of Science: An Empirical StudyPerspectives on Science 28 (1): 63-88. 2020.There is an ongoing methodological debate in philosophy of science concerning the use of case studies as evidence for and/or against theories about science. In this paper, I aim to make a contribution to this debate by taking an empirical approach. I present the results of a systematic survey of the PhilSci-Archive, which suggest that a sizeable proportion of papers in philosophy of science contain appeals to case studies, as indicated by the occurrence of the indicator words “case study” and/or…Read more
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Aesthetics, literature and life: essays in honour of Jean-Pierre Cometti (edited book)Mimesis International. 2019.The complex relationship between life and the arts has always Vbeen a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosopher Jean- Pierre Cometti, a key fi gure in the studies of aesthetics, pragmatism, and Austrian philosophy. The volume covers a wide-range of topics, from the examination of fundamental principles of art and literary criticism to a new understanding of th…Read more
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Nietzsche’s English Genealogy of TruthfulnessArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (2): 341-363. 2021.This paper aims to increase our understanding of the genealogical method by taking a developmental approach to Nietzsche’s genealogical methodology and reconstructing an early instance of it: Nietzsche’s genealogy of truthfulness in On Truth and Lie. Placing this essay against complementary remarks from his notebooks, I show that Nietzsche’s early use of the genealogical method concerns imagined situations before documented history, aims to reveal practical necessity before contingency, and focu…Read more
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Evolution of multicellularity: cheating done rightBiology and Philosophy 34 (3): 34. 2019.For decades Darwinian processes were framed in the form of the Lewontin conditions: reproduction, variation and differential reproductive success were taken to be sufficient and necessary. Since Buss and the work of Maynard Smith and Szathmary biologists were eager to explain the major transitions from individuals to groups forming new individuals subject to Darwinian mechanisms themselves. Explanations that seek to explain the emergence of a new level of selection, however, cannot employ proper…Read more
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A Shelter from Luck: The Morality System ReconstructedIn András Szigeti & Matthew Talbert (eds.), Morality and Agency: Themes From Bernard Williams, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 182-209. 2022.Far from being indiscriminately critical of the ideas he associated with the morality system, Bernard Williams offered vindicatory explanations of its crucial building blocks, such as the moral/non-moral distinction, the idea of obligation, the voluntary/involuntary distinction, and the practice of blame. The rationale for these concessive moves, I argue, is that understanding what these ideas do for us when they are not in the service of the system is just as important to leading us out of the …Read more
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Correction to: An Absurd Consequence of Stanford’s New Induction Over the History of Science: A Reply to SterpettiAxiomathes 29 (5): 529-529. 2019.
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Political memes in the 2018 presidential campaigns in Russia: Dialogue and conflictEmpedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 10 (1): 71-86. 2019.The authors seek to contribute to the existing discussion of the communicative function of political memes by bringing into discussion political memes used by opposition leaders in the 2018 Russian presidential election campaigns as examples of memes being purposefully deployed in targeted political communications. Specifically, they focus on Navalny’s use of the ‘yellow duck’ meme. Drawing on the existing research of memes’ mythological properties, the authors claim that the combination of dial…Read more
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Desire, Love, Emotions: A Philosophical Reading of M. Karagatsis Kitrinos FakelosModern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 16 74-109. 2014.My aim in this paper is to attempt a philosophical reading of M. Karagatsis’ novel Kitrinos Fakelos (1956), focusing my analysis on the passions and the emotions of its fictional characters, aiming at demonstrating their independence as well as the presentation of their psychography in Karagatsis’ novel where the description of the emotions caused by love is a dominant feature. In particular, I will examine the expression of desire, love (erôs) and sympathy in this novel – passions and emotions …Read more
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Merab Mamardashvili and his philosophical callingStudies in East European Thought 71 (3): 169-172. 2019.
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Сущность и Слово. Сборник научных статей к юбилею профессора Н.В.Мотрошиловой (edited book)Phenomenology & Hermeneutics Press. 2009.
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Civil society and ideology: A matter of freedom (review)Studies in East European Thought 48 (2-4): 171-205. 1996.
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State and society in the political thought of the moscow slavophilesStudies in East European Thought 52 (3): 159-183. 2000.Leading members of the Slavophile circle shared a commonWeltanschauung, fostered by a complex reaction to thesocial and political changes taking place in mid-nineteenth-centuryRussia. There was, however, considerable diversity in their views aboutthe character and value of the Russian state apparatus. While theyall criticised the bureaucratic ethos of the tsarist state,a number of them recognised that it played a critical role in stabilising deep-seated social tensions in Russian society. Inthe …Read more
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Remarks on Russian Philosophy, Soviet Philosophy, and HistoricismDiogenes 56 (2-3): 84-94. 2009.This paper concerns two themes: my personal experience of Russian philosophy and Russian philosophers on the one hand, and historicism on the other. My account of my limited experience of Russian philosophers and philosophy will be mainly autobiographical. My remarks about historicism will concern a single aspect of the philosophical consequences of the Soviet experience for Russian philosophy. When I come to Russia, I am always surprised by the degree of interest in a historical approach to kno…Read more
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A Theoretical Leap Of Idea Progress From Rationalism To Marxism: A Study Of Theoretical Heightening Of Idea Of Progress On Its Historical CourseNankai University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 5 9-14. 1997.The reality of social progress in the realization of activities, the history of mankind but also to construct the ideas of social progress. But in a different historical era, the idea of progress the performance of different theoretical form. The idea of progress as the first historical form, rationalist view of progress made great achievements in the theory, but the ideological basis of the non-scientific way of thinking of the one-sidedness and its historical development in the society gradu…Read more
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G. P. Fedotov about the national character in the history of RussiaLiberal Arts in Russiaроссийский Гуманитарный Журналrossijskij Gumanitarnyj Žurnalrossijskij Gumanitaryj Zhurnalrossiiskii Gumanitarnyi Zhurnal 4 (4): 247. 2015.The article deals with the concept of the Russian national type of personality by G. P. Fedotov. The author finds the connection between Fedotov’s views and the theory of moderate social constructivism, according to which the formation of nation by elite can be successful only if it comes in accordance with geographical and historical ‘landscapes‘. Russian type of personality is seen as a unity of two polar characters - ‘the muscovite‘ and ‘the intelligent‘. The author points out that Fedotov co…Read more
Pavel Simashenkov
Samara State Medical University
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Samara State Medical UniversityAssociate Professor
Samara State University
PhD, 2003
Самара, Самарская обл., Russian Federation
Areas of Specialization
Russian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics and Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Russian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics and Ethics |
History: Imagination |