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3The Epistemic Significance of Maintaining Consistency in ConfabulationsSociology of Power 33 (4): 184-197. 2021.
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15“Children, fools, and madmen”: Thomas Hobbes and the Problems of the Sociology of ChildhoodSociology of Power 31 (1): 14-29. 2019.
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9Psychopharmacologyconstructing emotions: Prozacversus mind-body dualismSociology of Power 29 (3): 41-58. 2017.
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31Reconciliation of natural and social: Rethinking Rousseau’s educational theoryEducational Philosophy and Theory 49 (14): 1381-1391. 2017.This article intends to re-examine Rousseau’s educational theory in the context of the nature/culture opposition. In contemporary discussions on the nature/culture dualism, it has been often stated that his educational theory is based on the assumption that a child is a natural being. However, the author demonstrates that Rousseau was instead committed to a duality of human nature; this influences his educational theory. In his model, human nature consists of a natural and a social side; these t…Read more
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55Abnormal Certainty: Examining the Epistemological Status of Delusional BeliefsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 26 (4): 546-560. 2018.ABSTRACTThis article intends to reconsider the epistemological status of delusional beliefs on the basis of Wittgenstein’s conception of certainty. Several works over the last two decades have compared delusional beliefs with so-called hinge propositions, which – according to Wittgenstein – function as expressions of objective certainty. This gives rise to a paradox. On the one hand, delusions are compatible to Wittgensteinian certainties in some respects; on the other hand, they contradict beli…Read more
Svetlana Bardina
The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
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The Moscow School of Social and Economic SciencesLecturer