Conceptual Development and Dynamic Realism
This paper focuses on Thomas S. Kuhn's work on taxonomic concepts and how it relates to empirical work from the cognitive sciences on categorization and conceptual development.
Hanne Andersen
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Putnam, Conceptual Relativity, and Metaphysical Realism [PDF]
Rejecting metaphysical realism (MR) is a basic element in Putnam's Philosophy. He introduces two arguments against MR: Model-theoretic (MT) and brain-in-vat (BIV).
hamed ghadiri, mohammad saeedi mehr
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Transcending the brain disease versus disorder dichotomy: a critical realist perspective on psychiatric disorders [PDF]
In this opinion article, we discuss the application of critical realism as an alternative model to the biopsychosocial model in the understanding of psychiatric disorders.
Mohammed Al Alawi +2 more
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Representing Intentional Objects in Conceptual Realism
In this paper we explain how the intentional objects of our mental states can be represented by the intensional objects of conceptual realism. We first briefly examine and show how Brentano’s actualist theory of judgment and his notion of an immanent ...
Nino B. Cocchiarella
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Perspectives for philosophy of the body and the new realism [PDF]
The article presents a commentary on the article by Mario Teodoro Ramirez «The Body by Itself. From the Phenomenology of the Body to an Ontology of the Embodied Self», in which he tries to declare an attempt to build a realism based on a correctly ...
А. К. Zhaparova
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Developing our Knowledge for Complex Times: The Contribution of Critical Realism to Coaching
This conceptual article aims to stimulate reflection and debate on the contribution of the philosophy of science to coaching, an area which remains under-represented in the literature. Specifically, critical realism, evolved from the original work of Roy
Sarah Corrie, Louise Kovacs
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Moral realism, disagreement, and conceptual ethics [PDF]
Moral disagreement is often thought to be of great metaethical significance for moral realists. I explore what remains of that significance when we look at moral disagreement through the lens of a combination of two influential and independently plausible hypotheses about moral language.
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Questioning the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Is the Anthropocene Anthropocentric? [PDF]
The word ‘Anthropocene’ has been controversial scientific concept, to name a new geological epoch that situates ‘Anthropos’ or ‘Man’ as an actor changing geological structure, altering the Earth system, and also making in unpredictable planetary changes.
Kala Mahaswa Rangga, Widhianto Agung
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Religious Realism vs. Anti-realism: Revisiting Don Cupitt, Paul Badham and D. Z. Phillips [PDF]
Realism/anti-realism controversy has always been crucial in the history of philosophy, so that it has affected all philosophical areas, including religious belief, in which admitting realistic/anti-realistic approach has a wide range of influences in all
Ali Sadeqi
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A Historical Outline of Byzantine Philosophy and Its Basic Subjects
The article seeks to present an overview of the history of Byzantine philosophy. It takes its point of departure in the most important factors that influenced and shaped the Patristic thought.
Katelis Viglas
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