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Annotated bibliography: Philosophy of Astrophysics [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The following annotated bibliography contains a reasonably complete survey of contemporary work in the philosophy of astrophysics. Spanning approximately forty years from the early 1980s to the present day, the bibliography should help researchers entering the field to acquaint themselves with its major texts, while providing an opportunity for ...
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Deep Ecology; a Movement against the Human/Nature Dichotomy and Its Critique: A Theological Approach [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020 Since the dichotomy of humans/nature paves the way for human beings' supremacy to treat nature as they desire, this dichotomy has obtained a primary role in environmental ethics.
Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammad Emdadi Masouleh
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Reconstructing Ibn Sina's “the Potential” Resolution to the Intentionality to the Past and the Future Based upon a Kind of Minimalist Holism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2021 Ibn Sina says that if we have a piece of knowledge about the past or the future, then our knowledge is “potentially” about the external world. But he does not clarify the meaning of this “potentiality”.
Mehdi Assadi
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Bohr's Anti-Realist Realism in Contemporary (Quantum) Physics and Philosophy [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We discuss the influential role of Niels Bohr's work in the anti-realist realist re-foundation of physics that took place during the 20th century. We will focus in how, developing the modern co-relational matrix of scientific understanding, his essentially anti-realist scheme was able to capture, subvert and defeat the realist program of science ...
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Report on a Boston University Conference December 7-8, 2012 on 'How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to Contemporary U.S. Science Teaching?' [PDF]
Science & Education, September 2014, 23(9): 1853-1873, 2015 This is an editorial report on the outcomes of an international conference sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (REESE-1205273) to the School of Education at Boston University and the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University for a conference titled: How Can the History and Philosophy of Science ...
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Contemporary Cosmology from Lakatos' viewpoint [PDF]
Cosmos & History 19, 63-77 (2023), 2023 An analysis of contemporary Cosmology is presented, with the aim of identifying the elements present in it according to the scientific program structure created by I. Lakatos. We look at some modern controversies from this point of view and clarify the meaning of issues related to them within this context.
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Relative Categoricity and Abstraction Principles [PDF]
Review of Symbolic Logic 8 (2015) 572-606, 2014 Many recent writers in the philosophy of mathematics have put great weight on the relative categoricity of the traditional axiomatizations of our foundational theories of arithmetic and set theory (\cite{Parsons1990a}, \cite{Parsons2008} \S{49}, \cite{McGee1997aa}, \cite{Lavine1999aa}, \cite{Vaananen2014aa}).
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Zeszyty Wiejskie, 2023 Wiktor Schramm (1885–1958) was a scholar and educator born in Olchowa and living in Poznań. He was a professor at the University of Poznań, its pro-rector, as well as the founder (1919) and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics (initially ...
Małgorzata Łapa, Sebastian Latocha
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Reflections on the four facets of symmetry: how physics exemplifies rational thinking [PDF]
European Physical Journal H 38 (2013) 661, 2011 In contemporary theoretical physics, the powerful notion of symmetry stands for a web of intricate meanings among which I identify four clusters associated with the notion of transformation, comprehension, invariance and projection. While their interrelations are examined closely, these four facets of symmetry are scrutinised one after the other in ...
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Confluence: the Galician Origins of Polish Analytic Philosophy [PDF]
, 2016 Separate Austrian influences, those of Bolzano and Brentano, came together in the work of Kazimierz Twardowski, the founder of the Lvov–Warsaw School and Polish analytic philosophy.
Simons, Peter
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