Why biologists should read Aristotle (or why philosophy matters for the life sciences and why the life sciences matter for philosophy) [PDF]
, 2019 This note discusses the importance of Natural History (biology) in the development of Aristotle philosophy and scientific outlook, and so the importance of considering Aristotle's philosophy as a necessary and useful background for contemporary ...
Aranda-Anzaldo, Armando
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The Gap between Philosophy and the Philosophy of Education in Japanese Academia: A Statistical Survey of the Largest Competitive Research Funding Database in Japan [PDF]
, 2017 This short article is based on my special lecture entitled "Aristotle and the Philosophy of Education" at Tamagawa University Research Institute in Tokyo on September 19, 2015, through a recording of the spoken language transcribed in written form with ...
Tachibana, Koji
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Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was [PDF]
, 2015 Philosophy of biology is often said to have emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. Prior to this time, it has been alleged that the only authors who engaged philosophically with the life sciences were either logical empiricists who sought to
Gawne, Richard, Nicholson, Daniel J.
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Whence philosophy of biology? [PDF]
, 2006 A consensus exists among contemporary philosophers of biology about the history of their field. According to the received view, mainstream philosophy of science in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s focused on physics and general epistemology, neglecting analyses ...
Byron (formerly Baker), Jason M.
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Educating older people: From victimisation to safety on the internet [PDF]
TemidaThis paper examines older people’s vulnerability to cybercrime and education as a societal intervention to boost their safety and mitigate victimisation.
Miljković Jovan +2 more
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The Revival of Sree Sankara’s Hypothesis of Appearance and Reality: A Critical Analysis and Appraisal [PDF]
, 2018 The main foci of this paper are to delineate the distinction between appearance and reality in the light of Sree Sankara’s Advaita Philosophy and to look at how Sankara’s notion of appearance and reality is enjoying a contemporary revival, and it is ...
Behera, Shimi C. M. And Dr Rajiba Lochan +1 more
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Political Research ExchangeDeliberative mini-publics are among the most studied forms of citizen participation with an active global developer network. Mini-publics have shaped legislation and provided useful information for voters in many countries, but our knowledge on the ...
Staffan Himmelroos +2 more
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Digitally Yours; The Body in Contemporary Photography [PDF]
, 2009 This article analyses two artworks by contemporary photographers, Alexa Wright and Wendy McMurdo. It focuses in particular on the relationship between digital technologies and representation of the body, and on the changes to accepted paradigms of ...
Rubinstein, Daniel
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Interpretations or Interventions? Indian philosophy in the global cosmopolis [PDF]
, 2017 This introduction concerns the place that Indian philosophical literature should occupy in the history of philosophy, and the challenge of championing pre-modern modes of inquiry in an era when philosophy, at least in the anglophone world and its ...
Coseru, Christian
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