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Physical theory of the twentieth century and contemporary philosophy [PDF]
It has been shown that the criticism of Pauli as well as of Susskind and Glogover may be avoided if the standard quantum-mechanical mathematical model has been suitably extended.
A. Aspect+19 more
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Impossibility and Impossible Worlds [PDF]
Possible worlds have found many applications in contemporary philosophy: from theories of possibility and necessity, to accounts of conditionals, to theories of mental and linguistic content, to understanding supervenience relationships, to theories of ...
Nolan, Daniel
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The topicality of the messages of the interwar Cluj rectors
The interwar period marks the first decades of existence of the Romanian University of Cluj. The present article aims to immerse in the history of the Transylvanian University with the help of a set of documents that has only been analysed tangentially ...
Marcela Sălăgean
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A review of the book "A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory" by Dean ...
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The relational ontology of contemporary physics [PDF]
Quantum theory can be understood as pointing to an ontology of relations. I observe that this reading of quantum mechanics is supported by the ubiquity of relationality in contemporary fundamental physics, including in classical mechanics, gauge theories, general relativity, quantum field theory, and the tentative theories of quantum gravity.
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Educating older people: From victimisation to safety on the internet [PDF]
This 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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Gaston Bachelard and Contemporary Philosophy [PDF]
This special issue aims to redress the balance and to open up Gaston Bachelard's work beyond a small in-crowd of experts and aficionado’s in France. It aims to stimulate the discovery of new and understudied aspects of Bachelard’s work, including aspects
Cortois, Paul+3 more
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Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was [PDF]
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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ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC, THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA AND WESTERN ALLIES
There are various doubts and ambiguities regarding the dispatch of the memorandum by the Government of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) to the Western Allies asking for military intervention in early May 1945, giving rise to different ...
MILAN KOLJANIN, DRAGICA KOLJANIN
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Fifty Million Elvis Fans Can’t be Wrong [PDF]
This essay revisits some classic problems in the philosophy of space and time concerning the counting of possibilities. I argue that we should think that two Newtonian worlds can differ only as to when or where things happen and that general relativistic
't Hooft+103 more
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