Scientific Realism, Adaptationism and the Problem of the Criterion [PDF]
, 2015 Scientific Realism (SR) has three crucial aspects: 1) the centrality of the concept of truth, 2) the idea that success is a reliable indicator of truth, and 3) the idea that the Inference to the Best Explanation is a reliable inference rule.
Sterpetti, Fabio
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Pragmatism, Perspectivism, Anthropology. A Consistent Triad [PDF]
, 2017 The paper defends the idea that Jamesian pragmatism, Nietzschean perspectivism, and philosophical anthropology represent a consistent triad, for the similarities and connections between the first two positions rest in their engagement with the ...
Gori, Pietro
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The Prospect of Humanising Development Discourse in Africa through Christian Anthropology [PDF]
, 2016 The invention of development as public discourse began with US President Truman’s 1949 speech that trumped up an illusion of global material prosperity based on a total restructuring of the ‘developing’ world on the model of development and material ...
Ogbonnaya, Joseph
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Catholic responses to evolution, 1859-2009: local factors and mid-scale patterns [PDF]
, 2013 This article discusses Catholic responses to evolution between 1859, the year of publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and 2009, the year in which the scientific world celebrated its 150th anniversary.
Blancke, Stefaan
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New Reversals in the Theory and Methodology of Political Science: Introducing the Issue
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2023 The editorial board presents an issue dedicated to the consideration of topical subjects and variants of methodological approaches in modern political science. The editorial review examines the global trends of turbulence and nonlinearity of development,
Tatyana A. Alekseeva
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Dimensión Empresarial, 2018 This editorial interrogates about the legitimate, the limits between the social system including individuals, its expression through culture and the economic system through the market. This has involved the acceptance of love feelings for the brands, through the goods and services offered, as a postmodern market option and, as in any model, with a ...
Sanabria-Landazábal, Néstor Juan +1 more
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Archaeology, Evolution and Darwinism
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2008 This paper presents a short history of the influence evolutionary thinking has had on anthropology and archaeology. The focus is on four major "schools" in evolutionist thought: the classical evolutionism of the 19th century, Neo-evolutionism, social ...
Aleksandar Palavestra, Marko Porčić
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Instynkt tonalny: Artykuł recenzyjny na temat książki Instynkt tonalny. Koncepcja ewolucyjnego pochodzenia tonalności muzycznej [PDF]
Avant, 2016 The paper is an analysis of the book written by Piotr Podlipniak presenting an original perspective on the origins of musical tonality. Using methods of the natural sciences, the author attempts to reconstruct the possible development of tonal music ...
Filip Stawski
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Grist to the mill of anti-evolutionism: the failed strategy of ruling the supernatural out of science by philosophical fiat [PDF]
, 2012 According to a widespread philosophical opinion, science is strictly limited to investigating natural causes and putting forth natural explanations. Lacking the tools to evaluate supernatural claims, science must remain studiously neutral on questions of
Blancke, Stefaan +2 more
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Come back Marshall, all is forgiven? : Complexity, evolution, mathematics and Marshallian exceptionalism [PDF]
, 2013 Marshall was the great synthesiser of neoclassical economics. Yet with his qualified assumption of self-interest, his emphasis on variation in economic evolution and his cautious attitude to the use of mathematics, Marshall differs fundamentally from ...
Bannister R.C +63 more
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