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Badiou and the Reconstruction of the Concept of God
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I first summarize Badiou's and Žižek's critique of the concept of God, which I and other interpreters conceive as a radicalization of the theology of the death of God. I then pose the question of how to formulate a positive conception of God after the death of God that would overcome the limits of negative or apophatic theology.
Michael Hauser
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Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro – between science and public
Tyragetia, 2014 Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro (MAST) was opened in 1985 and is now one of the most popular institutions of this type in Brazil. It stores artifacts related to the Brazilian science and technology.
Lucia Marinescu-Tonu
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The Polish Marco Polo – Explorer of Zhōngguó
PolitejaThe failed diplomatic mission of Michael Boym is still a little-known episode. Nevertheless, Boym’s legacy goes beyond his missionary and political activities.
Krzysztof Kościelniak
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Emergent Quantum Mechanics: David Bohm Centennial Perspectives
Entropy, 2019 Emergent quantum mechanics (EmQM) explores the possibility of an ontology for quantum mechanics. The resurgence of interest in realist approaches to quantum mechanics challenges the standard textbook view, which represents an operationalist approach. The
Jan Walleczek +3 more
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A New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Against Past‐Eternalism
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a new formulation of the “Hilbert's Hotel Argument” (HHA) which is superior to existing formulations because it (1) demonstrates that HH is logically impossible in the concrete world, (2) takes into account the need to consider the assumptions of HHA, and (3) offers a reply to an important objection concerning the validity of
Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Eli Haitov
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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
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Observations of comet C/1652 Y1 recorded in Korean histories
Open AstronomyWe report the Korean records for comet C/1652 Y1, which have not been introduced in previous studies on historical comets. According to Korean historical documents, this comet, described as bai xing (white star, in literal) or ke xing (guest star, in ...
Bahk Uhn Mee +3 more
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Computing possible worlds in the history of modern astronomy
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 As part of an ongoing study of causal models in the history of science, a counterfactual scenario in the history of modern astronomy is explored with the aid of computer simulations.
Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. +3 more
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The evolution of human opacity: A Wittgensteinian critique of psychology
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.Abstract The central insight of Wittgenstein's critique of psychology can be summarized fairly plainly: when we talk about ‘minds’, ‘thoughts’, ‘feelings’ and other psychological phenomena, we are not talking about states and processes inside our heads, whether those states be further imagined as physical or transcendent. Our psychological language has
Christopher Hoyt
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Michael Vasilyevich Lomonosov and St. Petersburg Academy of Science
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2012 Three hundred years ago in 1711 the Great Russian scientist Michael Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born. He was skilled practically in all sciences of his time - mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, mining, philology, poetry, history, philosophy.
T S Sorokina
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