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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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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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The history of astronomy and its role in teaching philosophy of astronomy
, 2021 La evolución que ha sufrido el concepto de observación en la astronomía contemporánea ha generado nuevas concepciones científicas acerca del universo observable, como así también, diversas maneras reflexivas de concebirlo. El avance tecnológico en el instrumental astronómico reciente ha ido configurando y sofisticando nuevas prácticas observacionales ...
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From Galileo to Hubble: Copernican principle as a philosophical dogma defining modern astronomy [PDF]
, 2018 For centuries the case of Galileo Galilei has been the cornerstone of every major argument against the church and its supposedly unscientific dogmatism.
Kakos, Spyridon
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An Account of Luck, Fortune, and Fate
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Luck is one of our most important concepts. In this article, I first argue that extant accounts of luck are deeply flawed. I then argue for a hybrid account of luck that is based around the difference between skill‐based and non‐skill‐based events.
Jesse Hill
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The Concept of Scientific Revolution and Ottoman Empire
İnsan & Toplum, 2014 The emergence of modern science in science history is as important as the spread of it. In science history, the approach of ‘scientific revolution’ makes astronomy the trigometrical point and conceptualizes modernity from this center.
Mehmet Aysoy
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DISKURSUS KEILMUAN: Hellenisasi Pemikiran Islam Atau Islamisasi Berbagai Tradisi Keilmuan? [PDF]
Ulul Albab, 2018 In the classical period, the scholars built the division of science into two groups namely, the science of religion called “al-‘ulûm al-dîniyah”, and the science of non-religious or “al-‘ulûm al-dunyawiyah”.
Ris'an Rusli
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A Secondary Tool for Demarcation Problem: Logical Fallacies [PDF]
, 2017 According to Thagard, the behavior of practitioners of a field may also be used for demarcation between science and pseudoscience due to its social dimension in addition to the epistemic one.
Uyar, Tevfik
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many philosophical disputes have become so intractable that philosophers question whether there is a fact of the matter as to which side is right or whether these disputes are entirely verbal. Yet these “metadisputes” have also become intractable. This raises the question: Could they, too, be verbal? What would that even mean? Using tools from
Alexander W. Kocurek
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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