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Boltzmann’s Method of Philosophy [PDF]

, 2002
The method of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844 – 1906), a great Austrian physicist-philosopher, for solving philosophical problems was described. This brilliant method can be a guiding stray in philosophy.
Eftekhari, Ali
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Metaphilosophical themes : naturalism, rationalism and the conceptions of philosophy [PDF]

, 2019
This study belongs firmly to the genre of metaphilosophy, as it reflects on topics pertaining to the subject matter, method and aim of philosophy itself by using philosophy’s own usual tools and approaches.
Pettersson, Henri
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Reconsidering the role of inference to the best explanation in the epistemology of testimony

, 2010
10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.10.001Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A414386 ...
Gelfert, A., Axel Gelfert
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The Doctrine of State Necessity

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
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Al-Ghazali's occasionalism and the natures of creatures

, 2005
10.1007/s11153-005-1595-0International Journal for Philosophy of Religion58295 ...
Moad, O.E.
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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From the philosophy of science to the philosophy of the sciences

, 2015
The philosophy of science took shape as an autonomous discipline in the first decades of the Twentieth Century in connection with the movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism.
GALAVOTTI, MARIA CARLA
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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