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Los tratados médicos renacentistas en la gnoseología de Francisco Suárez

Scientia et Fides, 2017
Renaissance medical treatises in the psychology of Francisco SuarezSpanish Renaissance physicians, especially Francis Valles, are a major source of inspiration for Suarez's commentary to De anima.
José Ángel García Cuadrado
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Kant and the Natural Science of Organisms [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2008
Regarding the explanation of organisms as instances of complex design, Kantian philosophy faces a difficult problem: as material entities they should be explained through mechanical laws, but because of their design, they call for an explanation through ...
Alejandro Rosas
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Conceptual Reconstruction and Epistemic Import: Allosteric Mechanistic Explanations As a Unified Theory-Net

Crítica, 2018
The goal of this article is to show that formal analysis and reconstructions may be useful to discuss and shed light on substantive meta-theoretical issues.
Karina Alleva, José Díez, Lucía Federico   +2 more
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Unamuno’s Critique of Pedagogy as an Independent Discipline.

Educação & Realidade, 2018
In this study an attempt is made to reveal the six philosophical motives that led Unamuno away from formalist turn-of-the-century pedagogy in Spain. His critique, far from being ethereal, centred on the real problems of a discipline whose desire to be ...
Emanuel José Maroco Santos
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Duhem in Pre-War Italian Philosophy: The Reasons of an Absence

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2017
The article illustrates the presence of Duhem’s thought in Italian philosophical culture until the Great War. This presence was very scarce, so we must speak of an absence.
Roberto Maiocchi
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Pornografia della catastrofe. Morte individuale e morte collettiva nell’era dell’Antropocene [PDF]

S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2022
Pornography of Catastrophe. Individual death and collective death in the age of the Anthropocene This article aims at analysing how a particular representation of (individual and collective) death is symptom of a particular organization of culture and ...
SALOTTOLO, DELIO
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Do mecanicismo ao selecionismo: uma breve contextualização da transição do behaviorismo radical

Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
O behaviorismo radical, como filosofia da ciência do comportamento formulada por B. F. Skinner, tem sido desde sua criação alvo de inúmeras críticas e tentativas de rotulação.
Robson Nascimento da Cruz, Eduardo Neves Pedrosa de Cillo   +1 more
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On the Relation between Quantum Mechanical and Neo-Mechanistic Ontologies and Explanatory Strategies [PDF]

, 2014
Advocates of the New Mechanicism in philosophy of science argue that scientific explanation often consists in describing mechanisms responsible for natural phenomena.
Glennan, Stuart, Kuhlmann, Meinard
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Knowledge of Nature in the Thought of the Enlightenment

Astra Salvensis, 2020
. In nature’s design, the philosophy of the Enlightenment evolves from the selffounding thinking of the Middle Ages, centred around the existence of God, by accepting and overcoming the mathematical model of nature’s conception, to the biological model ...
Purec, Sorin
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Theological Reform, Bernhardt Varenius and the Constitution of Geographic Science

Geografares, 2013
This article seeks to demonstrate that the relationship among science and religion has been of great importance for the development of a mechanical conception of nature since the seventeenth century that was by the Protestant Reform.
Antonio Carlos Vitte
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