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The Power and Limits of Reason: Al-Rāzī on the Possibility of General and Particular Metaphysical Knowledge [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021 This article examines al-Rāzī’s views on the possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Firstly, after outlining his classification of the metaphysical knowable into essence and existence as well as undetailed (ijmālī) and detailed (taf~īlī), the article ...
Eşref Altaş
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The importance of lighting in the interpretations of Christian sacral architecture of the second half of the XX century [PDF]
Arhitektura i Urbanizam, 2020 The character of architectural space is dependent on the range of aspects that define it. Lighting presents a very significant component of architectural space.
Sovilj Danira
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Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs
Scientific Reports, 2021 Can the use of psychedelic drugs induce lasting changes in metaphysical beliefs? While it is popularly believed that they can, this question has never been formally tested.
Christopher Timmermann +5 more
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Quantum Meta-physics: Nonlocality and Limits of Determinism
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023 This essay aims to show that the recent development of quantum theory may provide us with an answer to one of the most compelling metaphysical problems, namely the problem of determinism. First, I sketch the conceptual background and draw the distinction
Bartosz Wesół
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Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists
Metaphysics, 2020 I expand 'modal normativism', a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of 'metaphysical explanation'. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the normative function ...
Theodore Locke
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The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2015 The paper aims to display a limited observation of Feng’s interpretation of Western philosophy through the window of metaphysical methodology. This paper concentrates on Feng’s interpretation of Western philosophy from the perspective of metaphysical ...
Derong Chen
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In recent years philosophers have been interested in the methodology of metaphysics. Most of these developments are related to formal work in logic or physics, often against the backdrop of the Carnap-Quine debate on ontology. Drawing on Quine's later work, I argue that a psychological or cognitive perspective on metaphysical topics may be a valuable ...
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Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2005 Agent technology has not been accepted by software developers to the extent and rate anticipated. We believe that the lack of clarity and consistency regarding the terminology and its use may be a contributing cause for this. The dissemination of research results both to industry and related research disciplines becomes difficult.
Davidsson, Paul, Johansson, Stefan J.
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Towards a characterization of metaphysics of biology: metaphysics for and metaphysics in biology
Synthese, 2022 AbstractSince the last decades of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, the use of metaphysics by philosophers when approaching conceptual problems in biology has increased. Some philosophers call this tendency in philosophy of biology ‘Metaphysics of Biology’ (Guay and Pradeu in Synthese 1–20, 2017).
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Interconnected Architectural Wellbeing: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy & Siegfried Ebeling
ArchitectureThis paper investigates how architectural theories from the Bauhaus in the 1920s have the opportunity to influence approaches to wellbeing through the built environment today. Through a literature review, the study examines work and writings by primarily
Sarah Breen Lovett
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