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Realism and metaphysics in quantum mechanics [PDF]
In: Problemas de metaf\'isica anal\'itica. Ed. by G. Imaguire and
R. Cid. Pelotas: NEPFIL Online, pp. 269-309 (2020), 2020 According to scientific realism, science gives us an approximately true description of what the world is like. But what does it mean? In this chapter, we focus on the ontological and metaphysical aspects of this discussion. That is, we are concerned with the following questions: what there is, according to our best scientific theories?
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Social Science as a Guide to Social Metaphysics?
, 2018 If we are sympathetic to the project of naturalising metaphysics, how should we approach the metaphysics of the social world? What role can the social sciences play in metaphysical investigation? In the light of these questions, this paper examines three
K. Hawley
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Global Pandemic Monitoring Board (GPMB) is a group of eminent individuals publishing reports calling for increased emphasis on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). They advocate for the World Health Organization's (WHO) PPPR preferred approach and its attendant financial requests. Though claiming independence, GPMB is co‐
David Bell +3 more
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Nima's “Incomplete” Humans: Storying Adolescents’ Black Inhabitations in Accra
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness
Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
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arXiv, 2012 It is argued that it is possible to give operational meaning to free will and the process of making a choice without employing metaphysics.
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The Metaphysics of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2016 The central aim of this article is to specify the ontological nature of constitutive mechanistic phenomena (that is, of phenomena that are explained in constitutive mechanistic explanations).
M. I. Kaiser, Beate Krickel
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Book review: Philosophy of Mind: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Psychology. [PDF]
, 1895 Andrea Armstrong
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Counter‐hegemonic ethics for sustainable business
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.Abstract Business ethics scholarship proposes alternatives for making companies sustainable. While these models may have advanced business practice, the alternatives rarely challenge the hegemony of the economic system. This article develops a new normative frame for sustainable business by investigating articulations of counter‐hegemony and their ...
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado +4 more
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Kant and the problem of Meaningfulness or Meaningless of Metaphysics
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2016 One of the most important questions on Kant’s philosophy is the meaningfulness or meaningless of metaphysics. This article tries to answer two questions on Kant’s philosophy: 1- Is the metaphysics, in the philosophy of Kant, meaningful or ...
Masoud Omid
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