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Teaching mathematics with a different philosophy. Part 1: Formal mathematics as biased metaphysics [PDF]
Science and Culture, 77 (2011) (7-8) pp. 274-79, 2013 We report on a pedagogical experiment to make mathematics easy by changing its philosophy. The Western philosophy of math originated in religious beliefs about mathesis, cursed by the church. Later, mathematics was "reinterpreted", in a theologically-correct way, using the myth of "Euclid" and his deductive proofs.
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Making New Tools From the Toolbox of Metaphysics
Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2021 R. Arroyo
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Commentary: On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Cheung K, Yaden DB.
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arXivMetaphysics is traditionally conceived as aiming at the truth -- indeed, the most fundamental truths about the most general features of reality. Philosophical naturalists, urging that philosophical claims be grounded on science, have often assumed an eliminativist attitude towards metaphysics, consequently paying little attention to such a definition ...
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Body and will, being an essay concerning will in its metaphysical, physiological, and pathological aspects. [PDF]
, 1884 Henry Maudsley
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Thinking like a mountain: A land ethical approach to healthcare resource allocation
Bioethics, EarlyView.Abstract Human activity is now having a defining influence on global systems. The Anthropocene epoch requires revisiting our ethical presuppositions to understand our relationship to the earth's life support systems. The Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold proposes an ethic that is diachronic, holistic, and biocentric, in contrast to the synchronic ...
Alistair Wardrope
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A proposal for a metaphysics of self-subsisting structures. II. Quantum physics [PDF]
The paper presents an extension of the metaphysics of self-subsisting structures set out in a companion paper to the realm of non-relativistic quantum physics. The discussion is centered around a Pure Shape Dynamics model representing a relational implementation of a de Broglie-Bohm $N$-body system.
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The Argument of Aristotle's Metaphysics. [PDF]
, 1908 A. E. Taylor, Edith Henry Johnson
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The virtues of limits and environmental sustainability in healthcare
Bioethics, EarlyView.Abstract The spectre of human‐induced climate change has drawn attention to the need to discover new, environmentally sustainable approaches to healthcare. This article draws upon David McPherson's The Virtues of Limits (2021) to develop a virtue ethics for sustainability in healthcare.
Xavier Symons
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