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2022
Pragmatism and metaphysics suffer from a bad reputation, but both are still alive and even flourishing. This may be partly due to their mutual reinforcement. Most (classical and recent) pragmatists fight against metaphysics, but they also have various “metaphysical” agendas.
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Pragmatism and metaphysics suffer from a bad reputation, but both are still alive and even flourishing. This may be partly due to their mutual reinforcement. Most (classical and recent) pragmatists fight against metaphysics, but they also have various “metaphysical” agendas.
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Journal of Molecular Biology, 2002
Recently, the famous physicist Steven Hawkins, author of the best-seller “A brief history of time”, made a rather provocative proposal about the human genome. He called for an extensive program of genetic modification of humans in order for mankind to remain competitive in the race with machines and computers.
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Recently, the famous physicist Steven Hawkins, author of the best-seller “A brief history of time”, made a rather provocative proposal about the human genome. He called for an extensive program of genetic modification of humans in order for mankind to remain competitive in the race with machines and computers.
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The Metaphysics of Surrogacy [PDF]
, 2018 As with most other areas of reproduction, surrogacy is highly regulated. But the legislation and policies on surrogacy are written in such ways that make large (and possibly mistaken) assumptions about the metaphysical relationship between the mother and the fetus—whether the fetus is a part of, or contained by, the mother.
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The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science
2020Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems; the same problems look different when we change the lens. There has recently been a shift to "postmodal" conceptual tools: concepts of ground, essence, and fundamentality.
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The metaphysics of microeconomics
Monist, 1995L'A. etudie les elements qui entrent dans la composition d'une metaphysique de la microeconomie definie comme l'ensemble des entites quantifiables qui determinent la verite d'une theorie economique. Au-dela des aspects methodologiques et epistemologiques, une metaphysique de l'economie doit etablir une distinction entre les faits economiques et leur ...
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2013
This is both an extensively annotated bibliography on Plato's metaphysical views and, at the same time, an overview of the subject. The current version was last updated in August 2021; the original entry was published in 2013.
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This is both an extensively annotated bibliography on Plato's metaphysical views and, at the same time, an overview of the subject. The current version was last updated in August 2021; the original entry was published in 2013.
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