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On the metaphysics of agents

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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An in-line consideration of rationalism in the works of Seyyed Hussain Nasr and Richard Rorty [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2016
Richard Rorty, who is a new-pragmatist and anti-essentialist philosopher, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, who is a traditionalist, are both of the prominent thought leaders in contemporary philosophy.
Mohammad Kazem Alavi, zahra sadeghimanesh   +1 more
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Detecting Introspective Errors in Consciousness Science

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Detecting introspective errors about consciousness presents challenges that are widely supposed to be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. This is a problem for consciousness science because many central questions turn on when and to what extent we
Andy McKilliam
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استدلال‌های سادۀ بروکنر در ردِّ شکاکیت نسبت به جهان خارج [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2018
شکاکیت فلسفی نسبت به جهان خارج حصول معرفت را نسبت به گزاره‌هایی که دربارۀ جهان خارج هستند، ناممکن می‌داند. ازجمله روش‌های اثبات این مدعا ارائۀ استدلالی شکاکانه است که براساس معرفت‌نداشتن ما به وقوع‌نیافتن فرضیۀ شکاکانه صورت‌بندی می‌شود.
حمید علایی‌نژاد
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Badiou and Agamben Beyond the Happiness Industry and its Critics

Open Philosophy
Modern continental thought is skeptical toward happiness and no longer easily reconciles its pursuit with a desire for justice, the good, and truth. Critical theory has unmasked happiness as a commodity within an industry, an ideological tool for control,
de Boer Ype
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Industrial Metaphysics [PDF]

Parallax, 2016
On milk and its strange combinations and recombinations.
Leslie, Esther, Jackson, Melanie
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Ion Petrovici între metafizică de consolare și gândire categorială

Studii de Istorie a Filosofiei Româneşti, 2022
In the following paper, Ion Petrovici’s concept of metaphysics is taken into consideration. Starting from the debates on metaphysics that were at their peak at the beginning of the last century, the present paper explores the possibility of a ...
Adrian Ciocioman
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The Interface Between Metaphysics and Science

ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO
The interface between metaphysics and science refers to the close-knit relationship between Metaphysics as First Philosophy and science. The first conception of metaphysics by Aristotle makes its appearance after Physics.
Ademola Lukman Lawal
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Globally and locally applied naturalistic metaphysics

Manuscrito
This article addresses the prospects of applied naturalistic metaphysics from both a global and a local perspective. Adopting a broad Sellarsian approach, I look into whether metaphysics has a place and role in the overall scientific image and assess ...
Cristian Soto
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Explanation in Metaphysics? [PDF]

Metaphysica, 2011
Arguments from explanation, i.e. arguments in which the explanatory value of a hypothesis or premise is appealed to, are common in science, and explanatory considerations are becoming more popular in metaphysics. The paper begins by arguing that explanatory arguments in science—even when these are metaphysical explanations— may fail to be explanatory ...
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