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From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics [PDF]

, 2023
Numerous scholarly works focus solely on scientific metaphysics or biological practice, but few attempt to bridge the two subjects. This volume, the latest in the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series, explores what a scientific ...

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A comparative study on Soul in Baba Afdal's philosophy and mind in Descartes' one [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2017
Descartes is famous for his various innovations in philosophy. He has been rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy. His writings are taught at philosophy departments in all universities all over the world and different aspects of his thought ...
Seyyed Mostafa Shahraeini
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An Ontological Study of the Ideas of Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2018
The present article attempts to analyze and compare the views of Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault from an ontological point of view, claiming that there are serious ontological common grounds between the two. At first glance, such a comparison seems to
Fazel Asadi Amjad, Amin Pourhossein Asli, Sayyid Mohammad Marandi   +2 more
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Agamben Reading Kafka: The Animal Way to Paradise

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
The aim of this paper is to revisit the theme of paradise and animality in the work of Kafka, whilst at the same time elucidate Agamben's complex understanding of these notions with the help of the literary imagery of Kafka.
Ype de Boer, Anke Snoek
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Heidegger and the Destiny of Metaphysics: Overcoming Metaphysics [PDF]

Uirtus
These lines attempt to make explicit the metamorphoses of the meaning of metaphysics in Martin Heidegger. They constitute an analysis of the phenomenological issues of the project of overcoming metaphysics as it is accomplished through contact with ...
Yves Armand Akaffou
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The Difficulties of Reductionistic Explanation of Moral Knowledge [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2016
Moral reductionist believes that the reality of moral qualities are the same qualities which can be expressed with immoral words. Such an ontological view has an epistemological aspect which states our understanding of moral facts is either our ...
SeyyedAli Asghari
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“God Has Not Died, He Became Government”: Use-of-Oneself and Immanence in Giorgio Agamben’s Work

Philosophies
This article delves into the theme of the death of God in Giorgio Agamben’s work from a political perspective, seeking to interpret the notion of “God” in Agamben through the concepts of “government” and “transcendence”.
Benjamim Brum Neto
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Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty

Religions
In this article, I argue that Newman’s emphasis on a gestaltic model of reasoning and the role played by the imagination in informal reasoning is a fruitful starting point for an exploration of convergence between the Grammar of Assent and Wittgenstein’s
Modesto Gómez-Alonso
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Cognitive Metaphysics [PDF]

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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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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