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Revamping the Metaphysics of Ethnobiological Classification
Current Anthropology, 2018 Ethnobiology has a long tradition of metaphysical debates about the “naturalness,” “objectivity,” “reality,” and “universality” of classifications. The work of Brent Berlin has been especially influential in developing a “convergence metaphysics” that ...
David Ludwig
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Bricolage and its Strategic Connotations: A Study of Greek Social Entrepreneurs in Times of Crisis
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how social entrepreneurs contend with severe resource constraints in times of crisis. To explain entrepreneurial responses to such limitations, researchers use the concept of bricolage, which involves creatively combining scarce resources to solve problems.
Luc Glasbeek
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Metaphysical Review, vol. 3, no. 1, July 1996, 1997 This is a short metaphysical fable accentuating the conceptual difficulties involved, and succinctly criticizing the approaches pursued since the inception of quantum theory, in dealing with what is known collectively as `the measurement problem.' It includes some landmark references, and has appeared in the special issue of Metaphysical Review ...
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The total artificial heart: An existential transformation beyond technology
European Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.
Anne‐Céline Martin, Bernard Cholley
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Metaphysics as the Science of Essence: E. J. Lowe and Thomas Aquinas
Civilizar, 2013 Metaphysics after being ignored for years has returned to the center of the stage in contemporary philosophy. Thomas Aquinas has lived a very similar story, which gave birth to analytical Thomism.
Alejandro Pérez
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Modal Approaches in Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Some interpretations of quantum mechanics use notions of possible states and possible trajectories. I investigate how this modal approach correlates with several metaphysical conceptions of a transition from potential to actual existence. The comparison is based on a discussion in contemporary analytical metaphysics of modality.
arxiv
The Everyday Condition of Metaphysics [PDF]
Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2010 The question I intend to answer is whether one can speak of a tacit metaphysics, not expressed conceptually, but nevertheless common. If the answer is positive and providing that it is specific to day-to-day life, such metaphysics may be called everyday
Ştefan Afloroaei
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Against 'Particle Metaphysics' and 'Collapses' within the Definition of Quantum Entanglement [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 In this paper we argue against the orthodox definition of quantum entanglement which has been explicitly grounded on several "common sense" (metaphysical) presuppositions and presents today serious formal and conceptual drawbacks. This interpretation which some researchers in the field call "minimal", has ended up creating a narrative according to ...
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Emilie du Châtelet's Metaphysics of Substance
, 2018 :I argue that Emilie du Châtelet's metaphysics of corporeal substance in the 1740s was a species of realism. This result challenges the ruling consensus, which takes her to have been decisively influenced by Leibniz, an idealist.
M. Stan
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Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics
Metaphysics and Cognitive Science, 2019 Evolutionary debunking arguments abound, but it is widely assumed that they do not arise for our perceptual beliefs about midsized objects, insofar as the adaptive value of our object beliefs cannot be explained without reference to the objects ...
Daniel Z. Korman
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