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A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2018 There is an old meta-philosophical worry: very roughly, metaphysical theories have no observational consequences and so the study of metaphysics has no value.
Baron, Samuel
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Using contemplative nature engagement practices to address ecological distress
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Worsening impacts of climate and ecological change have led to a rise in eco‐distress and related psychological impacts of these crises. Interventions, including both nature‐based activities and contemplative practices, have been developed to help individuals experiencing eco‐distress.
Rose Macaulay +5 more
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Automating Leibniz’s Theory of Concepts [PDF]
, 2015 Our computational metaphysics group describes its use of automated reasoning tools to study Leibniz’s theory of concepts. We start with a reconstruction of Leibniz’s theory within the theory of abstract objects (henceforth ‘object theory’).
Alama, Jesse +2 more
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
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Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary systems thinking occurs in an increasingly fractured world. To think about systems is to be a part of a multitude of worlds that possess many inherent contradictions. Although contemporary systems thinking constantly oscillates between universality (i.e., the general systems theory genealogy) and diversity (e.g., the social ...
Jonathon Mackay
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Metaphysics of science between metaphysics and science [PDF]
, 2007 The paper argues that metaphysics depends upon science when it comes to claims about the constitution of the real world. That thesis is illustrated by considering the examples of global supervenience, the tenseless vs.
Esfeld, Michael
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Poorly designed information systems compel employees to find workarounds for the system in order to do their work properly. However, such workarounds compromise the enforcement of organisational governance. In our sense‐making of this specific phenomenon, we considered critical realism as a framework for understanding based on its adoption in ...
Roelien Goede, Hendrik Goede
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Metaphysics after Metaphysics: The Limitative Conception of First Philosophy in Kant [PDF]
Prolegomena, 2003 The essay examines Kant’s Enlightenment conception of metaphysics as a science (Wissenschaft) to be kept free of ideological prejudice and extrarational cognitive resources and to be established under the conditions of public, intersubjectively valid ...
Günter Zöller
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Natural Language and its Ontology [PDF]
, 2019 This paper gives a characterization of the ontology implicit in natural language and the entities it involves, situates natural language ontology within metaphysics, and responds to Chomskys' dismissal of externalist ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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