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The Metaphysics of Moral Explanations [PDF]
, 2020 It’s commonly held that particular moral facts are explained by ‘natural’ or ‘descriptive’ facts, though there’s disagreement over how such explanations work.
Fogal, Daniel, Risberg, Olle
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From Particle to Purpose: A Systems‐Theoretical Model of Unity and Coherent Adaptation
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper develops a conceptual integration that bridges classical systems theories with insights from the Islamic intellectual tradition, focusing on the notion of zerre (particle) as articulated by Said Nursî. We reinterpret zerre as a systems‐theoretical agent that exhibits lawful responsiveness without autonomy, offering a new lens on how
Erhan Atay
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
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Fragmentalist Presentist Perdurantism [PDF]
, 2018 Perdurantists think of continuants as mereological sums of stages from different times. This view of persistence would force us to drop the idea that there is genuine change in the world. By exploiting a presentist metaphysics, Brogaard proposed a theory,
Iaquinto, Samuele
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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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Investigating Sadraeeâs Views on âthe Process of Sensory Perceptionâ [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2012 Sadr-ol-Motaalehin has looked at the sensory perception from multiple perspectives and, therefore, presented inconsistent views. The aim of this research is to analyze the relation between these ideas.
N Momeni
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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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The Metaphysics of Establishments [PDF]
, 2020 I present two puzzles about the metaphysics of stores, restaurants, and other such establishments. I defend a solution to the puzzles, according to which establishments are not material objects and are not constituted by the buildings that they ...
Korman, Daniel Z.
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Fundemental Aesthetics in Heideggerian Philosophy and Daoism [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2015 Daoist aesthetics is based on the creative power of Dao which has a pre-ontological origin. The original context of creativity which arises from Dao, forms the foundation of art in Daoist thought.
Morteza Goodarzi, Aliasghar Mosleh
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Veritas, 2011 Our purpose is to show the philosophical reasons that led Martin Heidegger to introduce Suárez’s metaphysics in the formation of his existential ontology.
González, Ángel Poncela
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