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QCD and Natural Philosophy [PDF]
Annales Henri Poincaré, 2003 QCD sheds considerable light on several of the most basic features of the natural world including the origin of mass, the feebleness of gravity, the extent to which the properties of matter can be determined conceptually, the possible utility of the anthropic principle, and the metatheoretic notions of effectiveness and computability.
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Gold and Apes. Des usages du scepticisme dans la philosophie de Robert Boyle
Revue LISA, 2014 In 1661, when Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist, he was trying to assess the consistency of the works of contemporary chemists, while criticizing the imperfections of their theories.
Jean-Pierre Grima-Morales
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Natural philosophy, Byzantine [PDF]
, 2011 Byzantine natural philosophy is heavily dependent on that of late antique Neoplatonic Aristotelianism, especially in the idiosyncratic form it took in the works of John Philoponus.
Bydén, Börje,
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William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain [PDF]
, 1979 This article aims to reveal the moral and theological dimensions of William Whewell’s philosophy of science. It suggests that, in addition to an internalist account of Whewell’s method and epistemology, there is a need to view his philosophy of science ...
Yeo, R, Richard Yeo
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Natural Law: A Translation of the Textbook for Kant’s Lectures on Legal and Political Philosophy [PDF]
, 2020 As the first translation into any modern language of Achenwall’s Ius naturae, from the 1763 edition used by Immanuel Kant, this is an essential work for students and Kant scholars.
Achenwall, Gottfried +2 more
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The nature of philosophy and the philosophy of nature
Biology and Philosophy, 2015 Peter Godfrey-Smith’s introduction to the philosophy of biology is excellent. This review questions one implication of his book, namely that Darwin’s case for the efficacy of natural selection was hampered by his ignorance of the particulate nature of inheritance.
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Beyond the quadrilateral: The place of nature in John Wesley’s epistemology of theology
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Many writers have sought to outline Wesley’s conception of how human beings obtain revelational knowledge. In this regard, the use of what has been dubbed the Wesleyan quadrilateral continues to remain widespread in both the academy and the pulpit ...
Daniel J. Pratt Morris-Chapman
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What is right with the miracle argument: establishing a taxonomy of natural kinds [PDF]
, 1993 Carrier M. What is right with the miracle argument: establishing a taxonomy of natural kinds. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A.
Carrier, Martin
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Photon Energy and Natural Philosophy [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesUnderstanding photon energy is a fundamental scientific issue for obtaining clean and sustainable energy. The understanding of the properties of light and photon energy is an important issue in physics/natural philosophy, and it is also a problem of ...
Yuan Daocheng
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Shifting Attention From Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology [PDF]
, 2013 Traditional approaches in philosophy of biology focus attention on biological concepts, explanations, and theories, on evidential support and inter-theoretical relations.
Waters, C. Kenneth, C. Kenneth Waters
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