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Philosophy and 'the Life of the Law' [PDF]
, 2009 Focusing on the criminal law, I discuss three ways in which analytical philosophers might contribute to the development or health of the law (and of legal theory). The first is as humble under-labourers, who seek only to clarify legal rules and doctrines,
Duff, R A, R. A. DUFF
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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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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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Philosophia Naturalis Rediviva: Natural Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
Philosophies, 2018 A revitalized practice of natural philosophy can help people to live a better life and promote a flourishing ecosystem. Such a philosophy is natural in two senses.
Bruce J. MacLennan
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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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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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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Digitalizing electroplating requires both domain knowledge and interoperability. This work introduces PlatOn, a domain ontology for trivalent chromium plating and coating characterization, and a hybrid pipeline that aligns it to a mid‐level reference ontology by combining eight similarity metrics with language model reasoning. Expert‐validated mappings
Janik Harter +10 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.The community‐driven Platform MaterialDigital Core Ontology (PMDco) 3.0 is introduced as a Basic Formal Ontology‐aligned semantic backbone for the processing–structure–properties paradigm in Materials Science and Engineering. Modular engineering, automated releases, and validation workflows are highlighted and key semantic patterns for materials ...
Markus Schilling +15 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Fully additive vertical organic electrochemical transistors (vOECTs) with channel‐length of 226 nm on a 50 µm compostable substrate achieve >106 current modulation and ∼36 mS transconductance. Ion‐selective integration enables 1.1 mA dec−1 sensitivity and 36 µm detection limit, highlighting a scalable platform for sustainable electronics and ...
Giulia Frusconi +3 more
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The Natural Philosophy of Experiencing
Philosophies, 2018 A new philosophy of nature is urgently needed. The received ontological view, physicalism, is unable to account for experiential phenomena and in particular for consciousness in all its varieties. We shall outline the concept of experiencing which should
Robert Prentner
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