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, 2021 I provide two arguments against value-free naturalism. Both are based on considerations concerning biological teleology. Value-free naturalism is the thesis that both (1) everything is, at least in principle, under the purview of the sciences and (2) all
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Natural process – Natural selection [PDF]
Biophysical Chemistry, 2007 Life is supported by a myriad of chemical reactions. To describe the overall process we have formulated entropy for an open system undergoing chemical reactions. The entropy formula allows us to recognize various ways for the system to move towards more probable states. These correspond to the basic processes of life i.e. proliferation, differentiation,
Vivek, Sharma, Arto, Annila
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Nature Natured and Nature Denatured [PDF]
Hastings Center Report, 2014 AbstractThose who want to observe, analyze, and make judgments about synthetic biology need to think about where to stand in the world so as to get an informed sense of which new capacities and incapacities are actual and which matter. They will need something like “upstream ethics”—but not because they want to “get ahead” of the imagined onslaught of ...
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 Historically and today, the movement of naturalism affirms the reality of the natural world, rejecting religious views of God, the soul, and values when these are understood to be supernatural or transcending the natural world.
Charles Taliaferro
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Humanities, 2019 Naturalism, as a movement and genre, was heavily influenced by the work of Émile Zola, particularly by his essay, Le roman expérimental (1880).
Cameron Dodworth
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A Critical Assessment of Shafer-Landau’s Ethical Non-Naturalism
Religions, 2023 I focus on the ethical non-naturalism of Russ Shafer-Landau. First, I spend a good bit of time specifying the nature of two versions of naturalism and arguing that one is embraced ubiquitously—more importantly, should be embraced—by contemporary ...
J. P. Moreland
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Ukrainian Literary Naturalism in the Ideological and Aesthetic Reception of Lesia Ukrainka
Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2022 The article deals with the study of the problem of Lesia Ukrainka's reception of the literary phenomenon of naturalism and the philosophy of positivism as its ideological basis. It also studies the way the poetess evaluated and looked at the achievements
Roman Golod
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Naturally Full Functors in Nature [PDF]
Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series, 2005 We introduce and discuss the notion of naturally full functor. The definition is similar to the definition of separable functor: a naturally full functor is a functorial version of a full functor, while a separable functor is a functorial version of a faithful functor. We study general properties of naturally full functors.
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023 Preview: /Review: Paul Giladi, ed., Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism (New York, NY, Routledge, 2020), 330 pages./ Although Bergson does not have a prominent place in this outstanding new volume of essays ...
Robin Friedman
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Between Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God [PDF]
, 2014 The essay compares mark Johnston’s and Hilary Putnam’s approaches to the philosophy of religion in the framework of Charles Taylor’s claim that in modernity ”intermediate positions’ between theism and naturalism become increasingly attractive for a ...
Schlette, Magnus
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