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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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Optimistic Naturalism and the Meaning of Life [PDF]
Theories of the meaning of life can be classified into naturalistic and not-naturalistic ones. One of the most popular objections to the naturalistic ones is that they have no way to escape from the problem of the Absurd. But the optimistic naturalism as
Masud Tusi Saeedi
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The dawn of the nickel age of superconductivity [PDF]
An invited Commentary in: Nature Reviews Physics 3, 7 (2021).
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A Critical Assessment of Shafer-Landau’s Ethical Non-Naturalism
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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The present text aims to make an examination of the varieties of moral naturalism, and for this it will examine some anti-naturalist and anti-realist arguments.
David Copp
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Ukrainian Literary Naturalism in the Ideological and Aesthetic Reception of Lesia Ukrainka
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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Nature Natured and Nature Denatured [PDF]
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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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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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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Prolegomenon to any future critical responses to naturalism
In this paper, I propose a programme for future critical responses to naturalism. The paper is divided into two principal parts. In Part I, after providing a topography of contemporary critical approaches to the Placement Problem, which is the ...
Giladi, Paul
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