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Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection: Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Neo-Aristotelian metaethical naturalism is a modern attempt at naturalizing ethics using ideas from Aristotle’s teleological metaphysics. Proponents of this view argue that moral virtue in human beings is an instance of natural goodness, a kind of ...
C Andreou   +32 more
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Resisting Reductive Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Ethicists struggle to take reductive views seriously. They also have trouble conceiving of some supervenience failures.
Laskowski, N. G.
core   +1 more source

Ecologically‐Valid Emotion Signatures Enhance Mood Disorder Diagnostics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identifies ecologically‐valid Divergent Emotional Functional Networks (DEFN), derived from dynamic functional connectivity during naturalistic movie watching. The DEFN reliably enhances diagnostic accuracy for mood disorders, including major depressive and bipolar disorders, demonstrating strong reproducibility across demographic factors and
Shuyue Xu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Richer or a Poorer Naturalism?

open access: yesZygon, 1997
Willem Drees endorses not only minimal naturalism, understood as the rejection of supernatural interruptions of the world's normal causal processes, but also maximal naturalism, with its reductionistic materialism.
doaj   +2 more sources

An Incongruent Amalgamation: John Stuart Mill\u27s Utilitarianism on Naturalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
John Stuart Mill\u27s utilitarian principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, often surfaces in cultural debates in the contemporary West over the extent and foundations of moral duties.
Robinson, Jeffrey M
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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Scientific knowledge is not merely a matter of reconciling theories and laws with data and observations. Science presupposes a number of metatheoretic shaping principles in order to judge good methods and theories from bad.
Koperski, Jeffrey
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Schizophrenia Genetics Modulates Clinical Depressive Features

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Schizophrenia (SCZ) genetic liability, quantified by polygenic scores (PGS), may influence clinical phenotypes in major depressive disorder (MDD). We investigated the effect of the SCZ‐PGS derived from the latest SCZ genome‐wide association study (GWAS) on MDD symptom severity, comorbidities, and treatment outcomes.
Alessandro Serretti   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Naturalizing ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this essay we provide (1) an argument for why ethics should be naturalized, (2) an analysis of why it is not yet naturalized, (3) a defense of ethical naturalism against two fallacies—Hume’s and Moore’s—that ethical naturalism allegedly commits, and ...
Flanagan, Owen   +2 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

NATURALISM AS REFLECTED IN STEPHEN CRANE ‘S SHORT STORY THE OPEN BOAT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This research is a kind of library research. The main data is taken from Stephen Crane’s short story The Open Boat. The purpose of the research is to find out how the naturalism aspects are reflected in Stephen Crane’s short story The Open Boat.
YUSRIANA, ERNI
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