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MAGNETS, MAGIC, AND OTHER ANOMALIES: IN DEFENSE OF METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM
Funding for this research was provided by the John Templeton Foundation, grant number ...
J. Perry, S. Ritchie
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Mapping Postictal Aphasia through Signal Complexity: A Stereo‐Electroencephalography Study
Objective The postictal period provides an opportunity to investigate the pathophysiology underlying aphasia and recovery following epileptic seizures. This study examines postictal aphasia in stereo‐electroencephalography (SEEG)‐explored patients to identify brain regions associated with task‐specific language deficits using signal complexity analysis.
Ionuț‐Flavius Bratu+6 more
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The concept of identity in naturalism
Naturalism in philosophy is characterized by the assumption that nature is the whole of reality. Thus, the naturalist must try to show how concepts considered irreducible and trans-natural by traditional transcendental philosophy can be reduced to ...
Guido Imaguire
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Naturalism and anti-naturalism in contemporary philosophy of science
The early sixties saw the rise of more an d more schools of thought which came to question the accepted paradigm in the philosophy of science from the 1920’s, i.e. logical positivism.
Johan Mouton
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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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SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ADOPT METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM
It has become standard practice for scientists to avoid the possibility of references to God by adopting methodological naturalism (MN), a method that assumes that the reality of the universe, as it can be accessed by empirical enquiry, is to be ...
Andrew B. Torrance
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Two directions for teleology: naturalism and idealism
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in biology places new pressure on this claim. An increasing number of biologists propose that the existence of functions depends on the organisation of ...
Andrew Cooper
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The nature of natural units [PDF]
Nick van Remortel demystifies natural unit systems — and advises what to do when you see a mass expressed in GeV.
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Naturalism, Evolution and Culture [PDF]
In my essay, I will argue that evolution does not undermine naturalism. This is because Alvin Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism rests on a false and unmotivated premise and is thus invalid.
Wittwer, Silvan
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Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection: Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science [PDF]
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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