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Hegel and the Philosophy of Food [PDF]

, 2010
In this review of Robert Pippin?s recent book [Hegel?s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)], elements of Hegel?s Practical Philosophy are assessed both against opposed philosophical ...
Martin, W
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How the Body Gets Healthy: An Empirical Case of Animism and Naturalism Working Together in the Treatment of Disease Among the Nuosu People of Southwest China

Religions
This paper examines perceptions of illness and related therapeutic practices observed among the Nuosu, an ethnic minority group of Southwest China. The paper will discuss the interplay between animism and naturalism in the treatment of Nuosu illness ...
Qian Sun, Ximing Xue, Chen Chen
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Essentially Grounded Non-Naturalism and Normative Supervenience [PDF]

, 2018
Non-naturalism – roughly the view that normative properties and facts are sui generis and incompatible with a purely scientific worldview – faces a difficult challenge with regard to explaining why it is that the normative features of things supervene on
Teemu, Toppinen
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‘Quine’s Meaning Nihilism: Revisiting Naturalism and Confirmation Method,’ [PDF]

, 2017
The paper concentrates on an appreciation of W.V. Quine’s thought on meaning and how it escalates beyond the meaning holism and confirmation holism, thereby paving the way for a ‘meaning nihilism’ and ‘confirmation rejectionism’.
Chakraborty, Dr Sanjit
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Where the Conflict Really Lies: Plantinga, the Challenge of Evil, and Religious Naturalism [PDF]

In this paper I argue that, although Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa theodicy appears on only two pages of his recent book Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism (2011) (i.e.
Burns, Elizabeth
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Naturalistic Metaphysics at Sea [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of metaphysics questions with an eye toward advancing contemporary debates about whether naturalists can coherently undertake substantive metaphysical inquiry ...
Haug, Matthew
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Turin Shroud, Resurrection and Science: One View of the Cathedral [PDF]

, 2016
In a topic as controversial as the Turin Shroud, it is always surprising to note that there remains a large area of consensus among scholars who hold opposite opinions on the origin of this piece of fabric.
Casabianca, Tristan
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Como Georg Simmel chegou à modernidade e lhe permaneceu fiel? [PDF]

Sociologia & Antropologia, 2015
How did Georg Simmel, the “first sociologist of modernity” according to David Frisby, get to know and to conceive modernity? We believe that this happened during the phase in which the author participated in Naturalism – a social movement that had a ...
Otthein Rammstedt
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Nature, Science, Bayes' Theorem, and the Whole of Reality [PDF]

, 2015
A fundamental problem in science is how to make logical inferences from scientific data. Mere data does not suffice since additional information is necessary to select a domain of models or hypotheses and thus determine the likelihood of each model or ...
Alexanian, Moorad
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How Successful is Naturalism? [PDF]

, 2007
The question raised by this volume is “How successful is naturalism?” The question presupposes that we already know what naturalism is and what counts as success.
Rea, Michael C.
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