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Reviving natural history, building ecological civilisation: the philosophy and social significance of the Natural History Revival Movement in contemporary China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The concept of ecological civilisation has become enshrined in the Chinese constitution as a blueprint for sustainable development based on a changed relationship with nature. Achieving the ecological civilisation, however, is no easy task.
Siyu Fu, Kristian H. Nielsen
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Précis of Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2015
This paper introduces and contextualizes my book Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge, 2013).
Kaidesoja Tuukka
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Elaborating Naturalized Critical Realism: Response to Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little and Petri Ylikoski

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2015
This paper is a reply to the discussions of Ruth Groff, Dave Elder-Vass, Daniel Little, and Petri Ylikoski of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013): Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (London: Routledge).
Tuukka Kaidesoja
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Record books as a strategy in ecology education: fundations historical in Brazil

open access: yesAmazônia, 2018
The article brings a bibliographic review about the historical bases of Ecology with a didactic activity, demonstrating the importance of Brazil for the development of Ecology, based on the History and Philosophy of Biology. The activity was accomplished
Lucas Salvino Gontijo   +4 more
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Darwinism in metaethics: What if the universal acid cannot be contained? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this article is to explore the impact of Darwinism in metaethics and dispel some of the confusion surrounding it. While the prospects for a Darwinian metaethics appear to be improving, some underlying epistemological issues remain unclear.
Severini, Eleonora, Sterpetti, Fabio
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Transcendental Aspects, Ontological Commitments and Naturalistic Elements in Nietzsche's Thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Nietzsche's views on knowledge have been interpreted in at least three incompatible ways - as transcendental, naturalistic or proto-deconstructionist. While the first two share a commitment to the possibility of objective truth, the third reading denies ...
Han-Pile, B
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Modeling Life as Cognitive Info-Computation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article presents a naturalist approach to cognition understood as a network of info-computational, autopoietic processes in living systems. It provides a conceptual framework for the unified view of cognition as evolved from the simplest to the most
A. Zeilinger   +19 more
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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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Naturalism and wonder: Peirce on the logic of Hume’s argument against miracles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
How should we proceed when confronted with a phenomenon (or evidence which points towards a phenomenon) which baffles us? The term "miracle" is a convenient term on which to hang this question.
Legg, Catherine
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Rescuing religious non-realism from Cupitt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Don Cupitt's version of religious non-realism based as it is on linguistic constructivism, radical relativism and the view that culture forms human nature has been attacked with devastating effect by realists in the last few years.
Walker, Ruth
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