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A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Apparently Never-Ending Evolution Debate: Reconsidering the Question

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2019
The author makes an attempt to show why (1) Darwin’s teaching in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex cannot be “scientific” in a modern, classical, or any, sense and that ...
Peter A. Redpath
doaj   +1 more source

The Metaphysics of Sparse Properties and Deep Resemblance Nominalism

open access: yesProblemos
This paper introduces Deep Resemblance Nominalism (DRN) as a novel approach within the framework of resemblance nominalism and compares it to other forms of nominalism, including Rodriguez-Pereyra’s Resemblance Nominalism (RN).
Sun Demirli
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Singularist Semirealism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper proposes to carve out a new position in the scientific realism/antirealism debate and argue that it captures some of the most important realist and some of the most important antirealist considerations.
Nanay, Bence
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Les idées de la nature humaine : l’anthropologie critique et pratique de Spinoza

open access: yesAstérion, 2018
Although the idea of a specific nature seems to be incompatible with the rejection of universals in the second part of Spinoza’s Ethics, the notion of human nature is yet clearly used by this philosopher for both descriptive and normative purposes.
Sophie Laveran
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THE PREPARATION OF RENAISSANCE: DIETRICH OF FREIBERG, MEISTER ECKHART, NICHOLAS OF CUSA; pp. 265–303 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2014
The Renaissance can surely be called a great amalgam of diverse historical, cultural and philosophical impulses. Its outwardly impressive traits hide a pedigree of a confused and enigmatic nature that had combined the bulk of Christian, ancient and ...
Rein Undusk
doaj   +1 more source

The lingua franca of Nominalism. Sellars on Leibniz [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The paper is not built upon a single central thesis. It has been composed as an attempt to investigate a virtually unexplored theme of inquiry. A kind of historiographical thesis may be put in the following terms: Leibniz can be counted among the remote,
Nunziante, Antonio Maria
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Network divergence analysis identifies adaptive gene modules and two orthogonal vulnerability axes in pancreatic cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Tumors contain diverse cellular states whose behavior is shaped by context‐dependent gene coordination. By comparing gene–gene relationships across biological contexts, we identify adaptive transcriptional modules that reorganize into distinct vulnerability axes.
Brian Nelson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

General to Locke & Berkeley [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2015
In history of philosophy, the universals are considered to be one of the most important and controversial problems. A group of thinkers has highlighted   to be mark of difference between human and animal while some others have degraded it to a mere name.
seyyed mohammad hakak, zahra Esmaeli
doaj   +1 more source

Socrates, Piety, and Nominalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The argument used by Socrates to refute the thesis that piety is what all the gods love is one of the most well known in the history of philosophy. Yet some fundamental points of interpretation have gone unnoticed.
Rudebusch, George
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Deflationary Nominalism’s Commitment to Meinongianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Deflationary nominalism is a novel view in the philosophy of mathematics on which there are mathematical statements, such as ‘There are prime numbers’ that are literally true despite the nonexistence of any mathematical objects.
Nguyen, Anthony
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