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Science, Values and Ideology

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how scientific inquiry can function ideologically. We distinguish between descriptive and pejorative accounts of ideology and between doxastic and non‐doxastic views, arguing that familiar appeals to bias or error fail to capture certain durable forms of distortion in science.
Rebekka Hufendiek, Daniel James
wiley   +1 more source

El realismo estructural a debate: matemáticas, ontología y representación

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2009
The aim of this paper is to undermine structural realism by testing the soundness of its three main theses. The first section presents the epistemic and ontic forms of structural realism.
Carlos M. Madrid Casado
doaj  

On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory and instrumental context.
Dardashti, Radin   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Twisted at the Root: Capitalist Alienation, its Re‐Inscription, and Implications for Education

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 6, Page 1002-1022, December 2025.
Abstract Capitalism inheres alienation as a fundament of modern life, twisting the root of being such that a sense of pervasive estrangement becomes the condition undergirding much of our phenomenal existence. Alienation, I argue, formed in the cleavage of capital mediation, leaves us reinscribing its tenor across multiple spheres, as we are compelled ...
Lana Parker
wiley   +1 more source

How properties hold together in Substances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article aims to clarify how aspects of current chemical understanding relate to some important contemporary problems of philosophy. The first section points out that the long-running philosophical debates concerning how properties stay together in ...
E. Earley, Joseph
core  

THE REVOLUTIONARY'S TWO TEMPORALITIES? Activism, Failure, and Uneventing

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 697-725, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Radical activists assess actions both for their relatively immediate effects and for their potential longer‐term consequences. Provisional failures can become resources for future victories, while erstwhile successes can dissolve after apparent achievement. Drawing from ethnography with Burmese revolutionaries, this article shows how activists
ELLIOTT PRASSE‐FREEMAN
wiley   +1 more source

Light, Ontology, and Analogy: A Non-Concordist Reading of Qur’an 24:35 in Dialogue with Philosophy and Physics

open access: yesPhilosophies
This article develops a structural–analogical framework to investigate conceptual resonances between Qur’an 24:35—the Verse of Light—and contemporary relational models in physics, while maintaining firm epistemic boundaries between theology, philosophy ...
Adil Guler
doaj   +1 more source

On the Nature of Models: The Unfinished Debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review: Ippoliti, Emiliano, Sterpetti, Fabio, Nickles Thomas : Models and Inferences in ...
Jedlička, Petr
core  

The Ontology of Quantum Field Theory: Structural Realism Vindicated? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper I elicit a prediction from structural realism and compare it, not to a historical case, but to a contemporary scientific theory. If structural realism is correct, then we should expect physics to develop theories that fail to provide an ...
Glick, David
core   +1 more source

Systems Thinking as Being‐in‐the‐World

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 1439-1448, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT Contemporary systems thinking occurs in an increasingly fractured world. To think about systems is to be a part of a multitude of worlds that possess many inherent contradictions. Although contemporary systems thinking constantly oscillates between universality (i.e., the general systems theory genealogy) and diversity (e.g., the social ...
Jonathon Mackay
wiley   +1 more source

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