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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source

현대 분자 생물학에서의 이론에 관하여 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
학위논문 (석사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 협동과정 과학사및과학철학전공, 2012. 8. 조인래.지난 백 년 동안 과학철학자들이 제시한 과학이론에 대한 관점은 크게 두 가지를 꼽을 수 있다. 하나는 구문론적 관점(the syntactic view)이고, 다른 하나는 의미론적 관점(the semantic view)이다. 논리경험주의자들에 의해 제시된 구문론적 관점에서 과학이론은 보편적인 공리들의 체계이다. 이와 달리, 수피즈(P.
김진영
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Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Human Destiny and the Natural Law in St Maximus the Confessor: A Contribution to Orthodox Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Risks, With and Without Probabilities

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some hold that expected utility is too restrictive in the way it handles risk. Risk‐weighted expected utility is an alternative that allows decision‐makers to have a range of attitudes toward probabilistic risk. It holds that any attitude within this range is instrumentally rational, since these attitudes represent different, equally good ...
Lara Buchak
wiley   +1 more source

Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision

open access: yes, 1993
A basic problem when deriving information from measured data, such as images, originates from the fact that objects in the world, and hence image structures, exist as meaningful entities only over certain ranges of scale.
Lindeberg, Tony
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2008) ‘Stability and Change in Belief Systems: The Operational Code of George W. Bush from Governor to Second-term President

open access: yes, 2020
Cognitive frameworks and belief systems are the primary lenses through which presidents view the world. Two important questions are whether these beliefs ever change significantly, and if so, what causes these changes?
Jonathan Renshon
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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
wiley   +1 more source

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