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Most philosophers of science do philosophy ‘on’ science. By contrast, others do philosophy ‘in’ science (PinS), that is, they use philosophical tools to address scientific problems and to provide scientifically useful proposals.
T. Pradeu +3 more
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The article begins with a discussion on the importance, subjectivity, and longstanding search for a definition for Quality Education (QE). It conceptualizes QE in terms of “resilience” and “responsibility towards other”.
Marianthi Karatsiori
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Expert or Esoteric? Philosophers Attribute Knowledge Differently Than All Other Academics
Academics across widely ranging disciplines all pursue knowledge, but they do so using vastly different methods. Do these academics therefore also have different ideas about when someone possesses knowledge?
Christina Starmans, Ori Friedman
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Kinds of Determinism in Science
Determinism is a doctrine or assumption best defined in the realm of the natural sciences. In this paper I explain in detail the four senses of determinism, from the most fundamental metaphysical sense, to the most complex epistemic (predictive) sense. I
Alexander Maar
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The aim of this paper is to provide a systematical analysis of civic cults for philosophers in the Greek world as attested in literary and epigraphic sources for philosophers in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic times.
Matthias Haake
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Filosofi e filologi a simposio
The Timon’ Silloi are a very important play in this hellenistic transition period in which there isn’t a specific terminolgy to definite φιλόλογοι. It is known that the Silloi concern the satyrical Eris between ancient and modern philosophers.
Adele Teresa Cozzoli
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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]
In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin +12 more
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Philosophical temperament [PDF]
Many philosophers have worried about what philosophy is. Often they have looked for answers by considering what it is that philosophers do. Given the diversity of topics and methods found in philosophy, however, we propose a different approach.
Livengood, Jonathan +4 more
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Ethics and Practical Reason [PDF]
In this review of essays on the topic of practical reason, the neo-Humeanism of philosophers such as James Drier, according to whom reasons are instrumental, is shown to be susceptible to the objections of Kantian philosophers such as Christine Korsgaard:
Mahon, James
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Experimental Philosophical Bioethics [PDF]
There is a rich tradition in bioethics of gathering empirical data to inform, supplement, or test the implications of normative ethical analysis. To this end, bioethicists have drawn on diverse methods, including qualitative interviews, focus groups, ethnographic studies, and opinion surveys to advance understanding of key issues in bioethics.
Brian D. Earp +23 more
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