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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Decision-Making Regarding Life Sustaining Treatment in End-Of-Life Care: A Scoping Review of the Similarities and Differences Between Two Viewpoints. [PDF]

Arch Acad Emerg Med
Larijani B, Mobasher M, Zahedi F, Tahmasebi M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

The spiritual core of the hard problem: consciousness as foundational, not emergent. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Arora A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Christian Philosophical Theology

Faith and Philosophy, 2008
openaire   +2 more sources

The prospects of Theological-Philosophical Dialogue in Post-Soviet Protestantism

, 2011
Mykhailo Cherenkov
openalex   +2 more sources

Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Drawing on Daoist philosophy, this intervention provides an alternative account of spiritual selfhood that harmonises disconnections between subjectivity and the Universe around the lived body. It invokes a cosmological selfhood through re‐spiritualising the bodily geographies of subjectivity.
Yu‐Shan Tseng
wiley   +1 more source

A Romantic Genius? The Experience of Knowledge that Shaped Werner Heisenberg's Scientific Persona. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Schaa E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast, the Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise.
Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose, Leiboyu Xiang, Neil Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Losing persons: the pastoral imperative for affirming continued personhood for those living with dementia. [PDF]

Glob Bioeth
Milford SR.
europepmc   +1 more source