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Causation, Cosmology, and the Limits of Philosophy

2021
Abstract For well over a century the dominant narrative covering the major thinkers and themes of early modern British philosophy has been that of “British Empiricism,” within which the great triumvirate of Locke-Berkeley-Hume are taken to be the dominant figures.
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Nature and Cosmology

2023
Nietzsche’s doctrine of the "eternal recurrence of the same"—the conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequence, to infinity—is often taken to be logically incoherent: if an event recurs, it is not identically the same as the event itself, and if taken as self-identical cannot be the recurrence of anything.
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REMARKS ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN COSMOLOGY

DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, 1997
Analyse des problemes historiographiques et philosophiques lies a l'etude de la cosmologie moderne. Se referant aux travaux de H. Kragh, l'A. examine le statut scientifique de la discipline dans la periode 1910-1970 marquee par le constructivisme social et son approche asymetrique des controverses.
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Bridging Philosophies of Consciousness and Cosmology

2021
The aim of this chapter is to elucidate how Harris’s metaphysics of evolution purports to bridge the gap between mind and cosmos, thereby providing a phenomenological ontology. In Sect. 8.2, I outline Harris’s appeal to dynamic systems theory (DST) in neuroscience and his anticipation of theories depicting consciousness as “phase of matter”.
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Cosmology and Moral Philosophy

1998
The universe as a whole can be shown to consist of two worlds: the real world and the transcendental world. The real world is a multitude of passing things in a gravitational field: it is the world of nature, every unit of which is born (from the transcendental world), develops, degrades and dies (that is, it returns to the transcendental world).
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THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE AND CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

1998
Since the 1970s both in physics and cosmology, there has been a controversy on the subject of the ‘beginning of the universe.’ This indicates that this intriguing problem has reached scientific consideration and, perhaps, a solution. The aim of this paper is to try to answer the question as to whether the origin of the world has slipped out of the ...
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Cosmologies in Ancient Chinese Philosophy

Chinese Studies in Philosophy, 1973
My discussion in previous chapters was limited to the origin of Chinese culture and its fundamental spirit exhibited in the process of historical development. In what follows, I am going to discuss the spirit of Chinese culture in specific areas such as philosophy of nature, theory of human nature, ideals of moral life, the world of daily living, the ...
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Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

Cosmology and astrophysics provide a unique resource for philosophers of science: due to novel physics, the remoteness of their targets, and the range of relevant spatiotemporal scales, research in these areas pushes the methodology of empirical science to its limits.
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Contemporary Bergsonism and Philosophy of Cosmology

Voprosy Filosofii
The article examines the figure of Henri Bergson as a philosopher of science and the relevance of his ideas for modern philosophy of cosmology. In the first part, Bergson’s philosophy is analyzed based on the classification of philosophical ap­proaches to science presented by G. Gutting. It is problematic to classify Berg­son’s philosophy of science in
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Cosmos, Cosmology and Philosophy of Cosmology: An Essay on Archeology of Cosmology

Journal of The Society of philosophical studies, 2020
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