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Philosophy of Nature

Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, 2019
\W e habitually think of philosophy as among the humanities, while questions about the natural world fall within the domain of the sciences. Yet how can any lover of wisdom wonder about everything except the whole of nature?
Therese M. Bonin
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Principles of Motion and the Absence of Laws of Nature in Hobbes’s Natural Philosophy

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2019
Thomas Hobbes based his natural philosophy on definitions and general principles of matter in motion, which he refrained from calling “laws of nature.” Across the channel, René Descartes had presented his own account of matter in motion in such a way ...
S. Psillos, E. Goudarouli
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Unfixing Space: Toward Anti-Caste Philosophies of Nature

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022
Responding to recent calls to rethink space, nature, and social difference outside of North American frameworks, this article draws on the anti-caste tradition in India to explore critiques of hierarchical “natures.” It focuses on the thought of the ...
T. Crowley
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Goethe’s Philosophy of Nature

2020
Mehigan and Banki examine the most important features of Goethe’s nature philosophy. As they contend, Goethe’s thought, though highly reflective, eschews the directly philosophical in its desire to penetrate more deeply into nature than had been possible in any previous philosophy or organized form of thought. Thus, while Goethe’s outlook has Platonic,
Mehigan, Tim, Banki Peter
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PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Journal of Bio Innovation
Philosophy of education is a branch of philosophy that determines the nature and purpose of education through thought and reasoning. It is a practical or practical concept that deals with the conditions and goals of education and the philosophical ...
Kevin B. Frey
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Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

Ideals and Ideologies, 2019
Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in ...
V. Plumwood
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Natural Philosophy in the Constitution

Science, 1986
The natural philosophers who wrote the U.S. social contract held the advancement of science to be the supreme exercise of citizen sovereignty. The rising nation, in the late 19th century, established the seat of that sovereignty in its universities. Today those institutions have come to be regarded as contract research centers at the service of the ...
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