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Philosophy of nature in Stoicism
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 In this paper the author discusses some aspects of the philosophy of nature of the Stoicism, from Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoà poikílê, to Marc Aurel, philosopher and emperor. In a holistic view, the stoics included philosophical anthropology
Reinholdo Aloysio Ullmann
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Orpheus and 'second nature' in Francis Bacon [PDF]
, 2018 open1noWhile Francis Bacon’s interpretations of mythological figures such as those of Prometheus, Proteus and Vulcan have received quite a bit of attention by scholars, the myth of Orpheus shows a wealth of meanings almost entirely still to be explored ...
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The nature of philosophy and the philosophy of nature
Biology and Philosophy, 2015 Peter Godfrey-Smith’s introduction to the philosophy of biology is excellent. This review questions one implication of his book, namely that Darwin’s case for the efficacy of natural selection was hampered by his ignorance of the particulate nature of inheritance.
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History and Philosophy of Science as a Guide to Understanding Nature of Science
Revista Científica, 2016 Nature of science (NOS) is considered to be a controversial topic by historians, philosophers of science and science educators. It is paradoxical that we all teach science and still have difficulties in understanding what science is and how it develops ...
Mansoor Niaz
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Religions, 2023 More than four centuries after the Copernican Revolution and the consequent dismissal of Aristotelian Cosmology, the modern model of the cosmos has reached a similar if not superior level of a satisfactory understanding of physical reality.
Piero Benvenuti
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Wittgenstein: The Nature of Philosophy
Crítica, 2018 Wittgenstein, con mayor profundidad que cualquier otro filósofo, comprendió la naturaleza de la filosofía. Sus observaciones acerca de ella se asemejan a los diagnósticos de un sicoanalista sobre su paciente.
Morris Lazerowitz
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Platone e il vegetarianismo nel Timeo
Plato, 2021 L’articolo analizza la descrizione della natura delle piante e la tacita giustificazione del vegetarianismo fornite da Platone nel Timeo. Tale pratica alimentare sembra assumere un’utilità esclusivamente fisiologica: potrebbe darsi che Platone si fosse ...
Federico Casella
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, 2016 The aim of this paper is to examine the nature, scope and importance of philosophy in the light of its relation to other disciplines. This work pays its focus on the various fundamental problems of philosophy, relating to Ethics, Metaphysics ...
Dar, Ateequllah, Tantray, Mudasir A.
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Bioinspired Shape‐Memory Hook Fasteners With Programmable Interlocking and Silent Release
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Bioinspired hook fasteners made from epoxy shape‐memory polymers are shown to switch between strong, secure attachment and gentle, silent release when heated. By combining programmable geometry and material response, these adaptive fasteners outperform commercial systems in strength and noise control, enabling new solutions for robotics, medical ...
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Geodesically complete cyclic cosmologies and entropy
European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsWe demonstrate that there exists a class of cyclic cosmological models, such that these models can in principle solve the problem of the entropy growth, and are at the same time geodesically complete.
Petar Pavlović, Marko Sossich
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