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SIMONE WEIL'S SPIRITUAL CRITIQUE OF MODERN SCIENCE: AN HISTORICAL‐CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

Zygon, 2008
Simone Weil is widely recognized today as one of the profound religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet while her interpretation of natural science is critical to Weil's overall understanding of religious faith, her writings on science have ...
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The shadow in the balance sheet: The spectre of Enron and how accountants use the past as a psychological defence against the future [PDF]

, 2004
Accounting frameworks play a crucial role in enabling us to make sense of business. These frameworks provide a common language for individuals, organizations and broader economic groupings to understand and make decisions about the commercial realm in
Cooper, David, James, Kim, Kwiatkowski, Richard, Taffler, Richard J.   +3 more
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The Development of Philosophical Thought in the Greek Colonies on the Territory of Ukraine (the Case of Olbia)

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The article is devoted to analysing the role of ancient Greek thinkers in the history of Ukrainian philosophy. Ukrainian philosophical thought, like all Ukrainian culture, is based on two fundamental sources: ancient cosmism and the Christian belief in ...
Роман Додонов
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The impact of science on metaphysics and its limits [PDF]

, 2006
The paper argues for three theses: (1) Metaphysics depends on science as a source of knowledge. Our current scientific theories commit us to certain metaphysical claims.
Esfeld, Michael
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PREDESTINATION AND ESSENISM [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2014
The widely spread Essenes practice of the future events prediction is likely to be based on their belief in the absolute predestination. In this light the hitherto unclarified etymology of the very term Εσσαιοι / Εσσηνοι can be traced to the Aramaic ...
Tantlevskij, Igor, Svetlov, Roman
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An Introduction to Ontology [PDF]

, 1998
Analytical philosophy of the last one hundred years has been heavily influenced by a doctrine to the effect that one can arrive at a correct ontology by paying attention to certain superficial (syntactic) features of first-order predicate logic as ...
Smith, Barry
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The Concept of Matter in the Typology of Philosophical Worldviews

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study defines the typology of philosophical worldviews, from naturalistic (various types of materialism and positivism) to pantheistic (naturalistic and mystical or panentheistic) and transcendent, underlying world religions and the corresponding ...
Sergei A. Nizhnikov, Anna V. Martseva
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Structural Realism or Modal Empiricism? [PDF]

, 2017
Structural realism has been suggested as the best compromise in the debate on scientific realism. It proposes that we should be realist about the relational structure of the world, not its nature.
Ruyant, Quentin
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Arithmetic, Set Theory, Reduction and Explanation [PDF]

, 2018
Philosophers of science since Nagel have been interested in the links between intertheoretic reduction and explanation, understanding and other forms of epistemic progress.
D’Alessandro, William
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Shining pythagoreans

, 2021
Según los pitagóricos, la vida es un castigo y el deber de vivirla es un mandato; resultaba ineludible función de la filosofía, como concepción especulativa, a enseñar a vivir. La mejor forma de vida, la más dichosa era la vita beata. Esa vida teorética implicaba una forma ascética de vida. Su esencia radicaba en la contemplación. Como estilos o formas
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