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A Priori or A Posteriori? [PDF]

, 2020
This article discusses the role of a priori and a posteriori knowledge and methods in metaphysics and metametaphysics. Issues discussed include the viability of the distinction, the continuity of a priori and a posteriori methods, connections to modal ...
Tahko, Tuomas E.
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Rule Rationality [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
We study the strategic advantages of following rules of thumb that bundle different games together (called rule rationality) when this may be observed by one's opponent. We present a model in which the strategic environment determines which kind of rule rationality is adopted by the players.
Heller, Yuval, Winter, Eyal
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Do librarians have a shared set of values? A comparative study of 36 codes of ethics based on Gorman's Enduring Values [PDF]

, 2012
Thirty-six ethical codes from national professional associations were studied, the aim to test whether librarians have global shared values or if political and cultural contexts have significantly influenced the codes' content. Gorman's eight core values
Foster, Cathy, Mcmenemy, David
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Philosophical Rationalism in Shia Kalam [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2017
One important question that the emergence of philosophical or rational Kalam has raised is what rationalism in the so-called Kalami (theological) schools actually means.
Seyed Mohammad Ali Dibaji
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Safavid and Mughal Empires in Contact

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023
In the introduction to this special issue, the editors attempt to portray the emergence/formation of a pluralistic atmosphere in Mughal India in the early modern era as a reciprocate reaction beginning with the migration of a group of not entirely ...
Reza Pourjavady, Kianoosh Rezania
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On the Epistemology of Modal Rationalism: the Main Problems and Their Significance [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, I discuss the main characteristics of the epistemology of modal rationalism by proceeding from the critical investigation of Peacocke’s theory of modality.
Rusu, Mihai
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Evolution: rationalism versus creationism

Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 2015
The actual neo-Darwinian concepts of human evolution conceive this evolution as a bush, unpredictable and at random. At the beginning of the 20th century, most of the biologists conceived evolution as a linear process oriented to progress, even if Darwin
Charles Susanne
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Critical Rationalism and Post-Truth [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
'Post-truth' has become a buzzword for numerous current crises: the fragmentation of the media landscape, the ongoing debate about 'fake news', the loss of trust in science, etc.
Thomas Hainscho
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Rationalism and Relativism: An Essay on John Rawls and Michael Oakeshott

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2022
This essay creates an unlikely conversation between two 20th century thinkers: John Rawls and Michael Oakeshott. I say “unlikely” because apart from a few scant remarks in the writing of each the two did not directly engage each other.
Aaron James Wendland
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Rationalism and Empiricism in Modern Medicine [PDF]

, 2001
The roots of rationalism and empiricism in the Hippocratic tradition are explored. The triumph of the rationalists in the founding of modern medicine is emphasized. The development of clinical epidemiology and the evidence-based medicine over the last 30
Newton, Warren
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