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How to create a very-low-cost, very-low-power, credit-card-sized and real-time-ready datalogger [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Geosciences, 2015
In order to improve an existing network, a field seismologist would have to add some extra sensors to a remote station. However, additional ADCs (analogue-to-digital converters) are not always implemented on commercial dataloggers, or, if they are, they ...
M. Bès de Berc, M. Grunberg, F. Engels
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On Theology and the “Overcoming” of Metaphysics: Falque, Betz, Heidegger, and Marion

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract John Betz and Emmanuel Falque have recently defined “metaphysics” as something intrinsic to the Christian faith. This faith, they claim, has always spoken metaphysically, until lately challenged by the likes of Heidegger and Marion. However, when we consider Heidegger and Marion's account, we find a completely different approach to metaphysics.
Matthew C. Kruger
wiley   +1 more source

The Garden and the Gardener: Film, Creativity, and the Gift of Creation

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In his essay ‘From God the Artist to Man the Creator’, Jean‐Louis Chrétien considers the possibility that human creativity can participate in divine creativity. As created, creative beings, Chrétien suggests that our art and other creative enterprise may become a site for participation in God's act of creation. This article takes its lead from
James Lorenz
wiley   +1 more source

Descartes in Two Dimensions

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Descartes' cogito argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent a priori knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analysed through the lens of (classical)
Tom Schoonen
wiley   +1 more source

Principia e Isaac Newton

open access: yesRevista Principia, 2003
Em primeiro lugar, preocupações filosóficas quanto ao significado dado à palavra “Principia” utilizada por René Descartes e Isaac Newton [...].
José Flavio da Silva
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
wiley   +1 more source

Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Descartes, René. Descartes

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2013
Descartes, René. Descartes. Estudio introductorio de Cirilo Flórez Miguel. Madrid: Gredos, 2011.
Gonzalo Serrano
doaj  

Descartes’ influence on the development of the anatomoclinical method

open access: yesNeurología (English Edition), 2010
The development of the anatomical-clinical method was a huge advance for modern medicine since it revealed a new approach to understanding diagnostic procedures.
A. González Hernández   +3 more
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