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Supervenience and Basic Christian Beliefs
Zygon, 2001 A field‐oriented interpretation of Whiteheadian societies of actual occasions, when used to explain the notion of “strong supervenience” as applied to the mind‐brain problem, allows one to claim that not only higher‐level properties such as ...
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Various Concepts of “Supervenience” and Their Relations：A Comment on Kim’s Theory of Supervenience
, 2011 “Supervenience” was first used by Donald Davidson to describe the dependent and independent relationships between the mental and the physical. Jaegwon Kim presented a more precise definition, distinguishing between three types of supervenience: weak ...
Chen Xiaoping
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Superweniencja – pytanie o trywialność [PDF]
Avant, 2011 When it comes to the mind-body problem, different kinds of physicalism were the most popular approaches among philosophers. The presence of anomalous monism with its lack of (the) laws concerning mental events and multiple realizability led to a doubt ...
Błażej Brzostek
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The Fractal Self and the Organization of Nature: The Daoist Sage and Chaos Theory
Zygon, 1999 The interconnections between self and surroundings in Daoist thought have been explored in the past in a variety of contexts. This paper, however, explores the Daoist version of the relational self from the general perspective of chaos theory and, more ...
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Quine, Davidson, Relative Essentialism and the Question of Being
Open Philosophy, 2018 Relative essentialism, the view that multiple objects about which there are distinct de re modal truths can occupy the same space at the same time, is a metaphysical view that dissolves a number of metaphysical issues.
Wheeler Samuel C.
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Zygon, 1999 Nancey Murphy has been influential in the religion‐and‐science field through her espousal of the work of Imre Lakatos, more recently developed into a three‐tier approach to the joint epistemology of scientific and religious thought incorporating also ...
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Consciousness: A Molecular Perspective
Philosophies, 2017 This perspective examines the role of chemistry and molecular biology for a science of consciousness. Opposed to the consensus view, we argue that the molecular organization of biological systems is key to arrive at a thorough understanding of the ...
Robert Prentner
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The spaces in the looking glass: stilling the frame/framing the still [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2015 The purpose of this writing is to propose a frame of view, a form as the eternal world element, that is compatible with paradox within the history of ideas, modern discovery as they confront one another.
Marvin E. Kirsh
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Correlations and How to Interpret Them
Information, 2019 Correlations between observed data are at the heart of all empirical research that strives for establishing lawful regularities. However, there are numerous ways to assess these correlations, and there are numerous ways to make sense of them.
Harald Atmanspacher, Mike Martin
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Supervenience. An Outline of the Concept [PDF]
, 2000 „Supervenience” is now a part of the philosophical vocabulary of the analytical tradition. The basic ontological idea of supervenience is an attempt to characterize the relationship between families of properties, such as moral and natural properties ...
Poczobut, Robert
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