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Teletransportation, Replication and Mereology [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The paper criticizes pessimistic views on survival into teletransporter. It is considered, in particular, the recent attempt of Alexey Kardash and Konstantin Morozov to defend the pessimists’ views by means of the criterion of mereorganic continuity ...
A. V. Nekhaev
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Can Western Monotheism Avoid Substance Dualism?
Zygon, 2001 The problem of divine agency and action is analogous to the problem of human agency and action: How is such agency possible in the absence of a dualistic causal interaction between disparate orders of being?
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Zygon, 2001 Books reviewed: Robert A. Segal, Theorizing About Myth Christopher Southgate, Celia Deane‐Drummond, Paul D. Murray, Michael Robert Negus, Lawrence Osborn, Michael Poole, Jacqui Stewart, and Fraser Watts, (eds.) God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook ...
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Natural Properties, Supervenience, and Mereology
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018 The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especially when it comes to the bearers of natural properties.
Andrea Borghini, Giorgio Lando
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THE METAPHYSICS OF DOWNWARD CAUSATION: REDISCOVERING THE FORMAL CAUSE
Zygon, 2013 The methodological nonreductionism of contemporary biology opens an interesting discussion on the level of ontology and the philosophy of nature. The theory of emergence (EM), and downward causation (DC) in particular, bring a new set of arguments ...
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Semantyczne założenia sceptycyzmu kartezjańskiego (Semantic Presuppositions of Cartesian Skepticism) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010 The paper purports to show that in order to formulate the hypothesis that all our beliefs are collectively false – which is taken to be the core of Cartesian skepticism – one must accept the presumption that semantic properties of subject`s beliefs ...
Krzysztof Posłajko
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Rogera Sperry’ego teoria świadomości
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2017 Roger W. Sperry (1913–1994) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1981 for his outstanding scientific achievements in connection with the study of people with severed brain commissures.
Józef Bremer
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DIVINE AGENCY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Zygon, 2009 Many contemporary thinkers seeking to integrate theistic belief and scientific thought reject what they regard as two extremes. They disavow deism in which God is understood simply to uphold the existence of the physical universe, and they exclude any ...
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Note on Supervenience and Definability
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1998 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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