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Cure as medicine's constitutive aim: a defence of the refined curative thesis. [PDF]

Med Health Care Philos
Ncube L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Games Without Rules

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely assumed that all games essentially have rules. This paper challenges this apparent truism. We argue that rules are merely one means for generating obstacles: features that make success more difficult. We propose that obstacles, not rules, are essential to games. This shift comes with several theoretical benefits.
Alexandre Declos, Olivier Massin
wiley   +1 more source

Neoteny and Evolutionary Strategy: Reconsidering Developmental Arrest in the Axolotl and the Olm. [PDF]

Acta Biotheor
Mussies M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking EU environmental law: Towards the ecologisation of the European legal order

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically examines the structural limitations of the EU's environmental legal framework in the context of the current ecological crisis and explores the potential transition towards an ecocentric paradigm. While the EU has developed one of the most advanced environmental regulatory systems globally, its effectiveness remains ...
Susana Borràs‐Pentinat
wiley   +1 more source

From Negentropy to Norms - A Gain-Based Theory of Agency: Kerdotism. [PDF]

Integr Psychol Behav Sci
Kypreos M.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains-Part One. [PDF]

Biol Theory
Levin M, Resnik DB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal integrated clerkships: a hermeneutic literature review. [PDF]

Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract
Garne DL, Mullan JR, Worley P, Wilson IG, Schuwirth LWT.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Theories of first interpretation in al-Tabari’s thought system: Analyzes on method of teleological interpretation

, 2017
Klasik İslâm literatüründe teknik bir terim olarak Kur’ân’ın maksatları tevhid, nübüvvet, âhiret ve adalet gibi üst başlıklar altında değerlendirilmiştir. Modern dünyada öne çıkan değerler paralelinde ise adı geçen bu kavramlardan biri olan “adalet” kavramı, hukuk ve ahlâk ilişkisi bağlamında ele alınmaktadır.
openaire   +2 more sources