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Atheism and Agatheism in the Global Ethical Discourse: Reply to Millican and Thornhill-Miller [PDF]
, 2015 Peter Millican and Branden Thornhill-Miller have recently argued that contradictions between different religious belief systems, in conjunction with the host of defeaters based on empirical research concerning alleged sources of ...
Salamon, Janusz
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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An Informational Interpretation of monadology [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, I will try to exploit the implication of Leibniz's statement in Monadology (1714) that "there is a kind of self-sufficiency which makes them [monads] sources of their own internal actions, or incorporeal automata, as it were" (Monadology ...
Uchii, Soshichi
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Why Biology is Beyond Physical Sciences? [PDF]
, 2016 In the framework of materialism, the major attention is to find general organizational laws stimulated by physical sciences, ignoring the uniqueness of Life.
Muni, Bhakti Vijnana +1 more
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On the Need to Revise Approaches to the Interpretation of Teleology
Logos et Praxis, 2019 Modern philosophy pays much attention to complex self-evolving systems that cannot be satisfactorily described solely by causal explanation ignoring the potential of a teleological approach that emphasizes the expediency of phenomena. The tendencies to interdisciplinarity and closer interaction of natural Sciences and Humanities being characteristics ...
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Progress, Objectivism, and Philosophy of History: the Problem of Progress in Critical Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I evaluate Rahel Jaeggi's theory of progress as outlined in her recent book Fortschritt und Regression. The central question of this paper will be whether Jaeggi's theory of progress in terms of an “accumulating problem‐solving process” can answer the critique of progress put forward by Amy Allen in The End of Progress.
Wouter Wiersma
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Law and economics, consequentialism and legal pragmatism: the influence of Oliver Holmes Jr. [PDF]
, 2012 This paper aims to present the similarities and differences between Posner's defense of Law and Economics (LAE) and Holmes' pragmatism. The investigation is centered in the arguments of economic consequences of judicial decisions.
Lima Catão, Adrualdo de
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Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
Constellations, EarlyView.
Heiko Stubenrauch
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