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On the Nature of Medicine: Necessities, Approaches, and Challenges [PDF]
After the middle of the twentieth century, symptoms gradually appeared which were collectively called the “crisis of medicine”. This crisis gave philosophy, which had been abstracted from medicine since the mid-nineteenth century, an opportunity to ...
Alireza Monajemi
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Mathematical Modelling and Teleology in Biology [PDF]
Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des ...
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Children's and Adults' Models for Predicting Teleological Action: The Development of a Biology-Based Model [PDF]
Abstract Understanding that only living things must act to gain self-beneficial goals is important for developing a theory-like understanding of the living world. This research studied the models that preschoolers, fifth graders, and adults use to guide their predictions of self-beneficial, goal-directed (i.e., teleological) action ...
Opfer, John E., Gelman, Susan A.
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La fin de Lost, le paradoxe des séries et l’expérience de la perte
That the viewers of the Lost TV series were so disappointed by its last episode has something to do with the philosophical problem of narrative closure.
Hugo Clémot
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Value-Based Reasoning in Autonomous Agents
The issue of decision-making of autonomous agents constitutes the current work topic for many researchers. In this paper we propose to extend the existing model of value-based teleological reasoning by a new, numerical manner of representation of the ...
Tomasz Zurek, Michail Mokkas
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This article provides a comparative conclusion to the thematic issue on the organisational characteristics of 12 right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) across Europe. We observe that many RWPPs—at least partially—adopt features of the mass party model. This
Stijn van Kessel, Daniele Albertazzi
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What Psychology can do for Education
Educators too often rely upon misleading models to account for educational phenomena. These models owe their existence, at least in part, to the failure of philosophy and psychology to work together.
LeRoi Daniels
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Designing an Entrepreneurship Process Model in Coastal Tourism in Bushehr Province Using the Grounded Theory Approach [PDF]
This research is attempting to adopt a non-teleological approach to the entrepreneurship process in the coastal tourism area of Bushehr province. The present study is theoretical and applied in terms of its objective.
Zeinab Bahraini, Nader Naderi
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Teleological computer graphics modeling [PDF]
Summary form only give. Teleological modeling, a developing approach for creating abstractions and mathematical representations of physically realistic time-dependent objects, is described. In this approach, geometric constraint-properties, mechanical properties of objects, the parameters representing an object, and the control of the object are ...
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The Role of Teleological Thinking in Learning the Darwinian Model of Evolution [PDF]
Human beings are predisposed to think of evolution as teleological—i.e., having a purpose or directive principle—and the ways scientists talk about natural selection can feed this predisposition. This work examines the suggestion that students’ teleological thinking operates as an obstacle when the natural selection evolution model is taught.
González Galli, Leonardo Martín +1 more
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