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Behavioral Aspects of Organizational Learning and Adaptation [PDF]
In this paper, I seek to understand the behavioral basis of higher organizational learning and adaption as a teleological dynamic equilibrium process to decipher the underlying psycho-physiological aspects of individual cognitive learning related to ...
Chatterjee, Sidharta
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The Meanings of ‘Life’:Biology and Biography in the Work of J.S. Haldane (1860-1936) [PDF]
, 2011 In the course of his somewhat unorthodox career in science, the physiologist John Scott Haldane occasionally turned to biography to portray the aims and values that he associated with such a career.
Sturdy, Steven
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 585-602, December 2025.Abstract The reception of Leibniz encompasses a wide range of authors influenced by his work, such as Wolff, Crusius, and Kant. In this article, I will address the problem of the reception of Leibniz's theory of principles in the context of the debate that arose during the eighteenth century about the meaning and purpose of metaphysics.
José Antonio Gutiérrez‐García
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Basic Action and Practical Knowledge [PDF]
, 2019 It is a commonplace in philosophy of action that there is and must be teleologically basic action: something done on an occasion without doing it by means of doing anything else. It is widely believed that basic actions are exercises of skill.
Small, Will
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Strong-field tidal distortions of rotating black holes: II. Horizon dynamics from eccentric and inclined orbits [PDF]
, 2016 In a previous paper, we developed tools for studying the horizon geometry of a Kerr black hole that is tidally distorted by a binary companion using techniques that require large mass ratios but can be applied to any bound orbit and allow for arbitrary ...
Hughes, Scott A., O'Sullivan, Stephen
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Every man has his price: Kant's argument for universal radical evil [PDF]
, 2022 Kant famously claims that we have all freely chosen evil. This paper offers a novel account of the much-debated justification for this claim. I reconstruct Kant’s argument from his affirmation that we all have a price – we can all succumb to temptation ...
Indregard, Jonas Jervell
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, 2001 Wesley Salmon and Michael Martin argue that scientific considerations about the order in the universe justify atheism. After sketching Salmon’s argument, I examine the nature of begging the question and argue that Martin takes a sufficient condition ...
Shalkowski, S.A.
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Provincializing Frankfurt: A Postcolonial Rereading of Habermasian Theory
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 14-24, March 2026.
Floris Biskamp
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Some uniqueness results for dynamical horizons
, 2005 We first show that the intrinsic, geometrical structure of a dynamical horizon is unique. A number of physically interesting constraints are then established on the location of trapped and marginally trapped surfaces in the vicinity of any dynamical ...
Ashtekar, Abhay, Galloway, Gregory J.
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Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and the Teleological and cosmological arguments [PDF]
, 2012 The author argues that Stephen Hawking makes implicit reference to and attempts to undermine two classical arguments for the existence of God: the teleological and the cosmological arguments. Further, the author shows that, in fact.
Milner, Benjamin
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