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Updating the philosophical concept of form (morphé) as the embodied structural and teleological informational program in human beings

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018
The contemporary philosophy of mind and neuroethics are two of the liveliest fields of interdisciplinary reflection which deal with the everlasting topic: what/who we essentially are.
Alberto Carrara
doaj  

Organizational Adaptability: Synthesizing Emergent and Deliberate Innovation Processes Into an Evolutionary Model

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops an evolutionary model that synthesizes emergent and deliberate innovation processes to explain how organizational adaptability is constituted. Existing research on “emergent” innovation processes tends to view these as diametrically opposed to “deliberate” action, applying each attribute with little nuance and relying on ...
Jochen Koch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Teleology a Philosophical Dead-End?

open access: yes, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, Is teleology a philosophical dead-end? in relation to Aristotle\u27s work and theories and teleology.
Pennington, Jamie G
core  

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)Belief in God Among Younger and Older Poles: Analytic Thinking and Cultural Learning Between Generations and Over Time

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autopoiesis, adaptivity, teleology, agency

open access: yes, 2005
. A proposal for the biological grounding of intrinsic teleology and sense-making through the theory of autopoiesis is critically evaluated. Autopoiesis provides a systemic language for speaking about intrinsic teleology but its original formulation ...
Ezequiel Di Paolo (4736196)   +1 more
core  

History and Biological Teleology

open access: yes, 1988
Arnhart's timely and provocative article attempts to resolve the value crisis of the modern biological and sociobiological sciences by reconciling these sciences with Aristotle's biological teleology.
John Bokina
core   +1 more source

Embedding mental files in the world

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
wiley   +1 more source

Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
wiley   +1 more source

Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
wiley   +1 more source

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