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RUDN Journal of PhilosophyThe research addresses a relevant and controversial topic - teleology. Final causality is the keystone without which the construction and consolidation of the paradigm of global evolutionism in the modern scientific community is unthinkable.
Dmitry V. Mamchenkov +1 more
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Synthese, 2016 In this paper I examine the connection between accounts of biological teleology and the biocentrist claim that all living beings have a good of their own. I first present the background for biocentrists’ appeal to biological teleology. Then I raise a problem of scope for teleology-based biocentrism and, drawing in part on recent work by Basl and ...
Holm, Sune Hannibal, Sune Holm
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, 2000 Abstract Our exploration continues, in search of evidence for other minds and evidence for God, preparing a final comprehensive comparison between the two beliefs. Having examined more or less immediate experience of God and of other minds, then analogical indications on both sides, now we turn to what many have judged the strongest ...
Jonathan Barnes
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Teleology is about functions, ends, and goals in nature. This Element offers a philosophical examination of these phenomena and aims to reinstate teleology as a core part of the metaphysics of science. It starts with a critical analysis of three theories of function and argues that functions ultimately depend on goals.
Tugby, Matthew
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Teleology beyond explanation [PDF]
, 2021 People often think of objects teleologically. For instance, we might understand a hammer in terms of its purpose of driving in nails. But how should we understand teleological thinking in the first place?
Joo, Sehrang +2 more
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Victorian Literature and Culture, 2018 Poucas palavras foram tão injuriadas na crítica e teoria literária dos anos oitenta, noventa, e no início do século como “teleologia”. Parece estranho quando você se lembra que teleologia - derivada do mundo grego τέλος, “fim” ou “propósito” - significa simplesmente interpretar as coisas em relação ao seu possível objetivo ou resultado.
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, 2023 Generic statements, such as ``Bees are striped'' are thought to be a central vehicle by which essentialist beliefs are transmitted. But work on generics and essentialism almost never focuses on the type of properties mentioned in generic statements.
David Rose +3 more
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On the goal of existentialist therapy [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2022 The author distinguishes between psychotherapy and philosophical therapy and understands existentialist therapy as a paradigmatic example of philosophical therapy.
Govedarica Milanko J.
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Teleological Essentialism [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2019 AbstractPlaceholder essentialism is the view that there is a causal essence that holds category members together, though we may not know what the essence is. Sometimes the placeholder can be filled in by scientific essences, such as when we acquire scientific knowledge that the atomic weight of gold is 79.
David Rose, Shaun Nichols
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Teleological Contractarianism [PDF]
Journal of Social Philosophy, 2019 Peer ...
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