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Nature, Spirit, and Spirituality in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Religions, 2021
This article deals with the relationship between Spirit (Geist) and Nature (Natur) in Husserl’s phenomenology and the potentially religious motifs involved in its treatment.
María Celeste Vecino
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Teleological Essentialism: Generalized [PDF]

, 2020
Natural/social kind essentialism is the view that natural kind categories, both living and non-living natural kinds, as well as social kinds (e.g., race, gender), are essentialized. On this view, artifactual kinds are not essentialized.
Keil F. C., Piaget J., Rose D., Rose D., Tobia K., Turri J.   +5 more
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Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution [PDF]

Organon F, 2023
Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently.
Jonathan Bartlett
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Towards a Unity of Theoretical and Practical Reason: On the Constitutive Significance of the Transcendental Dialectic

Open Philosophy, 2022
The article focuses on re-evaluating Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic by initially highlighting its seemingly negative function within the Critique of Pure Reason as a mere regulative form for cognition and experience.
König Robert
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Goal-Directed Planning and Goal Understanding by Extended Active Inference: Evaluation through Simulated and Physical Robot Experiments

Entropy, 2022
We show that goal-directed action planning and generation in a teleological framework can be formulated by extending the active inference framework. The proposed model, which is built on a variational recurrent neural network model, is characterized by ...
Takazumi Matsumoto, Wataru Ohata, Fabien C. Y. Benureau, Jun Tani   +3 more
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Teleological generics

Cognition, 2018
Certain “generic” generalizations concern functions and purposes, e.g., cars are for driving. Some functional properties yield unacceptable teleological generics: for instance, cars are for parking seems false even though people park cars as often as they drive them. No theory of teleology in philosophy or psychology can explain what makes teleological
Khemlani , Sangeet, Korman , Joanna
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Pandemic and the Nature-Alienated Self

Religions, 2022
This consideration of COVID-19 places the pandemic in the larger context of our present-day ontology and the environmentally destructive human–nature relationship that characterizes it, exploring it in three parts.
Alexander J. B. Hampton
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Forms of Teleology

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The 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, Vyacheslav M. Naidysh   +1 more
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Folk teleology drives persistence judgments [PDF]

, 2020
Two separate research programs have revealed two different factors that feature in our judgments of whether some entity persists. One program—inspired by Knobe—has found that normative considerations affect persistence judgments. For instance, people are
Rose, David, Schaffer, Jonathan, Tobia, Kevin   +2 more
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Husserl and the Theological Question

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2018
Defending the ancient thesis, that being and the true, or being and manifestation, are necessarily inseparable, is at the heart of transcendental phenomenology.
James G. Hart
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