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Teleology and the intentions of supernatural agents

Consciousness and Cognition, 2020
Teleological beliefs about the natural world often exist implicitly, and there is a positive relationship between teleological endorsement and belief in supernatural agents. In the current study, participants judged a series of scientifically unwarranted
A. Roberts, C. Wastell, V. Polito
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Teleology’s long shadow

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
We describe the ubiquity of teleological language and thinking throughout biology, as a context for understanding how students think about evolution, as well. Examples can be found in molecular biology, physiology, ecology, and taxonomy, at least. Recent
Alexander Werth, Douglas Allchin
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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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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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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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Why is the Teleological Argument so Popular?

Studia Humana, 2023
Why are teleological arguments based on biological phenomena so popular? My explanation is that teleological properties are presented in our experiences of biological phenomena.
Hunt Marcus W.
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Green Purpose: Teleology, Ecological Ethics, and the Recovery of Contemplation

, 2020
According to one influential narrative, a significant root of our ecological crisis is to be found in the Christian appropriation of teleology, undergirding the anthropocentrism endemic to Western thought.
Andreas Nordlander
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Teleology and evolution education: introduction to the special issue

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
© The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the ...
M. Hammann, R. Nehm
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