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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 +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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From Teleology to Backward Causation: How Do They Contribute to Our Understanding of the Nature of Concepts? [PDF]
The paper analyses the traditional concept of teleology, as well as its modern descendant, the concept of function (as used in the context of so-called functional explanations), against the background of such notions as purposive action, concepts ...
Marcin Poręba, Poręba, Marcin
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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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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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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Evolutionary theory provides a fundamental framework for understanding human anatomy and health. However, evolution acceptance and conceptual understanding are distinct constructs that may not co‐vary. This study aimed to assess (1) evolution acceptance and (2) knowledge of human evolution in health sciences students.
Thomas Colard +4 more
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Hylomorphic Teleology in Aristotle’s Physics II
Studia Gilsoniana, 2019 This study draws attention to the ordering of matter and form argued for in Aristotle’s Physics II, 8 (199a30–32). This argument for hylomorphic teleology relies on the presentation of nature earlier in Physics II, 1.
Catherine Peters
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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, 2017 This chapter considers the teleological claims made by Plato in his writings, according to which an event or action or natural phenomenon occurs for the sake of some end.
Andrew Payne
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Analysis of the Regulatory Framework for the CCU Technology
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) is increasingly considered an important technology for achieving climate neutrality within the German and European legal framework. Recent developments, particularly the Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Act (KSpTG), aim to enable CO2 transport infrastructure and cross‐sector carbon management systems ...
Sophie Schmengler +2 more
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