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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Global institutions are increasingly calling for an agroecological transition of our food systems to promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, safeguard agrobiodiversity and foster socio‐ecological resilience to a changing climate. Yet adoption remains limited, and there is a paucity of research examining how local conditions enable and ...
Gabriela Marie Garcia +5 more
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Teleology in the coordination of the whole in Metaphysics Λ10
Revista de Filosofia AntigaThis article aims to offer an alternative reading of the opening passage of Metaphysics Λ10. The passage in question, corresponding to 1075a11-25, is often interpreted as an Aristotelian attempt to present the Prime Mover as a unifying cause of the ...
Renan Eduardo Stoll
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L'immanence de la puissance infinie. Le νοῦς d’Anaxagore à la lumière d’Homère
Methodos, 2016 The present paper deals with the nature of perception and cognition in the case of Anaxagoras' νοῦς, especially with the difficulties of assessing the respective role of mechanical, cognitive and teleological dimensions in the activities of the cosmic ...
Anne-Laure Therme, Arnaud Macé
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From Extrinsic Design to Intrinsic Teleology [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper I offer a distinction between design and teleology, referring mostly to thehistory of these two terms, in order to suggest an alternative strategy for arguments thatintend to demonstrate the existence of the divine.
Silva, Ignacio
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Explaining scientific phenomena by unpacking their underlying mechanisms poses many challenges for high‐school students. One central challenge is synthesizing the different parts of a mechanism into a coherent whole and identifying what information is still missing, or whether further learning is required.
Ruth Molad, Michal Haskel‐Ittah
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Epistemic Teleology: Synchronic and Diachronic [PDF]
, 2017 According to a widely held view of the matter, whenever we assess beliefs as ‘rational’ or ‘justified’, we are making normative judgements about those beliefs. In this discussion, I shall simply assume, for the sake of argument, that this view is correct.
Wedgwood, Ralph
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Review of: "[Commentary] Re: Teleology and the Meaning of Life" [PDF]
, 2023 Giuseppe Longo
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A Narrative Inquiry of Meaning Making and Leader Identity Development among College Students
New Directions for Student Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Leader identity development (LID) and meaning making are essential and interconnected developmental processes. The current study explored LID and meaning making from childhood to emerging adulthood among college students (N = 26). Utilizing two open‐ended interviews and a narrative storytelling approach, we explored participants’ LID high, low,
Hannah M. Sunderman +5 more
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, 2012 Aquinas’s Fifth Way is usually taken to be an adumbration of Paley-like design arguments. Paley-like design arguments have fallen on hard times over the past few centuries, and most contemporary defenders of design arguments in support of theism favor ...
Kronen, John, Menssen, Sandra
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Journal of Social Ontology, 2022 Teleological thinking about money reasons from what money is for to both how it ought to be used and what forms it should take. One type, found in Aristotle’s argument against usury, takes teleological considerations alone to decisively settle normative
David G. Dick
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