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Atheistic teleology [PDF]

, 2001
Wesley Salmon and Michael Martin argue that scientific considerations about the order in the universe justify atheism. After sketching Salmon’s argument, I examine the nature of begging the question and argue that Martin takes a sufficient condition ...
Shalkowski, S.A.
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Three periods in Husserl’s study of teleology: evidence and systematicity in the theory of knowledge,

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2013
Husserl’s phenomenology can be apprehended on the whole as a teleology of reason which consists of the aspiration to the greatest possible rationality in the cognitive, practical-individual and practical-communitarian or historic field.
Francisco Conde
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On the divine in Husserl [PDF]

, 2016
The paper deals with the ways in which Edmund Husserl develops the question of God. Six ways to reach God are shown as present in Husserl’s writings, some of them seem to be very close to the traditional philosophical ways to go as far as God (the ...
Bello, Angela Ales
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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An Aristotelian Account of Evolution and the Contemporary Philosophy of Biology [PDF]

, 2014
The anti-reductionist character of the recent philosophy of biology and the dynamic development of the science of emergent properties prove that the time is ripe to reintroduce the thought of Aristotle, the first advocate of a “top-down” approach in life-
Tabaczek, Mariusz
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‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
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The Practice of Governance, Social Compartmentalization and Fragmentation of Desires

Revista Empresa y Humanismo
This article aims to relate natural teleology to the practice of governance. To do so, it presents the phenomenon of social fragmentation and evaluates it –following A.
Sandra Hernández-González
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Aristotle on Essence and Habitat [PDF]

, 2015
Despite his awareness that organisms are well suited to the habitats they are typically found in, Aristotle nowhere tries to explain this. It is unlikely that he thinks this “fit” (as I call it) between organisms and their habitats is simply a lucky ...
Gelber, Jessica
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Teleology in the Ayala’s F. J. biophilosophic thought

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015
Teleology is today one of the most important issues on Biology debate. Prof. F. J. Ayala strongly supports the uses of teleological explanations in Biology.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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