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Reading for conflict as a counseling practice : a comparison of structural, systemic, and process models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This interpretive inquiry applies three theories dealing with interpersonal conflict to a career related conversation between a father and his adolescent son.
Leese, Jeffrey Robert
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Endosimbiotic design of robots for operating in uninhabitable places [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper proposes a method of design emulating biological phenomena in artificial systems. The artifacts are robots that operate in inhospitable scenarios and the emulation is the synergistic partnership between a cell and heterotrophic bacteria ...
Burgos Leiva, Camila   +1 more
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Ontological Naturalism and the Role of Supervenience in Biological Evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
To overcome the traditional opposition between the methodological and the ontological naturalism, in the paper the notion of supervenience is proposed as an explanatory category which facilitates developing a version of nonreductionist emergentism.
Życiński, Józef
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Will et la volition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The main feature of an act of volition is its teleonomy. In a given situation (Sit1), a state of things (X) is not actual or valid but its actualisation is judged necessary by a source of judgment (Si).
Merle, Jean-Marie
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Universal Functional Selection (UFS) as a Possible Basis for Overcoming the Crisis of Interdisciplinarity in the Modern Scientific Picture of the World [PDF]

open access: yes
This article diagnoses a profound crisis in modern scientific rationality, manifested in the fundamental irreducibility of its core paradigms: quantum mechanics, cosmology, and evolutionary biology. It argues that the measurement problem, the fine-tuning
Trekin, Sergey Anatolievich
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Transactions with chance in the garden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper discusses change and chance in order to develop a language that can then be used to discuss change in the garden. In the process, it puts forward the idea that to garden is to meddle with the teleonomy of the plants, their “will” to grow as ...
Raxworthy, Julian R.
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