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- ""Platonic Dualism, LP GERSON This paper analyzes the nature of Platonic dualism, the view that there are immaterial entities called" souls" and that every man is identical with one such entity. Two distinct arguments for dualism are discovered in the early and middle dialogues, metaphysical/epistemological and eth.Aaron Ben-Zeev Making Mental Properties MoreNatural -1986 -The Monist 69 (3).
- First page preview.Natural Minds -2006 -Philosophical Psychology 19 (4).
- Nature, Every Last Drop, is Good.Alan Holland &British Association of Nature Conservationists -1996 - Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University.
- Economic and Biophysical Perspectives.Natural Resource Scarsity -1991 - In Robert Costanza,Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability. Columbia University Press. pp. 992.Export citation
Bookmark - Chapter seventeen.Monster Nature’S. &In Seneca’S. -2008 - In Ineke Sluiter & Ralph Mark Rosen,Kakos: badness and anti-value in classical antiquity. Boston: Brill. pp. 451.No categories
- Francisco DECO.Poesie Et Nature -2007 -Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme 116:17.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Should be justified as including the right to demand fetal death, not merely fetal evacuation.Natural Meaning &Arda Denkel -1992 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (3).
- Bernhard Rang Der systematische Ansatz von Husserls Phänomenologie der Natur.Phänomenologie der Natur -1997 - In Gregor Schiemann & Gernot Böhme,Phänomenologie der Natur. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. pp. 85.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Has Speculative Metaphysics a Future? TL SPRIGGE.Natural Immortality -1998 -The Monist 81 (4).No categories
- Current periodical articles.Natural Evil -1978 -American Philosophical Quarterly 15 (4).No categories
- Bernward Grünewald Eine Wissenschaft von der denkenden Natur? Überlegungen zur Revision eines Kantischen Vorbehalts.Eine Wissenschaft von der Denkenden Natur -2002 - In Helmut Linneweber-Lammerskitten & Georg Mohr,Interpretation und Argument. Würzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Natural Law andNatural Rights.John Finnis -1979 - New York: Oxford University Press UK.Natural Law andNatural Rights is widely recognised as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an essential reference point for all students of the subject. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author responding to thirty years of comment, criticism, and further work in the field.
- DoNatural Disasters Affect Corporate Tax Avoidance? The Case of Drought.Christofer Adrian,Mukesh Garg,Anh Viet Pham,Soon-Yeow Phang &Cameron Truong -2022 -Journal of Business Ethics 186 (1):105-135.Natural disaster events such as drought affect the broader economy and inflict adverse consequences for firms because of spill-over effects in an integrated economy. Contrary to the expectation that firms would engage in higher levels of corporate tax avoidance strategies when they experience a negative cash flow shock, we document consistent evidence that firms engage in less corporate tax avoidance when their headquarter states experience drought. Reduced tax avoidance is more pronounced among firms with higher CSR performance and among (...) firms operating in states that experience a GDP decline. Collectively, the findings of our study demonstrate prosocial and ethical behavior of U.S. firms when they experiencenatural disaster events. (shrink)
- The Role of Material and Efficient Causes in Aristotle'sNatural Teleology Margaret Scharle.Natural Teleology -2008 - In John Mouracade,Aristotle on life. Kelowna, BC: Academic Print. &. pp. 41--3.Export citation Bookmark
- Natural language andnatural selection.Steven Pinker &Paul Bloom -1990 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):707-27.Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be explained by Darwiniannatural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that language may have evolved as the by-product of selection for other abilities or as a consequence of as-yet unknown laws of growth and form. Others have argued that a biological specialization for grammar is incompatible with every tenet of Darwinian theory – that it shows no genetic variation, could not exist in any intermediate forms, (...) confers no selective advantage, and would require more evolutionary time and genomic space than is available. We examine these arguments and show that they depend on inaccurate assumptions about biology or language or both. Evolutionary theory offers clear criteria for when a trait should be attributed tonatural selection: complex design for some function, and the absence of alternative processes capable of explaining such complexity. Human language meets these criteria: Grammar is a complex mechanism tailored to the transmission of propositional structures through a serial interface. Autonomous and arbitrary grammatical phenomena have been offered as counterexamples to the position that language is an adaptation, but this reasoning is unsound: Communication protocols depend on arbitrary conventions that are adaptive as long as they are shared. Consequently, language acquisition in the child should systematically differ from language evolution in the species, and attempts to analogize them are misleading. Reviewing other arguments and data, we conclude that there is every reason to believe that a specialization for grammar evolved by a conventional neo-Darwinian process. (shrink)
- Ethical Theory.”.Natural Law Truth -1992 - In Robert P. George,Natural law theory: contemporary essays. New York: Oxford University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Copyright© The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry, Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. Reprinted by permission.Disvalues In Nature -1992 -The Monist 75 (2):250-278.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays.N. MacCormick &Natural Law -1992 - In Robert P. George,Natural law theory: contemporary essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Explaining design.Natural Theology -2004 - In Christopher Stephens & Mohan Matthen,Elsevier Handbook in Philosophy of Biology. Elsevier. pp. 144--83.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Stoicnatural philosophy (physics and cosmology).Michael J. White -2003 - In Brad Inwood,The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 142.
- Natural kind terms and the status of folk psychology.Scott R. Sehon -1997 -American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (3):333-44.
- Natural Freedom and Moral Autonomy: Emile as Parent, Teacher and Citizen.J. Simon -1995 -History of Political Thought 16 (1):21.The following analysis seeks to question Rousseau's assumptions concerning the desirability of an �education from things�. In particular, I will focus on the problematic relationship between, on one hand, the development of Emile's sense of freedom and independence, and on the other, his sense of moral autonomy. It is my contention that moral development necessarily entails both what Rousseau provides, namely a well-developed conception of individuality, and something that is sorely lacking in Rousseau's project. Turning to an analysis of the (...) preceptor's role in Emile's education, I will argue that it is precisely this type of connection and commitment to other human beings that Emile's education fails to foster. Ultimately, Emile emerges from his education prepared to deal with other humans on one level, but woefully lacking in other skills that are necessary for moral personhood. (shrink)
- Natural Kinds, Mind-independence, and Unification Principles.Tuomas E. Tahko -2022 -Synthese 200 (2):1-23.There have been many attempts to determine what makes anatural kind real, chief among them is the criterion according to whichnatural kinds must be mind-independent. But it is difficult to specify this criterion: many supposednatural kinds have an element of mind-dependence. I will argue that the mind-independence criterion is nevertheless a good one, if correctly understood: the mind-independence criterion concerns the unification principles fornatural kinds. Unification principles determine hownatural kinds unify (...) their properties, and only thosenatural kinds that have a mind-independent unification principle should be considered real. (shrink)
- The Multicultural Critique: The Liberal Case Against Diversity, HE Baber. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2008, 260 pp., $25.95. [REVIEW]Jakob Lindgaard Nature,Simon Critchley Time &Reiner Schürmann -2008 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51 (6):661-662.Export citation Bookmark
- Traditionalnatural philosophy.William A. Wallace -1988 - In C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler & Jill Kraye,The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 201--35.No categories
- Natural kind terms again.Panu Raatikainen -2021 -European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (1):1-17.The new externalist picture ofnatural kind terms due to Kripke, Putnam, and others has become quite popular in philosophy. Many philosophers of science have remained sceptical. Häggqvist and Wikforss have recently criticised this view severely. They contend it depends essentially on a micro-essentialist view ofnatural kinds that is widely rejected among philosophers of science, and that a scientifically reasonable metaphysics entails the resurrection of some version of descriptivism. It is argued in this paper that the situation (...) is not quite as dark for the new theory of reference as many critics suggest. There are several distinct questions here which should not be conflated and ought to be dealt with one by one. Descriptivism remains arguably problematic. (shrink)
- Natural Kind Essentialism Revisited.Tuomas E. Tahko -2015 -Mind 124 (495):795-822.Recent work onNatural Kind Essentialism has taken a deflationary turn. The assumptions about the grounds of essentialist truths concerningnatural kinds familiar from the Kripke-Putnam framework are now considered questionable. The source of the problem, however, has not been sufficiently explicated. The paper focuses on the Twin Earth scenario, and it will be demonstrated that the essentialist principle at its core (which I call IDENT)—that necessarily, a sample of a chemical substance, A, is of the same kind (...) as another sample, B, if and only if A and B have the same microstructure—must be re-evaluated. The Twin Earth scenario also assumes the falsity of another essentialist principle (which I call INST): necessarily, there is a 1:1 correlation between (all of ) the chemical properties of a chemical substance and the microstructure of that substance. This assumption will be questioned, and it will be argued that, in fact, the best strategy for defending IDENT is to establish INST. The prospects forNatural Kind Essentialism and microstructural essentialism regarding chemical substances will be assessed with reference to recent work in the philosophy of chemistry. Finally, a weakened form of INST will be presented. (shrink)
- Natural Philosophy and the Sciences: Challenging Science’s Tunnel Vision.Arran Gare -2018 -Philosophies 3 (4):33.Prior to the nineteenth century, those who are now regarded as scientists were referred to asnatural philosophers. With empiricism, science was claimed to be a superior form of knowledge to philosophy, andnatural philosophy was marginalized. This claim for science was challenged by defenders ofnatural philosophy, and this debate has continued up to the present. The vast majority of mainstream scientists are comfortable in the belief that through applying the scientific method, knowledge will continue to (...) accumulate, and that claims to knowledge outside science apart from practical affairs should not be taken seriously. This is referred to as scientism. It is incumbent on those who defendnatural philosophy against scientism not only to expose the illusions and incoherence of scientism, but to show thatnatural philosophers can make justifiable claims to advancing knowledge. By focusing on a recent characterization and defense ofnatural philosophy along with a reconstruction of the history ofnatural philosophy, showing the nature and role of Schelling’s conception of dialectical thinking, I will attempt to identifynatural philosophy as a coherent tradition of thought and defend it as something different from science and as essential to it, and essential to the broader culture and to civilization. (shrink)
- TheNatural Selection of Autonomy: Redefining Competence and Femininity.Bruce N. Waller (ed.) -1998 - State University of New York Press.Challenges the deep traditional assumption that autonomy, morality, and moral responsibility are uniquely human characteristics.
- Value Comparability inNatural Law Ethics: A Defense.Matthew Shea -2024 -Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (3):383-402.The foundation ofnatural law ethics is a set of basic human goods, such as life and health, knowledge, work and play, the appreciation of beauty, friendship, and religion. A disputed question amongnatural law theorists is whether the basic goods can be measured or compared in terms of their value. Proponents of NewNatural Law Theory, the best-known version in the contemporary literature, hold that basic goods are both incommensurable and incomparable. Proponents of ClassicalNatural (...) Law Theory, the historically mainstream version, maintain that basic goods are incommensurable but comparable. I make a case for the comparability of basic goods, arguing that commonsense moral intuitions about human flourishing and analysis of how we resolve moral conflicts provide good reasons to affirm that basic goods are comparable and that some goods are more valuable than others. (shrink)
- Natural Law and Practical Rationality.Mark C. Murphy -2001 - Cambridge University Press.Natural law theory has been undergoing a revival, especially in political philosophy and jurisprudence. Yet, most fundamentally,natural law theory is not a political theory, but a moral theory, or more accurately a theory of practical rationality. According to thenatural law account of practical rationality, the basic reasons for actions are basic goods that are grounded in the nature of human beings. Practical rationality aims to identify and characterize reasons for action and to explain how choice (...) between actions worth performing can be appropriately governed by rational standards. These standards are justified by reference to features of the human goods that are the fundamental reasons for action. This book is a defence of a contemporarynatural law theory of practical rationality, demonstrating its inherent plausibility and engaging systematically with rival egoist, consequentialist, Kantian and virtue accounts. (shrink)
- Foundations ofnatural right: according to the principles of the Wissenschaftslehre.Johann Gottlieb Fichte -2000 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Frederick Neuhouser & Michael Baur.In the history of philosophy, Fichte's thought marks a crucial transitional stage between Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. Fichte radicalized Kant's thought by arguing that human freedom, not external reality, must be the starting point of all systematic philosophy, and in Foundations ofNatural Right, thought by many to be his most important work of political philosophy, he applies his ideas to fundamental issues in political and legal philosophy, covering such topics as civic freedom, rights, private property, contracts, family relations, (...) and the foundations of modern political organization. This volume offers the first complete translation of the work into English, by Michael Baur, together with an introduction by Frederick Neuhouser that sets it in its philosophical and historical context. (shrink)
- Purenatural science as pure doctrine of motion.Ae Miller &Mg Miller -1994 -Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 159:291-312.Export citation Bookmark
- Natural theology and naturalist atheology: Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism.Ernest Sosa -2007 - In Deane-Peter Baker,Alvin Plantinga. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Thenatural moral law: the good after modernity.Owen Anderson -2012 - New York: Cambridge University Press.TheNatural Moral Law argues that the good can be known and that therefore the moral law, which serves as a basis for human choice, can be understood. Proceeding historically through ancient, modern and postmodern thinkers, Owen Anderson studies beliefs about the good and how it is known, and how such beliefs shape claims about the moral law. The focal challenge is whether the skepticism of postmodern thinkers can be answered in a way that preserves knowledge claims about the (...) good. Considering the failures of modern thinkers to correctly articulate reason and the good and how postmodern thinkers are responding to these failures, Anderson argues that there are identifiable patterns of thinking about what is good, some of which lead to false dichotomies. The book concludes with a consideration of how a moral law might look if the good is correctly identified. (shrink)
- Natural Rights and the New Republicanism.Michael P. Zuckert -1998 - Princeton University Press.InNatural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States.
- Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty.Paul Thagard -2019 - New York: Oup Usa.Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts.Natural Philosophy brings new methods for analyzing concepts, understanding values, and achieving coherence. It shows how to unify the humanities with the cognitive and social sciences.
- WhyNatural Language Processing is Not Reading: Two Philosophical Distinctions and their Educational Import.Carolyn Culbertson -2025 -Journal of Applied Hermeneutics 2025.This paper explores two important ways in which the practice of close reading differs from the technique ofnatural language processing, the use of computer programming to decode, process, and replicate messages within a human language. It does so in order to highlight distinctive features of close reading that are not replicated bynatural language processing. The first point of distinction concerns the nature of the meaning generated in each case. Whilenatural language processing proceeds on the (...) principle that a text’s meaning can be deciphered by applying the rules governing the language in which the text is written, close reading is premised on the idea that this meaning lies in the interplay that the text prompts within readers. While the semantic theory of meaning upon whichnatural language processing programs are based is often taken for granted today, I draw from phenomenological and hermeneutic theories, particularly Wolfgang Iser and Hans-Georg Gadamer, to explain why a different theory of meaning is necessary for understanding the meaning generated by close reading. Second, whilenatural language processing programs are considered successful when they generate what epistemologists call true beliefs about a text, I argue that close reading aims first and foremost at the development, not of true belief, but of understanding. To develop this distinction, I draw from recent scholarship on the epistemology of education, including work by Duncan Pritchard, to explain how understanding differs from true belief and why attainment of the latter is less educationally significant than the former. (shrink)
- Natural Missouri: Working with the Land.Napier Shelton -2005 - University of Missouri.Along the way he interviewed professional resource managers and naturalists, biologists, interpreters, conservation agents, engineers, farmers, hunters, fishermen, writers, and many others in an effort to gain a perspective that only people who work with the land - for business or for pleasure - can have." "Shelton describes a range of land-management philosophies and techniques, from largely hands-off, as in state parks, to largely hands-on, as in farming. He also addresses the questions that surround some of the more controversial practices, (...) such as the use of fire for land management and the introduction of nonnative species."--Jacket. (shrink)
- Natural rights and human vulnerability: Aquinas, MacIntyre, and Rawls.Kristin Shrader-Frechette -2002 -Public Affairs Quarterly 16 (2):99-124.
- Instinct:Natural and supernatural.J. E. Turner -1933 -Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1):5.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Natural selection ad usum philosophers.Jiri Vacha -2012 -Filosoficky Casopis 60 (2):163-189.Export citation Bookmark
- Anatural scientist and a social scientist explore the dilemma of science.Arnoldo K. Ventura -2003 - Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. Edited by Angela Ramsay.SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE REDUCTION OF POVERTY If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay that way, but if you treat him as if he were what he ...
- Anatural order: Observation and the 4 seasons (Camille Pissarro).K. F. Volkmar -1998 - In Donald Kuspit,Art Criticism. pp. 13--1.Export citation Bookmark
- TheNatural History of Thought in its Practical Aspect, From its Origin in Infancy.George Wall -1887No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Natural and machine learning, intelligence and consciousness.Igor Kononenko -2009 - In Eva Zerovnik, Olga Markič & Andrej Ule,Philosophical Insights About Modern Science. New York, USA: Nova Science Publishers.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Natural world and political community-major problems.E. Tassin -1991 -Filosoficky Casopis 39 (3):418-436.Export citation Bookmark
- Physiologia:Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought.Marleen Rozemond &Dennis des Chene -1998 -Philosophical Review 107 (2):330.In recent years more and more scholars of early modern philosophy have come to acknowledge that our understanding of Descartes’s thought benefits greatly from consideration of his intellectual background. Research in this direction has taken off, but much work remains to be done. Dennis Des Chene offers a major contribution to this enterprise. This erudite book is the result of a very impressive body of research into a number of late Aristotelian scholastics, some fairly well known, such as Suárez, others (...) quite obscure. Two thirds of the book is devoted to the Aristotelians, with occasional references to Descartes; the last third focuses on Descartes, although there still much Aristotelian ground is covered. Des Chene indicates three major themes for his book:natural change and agency, the structure of material substance, and finality. (shrink)
- Natural organic building materials used for housing.Sucheta Singh,Veena Gandotra &Promila Sharma -2008 - In Kuruvila Pandikattu,Dancing to Diversity: Science-Religion Dialogue in India. Serials Publications. pp. 123.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Natural law and modern meta-ethics.Christopher Tollefsen -2004 - In Mark J. Cherry,Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 39--56.
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