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Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Studies in history and philosophy of science [Stud Hist Philos Sci] 2023 Oct; Vol. 101, pp. 40-47. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 05.

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Source(s): The Journal of medicine and philosophy [J Med Philos] 2023 May 16; Vol. 48 (3), pp. 283-298.

Abstract: Consider the following two metaphysical questions about pregnancy: (1) When does a new organism of a certain kind start to exist? (2) What is the mereological and topological relationship between the pregnant organism and with what it is pregnant? Desp...

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Source(s): History and philosophy of the life sciences [Hist Philos Life Sci] 2023 Jun 29; Vol. 45 (3), pp. 29. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 29.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explain why, while Charles Darwin was well recognized as a scientific leader of his time, Claude Bernard never really regarded Darwinism as a scientific theory. The lukewarm reception of Darwin at the Académie des Sciences o...

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Source(s): Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science [Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci] 2023 Jan; Vol. 14 (1), pp. e1588. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 12.

Abstract: This article presents theories of attention that attempt to derive their answer to the question of what attention is from their answers to the question of what it is for some activity to be done attentively. Such theories provide a distinctive account ...

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Source(s): Studies in history and philosophy of science [Stud Hist Philos Sci] 2023 Feb; Vol. 97, pp. 34-43. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 14.

Abstract: Recently, Dewar (2019) has suggested that one can apply the strategy of 'sophistication'-as exemplified by sophisticated substantivalism as a response to the diffeomorphism invariance of General Relativity-to gauge theories such as electrodynamics. Thi...

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Source(s): Journal of morphology [J Morphol] 2023 Jan; Vol. 284 (1), pp. e21533. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 19.

Abstract: Unease with the inclusion of "sameness" in Owen's definition of homology characterizes a substantial part of the literature on this subject, where this term has acquired an increasingly strict metaphysical flavor. Taken for granted the existence of bod...

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Source(s): Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals [Nurs Philos] 2023 Jan; Vol. 24 (1), pp. e12414. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 07.

Abstract: Pragmatism emphasizes practical consequences and empirical explanations rather than introspective contemplations. However, the arguments of pragmatists are not uniform, as shown by the four prominent pragmatists presented in this article. The major dif...

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Source(s): History of science [Hist Sci] 2022 Dec; Vol. 60 (4), pp. 524-545. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 13.

Abstract: In this essay, I study the contested role of magnification as an observational strategy in the generation theories of William Harvey and René Descartes. During the seventeenth century, the grounds under the discipline of anatomy were shifting as knowle...

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Source(s): Cognitive science [Cogn Sci] 2022 Jul; Vol. 46 (7), pp. e13166.

Abstract: People hold intuitive theories of the physical world, such as theories of matter, energy, and motion, in the sense that they have a coherent conceptual structure supporting a network of beliefs about the domain. It is not yet clear whether people can a...

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Source(s): Religions. Sep2023, Vol. 14 Issue 9, p1188. 12p.

Abstract: Many readers of the Dao De Jing have identified an ontology associated with the text. In such ontological readings, the term dao 道 is taken to refer to some type of monolithic, eternal, abstract fundamental reality. They generally point to certain chap...