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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Atomism"”.
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The Problem: The Theory of Ideas in Ancient Atomism and Gilles Deleuze
… Deleuze values particularly highly is Lucretian atomism. While Deleuze's relationship to Lucretius has been almost completely ignored, De rerum natura homes in on at least one significant problem: to think of nature in the form of a problem. To be more exact, thinking of nature as a problem …
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From Logical Atoms to Language Networks: An Examination of Part of Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism
… of Bertrand Russell's 1918 philosophy of logical atomism, and a critical assessment of his contentions that language mirrors the world and that some English sentences share some of the logical properties of sentences of Principia Mathematica.
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
… of the revival of early-modem Epicureanism and atomism in England as well as Europe. Thereby, it not only attempts to set Hobbes's understanding of Epicureanism in the general context of its reception in the seventeenth century but also to explore the specific Epicurean elements within Hobbes's …
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The philosophy of Pierre Gassendi: science and belief in seventeenth-century Paris and Provence
… on the Galley Experiment of 1640, Gravitation, Atomism and Astronomy. It is the extent of Gassendi's co-operation with mathematicians, astronomers and scientists, and the fact that most of them must have shared the secret of his working assumption, that is the most remarkable aspect of the case. …
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Investigation of schoolchildren's understanding of the process of dissolving with special reference to the conservation of matter and the development of atomistic ideas.
… the way matter is modelled. The findings about atomism indicated that whereas a major proportion of pupils in each year-group spontaneously imagined an atomistic view of matter, few of them used such a conception to explain weight/mass or volume conservation. It appears that early atomism is …
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
… in which Hutchinson's poem contests Lucretius's atomism and epistemology. This study sketches a more thorough picture of Hutchinson's rhetorical aesthetic than scholars have yet completed. It demonstrates that this seventeenth-century woman's biblical epic poem places her in the position of not …
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Exit the King: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the English Baroque
… proliferating new epistemologies: Lucretian atomism, the geo-political vistas of the “New World,” the schisms of Reformation, the Copernican revolution, the waning of Church power, and the rise of the Absolutist state. These destabilizing elements are worked asymmetrically into these texts’ …
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Critiquing Atomistic Individualism in Law: Rosenzweig's Beloved Soul as Open and Relational Subject
… and relational individuality rather than Lockean atomism and abstractions changes the goals of law, encouraging it to embrace complexity and devise more complicated rulings that better reflect the complexity of human diversity within a pluralist democracy. I argue that this move from zero-sum to …
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Democritus and the Critical Tradition
… and philosophical context in which early atomism was born. As part of this portrait, it offers thumbnail sketches of the doctrines attributed to a representative catalogue of pre-Socratic philosophers to whom published work is attributed (Anaximander, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, …
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Meditative poetry, covenant theology, and Lucy Hutchinson's order and disorder.
… I challenge accounts claiming Lucretian atomism and Republican politics as the poem's intellectual foundation. Finally, I offer the first extended account of meditation in Owen's theology. Chapter One puts Hutchinson and her work in the historical and critical context, while Chapter Two …
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Modeling temporal perception
… I examine and challenge some the motivations for atomism, including its connection to the empiricism of Locke and Reid, and its mereological conception of experience, such that purported experiences of motion supervene on and are reducible to the successive atomic perceptions of which they are …
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Lucretius and the Problem of Attention
… on the already limited resources of ancient atomism. To make matters even more difficult, any solution offered by an interpreter must be consistent with the demands of Epicurean epistemology. On this point, the question concerns the epistemic status of attention. Can the mind, by way of its …
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Deleuze and mereology: multiplicity, structure and composition
This investigation constitutes an attempt towards(1) understanding issues and problems relating to the notions of one, many, part and whole in Parmenides and Plato; (2) extracting conditions for a successful account of multiplicity and parthood;(3) surveying Deleuzian conceptions and uses of these …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
This dissertation project examines the influence of energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, …