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Peirce's Evolutionary Explanation of Laws of Nature: 1880-1893
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Externality in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
<p>The topic of my dissertation is the metaphysics of laws of nature in Hegel’s philosophy of nature. I argue that Hegel differentiates laws of nature from norms of culture through a concept of “externality,” according to which the universals or laws of nature stand outside of, apart from, …
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The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors
This dissertation examines the Christian doctrine of divine providence and its implications for the laws of nature and problem of induction before contrasting secular and Islamic approaches to these same topics. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of a Christian account of scientific law by citing …
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RELATIVE AND OBJECTIVE, ON BALANCE: Detailing the Best Systems Analysis of Laws
Variations on Lewis’ Best Systems Analysis (BSA) of laws of nature have tended to emphasize the aspects of the view that allow it to accommodate the peculiarities of scientific practice. That move has allowed such views to do a lot of good work in solving old and new challenges for the BSA, but at …
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Concepts of law of nature
… the past 50 years, there has been a great deal of philosophical interest in laws of nature, perhaps because of the essential role that laws play in the formulation of, and proposed solutions to, a number of perennial philosophical problems. For example, many have thought that a satisfactory …
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Analysis and dynamic modelling of complex systems
With the recent advent of rapid genome sequencing and other high throughput measurement techniques, the biological sciences are<br>entering an unprecedented age of discovery. Biology is faced with a lot of facts that need an explanation. But while physics uses mathematics to represent the laws of …
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Orthogonal Transformations of the Onsager Phenomenological Equations and Minimum Entropy Production
… thermodynamics is a phenomenological theory of matter, and, as such, it makes no assumptions regarding the structure of matter. Rather, based on three general laws of nature (the three laws of thermodynamics), the science of equilibrium thermodynamics seeks to correlate many of the observable …
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Peptidazių iš Geobacillus thermoleovorans DSM 15325 kolagenolizinio aktyvumo analizė: M3 proteolizinių fermentų šeimos M3B pošeimio oligopeptidazės ir U32 proteolizinių fermentų šeimos peptidazės charakterizavimas /
The full understanding of laws of nature cannot be accomplished without comprehensive characterisation of collagenolysis as collagen is a major structural protein in organisms. The diversity of collagenolytic peptidases from non-pathogenic bacteria remains only fragmentary characterized, whereas …
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The collagenolytic activity analysis of Geobacillus thermoleovorans DSM 15325 peptidases: characterization of M3 proteolytic enzymes family M3B subfamily oligopeptidase and U32 proteolytic enzymes family peptidase /
The full understanding of laws of nature cannot be accomplished without comprehensive characterisation of collagenolysis as collagen is a major structural protein in organisms. The diversity of collagenolytic peptidases from non-pathogenic bacteria remains only fragmentary characterized, whereas …
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The Ethics within Metaphysics
This dissertation consists of three chapters at the intersection of ethics and metaphysics. In the first chapter, I put forward a new theory of personal identity, give arguments for it, and defend it from objections. In the first part, I argue that the two most prominent theories of personal …
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Jock Macdonald : the search for the universal truth in nature
This paper is a study of the artistic philosophy of J. W. G. (Jock) Macdonald (1897-1960). It examines the implications of his initial break with representational art and his development of an abstract imagery between 1934 and 1941 in the context of the ideological tradition from which he emerged …
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Partial belief and expert testimony
… a proposition A should equal one's expectation of A's chance, provided one has no inadmissible information-is incompatible with Humean Supervenience-the thesis that that laws of nature, dispositions, and objective chances supervene on the distribution of categorical properties in the world …
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Ontological Understanding And The State Model Of Processes
A general model of processes is developed based on a systematic study and joint resolution of the main ontological issues concerning time, space, individuals, qualities and relations. Beginning with the goal of finding a theory or conceptual scheme for understanding change, four constraints on the …
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Decision and Dependence: A Defence of Causal Decision Theory
… theory (CDT) has been the orthodox version of philosophical decision theory. However, ever since CDT was first developed there have been those who have disputed the adequacy of this theory. Then, in the last decade and a half, opposition to this theory has intensified, with a vast array of …
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Cryogenic surface electrode ion traps with integrated superconducting microwave resonators for polar molecular ion spectroscopy
Trapped cold molecules open the possibility of studying ultracold chemistry and astrophysical processes in laboratory settings. Their rich internal structure also makes them suitable for quantum information manipulation or for tests of fundamental laws of nature. These experiments require precise …
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Parity-time and supersymmetry in optics
Symmetry plays a crucial role in exploring the laws of nature. By exploiting some of the underlying analogies between the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and that of electrodynamics, in this dissertation we show that optics can provide a fertile ground for studying, observing, and …
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Abolition as Obedience to the Higher Law
The purpose of this paper is to trace the idea of the higher law as the warp thread running throughout the whole fabric of the history of the anti-slavery movement. To be sure it assumed different emphases and applications at different times, but it remained the "root" idea of abolition. The …
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