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The Philosophers' Stone: Alchemical Imagination and the Soul's Logical Life
… enigmatic goal of the alchemical process, the Philosophers' Stone, is the focus of this dissertation. A natural scientific approach has shed little light on the mythical, esoteric and symbolic attributes of the Stone, which are intrinsic parts of the alchemical imagination. From the larger …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… it. Why then are there so many farcical natural philosophers in eighteenth century literature and so few respectable ones? I argue that the satirical virtuoso served as a focal point for new forms of social conflict. His zeal for scientific innovation registered broader, often unacknowledged, …
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The Disagreement between Avicenna and al-Ghazali on the Issue of the Pre-eternity of the Universe, how their Arguments Originated from Greek Philosophers and their Effect on Muslim Philosophers
… his widely publicised book ‘Incoherence of the Philosophers’. The paper will focus on one of these three specific issues because it was these topics that were used by al-Ghazali to insinuate that Avicenna had transgressed the boundaries of valid traditional Islamic belief (kufr). The refutation …
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Time, Future Contingents, and Fatalism: A Comparison of Aristotle With Some Contemporary Philosophers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:28:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7715020.pdf: 12784898 bytes, checksum: 27bd8325d5cb1e841a482222e7ddc87f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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From the constructs and methods of the philosophers to a model for improved discourse between disciplines
… constructs from philosophy, the methods of the philosophers, hermeneutics, systems thinking and soft systems methodology I proceeded to create a conceptual model and showed conceptual examples of how to use the model. The client for the model is the interdisciplinary researcher who is seeking a …
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An Analysis of whether the Metaphysics of Causation as presented by Muslim philosophers is consistent with the Qurʾānic concept of Miracles.
… problems were avidly accepted by Muslim philosophers especially of the peripatetic persuasion who were recipients of Hellenic thought through the Graeco‐Arabic translation movement. The metaphysic of causation along with other problems such as the issue of the eternity of the universe, …
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Philosophy and the professional Image of philosophy
… dominant image of philosophy that working philosophers have, one that focuses on philosophy's formality, fundamentality, and the widespread use of intuitions, showing that it is partly determined by the history of the professionalization of the discipline. I argue that readings of …
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Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science
… of objectivity with the work of such feminist philosophers of science as Donna Haraway, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Sandra Harding, reveals that feminist philosophers of science are not members of some fringe movement of philosophy of science, but rather are doing philosophical work which is …
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Wittgenstein and Austin on ‘What is in Common’: A Neglected Perspective?
… The compatibility problem focuses on cases where philosophers say something which we would not say in ordinary language, or when philosophers violate its rules. According to this reading, Austin and Wittgenstein show philosophers that this is a source of traditional philosophical troubles. I argue …
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Ethics, X-Phi, and the Expanded Methodological Toolbox: How the Think Aloud Method and Interview Reveal People’s Judgments on Issues in Ethics and Beyond
<p>Ethics isn’t a conversation exclusive to philosophers. There is value, then, in not only understanding how laypeople think about issues in ethics, but also bringing their judgments into dialogue with those of philosophers in order to make sense of agreement, disagreement, and the consequences of …
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Concepts of social justice and the modern American detective novel
… virtue and as an individual value has intrigued philosophers for centuries. The emphasis it has received throughout history and in various cultures and societies has provided the central core of a debate which has attracted the attention of classical and modern philosophers, legal theorists and …
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Mulla Sadra and the mind-body problem: A critical assessment of Sadra’s approach to the dichotomy of soul and spirit
… In order to attain this aim the ideas of various philosophers are discussed on different subjects regarding the soul with particular attention to the philosophical system introduced in the seventeenth century AD by the Muslim philosopher, Sadr al-din Shirazi. This consisted of two other …
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Methodological issues in epistemology and moral psychology
Between 1960 and 1999, it was quite common for philosophers to rely almost completely on a priori methods to advance their arguments (Knobe, 2015); in a recent study by Knobe, the majority of papers sampled from this period used strictly a priori methods. In contrast, in the last decade and a half, …
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Intuicionistinis kontinuumas /
… has been of interest to mathematicians and philosophers around the world from the ancient Greek period to the present day. The continuum is usually understood as infinity, and the characteristics of this infinity have been thought about and discussed from many different perspectives. One of …
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Against moral unconditionalism
… option should the agent choose? It is common for philosophers to side with morality, and to think that all agents ought to follow morality even if doing so prevents the agent from doing something else. This view is known as moral unconditionalism. The purpose of this dissertation is to question …
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Object, standpoint, and partial truth: Sartre, Heidegger, and Hegel on consciousness, human being, and the absolute
… is an attempt to make sense of why (sometimes) philosophers reject past theories of x (reality, knowledge, morality, etc.) while they acknowledge at the same time that the theories being rejected contain philosophically interesting truth about x (philosophers will typically say things like: …
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A Critically Comparative Kuyperian Analysis and a Trinitarian, ‘Perichoretic’ Reconstruction of the Reformational Philosophies of Dirk H.Th. Vollenhoven and Herman Dooyeweerd
… of the systematic thought of two ’Reformational’ philosophers Dirk H.Th. Vollenhoven (1892-1978) and Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) within the contours of the Reformational vision which they both inherited from the founder of the modern Reformational tradition, Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). While …
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What Dolphins Want: Animal Intentionality and Tool-Use
… some animals have the sort of intentionality philosophers traditionally have only ascribed to humans. I argue for this through the examination of tool-use among New Caledonian crows and Bottlenose dolphins. New Caledonian crows demonstrate advanced tool-manufacture and standardization, while …
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