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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"philosophy of nature"”.
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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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Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche
… French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche was one of the leading proponents of occasionalism, the view that God is directly responsible for all change in the created world. For Malebranche, occasionalism is an appropriately Christian philosophy---that is, it takes seriously the Christian belief …
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Ranges of consideration: crossing the fields of ecology, philosophy and science studies.
Environmental issues are often complex with many different constituents operating according to a broad range of communication techniques. In order to foster negotiations, different perspectives need to be articulated in lucid ways sensitive to various viewpoints and circumstances. In my thesis I …
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
… this coincidence, since his Platonic conception of rationality serves to bind free reflection in advance. This is a problem both for the 'minimal empiricism' that McDowell aims to secure in his magnum opus, Mind and World, as well as for the ostensibly liberal, anti-scientistic 'naturalism of …
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The Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel’s Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness
<p>The primary concern of the “Anthropology” section in Hegel’s <em>Encyclopedia</em> of 1830 is the relationship between soul and body: how the soul gains an immediate, bodily existence through embodiment, why and how this immediate mode of the soul’s bodily existence is precarious, and how the …
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ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΧΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ. Ο ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΦΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΒΑΣΕΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ ΤΟΥ W. HEISENBERG
… PHYSICS AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY ON THE BASIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF WERNER HEISENBERG (1901-1976). THE FUNDAMENTAL THESIS IS THAT THE DIALOGUE OF PHYSICS WITH THEOLOGY CAN TAKE PLACE AS A KIND OF AN ENCOUNTER OF THE DIALECTICSOF NATURE WITH THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. IN THE …
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DA PHILOSOPHIE UND RELIGION ALLA FREIHEITSSCHRIFT. IL FINITO, IL MALE, LA LIBERTA' UMANA NEL PENSIERO DI SCHELLING (1804-1809).
… main chapters, which correspond to the analysis of two Schelling’s fundamental works, the Philosophie und Religion (1804) and the so called Freiheitsschrift (1809). In the first chapter, the thesis discusses the problem of finitude, evil and human freedom in the wider context of Schelling’s …
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From 'Le cri de la nature' to 'Pygmalion' : a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera
The thesis sets Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic of opera against the wider philosophical backcloth of eighteenth-centuryF rance and in contraposition to the more scopic music-theoredcabl ackdrop,o f which Rameau'sw ritings are takena s a paradigm. The first half of the thesis contends …
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L’economia della natura e il respiro del mondo. La filosofia della natura di Swedenborg tra Herder e Schelling (1770-1810)
The central role of the notion of ‘life’ mainly characterises the dialogue between Naturphilosophie and the sciences between the end of the Eighteenth and the first decades of the Nineteenth Century in Germany. Many problems and topics, from the relation Infinite-finite to that between inorganic …
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Racionalidade filosófica, racionalidade científica e os limites da tradição analítica: uma contribuição à teoria das tradições de pesquisa racional de Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre’s theory of the traditions of rational enquiry elaborates a metaphilosophical perspective from which one may evaluate the relative merits of rival frameworks of rationality in a way that resembles some canonical approaches in the philosophy of science, but in such a way as to …
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On the political uses of creative darkness: Freedom, subjectivity, and normativity
The relationship between nature and politics informs the tradition of Western political thought from its inception. In its modern formulation, this tradition generally opposes the domains of the natural and the political, characterizing the natural in terms of determinism or necessity and the …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
This dissertation studies the problem of the inhuman in relation to human nature in philosophy from antiquity to the present, highlighting the interrelationship between science and philosophy in the development of concepts of monstrosity in France from mid-sixteenth century to late twentieth …
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UN INCONTRO TRA DARWINISMO E PRAGMATISMO: LA FILOSOFIA EVOLUZIONISTICA DI CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
… in the years that followed the publication of The Origin of Species (1859), virtually nobody, among scientists and philosophers, agreed with the principle of natural selection put forward by Darwin as the main explanation of the evolutionary process. This happened because Darwin’s theory was …