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Arguments Showing that Descartes’ Physics is Mathematical
I would like to present four arguments in support of the thesis that Cartesian physics was a mathematical physics. The first two are historical, the other two of a systematic nature. I believe that together th...
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Susan Stebbing and Russell’s Logical Atomism
Susan Stebbing held that Russell’s Doctrine of External Relations was incorrect. Interestingly, she also held that Bradley’s Doctrine of Internal Relations was problematic. In this paper, I’ll explain why she ...
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Against Prescriptions. Why Values?
The chapter titled “Against Prescriptions: Why Values?” explores the perplexing question of why humans need and use values, even though values themselves are inherently ambiguous and lacking in concrete existe...
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Introduction to the Book
All over the world, people and organisations are living with highly destabilising events—a pandemic, economic and political instability and threats to environmental and has the capacity to disrupt the status...
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Incarnation and “Déchirure”; Annunciation and Crucifixion
This chapter proposes a typology of paintings in Western art based on the themes of the annunciation and the crucifixion and inspired by the way that Georges Didi-Huberman reflects upon these themes in Devant l’i...
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Afterword
This casebook offers a window into important aspects of the ethical landscapes that researchers, communities, health professionals, policy makers – and ethicists – had to navigate during the first 15 months of...
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Dorothy Wrinch and the Man of the Century
“Dear Sir,” the Girton College student wrote to her hero on September 9, 1914, “would you be so good as to tell me what you refer to in your article on Mysticism and Logic…” And so the long Russell-Wrinch frie...
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The Characteristics and Diversity of Experimentation in the Sciences
This introduction aims at raising the central questions that will be discussed throughout the book in a variety of ways, adapted to each scientific discipline. What is experimentation, and what distinguishes i...
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Conclusions
This conclusion provides a summary of the work that has been done, shows the achievements of the book, outlines the problems still open and suggests some lines of research into Smith’s thought. In sum, Adam Sm...
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History According to Cattle
This creative and poetic endeavour explores the limits and potentialities of perceiving cattle history through the lens of a bovine perspective. It is imaginatively written by cattle. It contends that because ...
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Investigating the Ontology of AI vis-à-vis Technical Artefacts
Artificial intelligence is the new technological buzzword. Everything from camera apps on your mobile phone to medical diagnosis algorithms to expert systems are now claiming to be ‘AI’, and many more facets o...
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What Is a Number?
In Chap. 1, we used addition and multiplication of the natural numbers to introduce first-order logic. Now, equipped with formal logic, we will go back to reconstr...
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Ethos as Spiritual Dimension of Human Person
This chapter focuses on Kierkegaard’s ideas of ethics and Berdyaev’s one, to underline that from their point of view, ethics is a creative energy of personality and spiritual life, which is translated as ethos. S...
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Balibar and Europe: Towards Democratic Socialism Beyond the Nation
Revisiting Balibar’s critical work on the European Union, Teresa Pullano suggests a double and conflictual perspective at the heart of his writing: for Balibar, Europe is “both a philosophical node and a polit...
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The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps
This chapter presents the structure of the entire book Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives as formal correlative to an implied model of consciousness that accommodat...
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Introduction
This introduction frames the book by drawing attention to historical and ongoing connections between Christianity and colonisation in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Pacific. The authors indicate the ...
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Research Questions, Aims and Expected Results
This chapter outlines the aim of this work, the questions that motivated it, the structure of the book and the expected results. In particular, the aim of the book is to problematise what it means to be ‘human...
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Concept of Complexity
In this chapter, the basic origins from which the concept of has been emerged are elucidated. The illustrative examples are used from chemistry, especially from the of organic chemistry. One of the fundame...
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The Touch of Grace
Before developing the argument relating to the theme I must treat, I often check, in the dictionary, the generally acknowledged meaning of the keywords relating to it. I did that for the word ‘grace’ and I hav...
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Introduction
In the introduction, I describe the three related aims of the book. The first is to defend the Idealist interpretation of the belief in external objects (“bodies”) Hume ascribes to us in the Treatise against the ...
