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Swarms, Colonies, Flocks, and Schools: Exploring the Ontology of Collective Individuals
It is likely that upon observing the effortless turning and looping ballet of a flock of pigeons or school...
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The Making of a New Biophilia:Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth
More than a half-century has passed since Julian Huxley proposed that humanity take a conscious—and, he added, unavoidable—role in...
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Materialism, Mind, and Meaning: Warning, Spoilers Ahead
“I now ask this human being brave enough to stand next to me to pick two twinkling points of...
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A New Philosophical Guide for the Sciences: Ontology without Reduction
Explicit or not, ontologies play a decisive role in the interpretation of any scientific theory.
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Technology and the Ethics of Responsibility
Introduction For more than thirty-eight years, I have taught Reformational Philosophy at Dutch state universities. Every two years, I...
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Analysis—Synthesis
1. Introduction. The Need for a New Vision To date, modern science has relied on an essentially analytic strategy....
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The Significance of Unity and Diversity for the Disciplines of Mathematics and Physics
I. Introduction Closely related to a longstanding over-estimation of human rationality, the scholarly disciplines of mathematics and physics were...
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Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and the Acausal Connecting Principle: A Case Study in Transdisciplinarity
The same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of...
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Review of Holmes Rolston’s “Genes, Genesis, and God”
Holmes Rolston, III is a well-known philosopher who has written extensively on both the philosophy of religion and on...
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From Quantum Mechanics to the Eucharistic Meal: John Polkinghorne’s ‘Bottom-up’ Vision of Science and Theology
As a scientist theologian, Polkinghorne has long wrestled with the topic of God's action in the world. Interventionism or...
