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The Significance of a Non-Reductionist Ontology for the Disciplines of Mathematics and Physics–an Historical and Systematic Analysis
Overall perspective The attempt to reduce what is truly unique to something else leads to the deification of something...
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Recoupling Individuality: Relational Selves and Redemptive Relationships
We must love each other or die. – W. H. Auden. The particularly toxic form that individuality has taken...
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“Person”, “Personal Property” and “Personal Act”: How to Use Philosophical Notions in Ethical Decision-Making at Terminal-Ill Patients
0. Introduction In this paper I want to address the problem of using the notion of “person” or “personhood”...
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Can the Human Person Reach Fulfillment Through the Self Alone?
1. The touchstones of the question: a brief overview The keystone of Aristotelian thought is the distinction between act...
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Levels of Convergence
1 Introduction We are living in an unique time in the history of humanity. This moment, this turning point,...
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Providing Meaning to the Human Experience in Spite of Epistemic Distance
As human beings we are living in a world and are subject to a milieu of cultural, institutional, linguistic...
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Peaceful Co-Existence of Various Cultures and Religions: An Islamic Perspective with Special Reference to Spain
Mankind is yearning for global peace. During the twentieth century a number of international treatises were signed declaring war...
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Understanding Levels: Redefining Science in an Emergentist World View
An emergentist world view sets certain challenges to our notion of science and of the kinds of explanations of...
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Personhood, Logos and Artificial Intelligence
Y a-t-il un homme si stupide qui n’invente au moins quelque signe pour se faire entendre? Y a-t-il une...
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Nonreductive Physicalism and Free Will
1 Introduction First I wish to extend my thanks to the Metanexus Institute for planning this conference, for locating...