Mirror-Image Asymmetry, Chirality, and Suttree by Bryan Giemza

“…Understanding chirality in turn reveals new dimensions of scientific and philosophical meaning in McCarthy’s work, including his investigation of free will, chance, and determinism; his interest in narrative, consciousness, and evolutionary theory; and his search for a logos—a universal ordering principle in both the material and metaphysical worlds.…”
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Virtue Depends on Natural Law and Divine Commands by J. Caleb Clanton, Kraig Martin

“…Our task in this paper is to show that neither of the standard approaches to explaining the metaphysical foundations of morality within the Christian tradition—natural law theory and divine command theory—are sufficient to fix this incompleteness. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book After Method; Mess in Social Science Research by Rahman Sharifzadeh

“…After Method explores and challenges the metaphysical assumptions and normativities of conventional methods and tries to provide an alternative approach toward method. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…This response is organized in five parts, representing my understanding of the five major thematic strategies through which the central idea is laid out and expanded. 316 Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju The first section, “Developing Classical African Expressions as Sources of Locally and Universally Valid Theory” explores Falola’s advocacy for an expanded cultivation of theory from Africa created and Africa inspired expressive forms. “Epistemic and Metaphysical Integrity in Ifá”, the second part, examines his argument for a re-centering of studies in classical African thought within the epistemic and metaphysical frames of those bodies of knowledge, using the Yoruba origin Ifá system of knowledge, spiritual development and divination as an example, an illustration I analyze through my own understanding of the cognitive and metaphysical framework of Ifá. …”
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HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS IN THE EXISTING PRACTICES OF LATE MODERNISM VIOLENCE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS by O. V. Marchenko, L. V. Martseniuk

“…Research of the phenomenon of human destructiveness in the context of metaphysical images and violence practices of late Modernism. …”
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A Panpsychist Interpretation of Evolutionary Theory by Ferhat Onur

“…Although panpsychism is a well-known metaphysical view, it has rarely been associated with evolution. …”
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Floating-embedded stems reduce tibial stress shielding in total knee revision arthroplasty by Dominic Schaefer, Artur Barsumyan, Kambiz Roshanghias, Jan Adriaan Graw, Christian Soost, Wolfgang Richter, Jonas Knoche, Arne Ohrndorf, Rene Burchard

“…Results With regard to the fixation method, a significant difference could be demonstrated in the metaphyseal and in the middle region around the stem (p < 0.001). …”
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The Heart Is Not an Animated Body: Machines of Nature, Functional Organs and Monadic Domination in Leibniz by Christopher P Noble

“…I thereby shed light on the metaphysical relationships of domination between substances as well as the mechanical structure of Leibnizian organic body. …”
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La Représentation de la montagne dans la littérature anglaise d’inspiration religieuse au XVIIe siècle by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…So do the English metaphysical poets, in particular George Herbert and John Donne, as well as the puritan author of The Pilgrim’s Progress…”
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La "dissolution" paradoxale du sujet dans la période nietzschéenne de la "maturité" by Nicolas Quérini

“…Are we to understand, then, that any self is illusory and constitutes a metaphysical illusion, i.e., that the becoming in which we are always caught according to Nietzsche must make any position of a self impossible, and at the very least diminishing? …”
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The Idea of Mathematicity of the Universe as a <i>Locus Theologicus</i>: Michael Heller and Representatives of “The Kraków School of Philosophy in Science” by Kamil Trombik

“…From a philosophical point of view, the question of the mathematicity of nature remains an open metaphysical problem. The image of the world formulated on the basis of this idea can be an inspiration for theologians seeking common ground with the sciences. …”
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The Inevitability of Absurdity, or Collective Trance in Boogie-woogie Rhythm: Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on the Stage of the Old Theatre of Vilnius by Natalia Maliutina

“…The symbolic imagery of the production evokes a number of contexts among which the most expressive are mystery-metaphysical and grotesque-visional ones. …”
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Смысл символики имени „Макар” в контексте творчества Ф.М. Достоевского и проблем эсхатологии как скрытый концепт жизни и культурной креативности человека... by Olga Krężołek

“…The paper deals with the meanings of the name Makar according to Florinsky's metaphysical conception which, with reference to the symbolic representation of simplicity in the oeuvre of Dostoyevsky and its problems of eschatology, make it possible to reveal the universal and cosmological message hidden in the symbolic content of the name. …”
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Big pictures after Dawn: ‘ontology’ for historians and utopians by John Tresch, James Poskett

“…It draws on two recent developments in anthropology: first, Graeber and Wengrow's sweeping overview of social forms in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, and second, the controversial ‘ontological turn,’ which takes seriously ethnographic reports of alternate realities, refusing any shared metaphysical baseline for evaluation. Both approaches have a utopian bent and claim radical political implications, yet they clash in fundamental ways. …”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…Minimalist and conceptual, the Yeatsian mountain is reduced to archetypal forms related to the geometry described in A Vision, Yeats’s metaphysical treatise. Rooted in Irish mythology, and rising into a spiritualist ethereal world, the mountain conjoins different symbolic strata, allowing an intellectual and spiritual ascent. …”
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Reflections on Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Architecture by David Macarthur

“…I argue that pragmatism is best understood as a method of overcoming intellectualist and metaphysical obstacles to clear thinking as opposed to a philosophical ideology of some kind. …”
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Formation et phylogénie des concepts de « marché » dans l’économie politique au xviiie siècle by Pascal Charbonnat

“…We can conclude that the metaphysical concepts relative to the providence did not participate in the formation process of the market scholar concepts.…”
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH by Sami Pihlström

“…It turns out, however, that Putnam has, in his most recent writings, come closer to the kind of scientific realism he earlier abandoned as "metaphysical." Many realistic critiques of his thought have, therefore, become rather irrelevant. …”
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH by Sami Pihlström

“…It turns out, however, that Putnam has, in his most recent writings, come closer to the kind of scientific realism he earlier abandoned as "metaphysical." Many realistic critiques of his thought have, therefore, become rather irrelevant. …”
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The Problem of Evil: by A.S. Antombikums

“… Open theism argues that traditional responses to the problem of evil fail to provide comfort amidst suffering because of their notion of metaphysical determinism and over-dependence on Greek philosophy. …”
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