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Cosmology
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
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How to Complete Quantum Mechanics, Or, What It’s Like To Be a Naturally Creative Bohmian Beable
In this chapter, I argue that if we assume that the Standard Models in contemporary physics are physico-mechanically incomplete, and if we also assume that all rational human animals are primitive sources of n...
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A Neo-Organicist Approach to Formal Science: The Case of Mathematical Logic
What I’ve been calling the explanatory inversion thesis says that all mechanical systems whatsoever, whether formal or natural, are explanatorily and ontologically dependent upon, and indeed nothing but systemati...
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How to Solve Zeno’s Paradox of Motion Without Supertasks
In this chapter, I argue that there’s an intelligible and defensible broadly Kantian neo-organicist solution to Zeno’s paradox of motion, as epitomized by the famous Dichotomy paradox, that doesn’t appeal to s...
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Neo-Organicism and the Rubber-Sheet Cosmos
In this chapter, I argue that the affirmation and recognition that complementarity, entanglement, and nonlocality pervade manifest natural reality at all basic scales finally enables us to reject the paradoxic...
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Introduction
In this introductory chapter, against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis in the formal-&-natural sciences, and the three basic problems that jointly constitute that crisis, I briefly describe the purpose ...
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The Epiphenomenality of Natural Mechanical Systems and the Salvation of Everyday Objects
Is it plausible to hold, as I do, that natural mechanical systems have no efficacious causal powers of their own, and only inherit any and all causal powers that they do have, in a metaphysically-&-ontological...
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Physics for Humans: Kant, Physics, and the Neo-Aristotelian Natural Power Grid
In this chapter, I argue that there is a distinctively different, arguably true, and above all thoroughly anti-skeptical, contemporary Kantian third alternative, between (i) the Scylla of failed noumenalistic ...
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Human Rationality, Consciousness, and Cosmology
In this final chapter, I return to where I began in Chap. 2, with the metaphysical continuity of mind and life, and show how human rationality, consciousness, and free agency are not only (i) metaphysically co...
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Frame-by-Frame: How Early Twentieth Century Physics Was Shaped by Brownie Cameras and Early Cinema
We design, create, and use tools to change the world, for better or worse; but in so doing, our tools also change us, for better or worse. An important elaboration of this truth is what Otto Paans and I have call...
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Can Physics Explain Physics? Anthropic Principles and Transcendental Idealism
In this chapter, I argue that contemporary physics, understood as a natural science that’s committed to the Standard Models of cosmology and particle physics, can explain itself only if it supplements the Stan...
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A Neo-Organicist Approach to the Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem and “Skolem’s Paradox”
In this very short chapter, I provide another confirmation of the neo-organicist turn’s explanatory inversion thesis as applied to formal science, this time with respect to the famous or notorious Löwenheim-Skole...
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Sensible Set Theory
In this chapter, I argue that we not only can but also should accept only a version of set theory that’s essentially restricted in a broadly Kantian way: I call this version of set theory, Sensible Set Theory, ak...
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A Philosophical Case for Holding That the Second Law of Thermodynamics Is Only a Special Law of Nature, and Not a Universal Law
Even despite A.S. Eddington’s stern warning to the effect that any serious theoretical challenge to the universality of The Second Law of Thermodynamics will end in “deepest humiliation” (Eddington, 1929: p. 74),...
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Mind Is a Form of Animal Life: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now
In this chapter, I do four things. First, I briefly and compactly re-present and re-motivate what Michelle Maiese and I, in (Hanna R, Maiese M, Embodied minds in action. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009),...
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The Attunement Thesis and Cosmic Dignitarianism
What I call the attunement thesis says that all the formal and natural sciences are grounded in the metaphysics of weak or counterfactual transcendental idealism, and that the primary source of epistemic evidence...
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The Incompleteness of Logic, The Incompleteness of Physics, and The Primitive Sourcehood of Rational Human Animals
In this short chapter, I argue that just as the inherent logico-mechanical Gödel-incompleteness of Principia Mathematica-style systems of mathematical logic needs to be completed by the capacity for mathematical ...
