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The Poetics of the Built Environment
The poetics of the built environment concerns the built environment as a work of art. In this capacity, the work is a systematic construction that...
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Health and disease as practical concepts: exploring function in context-specific definitions
Despite the longstanding debate on definitions of health and disease concepts, and the multitude of accounts that have been developed, no consensus...
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A QBist Ontology
This paper puts forward an ontology that is indebted to QBism, Kant, Bohr, Schrödinger, the philosophy of the Upanishads, and the evolutionary...
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Epistemic Values from a Naturalistic Perspective
Explanations are in my view answers to explanatory questions. Such answers may deliver knowledge but also understanding which has a different...
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Levels of the absolute in Husserl
Edmund Husserl’s ultimate aim was to give an overall philosophical explanation of the totality of Being. In this endeavour, the term “absolute” was...
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979)
Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature presents the most thorough and sustained critique of Western epistemology and foundationalism in the...
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Reference in Context
In this paper, I offer some considerations on the contextual dimension of reference and, then, I expatiate on the possibility that referential NPs...
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Perceiving and Naming as Situated Acts
I have repeatedly had the following experience. I take a walk through an unfamiliar part of town, willing myself to pay attention to the buildings,...
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On the Phenomenological Way of Seeing and Thinking on the Built Environment
This chapter is an exposition of the relationship between philosophy and architecture in the context of phenomenologyPhenomenology. From this...
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On the Ontological Status of Molecular Structure: Is it Possible to Reconcile Molecular Chemistry with Quantum Mechanics?
According to classical molecular chemistry, molecules have a structure, that is, they are sets of atoms with a definite arrangements in space and...
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The Post-unitary Paradigms of Order II: From Modernity to Post-modernity
The chapter focuses on postmodernism as the second way to overcome the unitary understanding of order. Starting with the philosophical renewal that...
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Quantum Cognitive Triad: Semantic Geometry of Context Representation
The paper describes an algorithm for semantic representation of behavioral contexts relative to a dichotomic decision alternative. The contexts are...
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Models and Idealizations in Quantum Chemistry: The Case of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
In the context of the discussion about idealizations, the present chapter aims at two different but complementary objectives. Firstly, we will...
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Integrative Bioethics as the Phenomenology of Life
In the scope of this paper, we engage with the orientational discipline Integrative Bioethics, supplemented with pluriperspectivity’s (Čović 2018),...
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Experiential Knowledge Without Beliefs
Here the focus is on sensory knowledge that we gain not from the external senses but from the internal senses such as the kinesthetic ones. Just as I...
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Introduction
This chapter provides a succinct adumbration of the structure and content of the book. It contextualises the problem of temporal determinacy against...
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Towards a Relational Treating of Language and Logical Systems
Generally speaking, there are two categories of semantics theory: model-theoretic approach and proof-theoretic approach. In the first part of this...
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Physics is Organized Around Transformations Connecting Contextures in a Polycontextural World
The rich body of physical theories defines the foundation of our understanding of the world. Its mathematical formulation is based on classical...
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The Relativist, Anti-relativist Dance
The anti-relativist would like to pin the relativist between two horns of a dilemma: either relativism is absolutely true, in which case the very...
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Neglected Pragmatism: Discussing Abduction to Dissolute Classical Dichotomies
Many parts of the contemporary philosophical debate have been built on the radicalization of conclusions derived from the acceptance of a certain set...