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Systemic Materialism
I present a condensed exposé of systemic materialism, a synthesis of materialism and systemism originally proposed by Mario Bunge. Matter is...
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Systemic Materialism in Biology
Modern biological science is one of the bulwarks of materialism, especially since the retreat of vitalism, the consolidation of the theory of...
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Climate Change and Nature Conservation
After briefly reconstructing how and when anthropogenic climate change awareness and nature conservation emerged in Western societies (section...
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Climate Change and Nature Conservation
After briefly reconstructing how and when anthropogenic climate change awareness and nature conservation emerged in Western societies (section...
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Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement
In this Matters Arising article, we outline how the recent article “The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a...
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What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework
This paper presents an account of the nature of stem cells based on the philosophical concept of disposition. It is argued that stem cells can be...
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The Paradoxical Nature of Aliveness
Our experience of relationships provides us with direct access to the intelligibility of joinings in terms of paradox. This includes the paradoxes of...
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Intra-systemic and Inter-systemic Tawhidi IIE(θ(ε))-Model of Ethics and the World-System
There is a meaningful difference between the understanding of the ideas of methodology and methods in socio-scientific studies. In reference to the...
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The Laws of Nature and the Problems of Modern Cosmology
The notion that nature is subject to laws is exciting from many different viewpoints. This paper is based on the context of modern cosmology. It will...
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Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium
In intensive European agricultural areas, the control of weeds and wildlife within plots is of great importance. Yet, we can observe in many farming...
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What Does it Mean to Mimic Nature? A Typology for Biomimetic Design
In an effort to produce new and more sustainable technologies, designers have turned to nature in search of inspiration and innovation. Biomimetic...
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Sustainable farm work in agroecology: how do systemic factors matter?
Agroecological farming is widely considered to reconcile improved working and living conditions of farmers while promoting social, economic, and...
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The Violent Nature of Language
TheAbductionand pregnances conceptPregnancesand abduction of Affordancesand abduction violenceAbductionand affordances canAffordancesand...
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The Material Nature of Software
Algorithms are sets of instructions (a type of declarative and operational statements in a language) to process sets of bits (minimal units of...
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Particularizing Nonhuman Nature in Stakeholder Theory: The Recognition Approach
Stakeholder theory has grown into one of the most frequent approaches to organizational sustainability. Stakeholder research has provided...
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Masking, extrinsicness, and the nature of dispositions: the role of niche signals in muscle stem cells
I investigate the intrinsic/extrinsic nature of stemness in muscle stem cells (MSC) by relying on recent research on quiescence, with the aim of...
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Historicity, Negativity and Nature
In this chapter I elaborate the ‘entanglement’ of ‘theoretical’ (cognitive) and ‘practical’ (instrumental) reason in its systematic,...
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Key Assumptions About the Nature of Superstition
This chapter considers three main assumptions about superstition based on the literature. Firstly, that superstition alleviates anxietyAnxiety...
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The Return of Philosophy: A Systemic Semiotics Approach
In this chapter, I review the nature of Systems Research to advance it as a way of doing complex and heterogeneous systems science. I examine...
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Exploring the Methodological Foundation of A Systemic Approach in Grey Systems Theory
The article focusses on grey system theory and its methodological foundations. Key topics include: axiomatisation of the concept of grey, comparison...