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Benschop, Hans Peter. "Berkeley on method and metaphysics /." Leiden : Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357653445.

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Smith, Imogen. "Method and metaphysics in Plato's Cratylus." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424408.

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Rhode, Conny. "Dialogical empiricism : the burden of proof upon metaphysical methods." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19576/.

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Drawing on Douglas Walton’s typology of dialogues, I analyse a representative sample of philosophical dialogues, finding that over 95% of them instantiate a type of dialogue aimed at persuading one’s opponent. I then argue that this goal entails the prudential requirement that any assertion questioned in philosophical dialogue be either supported or else retracted, and that no assertion is privileged over the burden of proof imposed by its questioning. This in turn renders it prudent to avoid the employment of premises that, if questioned, could never be supported. Such unsupportable premises

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Cifone, Michael C. "Structuralism and natural philosophy method, metaphysics and explanation /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9479.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Philosophy. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Rittberg, Colin Jakob. "Methods, goals and metaphysics in contemporary set theory." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17218.

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This thesis confronts Penelope Maddy's Second Philosophical study of set theory with a philosophical analysis of a part of contemporary set-theoretic practice in order to argue for three features we should demand of our philosophical programmes to study mathematics. In chapter 1, I argue that the identification of such features is a pressing philosophical issue. Chapter 2 presents those parts of the discursive reality the set theorists are currently in which are relevant to my philosophical investigation of set-theoretic practice. In chapter 3, I present Maddy's Second Philosophical programme

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Fowler, Thomas. "The role of the simple natures and method in Descartes' meditations." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633631.

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<p> My topic is the continuity of thought from Descartes' earliest writings to his mature thought as expressed in the <i>Meditations.</i> In the early work, the <i>Rules,</i> Descartes replaces the scholastic form-matter model of the physical world with a quantitative description of the physical as matter in a Euclidian space. </p><p> In the first two chapters I examine the early work showing its break with scholasticism and the structure of his new vision. The <i>Rules </i> was Descartes first major work; it was to consist of thirty six rules. It was neither completed nor published. He sto

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Ball, Brian A. "Semantics, meta-semantics, and ontology : a critique of the method of truth in metaphysics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d3fbf1c-806a-4339-b16b-08560a6bbdeb.

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In this thesis, Semantics, Meta-Semantics, and Ontology, I provide a critique of the method of truth in metaphysics. Davidson has suggested that we can determine the metaphysical nature and structure of reality through semantic investigations. By contrast, I argue that it is not semantics, but meta-semantics, which reveals the metaphysically necessary and sufficient truth conditions of our claims. As a consequence I reject the Quinean (semantic) criterion of ontological commitment. In Part I, chapter 1, I argue that the metaphysically primary truth bearers are not propositions, but rather conc

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Minchin, Heather Marie. "Emotion in the digital age : Bergson's creative emotion and metaphysical methods for digital video production." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/11262.

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This PhD explores Bergsonian notions of duration and the unrepresentable characteristics of creative emotion. Contemplating emotion through Bergson’s duration assists an understanding of the measure of emotion’s quantitative multiplicity, the complexity of its qualitative multiplicity and its creative potential. The application of these ideas to the Deleuzian cinematic concepts of the movement-image and time-image, allows the exploration of digital and analogue cinematic techniques alongside the characteristics of representable and unrepresentable emotion. The analysis of emotion traverses var

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Siebers, Johan. "The method of speculative philosophy an essay on the foundations of Whitehead's metaphysics /." Kassel : Kassel Univ. Press, 2002. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=969165846.

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Siebers, Johan [Verfasser]. "The method of speculative philosophy : an essay on the foundations of Whitehead's metaphysics / Johan Siebers." Kassel : Kassel Univ. Press, 2002. http://d-nb.info/969165846/34.

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Davies, Daniel Ian. "The unity of metaphysical vision in 'The guide for the Perplexed' : a study in Maimonides' methods of presentation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598382.

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Maimonides’ <i>Guide for the Perplexed</i> has generated a wide variety of interpretations. By focusing on some of its central metaphysical arguments, this thesis attempts to show that Maimonides uses different registers of discourse in order to teach according to the reader’s own ability and training. Many of the dialectical features of the <i>Guide</i> are a result of this method of writing. Chapter one explains the background to the issues discussed in the thesis and how they are connected. Chapter two explains Maimonides’ proofs for God’s existence, unity and incorpo-reality, since those i

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Lord, John Anthony. "The relevance of philosophy to psychical research : a critical examination of claims and methods." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1988. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/847654/.

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After a hundred years, psychical research (and experimental parapsychology) are still regarded as pseudosciences. Despite sceptical attacks, however, work continues: the results cannot be lightly dismissed. Evaluation of this work demands philosophical attention, since there are large metaphysical assumptions made, and the experimental results are vulnerable to logical criticism. The supposed kinds of paranormal phenomena are anatomized, and the current terminology criticized. Broad's basic limiting principles are examined, and the extent to which psychical research might threaten conventional

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Crawley, Katherine Rosemary. "Aim-oriented empiricism and the 'Father' of the scientific revolution : metaphysics and method in the work of Galileo." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314304.

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This thesis is concerned with that branch of the history of science which takes as its central problem the question of scientific progress, defined as the growth of knowledge and understanding about the world. It is an area of enquiry which has been suppressed, in recent years, by the development of historical methodologies which eschew all epistemological deliberations and their established ramifications. This thesis, therefore, addresses itself to the following areas. In Chapter One consideration is given to the degree to which the present ascendancy of contextual, social history of science

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Love, Brandon Joel. "Kant's Baconian method as a transformation of Aristotelian transcendental philosophy: a propaedeutic." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/521.

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This dissertation deals with the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. I provide the background of transcendental philosophy before Kant, beginning from Aristotle. Kant transformed Aristotelian transcendental philosophy by using the method of the sciences in the Modern period. This method was initiated by Francis Bacon, in his method of induction. Isaac Newton transformed the method so that it could deal with verification and falsification. This Newtonian method was taken up into chemistry, serving as a guide for the analysis and synthesis of elements. Kant used this method in his transc

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Paik, Joo-Jin. "Méthode et métaphysique chez Descartes." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H234/document.

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Descartes inaugure, dans le Regulae, l'idéal d'une science universelle par la méthode. La méthode cartésienne consiste avant tout à résoudre de la manière la plus parfaite possible les questions. Pour cela, il faut que l'esprit fonde sa solution sur l'expérience du réel tout en assurant qu'elle soit la solution la plus efficace possible. Dans ce sens, la méthode de Descartes comporte déjà un caractère métaphysique, car la recherche de la solution la plus efficace ne se sépare pas de la recherche d'une réalité absolue. La métaphysique cartésienne, étant le lieu où cet idéal de la méthode se réa

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Allred, Melanie Kathleen. "The Light of Descartes in Rembrandts's Mature Self-Portraits." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8109.

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Rembrandt's use of light in his self-portraits has received an abundance of scholarly attention throughout the centuries--and for good reason. His light delights the eye and captivates the mind with its textural quality and dramatic presence. At a time of scientific inquiry and religious reformation that was reshaping the way individuals understood themselves and their relationship to God, Rembrandt's light may carry more intellectual significance than has previously been thought. Looking at Rembrandt's oeuvre of self-portraits chronologically, it is apparent that something happened in his lif

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Onyekachi, Nnaji John. "Concepts of the 'Scientific Revolution': An analysis of the historiographical appraisal of the traditional claims of the science." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117678.

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´Scientific revolution´, as a concept, is both ´philosophically general´ and ´historically unique´. Both dual-sense of the term alludes to the occurrence of great changes in science. The former defines the changes in science as a continual process while the latter designate them, particularly, as the ´upheaval´ which took place during the early modern period. This research aims to demonstrate how the historicists´ critique of the justification of the traditional claims of science on the basis of the scientific processes and norms of the 16th and 17th centuries, illustrates the historical/local

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Costa, Daniel da. "A imergência da pessoa humana na história: ensaio sobre a filosofia radicalizante (protestante) e o cristianismo ateu de Pierre Thévenaz." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-29092014-183716/.

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Sob o signo do aprofundamento e da intensificação da consciência de si, o ato filosófico de Pierre Thévenaz se define como uma filosofia radicalizante. E porque não abre mão e nem elide o lócus de resposta do qual seu ato filosófico toma sua consistência própria que é o da tradição protestante pode receber o complemento (protestante). Assim, uma filosofia radicalizante (protestante). Isso porque a secularização da filosofia, a que seu método de radicalização leva de modo conseqüente, já pressupõe a assunção da própria contingência que é consciência de condição. Consciência de que se fala de

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Ball, Brian Andrew. "Semantics, meta-semantics and ontology : a critique of the method of truth in metaphysics /." 2008. http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d3fbf1c-806a-4339-b16b-08560a6bbdeb.

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Scraire, Mathieu. "Laisser s'imposer l'être : appartenance et métaphysique des transcendantaux dans Vérité et méthode de H.-G. Gadamer." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13731.

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Palmer, Kent D. "Emergent design : explorations in systems phenomenology in relation to ontology, hermeneutics and the meta-dialectics of design." 2009. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/74458.

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A Phenomenological Analysis of Emergent Design is performed based on the foundations of General Schemas Theory. The concept of Sign Engineering is explored in terms of Hermeneutics, Dialectics, and Ontology in order to define Emergent Systems and Meta-systems Engineering based on the concept of Meta-dialectics. Phenomenology, Ontology, Hermeneutics, and Dialectics will dominate our inquiry into the nature of the Emergent Design of the System and its inverse dual, the Meta-system. This is an speculative dissertation that attempts to produce a philosophical, mathematical, and theoretical view of

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