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Temple, Daniel R. "Leibniz on the metaphysical foundation of physics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0002/NQ32330.pdf.

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Miller, Elizabeth Louise. "No Metaphysics within Physics?" Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11403.

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This dissertation has three parts. In "Quantum Entanglement, Bohmian Mechanics, and Humean Supervenience," I defend David Lewis's metaphysical doctrine of Humean supervenience, and traditional metaphysical reductionism more generally, against an alleged holistic threat encapsulated in the non-separability argument from quantum entanglement. I argue that, contrary to popular belief, realism about quantum mechanics is compatible with Humean reductionism.<br>Philosophy

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Rogers, Karl A. "The fire of Hephaestus : the metaphysical and technological phenomenon of experimental physics." Thesis, University of Bath, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760762.

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Dewar, Neil Archdale. "Symmetries in physics, metaphysics, and logic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:38b380cb-7f64-40cb-b94c-eba4b3b652ac.

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This thesis examines the idea that when a physical theory contains symmetries, the theory should be interpreted in such a way that symmetry-related models represent the same physical state of affairs. It argues that we can best do so by drawing on analogies to ideas in philosophy of logic and language: specifically, by thinking of symmetries as a means of translating a theory into itself. It consists of six chapters, together with an introduction and conclusion. In Chapter 1, I set up the main ideas needed to more precisely frame the question at hand: namely, the notions of symmetry, interpret

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Westwell-Roper, A. "Events and the ontology of modern physics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354795.

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Retallick, Gary George. "Transitions from the physics of time to temporal metaphysics." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/transitions-from-the-physics-of-time-to-temporal-metaphysics(62a5d30c-eefc-4f9c-87b8-6240c0cf62f1).html.

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White, Barbara A., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'Beyond God the father' : The metaphysical in a physical world." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.154051.

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Corti, Alberto. "The Metaphysics of Spin." Doctoral thesis, Urbino, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11576/2701957.

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Liu, Yihan. "Transformative Manufacturing of 2D Material for THZ Resonator." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1596814704289023.

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Scully, David R. "Physical science and the philosophy of organism of A.N. Whitehead." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390939.

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Dempsey, Patrick. "On the Compatibility of Presentism and our most fundamental Physics." Thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10247.

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It has been alleged that Presentism is incompatible with our most fundamental physics. More specifically, it is argued that this follows from the fact that Presentism and The Special Theory of Relativity are incompatible. The aim of this thesis is to assess whether the Presentist can refute this argument. I shall argue that whilst it is problematic for the Presentist to dispute the claim that their theory is incompatible with The Special Theory of Relativity, they can successfully refute the argument that their theory is therefore incompatible with our most fundamental theories of physics. My

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Vericat, Fabio L. "From physics to metaphysics : philosophy and style in the critical writings of T.S. Eliot (1913-1935)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7445/.

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This thesis considers Eliot's critical writing from the late 1910s till the mid-1930s, in the light of his PhD thesis - Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley - and a range of unpublished material: T S. Eliot's Philosophical Essays and Notes (1913- 4) in the Hayward Bequest (King's College, Cambridge University); T. S. Eliot's Family Papers in the T. S. Eliot Collection at the Houghton Library (Harvard University); and items from the Harvard University Archives at the Pusey Library. 'Me thesis offers a comprehensive view of Eliot's critical development throughout this impo

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Farr, Matthew William Edward. "Towards a C theory of time : an appraisal of the physics and metaphysics of time direction." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684742.

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This thesis introduces and defends a 'C theory' of time. The metaphysics of time literature is primarily concerned with the distinction between the A and B theories of time, with the disagreement concerning whether the passage of time is an objective feature of reality. I argue that the distinction between the Band C theories-in terms of whether time has a 'privileged' direction-is of more obvious relevance to the philosophy of physics than is the distinction between the A and B theories. The thesis has three main contentions. (1) In order to maintain a substantial metaphysical dispute between

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Sentesy, Mark. "Aristotle: Movement and the Structure of Being." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2926.

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Thesis advisor: John Sallis<br>This project sets out to answer the following question: according to Aristotle, what does movement contribute to or change about being? The first part works through the argument for the existence of movement in the Physics. This argument includes distinctive innovations in the structure of being, notably the simultaneous unity and manyness of being: while material and form are one thing, they are two in being. This makes it possible for Aristotle to argue that movement is not intrinsically related to what is not: what comes to be does not emerge from non-being, 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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Wion, Brenda. "Transforming Actor Training: Michael Chekhov's Psycho-Physical Technique." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208278580.

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Ebeturk, Emre. "Tracing The Footsteps Of The Young Leibniz In The Labyrinth Of The Continuum." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610038/index.pdf.

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This study is an attempt to explicate Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz&rsquo<br>s search for a way out of the labyrinth of the continuum in his early years of philosophizing. The main motive of the study is the belief that it would be worthwhile to see how Leibniz initially goes into the labyrinth and comes across with the riddles contained in it. Accordingly, this thesis is intended to discuss what the problem of the composition of the continuum is for the young Leibniz, which concepts and metaphysical problems are associated with the labyrinth, and what particular difficulties challenge Leibniz

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Martens, Niels C. M. "Against comparativism about mass in Newtonian Gravity : a case study in the metaphysics of scale." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3f98e412-2cf7-4810-8a3a-0041f9c1c5df.

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This thesis concerns the metaphysics of scale. It investigates the implications of a physical determinable being dimensionful. In particular, it considers the case study of mass, as it features within Newtonian Gravity. Nevertheless, most of the terminology, methodology and arguments developed should be relatively straightforwardly applicable to other determinables and theories. Weak Absolutism about mass holds that mass ratios obtain in virtue of absolute masses. Weak Comparativism denies this. In the first five chapters I argue in favour of Weak Absolutism over Weak Comparativism. The sixth

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Davis, Villemaire Diane Elizabeth. "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, a window on the life and work of E.A. Burtt, twentieth-century pragmatist and postmodern thinker." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/NQ50277.pdf.

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Lundgren, Björn. "Undermining Derk Pereboom’s Hard Incompatibilist Position Against Agent-causation : A Metatheoretical Work on the Topic of Metaphysics and Metaethics." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-88587.

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The author has attempted a dubbleedged purpose, as indicated by the title. The author firstly deals with Pereboom; begining with his so-called ‘wild coincidence’-argument, by which Pereboom claims agent-causation to be unlikely. The author argues that this argument lacks both scope and strenght. The author then deals with the question of compatiblity between physics and agent-causation as related to Pereboom’s basic problematization; whether agent-causation would or would not diverge from what is expected (from any other event) given our best physical theories. This results in a strong critici

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Charles, S. R. "The emergent metaphysics in Plato's theory of disorder as found in The Timaeus and Laws X." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4050.

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This thesis is an exploration of Plato’s understanding of the power of disorder as it is presented in his cosmology, The Timaeus and in his predominantly religious work, Laws X. In the former work this causal force is presented as the disordering power responsible for the physical chaos prior to the generation of the universe, as well as for any residual disorder found within the cosmos after it has been ordered and is the antithesis of ‘nous’ or reason. In the latter work, however, Laws X, the causal force for disorder is now understood as a disordering power capable of endangering the soul,

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Alafaci, Christian. "Vagueness, Identity, and Quantum Objects." Thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24675.

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While classical accounts of identity (‘classical’ here pertaining to both logics and physics) are generally well understood, the advent of quantum theory, specifically quantum statistics, has cast shadow over these conceptions. Dealing with the consequently surfacing problems is a philosophically rich and interesting enterprise. I begin this thesis by providing an exegesis of the roles played by, and features of, identity in logics, classical physics, and quantum physics. Therein I consider how under a quantal description of reality, classical notions of identity and individuality break d

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Costa, Erick de Oliveira Santos. "Salvando os fen?menos: a realidade do devir na f?sica de Arist?teles." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2016. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/1426.

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Graziani, Lorenzo. "Un groviglio di mondi. Studio sul pluralismo fisico, metafisico e letterario postmoderno." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/260546.

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The main goal of this PhD dissertation is to explore the relation between postmodern poetics and some features of other theories developed at the same time in various areas of knowledge – mainly metaphysics, physics and sociology. If we can say that the modern paradigm was born with the question of how a multiplicity of different points of view could coexist, the postmodern paradigm seems to arise with the awareness that a systematic legitimation of differences cannot be based on a sole foundation that leads to a complete inclusion. For this reason, we argue that the concept of possible world

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Conway, William. "The deep extent of mental autonomy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1722.

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The central aim of this thesis is to argue that the autonomous nature of mentalistic explanation presents a stronger constraint on what counts as a satisfactory statement of the relation between the mental and the physical than can be acknowledged within the metaphysical framework of non-reductive physicalism. Although the chief merit of non-reductive physicalism appears to be its ability to respect the irreducibility of mental concepts to physical concepts, whilst respecting the primacy of the physical ontology, I claim that its commitment to the principles of physicalism prevents that framew

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Orlando, Emanuela. "Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (1606-1682) lettore di Descartes : studio delle opere a stampa e dei testi manoscritti." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5064.

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Ma thèse a pour objet la réflexion menée par Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, dans ses œuvres imprimées et manuscrites, sur la philosophie de René Descartes. Notre objectif consiste à reconstruire la critique, l’interprétation et l’utilisation de la philosophie de Descartes par Caramuel à travers une étude complète, à ce jour jamais réalisée, de tous les manuscrits cartésiens de Caramuel. Cette reconstruction sera complétée par une brève recherche effectuée sur les œuvres imprimées successives aux Animadversiones. Les Animadversiones constituent une série d’objections contre les Meditationes de prim

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Lamborn, Richard Samuel. "Thinking Nature, "Pierre Maupertuis and the Charge of Error Against Fermat and Leibniz"." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5979.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to defend Pierre Fermat and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz against the charge of error made against them by Pierre Maupertuis that they errantly applied final causes to physics. This charge came in Maupertuis’ 1744 speech to the Paris Academy of Sciences, later published in different versions, entitled Accord Between Different Laws Which at First Seemed Incompatible. It is in this speech that Maupertuis lays claim to one of the most important discoveries in the history of physics and science, The Principle of Least Action. From the date of this speech up until th

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Kelley, Logan. "The Quantum Dialectic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/4.

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A philosophic account of quantum physics. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part I is dedicated to laying the groundwork of quantum physics, and explaining some of the primary difficulties. Subjects of interest will include the principle of locality, the quantum uncertainty principle, and Einstein's criterion for reality. Quantum dilemmas discussed include the double-slit experiment, observations of spin and polarization, EPR, and Bell's theorem. The first part will argue that mathematical-physical descriptions of the world fall short of explaining the experimental observations of qua

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Blomme, Henny. "Kant et la matière de l'espace. Le problème d’une fondation transcendantale de l’expérience extérieure." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040287.

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Le but principal de ce travail est d'offrir une interprétation systématique de la théorie kantienne de l'espace. Face à l’œuvre kantienne, telle interprétation doit tenir compte du fait qu'on y trouve deux genres de propositions. Premièrement celles qui se rapportent à l'espace comme forme du sens externe. Deuxièmement celles qui concernent l'espace conçu comme lui-même un objet de l'expérience. Ce double discours sur l'espace qu'on trouve dans le corpus kantien autorise d'opposer un espace matériel à l'espace comme simple forme. Ainsi, ce travail ne se limite pas à une étude de l'Esthétique t

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Fendik, Erik. "tapestry: towards a newer 'parchitecture, that which is 'pataphysical." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83521.

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How do we design for a local community while respecting heritage and touching their hearts? We know through our minds and we understand through our hearts. Consciousness touches minds and experience touches hearts. Since phenomenology is the study of both consciousness and experience, this phenomenological architectural thesis is designed to touch both minds and hearts. Instead of replacement, we need embracement in order to root one's social identity. Only then we will elevate cultural heritage in any context, for example African. This thesis includes a case study of light followed by a 'p

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Bäcklund, Jimmy Ulf Anti-Krister. "Reciprok egoism, skeptisk empirism och modern fysikalism : Titelförslag på några principer och diskurs kring dessas korrelation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kulturvetenskaper, KVA, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-96930.

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Denna essä är en ontologisk och epistemologisk undersökning av bland annat etiska och medvetandefilosofiska implikationer av en konsekvent fysikalistisk hållning. I detta kontrasteras mot en transcendentalistisk hållning, som den av T. M. Scanlon, den skeptiska empirismen av David Hume, reciprokt baserade moraliska system (e.g. J. L. Mackies självreferentiella altruism) samt en medvetandesyn i linje med Galen Strawsons kriterier för en realistisk fysikalism som i min mening löser alla så kallade psykofysiska problem.<br>This paper contains an ontological and epistemic analysis of the implicati

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Szabó, Györgyi. "Évolution des systèmes complexes : une étude des travaux philosophiques d'Ervin Laszlo, de la théorie des systèmes à la théorie d'un champ universel d'information." Thesis, Paris 5, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA05H011/document.

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Cette thèse est une étude des travaux d’Ervin Laszlo sur cinquante ans. Elle met en valeur ses idées les plus importantes, les événements et les moments charnières de l’évolution de sa pensée qui l’ont conduit à sa position philosophique actuelle ; elle passe en revue les étapes du voyage philosophique de Laszlo à la découverte et vers la compréhension de « la manière dont les choses sont » et de « la manière dont les choses deviennent » en termes d’évolution des systèmes complexes, ainsi que du but et de la signification de la vie humaine<br>A study of fifty years of philosophical work by Erv

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Graziani, Lorenzo. "Un groviglio di mondi. Studio sul pluralismo fisico, metafisico e letterario postmoderno." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/260546.

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The main goal of this PhD dissertation is to explore the relation between postmodern poetics and some features of other theories developed at the same time in various areas of knowledge – mainly metaphysics, physics and sociology. If we can say that the modern paradigm was born with the question of how a multiplicity of different points of view could coexist, the postmodern paradigm seems to arise with the awareness that a systematic legitimation of differences cannot be based on a sole foundation that leads to a complete inclusion. For this reason, we argue that the concept of possible world

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Ehret, Charles. "Agir en vertu d'un autre : Thomas d'Aquin et l'ontologie de l'instrument." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H219.

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Le présent travail est une analyse du concept d’instrument qui en fait apparaître les exigences théoriques et demande si et dans quelle mesure le système de Thomas d’Aquin les remplit. D’abord, on montre que la notion d’instrument telle que Thomas la définit en général et conformément à l’aristotélisme dont il hérite — à savoir, comme un «moteur mû» — est contradictoire, dans la mesure où rien, d’après Thomas, ne peut être à la fois moteur et mû selon le même mouvement. Ensuite, on montre que la notion d’instrument telle que Thomas la redéfinit dans le contexte restreint de sa théologie sacram

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Roques, Magali. "Substance, continuité et discrétion d'après Guillaume d'Ockham." Thesis, Tours, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOUR2004/document.

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Dans ce travail de doctorat, nous avons pour objectif de reconstituer les présupposés et les conséquences de la thèse ockhamiste selon laquelle la quantité n’est pas réellement distincte de la substance ou de la qualité. Cette thèse est formulée dans les écrits philosophiques et théologiques de Guillaume d’Ockham, logicien et théologien anglais du début du XIVe siècle (1285-1349). La thèse est organisée en trois parties. La première partie a pour objet la question de savoir comment s’organise la catégorie de quantité si l’on admet que la quantité n’est pas réellement distincte de la substance

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Decaix, Véronique. "Le mode d'être des objets intentionnels : une étude du rôle constituant de l'intellect chez Thierry de Freiberg." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2028/document.

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Cette thèse traite de la doctrine catégorielle, de l’ontologie et de la théorie de la connaissance de Dietrich de Freiberg dans le De origine rerum praedicamentalium. L’enjeu principal est d’étudier la fonction constitutive que l’intellect opère sur catégories et sur l’étant en tant que tel. La première partie replace le traité dans le contexte historique des débats à l’université de Paris à la fin du XIIIe siècle touchant au statut des catégories et à la manière d’ordonner les genres réels de l’étant. Elle confronte la dérivation essentielle des prédicaments chez Dietrich aux modèles de systé

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Knight, W. "Exploring metaphysical meaning through the construction of physical objects." Thesis, 1996. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20430/7/whole_KnightWard1998.pdf.

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This thesis proposes to give physical form to a metaphysical system which does not reference any specific religion or spiritual philosophy. It achieves this by accessing personal fantasy and dream images, mutated through a primordial urge to create physical objects, rather than any form of analysis, as a means of communion. It is not possible to express such an abstract concept with images that have clearly pre-conceived attachments. However, it is necessary to retain sufficient familiarity to connect with feelings from an unconscious source. The solution to this dilemma has been fo

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Lim, AKJ. "On the studies of space : in physics and metaphysics." Thesis, 2016. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23518/1/Lim_whole_thesis.pdf.

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In this essay, I will discuss and analyse the nature of space from both historical and modern perspectives, as well as from physics and metaphysics perspectives. The argument about the nature of space is usually regarded as the debate between two doctrines, substantivalism and relationalism. Substantivalism is a doctrine positing space, as an independent existence. Whereas, relationalism is a doctrine regarding space as relational and to say that space as an independent existence is redundant and superfluous, as relationalists argue that one can still get to various prominent theories without

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Berenstain, Nora Levine. "Metaphysical dependence : the role of mathematical structure in physical modality." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19832.

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I develop a novel metaphysical theory of the modal structure of the physical world, which has important consequences for debates regarding laws of nature, scientific explanation, the nature of physical properties, and the applicability of mathematics to science. The theory holds that modal properties of the physical world metaphysically depend on properties of mathematical structures. I show that the relation of metaphysical dependence is naturalistically acceptable by offering examples of non-causal scientific explanation that tacitly make use of such a notion. My view offers a non-Humean und

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Ekeberg, Bjorn. "The Metaphysics Experiment: modern physics and the politics of nature." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3024.

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The Metaphysics Experiment attempts to explicate a theory and history of universalism in modern physics, through an analysis of its conception of nature. Understood as an axiomatic and hegemonic metaphysical premise through four hundred years of scientific and political history, universalism is defined in terms of its general and persistent claim to nature or truth as an ahistorical reality. Thus, I argue that universalism is directly implicated in, not opposed to, the (Christian) monotheistic conception of God. Moreover, universalism constitutes the logic according to which nature is differen

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Paul, Robert Alan. "The Philosophy and Physics of Relationality and Inherent Nature: ??nyat? and Svabh?va in Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy, Western Analytic Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science and Physics." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21733.

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Proponents of Middle Way (Sanskrit: Madhyamaka) Buddhist philosophy argue that all phenomena lack inherent nature. This dissertation provides an analysis of the meaning of inherent nature and the lack of inherent nature in the basic physical character of non-living physical phenomena as indicated by certain interpretations of ancient and contemporary Middle Way Buddhist philosophy, contemporary Western analytic metaphysics, philosophy of science, and physics. The primary intellectual focus in the dissertation is Madhyamaka. I explicate an interpretation of Madhyamaka that is both amenable to d

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Kwan, Alistair Marcus. "Aristotle on his three elements: a reading of Aristotle's own doctrine." 1999. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2858.

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In light of the long-lived, on-going debate surrounding the Aristotelian doctrines of prime matter and the four simple bodies (or 'elements'), the general message of this thesis is surprising: that Aristotle's theory is centred on neither. I argue that Aristotle does in fact have a substantial prime matter, but not the single, featureless, immutable prime matter of tradition.<br>More particularly, the thesis defends three main points:<br>Firstly, Aristotle’s discussion of pre-Socratic and Plato’s philosophies of nature reveals a commitment to finding elements in the sense of the most fundament

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Chen, Ruo-Ling, and 陳若苓. "A Book Review on Mark C. van Tongeren’s Overtone Singing: Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6c6f3p.

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碩士<br>國立臺北藝術大學<br>傳統音樂學系碩士班理論組<br>101<br>Overtone Singing, written by Mark C. van Tongeren and published in 2002, is an interdisciplinary book. It contains seven chapters organized into five parts. The book starts from the physics of overtone singing, and introduces the practice of overtone singing in the East and West, and then explores the spiritual realm in overtone singing; finally, the author winds up his book with the concept of the fifth element. Knowledge Tongeren draws on in this book ranges widely over music, acoustics, cognition, physics, psychology, metaphysics and so on. Tongeren’

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Wiener, Chad. "Final cause as the unity of sensible ousia the compatibility of Aristotle's metaphysical and physical definitions of a living being /." 2008. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/wiener%5Fchad%5Fe%5F200805%5Fphd.

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Hay, Anne Persida. "Physical and metaphysical zones of transition : comparative themes in Hittite and Greek Karst landscapes in the Late Bronze and Early Iron ages." Diss., 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27463.

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English, Afrikaans and Zulu summaries<br>While there is increasing interest in the effect of landscape on ancient imagination, less attention has been paid to the impact of restless karst hydrology on ancient beliefs. By identifying shared themes, this study compares and contrasts the way Hittites and Aegean people in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages reshaped peripheral karst landscapes into physical and imagined transitional zones. Karst geology underpins much of the Aegean and Anatolian landscape, allowing subterranean zones to be visible and accessible above ground via caves, sprin

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Venturinha, Inês Daniela Ferreira Salgueiro da Silva da Costa. "O carácter sintético da racionalidade prática em Kant." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/76948.

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This dissertation examines the impact of the problem of causality on Kant’s moral philosophy, more specifically the influence of Hume on Kant's view of free will. As is well known, Kant considers that Hume was responsible for awaking him from his “dogmatic slumber” (Prolegomena, A 13). In An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Hume seeks to examine the cognitive structure of human mind, stressing the existence of two fundamental kinds of knowledge: “matters of fact” and “relations of ideas”. While the latter consist of necessary truths, “matters of fact” correspond to contingent truths. Th

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Blais-Mailloux, Renaud. "Métaphysique et physique de la causalité chez Descartes." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21598.

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Ayxela, Frigola Carlos. "Phronesis and Energeia : a reading of Heidegger's early appropriation of Aristotelian Phronesis (1922-24) in the light of Energeia." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5243.

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L’objectif de cette thèse est d’élucider l’intention, la pertinence et la cohérence de l’appropriation par Heidegger des concepts principaux de la philosophie pratique aristotélicienne dans ses premiers cours. Notre analyse portera principalement sur les notions clefs d’energeia et de phronēsis. La première section de la thèse est préparatoire : elle est consacrée à une analyse étroite des textes pertinents de l’Éthique à Nicomaque, mais aussi de la Métaphysique, en discussion avec d’autres commentateurs modernes. Cette analyse jette les fondations philologiques nécessaires en vue d’aborder le

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van, Rysewyk SP. "Pain is mechanism." Thesis, 2013. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/16767/2/whole_excl-images-vanrysewyk-thesis-2013.pdf.

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The mind-body problem is the problem: what is the relationship between mind and body? In this project, I claim that the relationship between the experience of pain and specific physiological mechanisms is best understood as one of type identity. Specifically, the personal experience of pain is an allostatic stress mechanism comprised of interdependent nervous, endocrine and immune operations. In Chapter One, I provide five reasons to prefer type identity theory of mind to dualistic philosophies of mind: it has greater explanatory power; it is more respectful of philosophical and folk intuitio

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