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Yo'ldoshev, Azizbek, Jonibek Norboy oʻgʻli Hasanov, and Sanjar Zafarjon oghly Jurakulov. "ON THE RELATION OF METAPHYSICS TO PHYSICS." GOLDEN BRAIN 2, no. 1 (2024): 501–16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10465616.

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<em>Ignoring a crucial nuance in using the concept of metaphysics is "Does physics come first or metaphysics?" It makes it difficult to answer the question. The nuance under consideration is related to the "two-sided" structure of metaphysics. Metaphysics as a science refers to two types of phenomena with the existence of metaphysical principles - things that cannot be entered into concepts, closed to interpretation, and things that are realized through experience. From this point of view, it can be said that every society, regardless of the level of civilization, has some metaphysical princip

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Yo'ldoshev, Azizbek, Jonibek Norboy oʻgʻli Hasanov, and Sanjar Zafarjon oʻgʻli Jurakulov. "ON THE RELATION OF METAPHYSICS TO PHYSICS." GOLDEN BRAIN 2, no. 1 (2024): 472–86. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10466581.

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<em>Ignoring a crucial nuance in using the concept of metaphysics is "Does physics come first or metaphysics?" It makes it difficult to answer the question. The nuance under consideration is related to the "two-sided" structure of metaphysics. Metaphysics as a science refers to two types of phenomena with the existence of metaphysical principles - things that cannot be entered into concepts, closed to interpretation, and things that are realized through experience. From this point of view, it can be said that every society, regardless of the level of civilization, has some metaphysical princip

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Sekundant, Sergii. "Leibniz's Logic and Metaphysics Article 2." Sententiae 12, no. 1 (2005): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31649/sent12.01.039.

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Leibniz sought to solve the metaphysical problem of reality, avoiding ontological premises. His intensional method was aimed at the logical solution of the problem, preserving the objectivity and unobstructed metaphysical research. Metaphysics can provide a certain level of coherence to the phenomena of physics and make them more real. Leibniz was convinced that physics, for its part, should be grounded in metaphysical principles. This promotes a reciprocal relationship between physics and metaphysics, where metaphysical principles derive their reality from physical principles, and the two fie

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Tounsi, Mohammad. "metaphysics of physics: When the boundaries of science and metaphysics intertwine." International journal of health sciences 8, S1 (2024): 515–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v8ns1.14846.

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The evolution of contemporary physics proved that science cannot abandon metaphysics, there is evidence that there are theories that engage in metaphysical topics or offer metaphysical solutions to scientific problems, there were many concepts and theories that were not based on experience because of the difficulty of testing them. This is the result of the great theoretical progress achieved in physical research, The evolution of contemporary physics has shown that the Positivism call for excluding metaphysics from science cannot be achieved, Metaphysics is found in the principles of science

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Samraj, Tennyson. "Metaphysics: Intelligible Questions and the Explicable World of Intentionality." Athens Journal of Philosophy 1, no. 4 (2022): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajphil.1-4-3.

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Metaphysics deals with the intelligible world of questions and the explicable world of intentionality. Metaphysics is explicable, and its explicability is connected to questions related to what there is to know about the nature of reality. While physics deals with what is and what else there is, metaphysics deals with the nature of reality and what else there is to know about the nature of reality. If the content of metaphysics is considered as "answers" to questions related to cosmology and consciousness, then metaphysical claims must be understood in the context of the questions that necessi

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Alfonso Leon Guillen Gomez. "Gravity, Metaphysics or Physics?" International Journal of Fundamental Physical Sciences 3, no. 4 (2013): 68–74. https://doi.org/10.14331/ijfps.2013.330058.

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Gravity is the foundation of the current physical paradigm. Due to that gravity is strongly linked to the curvature of space-time, we research that it lacks of a valid physical concept of space-time, nevertheless that from the science philosophy, via substantivalism, it has tried respond. We found that is due to that the gnoseological process applied from the general relativity, necessarily us leads to metaphysic because ontologically space-time is a metaphysical entity. Thus, we arrive to the super substantivalism that from metaphysics gives an answer on space-time rigorously exact with the v

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Joy, Lynn S., and Daniel Garber. "Descartes' Metaphysical Physics." Philosophical Review 103, no. 1 (1994): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2185890.

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Rozemond, Marleen. "Descartes' metaphysical physics." History of European Ideas 21, no. 2 (1995): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(95)90537-5.

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Ross, Don. "A Flexible, Sloppy Blob?" American Philosophical Quarterly 60, no. 1 (2023): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21521123.60.1.02.

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Abstract Ladyman and Ross argue that analytic metaphysics is a misguided enterprise that should give way to a naturalized metaphysics that aims to reconcile everyday and special-scientific ontologies with fundamental physics as the authoritative source of knowledge on the general structure of the universe. Le Bihan and Barton (argue, as against this, that analytic metaphysics remains useful as a basis for the body of work in AI known as “applied ontology.” They stop short of claiming, however, that analytic metaphysics is useful as metaphysics. I consider a basis for making the stronger claim:

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Vladimirov, Yuri S. "The Principles of Metaphysics as the Foundations of Physics." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 7 (2023): 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2023-7-69-81.

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The author’s generation was taught a negative attitude towards metaphysics, which was interpreted as an idealistic, outdated, even harmful teaching. At present, the attitude towards metaphysics is changing significantly. Moreover, the modern development of fundamental physics forces metaphysics to return a key role in the understanding of the world. The article presents arguments indicating the relevance of the revision of ideas about the foundations of fundamental physics. The solution to this problem corresponds to a topic that has long been attributed to metaphysics. Nowadays there is li

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Ross, Don, and David Spurrett. "What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, no. 5 (2004): 603–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04000147.

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A wave of recent work in metaphysics seeks to undermine the anti-reductionist, functionalist consensus of the past few decades in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. That consensus apparently legitimated a focus on what systems do, without necessarily and always requiring attention to the details of how systems are constituted. The new metaphysical challenge contends that many states and processes referred to by functionalist cognitive scientists are epiphenomenal. It further contends that the problem lies in functionalism itself, and that, to save the causal significance of mind, it is

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Van de Pitte, Frederick P. "Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (review)." Journal of the History of Philosophy 32, no. 1 (1994): 137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hph.1994.0016.

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Covoni, Niccolò, Alberto Corti, and Vincenzo Fano. "A Model-based Form of Naturalised Metaphysics." Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80, no. 4 (2024): 783–818. https://doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2024_80_4_0783.

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The paper addresses the main meta-metaphysical question, i.e., whether it is possible to do metaphysics and, in the case of an affirmative answer, how should we do it? With such an aim in mind, we sketch the broad context in which these meta-metaphysical questions arose in the philosophical literature (§ 1); then, we present what we take to be the three most widespread conceptions of metaphysics that are available in the analytic tradition: the neo-Quinean (§ 2), metaphysics as the science of possibilities (§ 3) and metaphysics as the study of the fundamental structures of reality (§ 4). We cr

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Romero, Carlos. "The Metaphysical Foundations of Physics." Crítica (México D. F. En línea) 53, no. 159 (2021): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2021.1291.

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Ladyman, James. "Does Physics Answer Metaphysical Questions?" Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 61 (September 2007): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100009796.

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According to logical positivism, so the story goes, metaphysical questions are meaningless, since they do not admit of empirical confirmation or refutation. However, the logical positivists did not in fact reject as meaningless all questions about for example, the structure of space and time. Rather, key figures such as Reichenbach and Schlick believed that scientific theories often presupposed a conceptual framework that was not itself empirically testable, but which was required for the theory as a whole to be empirically testable. For example, the theory of Special Relativity relies upon th

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Ladyman, James. "Does Physics Answer Metaphysical Questions?" Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 61 (October 2007): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246107000197.

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According to logical positivism, so the story goes, metaphysical questions are meaningless, since they do not admit of empirical confirmation or refutation. However, the logical positivists did not in fact reject as meaningless all questions about for example, the structure of space and time. Rather, key figures such as Reichenbach and Schlick believed that scientific theories often presupposed a conceptual framework that was not itself empirically testable, but which was required for the theory as a whole to be empirically testable. For example, the theory of Special Relativity relies upon th

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PERLER, DOMINIK. "Daniel Garber, Descartes' Metaphysical Physics." Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (AZP) 19, no. 2 (1994): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0340-7969-1994-2-95.

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Kakkuri-Knuuttila, Marja-Liisa. "A Neo-Aristotelian Approach to a Unified Theory of Physics." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2948, no. 1 (2025): 012006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2948/1/012006.

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Abstract The core task of this paper is to demonstrate the heuristic merits of the Aristotelian philosophy of science as compared with the strict empiricism in constructing and justifying a unified theory of physics. The impetus for the study was the question of whether the success of the Dynamic Universe (DU) theory as a candidate for such a unification could be explained by energy as its basic notion (Suntola, T. 2018a, 2018b, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024), while the other unificatory attempts (string theories, inflation theory, and loop quantum gravity), all based on the notion of force, appear t

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Pecere, Paolo. "Monads, Solidity and the Metaphysics of Bodies." Kant-Studien 116, no. 2 (2025): 208–29. https://doi.org/10.1515/kant-2025-2014.

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Abstract In this paper I argue that Kant’s investigation of the nature of bodies, although it was largely based on Newtonian science, was more dependent on notions and debates in German logic and metaphysics. In section 1, I introduce the role of material substance in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, arguing that the systematic framework of Kant’s “metaphysics of corporeal nature” cannot be described as a “foundation of Newtonian philosophy” and is best understood in the context of the reception of Newton’s physics in Wolffian metaphysics. In section 2, I analyze the crucial ro

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Oz, Zekiye. "RAMAZAN BİÇER & EDA ALEMDAR, QUANTUM DIMENSIONAL INTELLIGENCE, İSTANBUL: HAYYKİTAP YAYINLARI, 2023, s.277." International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinaries: Social Science 4, no. 1 (2025): 5. https://doi.org/10.54938/ijemdss.2025.04.1.393.

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While the theory of relativity is considered to be the most important theory of modern physics concerning the macro realm, the most important theory concerning the micro realm is quantum theory. Quantum physics, which is also the subject of discussion in theology in the context of religion-science relationship, is important in terms of understanding the issues related to the metaphysical realm. This study examines whether it is possible to construct a quantum theology and reveals that a new paradigm is needed in the context of the relationship between physics and metaphysics. In this respect,

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Teixeira, William De Jesus. "THE METAPHYSICS OF AUGUSTINE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE CARTESIAN SCIENCE." Cadernos Espinosanos, no. 37 (December 28, 2017): 291–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2017.137402.

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The aim of this paper is to show to what extent Descartes can be situated within the Augustinian metaphysical tradition and to what extent he has departed from it. To this end, we will argue that Descartes has borrowed his main Meditations’ arguments from Augustine’s philosophy. However, in spite of all factual and textual evidence we will provide against the originality of Descartes’ metaphysical discussions, it will be stressed, on the other hand, that in borrowing not only the cogito argument, but also some general features of his philosophy from Augustine’s works, Descartes intends to fram

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Kulieshov, Aleksandr. "Qualitative Physics in a Metaphysical Perspective." Path of Science 5, no. 3 (2019): 1010–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22178/pos.44-5.

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Wittbecker, Alan. "Metaphysical Implications from Physics and Ecology." Environmental Ethics 12, no. 3 (1990): 275–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics199012313.

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Gale, George. "Some Metaphysical Perplexities in Contemporary Physics." International Philosophical Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1986): 393–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq198626431.

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DRAY, J. P. "Review. Descartes' Metaphysical Physics. Garber, Daniel." French Studies 50, no. 4 (1996): 448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/50.4.448.

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Wilson, Alastair. "Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics." Philosophy of Science 88, no. 5 (2021): 1113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031824800047255.

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This article explores three ways in which physics may involve counterpossible reasoning. The first way arises when evaluating false theories: to say what the world would be like if the theory were true, we need to evaluate counterfactuals with physically impossible antecedents. The second way relates to the role of counterfactuals in characterizing causal structure: to say what causes what in physics, we need to make reference to physically impossible scenarios. The third way is novel: to model metaphysical dependence in physics, we need to consider counterfactual consequences of metaphysical

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Rush, Penelope. "Metaphysical Optimism." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 82 (July 2018): 365–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246118000152.

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AbstractThis paper seeks to identify and defend an approach to inquiry dubbed ‘metaphysical optimism’, particularly as it is evidenced at crisis points in the fields of physics, mathematics and logic. That the practice of metaphysical optimism at such moments, wherein it has appeared that there is no clear way to proceed or understand where we have arrived, is both reasonable and useful suggests it is to be taken seriously as capable of progressing fields and increasing knowledge. Given this, the paper then looks in more depth at what such an approach involves and why it might be useful both a

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Cooper, John M. "Metaphysics in Aristotle's Embryology." Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 34 (1988): 14–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500005022.

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Traditionally, discussion of Aristotle's metaphysics, including his theory of form and the ‘what it is to be’ any given substantial object, has dealt extensively with relevant texts in the Categories, Physics, De anima and, of course, the Metaphysics itself. But the biological works have been largely neglected as sources for knowledge about and insight into Aristotle's theory. This seems to me unfortunate. In his biological works Aristotle invokes the form of an animal constantly and in interesting physical and, one would have said, metaphysical detail, as the explanation for much, and that th

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Snitko, D. Y. "METAPHISICAL BACKGROUND OF TECHNOLOGY." Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 10 (December 22, 2016): 90–99. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i10.87309.

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<strong>Purpose</strong> of the article is to clarify the nature of the connection of philosophy of both metaphysics and science-technical knowledge, the technology itself. To study the problem of relations between scientific and technical thinking, and metaphysics the author tries to clarify the nature of the scientific and technical thinking, analyze the appropriateness of instrumental or ontological approaches for understanding technology and its metaphysical foundations. <strong>Methodology</strong> of this work consists of such intellectual approaches as the phenomenologica

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Lawal, Ademola Lukman. "Interface Between Metaphysics and Science." Àgídìgbo: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities 12, no. 2 (2024): 634–44. https://doi.org/10.53982/agidigbo.2024.1202.44-j.

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The interface between metaphysics and science refers to the close-knit relationship between Metaphysics as First Philosophy and science. The first conception of metaphysics by Aristotle makes its appearance after Physics. The issue at hand borders on the lacuna between metaphysics and science, on the first hand, and on the interconnectedness of the metaphysics, and by extension the whole of philosophy, and the sciences of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Engineering. We must underscore the view that Metaphysics investigates into the ground and foundation of all regularities and irregularities i

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Vladimirov, Yu S. "METAPHYSICAL TRINITY OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY." Metaphysics, no. 2 (December 15, 2023): 8–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2224-7580-2023-2-8-22.

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The article, firstly, draws attention to the need to develop new foundations of fundamental physics, secondly, it is noted that this must be done within the framework of the relational paradigm, and thirdly, this should be done on the basis of the metaphysical principles underlying the three inextricably linked with each other sections of science (physics, mathematics and philosophy) and, fourthly, the necessary mathematical apparatus suitable for this purpose is the theory of binary systems of complex relations. It is shown that this apparatus implements key metaphysical principles.

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Folse, Henry J. "Metaphysical Awakening in Philosophy of Quantum Physics." International Studies in Philosophy 23, no. 1 (1991): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil19912317.

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Choi, Lee-sun. "Descartes’s Metaphysical Physics: Space, Substance, and Extension." Journal of Korean Philosophical Society 150 (May 31, 2019): 313–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.20293/jokps.2019.150.313.

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Adair-Toteff, Christopher. "Max Weber and the End of the ‘Metaphysics of State’." Histories 2, no. 3 (2022): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/histories2030015.

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Max Weber ended the metaphysics of the state just as Nietzsche had ended the meta-physics of being. However, Weber was building on the theories of the historian Heinrich von Treitschke and the constitutional scholar Georg Jellinek. Weber replaced Jellinek’s legal formalism and Treitschke’s nationalism with a new type of politics. This was the politics of responsibility, which eliminated the metaphysical concept of the state and was replaced by a dynamic approach to legitimate political leadership.

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Wade, Max. "Formless Matter in Gersonides’ Cosmology." History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 26, no. 1 (2023): 79–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/26664275-bja10068.

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Abstract Gersonides has at times been viewed as an essentially orthodox Aristotelian in his metaphysical views. This designation, however, has been challenged on a number of grounds. This paper examines the way in which Gersonides revises the traditional conception of hylomorphism by positing that matter can exist without form. Motivated by a desire to reconcile Aristotelian natural philosophy with the Ptolemaic astronomical model, formless matter is seen as a necessary entity to posit in order for his cosmological model to be coherent. By allowing for this exception case, Gersonides turns hyl

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Vizgin, Vl P. "METAPHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE STANDARD MODEL OF THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES PHYSICS AND THE HISTORY OF ITS CREATION." Metafizika, no. 3 (December 15, 2020): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2224-7580-2020-3-39-56.

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Metaphysical aspects of the standard model (SM) of the modern elementary particles theory are considered. This article briefly views a history of the formation of the SM (from fundamental paper of C. Yang and R. Mills (1954) to the completion of electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics in the early 1970s). Three groups of the interrelated metaphysical aspects are discussed: local gauge symmetry’s structure of the theory, problem of the truth and reality and the role of the metaphysical factors in the construction of the theory. Scientific-realistic nature of the SM creator’s metaphysical

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Meyer, Stephen C. "The Return of the God Hypothesis." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 11, no. 1 (1999): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis1999111/21.

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Historian of science Frederic Bumham has stated that the "God hypothesis" is now more respectable hypothesis than at any time in the last one hundred years. This essay explores recent evidence from cosmology, physics, and biology, which provides epistemoiogical support, though not proof, for belief in God as conceived by a theistic worldview. It develops a notion of epistemoiogical support based upon explanatory power, rather than just deductive entailment. It also evaluates the explanatory power of theism and its main metaphysical competitors with respect to several classes of scientific evid

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Falkenburg, Brigitte. "Edgar Wind on Experiment and Metaphysics." Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 2, no. 1 (2021): 21–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtph-2020-0038.

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Abstract The paper presents a detailed interpretation of Edgar Wind’s Experiment and Metaphysics (1934), a unique work on the philosophy of physics which broke with the Neo-Kantian tradition under the influence of American pragmatism. Taking up Cassirer’s interpretation of physics, Wind develops a holistic theory of the experiment and a constructivist account of empirical facts. Based on the concept of embodiment which plays a key role in Wind’s later writings on art history, he argues, however, that the outcomes of measurements are contingent. He then proposes an anti-Kantian conception of a

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MCDERMID, KIRK. "Miracles: metaphysics, physics, and physicalism." Religious Studies 44, no. 2 (2008): 125–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412507009262.

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AbstractDebates about the metaphysical compatibility between miracles and natural laws often appear to prejudge the issue by either adopting or rejecting a strong physicalist thesis (the idea that the physical is all that exists). The operative component of physicalism is a causal closure principle: that every caused event is a physically caused event. If physicalism and this strong causal closure principle are accepted, then supernatural interventions are ruled out tout court, while rejecting physicalism gives miracles metaphysical carte blanche. This paper argues for a more moderate version

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Athearn, Daniel. "Physics and Whitehead: An Alternative Approach." Process Studies 40, no. 1 (2011): 80–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44799118.

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Abstract While efforts to frame a Whiteheadian response to problems of quantum interpretation have looked primarily to the later metaphysical writings, a powerful potential in this regard is contained in the ideas of the philosophy of nature period.

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Le Bihan, Baptiste. "Space Emergence in Contemporary Physics: Why We Do Not Need Fundamentality, Layers of Reality and Emergence." Disputatio 10, no. 49 (2018): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0004.

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Abstract ‘Space does not exist fundamentally: it emerges from a more fundamental non-spatial structure.’ This intriguing claim appears in various research programs in contemporary physics. Philosophers of physics tend to believe that this claim entails either that spacetime does not exist, or that it is derivatively real. In this article, I introduce and defend a third metaphysical interpretation of the claim: reductionism about space. I argue that, as a result, there is no need to subscribe to fundamentality, layers of reality and emergence in order to analyse the constitution of space by non

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Knyazev, V. N. "ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF METAPHYSICS IN THE HISTORY OF CULTURE." Metaphysics, no. 3 (December 15, 2021): 128–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2224-7580-2021-3-128-141.

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The article examines the evolution of the concept of “metaphysics” in the history of culture. Metaphysics as the “first philosophy” of Aristotle has gone through a historically variable path as a consequence of the pluralistic nature of the very nature of philosophical knowledge. Solidarizing in the main thing - metaphysics is an understanding of the fundamental, fundamental principles of being - each independently thinking philosopher takes as a basis as principles different understandings of substances and its attributes. Questions of the relationship between the concepts of “metaphysics” an

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Edge, Hoyt. "The use of physics in answering metaphysical questions." Journal of Near-Death Studies 6, no. 2 (1987): 122–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01073399.

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van Brakel, J. "Chemistry and physics: no need for metaphysical glue." Foundations of Chemistry 12, no. 2 (2010): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10698-010-9084-7.

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Burov, A. V., L. A. Burov, and I. A. Rybakova. "METAPHYSICAL STATUS OF PHYSICAL LAWS." Metaphysics, no. 2 (December 15, 2023): 142–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2224-7580-2023-2-142-153.

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The creators of physics sought to construct it like Euclidean geometry, where a few mathematically formulated axioms, laws, opens the possibility of an unlimited number of theorems, conclusions concerning specific situations, verified by special observations, experiments. The idea of this program of cognition, not necessarily quite consciously, arose from what may be called Biblical Platonism, a synthesis of the Pythagorean-Platonism of antiquity and Biblical cosmism. Explicitly or not, this program implied the following properties of the laws, the atemporal logical structure of the universe:

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Bondi, Damiano. "Humility and Realism in Quantum Physics and Metaphysics." Religions 15, no. 6 (2024): 670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15060670.

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The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the main philosophical and metaphysical implications of quantum physics, especially those which concern the issues of epistemic humility and ontological realism. My thesis is that the impossibility of reaching an objective knowledge of nature does not imply the renunciation of ontological realism, but rather encourages scientists to adopt an attitude of epistemic humility. The argument firstly presents the main theories of quantum physics currently discussed, focusing on the measurement problem and its ontological implications. Afterwords, the issues

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Rahman, Md. "Unseen Realms: Quantum Physics as Evidence for the Existence of Jinn." International Journal of Philosophy 13, no. 2 (2025): 59–64. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijp.20251302.12.

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The concept of jinn has existed for centuries in various religious and cultural traditions, particularly in Islamic belief. Despite their metaphysical nature, modern scientific advancements—especially in quantum physics—open new possibilities for understanding and interpreting these beings. This paper explores the relationship between quantum mechanics and the existence of jinn. It delves into the parallels between quantum phenomena and metaphysical concepts, investigating whether quantum theory can provide a scientific basis for the existence of jinn. The study also highlights the possible di

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Erdem, Engin. "The Place of God in Metaphysics: A Short Analysis of Ibn Sīnā’s Critique of Aristotle." Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 17, no. 1 (2022): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1895-8001.17.1.4.

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This article deals with Ibn Sīnā’s criticisms of Aristotle regarding what the place of God should be in the science of metaphysics. From Aristotle’s point of view, the existence of God is proved by the proof of motion in physics and is held as a subject matter in a science that comes after physics, which is metaphysics. According to him, metaphysics is the most sublime science because God is its subject matter. The most striking criticism against Aristotle’s conception of metaphysics was put forward by Ibn Sīnā. From Ibn Sīnā’s point of view, the most important problem encountered in Aristotle

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Slavov, Matias. "A PROBLEM IN DU CHÂTELET’S METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS." History of Philosophy Quarterly 37, no. 1 (2020): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/48595159.

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Abstract To provide metaphysical grounds for the physics of her time, Du Châtelet argued for the notion of an active force. This was different from the impressed force in Newton’s second law. The former force was a property of a body, whereas the latter was an external cause. I shall study this discrepancy and argue that the interactive concept of force in Newton’s third law is consistent with Du Châtelet’s standards for an intelligible physics. Consequently, the interaction entailed by the law of universal gravitation complies with Du Châtelet’s principles of human knowledge.

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Christofidou, Andrea. "God, Physicalism, and the Totality of Facts." Philosophy 82, no. 4 (2007): 515–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819107000137.

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AbstractThe paper offers a general critique of physicalism and of one variety of nonphysicalism, arguing that such theses are untenable. By distinguishing between the absolute conception of reality and the causal completeness of physics it shows that the ‘explanatory gap’ is not merely epistemic but metaphysical. It defends the essential subjectivity and unity of consciousness and its inseparability from a self-conscious autonomous rational and moral being. Casting a favourable light on dualism freed from misconceptions, it suggests that the only plausible way forward in the search for an unde

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