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Globalization as a coming-together of humanity requires an open-ended dialogue about philosophical and religious fundamentals. Have the Western philosophers who have turned to the East worked out any useful conceptual resources? I assess Roy Bhaskar's Ea

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It is argued that the universe as. a whole is not tractable as physical system. Since, as Mach stated, physical notions referring to the universe as a whole have no tangible sense because they imply applications of measurement notions to an object that is

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I survey in this article the practical uses of computers in philosophy: except for logic, computers have not yet noticeably improved the quality of philosophizing, research, or pedagogy. They have made work easier. My main interest, however, is in the 's

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In his later philosophy, Wittgenstein unlike Russell offers no theories, because he believes that philosophical theories are never explanatory. They try to imitate scientific theories, but they lack the empirical basis that gives science its explanatory p

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I present and argue for two theses: the first concerns the degree to which Chaadaev's thought represents a breakthrough in the development of Russian social philosophy and the second concerns the Hegelian character of this thinking. I also show that Chaa

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This study extends previous research in ethical decision-making in marketing. Using Hunt and Vitell's [J Macromark 6 (1986) 5] model, perceived risk is operationalized as the result of insufficient time and information for decision-making where substanti

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For most of the past century, philosophers on the Continent and those in the Untied States and Britain have taken themselves to be working in very different, even mutually exclusive, philosophical traditions. Although that may have been true until recentl

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The predominant philosophy underlying most environmental modelling is a form of pragmatic realism. The limitations of this approach in practical applications are discussed, in particular, in relation to questions of scale, nonlinearity and uniqueness of p

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It has recently been suggested that, for Leibniz, temporal facts globally supervene on causal facts, with the result that worlds differing with respect to their causal facts can be indiscernible with respect to their temporal facts. Such an interpretation

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Does what guides a pastry chef stand on par, from the standpoint of contemporary computer science, with what guides a supercomputer? Did Betty Crocker, when telling us how to bake a cake, provide an effective procedure, in the sense of `effective' used i

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In this paper I seek to shed some light on Heidegger's conception of phenomenology, and on the relationship between Heidegger's conception and that of Husserl. In particular, I am concerned to elucidate the sense in which Heidegger's phenomenology can

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Philosophical modeling has a long and distinguished history, but the computer offers new and powerful prospects for the creation and manipulation of models. It seems inevitable that the computer will become a major tool in future philosophical research. H