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Philosophies, Volume 10, Issue 5

2025 October - 21 articles

Cover Story: The outstanding problem for common origin inferences (“COIs”) is to understand why they succeed when they do, and why they fail when they do. The material theory of induction provides a solution: COIs are warranted by background facts. Whether a COI succeeds or fails depends on the truth of its warranting propositions. The application of the material theory of induction to COIs is illustrated with examples from matter theory, Newton’s Principia, Copernican astronomy and relativity theory. View this paper
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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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20 Pages

What is a plant? A photosynthesizing organism, molecule, commodity, songs, images, oniric experience, spirit…Indigenous perspectives show that plants cannot be thought of without the relationships that constitute them. We contextualize our ref...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,298 Views
9 Pages

This contribution provides an overview of clinical ethics, examining the evolution of the field and its philosophical foundations. The evolution from the mid-1970s to the present day highlights clinical ethics as an interdisciplinary field where expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,659 Views
11 Pages

Many scholars believe that the Yi Jing 易經 (the Book of Changes) and traditional Chinese medicine share common mathematical principles, which are both predicated on the ontological of qi 氣 and the cosmological of correlative betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,644 Views
26 Pages

One of the greatest quests in physics in current times is the search for a grand unified theory—to bring all the forces of nature into one coherent explanatory framework. Despite two centuries of progress, both in comprehending the individual f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,161 Views
16 Pages

In this paper, we analyze the concept of need that we find in the foundation of Carl Menger’s value theory to then confront it with such heterogeneous philosophical theories as Ludwig Feuerbach’s dialectic of feelings, Arnold Gehlen&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,339 Views
19 Pages

Albert the Great on Soul: Some Hermeneutical Issues

  • Henryk Anzulewicz and
  • Athanasios Rinotas

Aristotle’s theory of soul was a hot topic in the Late Middle Ages and it sparked a great series of debates with serious theological and philosophical implications. The medieval commentators of Aristotle played a crucial role in the disseminati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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9 Pages

In this paper, we revisit Kant’s conception of political freedom and draw a connection to the concept of freedom presented in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals—a practical concept of freedom that is immediately grounded in the t...

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Philosophies - ISSN 2409-9287