Hasil untuk "Metaphysics"

Mark P. Fusco

Achille C. Varzi

Bettina Bergo

Matthew Minerd

Yu. S. Vladimirov

The article was written in connection with the 120th anniversary of the birth of Professor D.D. Ivanenko, the 30th anniversary of his death and the 80th anniversary of the founding of his seminar on theoretical physics at the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The article outlines Ivanenko’s significant contribution to the development of key areas of fundamental physics of the twentieth century: nuclear physics, quantum theory and general relativity. In addition, his contribution to the organization of scientific activity in these areas in the form of all-Union conferences, symposia, gravity sections and permanent seminars is shown.

V. V. Paraev

The word “evolution” is often used as a term of free use or without proper justification even in the scientific literature (as a fashionable decoration), which leads to annoying misunderstandings. From a scientific standpoint, the concept of “evolution” in a generalized form means irreversible and (to a certain extent) directed development. Due to the universal connection of natural phenomena, the solution to the question of the driving forces of evolution, their mechanism, should be sought in the plane of the close relationship of the fundamental relations of unity in the series “Earth - Solar system - Cosmos”. All the objects of this grandiose system (“small” and “large”) are interconnected by an indirect unity of functionality. The total effect of all types of radiation, force fields and energies circulating between space objects (like the universal ocean of mutual influences) is a single field of energy-informational exchange, which is also identified with the action of “World Energy”.

Christopher Frugé

Abstract This chapter develops a style of argument that realists can use to defend the methodological propriety of appealing to a given range of intuitions. Unbunking arguments are an epistemically positive analogue of debunking arguments, and they revolve around the claim that the processes dominantly responsible for beliefs about a given domain are reliable. However, processes cannot always be assessed for accuracy with respect to the relevant domain, so this chapter also develops the cross-domain strategy, which involves arguing that processes known to be reliable in one domain are similarly reliable with respect to a different domain. The chapter ends by unbunking our metaphysical intuitions about mutual supervenience by way of a cross-domain strategy that draws on cognitive scientific research into our ability to track correlations.

James H. Nichols

W. Clark Wolf

Owen Goldin

Michael Barker

Alain Badiou

Nora Hämäläinen

Jenny E. Pelletier

Walter E. Wehrle