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Emmanuel Ofuasia

Ramesh Chandra Pradhan

Kurt Lampe

Paul Tappenden

Tridip Patir

Abstract The work carried forward by this paper is simply to spotlight the said prospect of certain Metaphysical presuppositions in Science. This paper takes recourse to the Aristotelian idea of Metaphysics as the first philosophy, redirecting to two conceptions of the ubiquity of Metaphysics in Science, first by Claudia Ribeiro, and the second by Anjan Chakravartty. The paper will then state that in a Metaphysical Spectrum, science and all other types of Empirical Knowledge are simply at their base, Metaphysical theorising. Science is not simply a posteriori content, but it also contains a priori dimensions, which are substantiated in the course of this essay. Finally, the prospect of a naturalisation of metaphysics to save it from scientific underdetermination will be analysed.

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.

Chad Engelland

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”.

Andree Hahmann, Michael Vazquez

James Filler

James H. Nichols

W. Clark Wolf

Aristotle

Michael Barker

Eric Goodfield

Cláudia RIBEIRO

Alain Badiou

Jenny E. Pelletier

Abstract Green's metaphysics is essential for the understanding and defence of his ethics and his political theory. As such it must seem to be problematic, for he concedes that ‘no proof’ in the ‘ordinary sense’ is forthcoming for his propositions. There is a reasonable demonstration, and his admission is not damning if one understands that he offers an account of experience within which the activity of agent plays a part which not only cannot be analysed away but which is the condition for making that experience intelligible. His account of experience grows out of his critique of Hume's account of relations and draws on Kant's notion that the ordering of experience cannot be simply ascribed to external objects. At a theoretical level, he wants to correct what he takes to be the deficiencies in Hume's analysis of experience and he wants to do so without falling into what he takes to be the Kantian trap. This chapter argues that this does involve a very complex solution to the problem of relations — essentially one which reduces relations to relational properties. Green did not grasp this, but the problem can be tackled. At a practical level, he hopes to lay the foundation for a moral critique of the political and social implications of a kind of social atomism which he believes to be firmly rooted in the analysis of experience which derives from Hume. His hope is to open the way for a theory of community and his work is a major foundation of social democratic political theory. It is in effect a ‘metaphysic of ethics’, but this is not a clear or simple notion. Green's human agents play a role which makes them in some measure responsible for their own experiences and, through shared ideas, for the communal experience.