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  1. Cells as irreducible wholes: the failure of mechanism and the possibility of an organicist revival.Michael J. Denton, Govindasamy Kumaramanickavel & Michael Legge - 2013 - Biology and Philosophy 28 (1):31-52.
    According to vitalism, living organisms differ from machines and all other inanimate objects by being endowed with an indwelling immaterial directive agency, ‘vital force,’ or entelechy . While support for vitalism fell away in the late nineteenth century many biologists in the early twentieth century embraced a non vitalist philosophy variously termed organicism/holism/emergentism which aimed at replacing the actions of an immaterial spirit with what was seen as an equivalent but perfectly natural agency—the emergent autonomous activity of the whole organism. (...)
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  2. Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic.Michael J. Parker, Christophe Fraser, Lucie Abeler-Dörner & David Bonsall - 2020 - Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (7):427-431.
    In this paper we discuss ethical implications of the use of mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact tracing is a well-established feature of public health practice during infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics. However, the high proportion of pre-symptomatic transmission in COVID-19 means that standard contact tracing methods are too slow to stop the progression of infection through the population. To address this problem, many countries around the world have deployed or are developing mobile phone apps (...)
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  3. The Availability Heuristic and Inference to the Best Explanation.Michael J. Shaffer - 2019 - Logos and Episteme 10 (4):409-432.
    This paper shows how the availability heuristic can be used to justify inference to the best explanation in such a way that van Fraassen's infamous "best of a bad lot" objection can be adroitly avoided. With this end in mind, a dynamic and contextual version of the erotetic model of explanation sufficient to ground this response is presented and defended.
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  4. Unification and the Myth of Purely Reductive Understanding.Michael J. Shaffer - 2020 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 27:142-168.
    In this paper significant challenges are raised with respect to the view that explanation essentially involves unification. These objections are raised specifically with respect to the well-known versions of unificationism developed and defended by Michael Friedman and Philip Kitcher. The objections involve the explanatory regress argument and the concepts of reduction and scientific understanding. Essentially, the contention made here is that these versions of unificationism wrongly assume that reduction secures understanding.
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  5. Is it identity all the way down? From supersubstantivalism to composition as identity and back again.Michael J. Duncan & Kristie Miller - 2020 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 1.
    We argue that, insofar as one accepts either supersubstantivalism or strong composition as identity for the usual reasons, one has (defeasible) reasons to accept the other as well. Thus, all else being equal, one ought to find the package that combines both views—the Identity Package—more attractive than any rival package that includes one, but not the other, of either supersubstantivalism or composition as identity.
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  6. Van Fraassen’s Best of a Bad Lot Objection, IBE and Rationality.Michael J. Shaffer - 2021 - Logique Et Analyse 255:267-273.
    Van Fraassen’s (1989) infamous best of a bad lot objection is widely taken to be the most serious problem that afflicts theories of inference to the best explanation (IBE), for it alleges to show that we should not accept the conclusion of any case of such reasoning as it actually proceeds. Moreover, this is supposed to be the case irrespective of the details of the particular criteria used to select best explanations. The best of a bad lot objection is predicated (...)
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  7. Max Plank’s Philosophy and Physics: An Introduction to The Philosophy of Physics.Michael J. Shaffer - 2019 - In Michael Shaffer (ed.), The Philosophy of Physics. Minkowski Press. pp. 1-5.
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    Critical theory in critical times: Transforming the global political and economic order.Michael J. Thompson - 2017 - Contemporary Political Theory 18 (4):284-289.
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    On the biological basis of human laterality: II. The mechanisms of inheritance.Michael J. Morgan & Michael C. Corballis - 1978 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (2):270-277.
    This paper focuses on the inheritance of human handedness and cerebral lateralization within the more general context of structural biological asymmetries. The morphogenesis of asymmetrical structures, such as the heart in vertebrates, depends upon a complex interaction between information coded in the cytoplasm and in the genes, but the polarity of asymmetry seems to depend on the cytoplasmic rather than the genetic code. Indeed it is extremely difficult to find clear-cut examples in which thedirectionof an asymmetry is under genetic control. (...)
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    Death, Hegel, and Kojève.Michael J. Inwood - 2017 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 1 (2):68-77.
    Stemming from a reading of Hegel’s account of the struggle for recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Kojève argued that death is the central notion of Hegel’s philosophy. I will discuss several themes in relation to this claim of Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel, namely the themes of freedom, individuality, and historicity. I will also discuss Kojève’s reading that Hegel rejects both all conceptions of the afterlife, and too the belief in the afterlife as a manifestation of the “unhappy consciousness”. I (...)
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    Lady With a Mead-Cup. Ritual, Group Cohesion and Hierarchy in the Germanic Warband.Michael J. Enright - 1988 - Frühmittelalterliche Studien 22 (1):170-203.
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  12. Death and the Meaning of Life.Michael J. Sigrist - 2015 - Philosophical Papers 44 (1):83-102.
    Thoughts of mortality sometimes bring on a crisis in confidence in the meaning in one's life. One expression of this collapse is the midlife crisis. In a recent article, Kieran Setiya argues that if one can value activities as opposed to accomplishments as the primary goods in one's life then one might avoid the midlife crisis. I argue that Setiya's advice, rather than safeguarding the meaning in one's life, substitutes for it something else, a kind of happiness. I use Susan (...)
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    Representing and meaning in history and in classrooms: Developing symbols and conceptual organizations of free-fall motion.Michael J. Ford - 2003 - Science & Education 12 (1):1-25.
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  14. Theories of Violence and the Explanation of Ultra-violent Behavior.Michael J. Shaffer & Patricia Turrisi - 2008 - In T. Levin (ed.), Violence: Mercurial Gestalt.
    Theorists in various scientific disciplines offer radically different accounts of the origin of violent behavior in humans, but it is not clear how the study of violence is to be scientifically grounded. This problem is made more complicated because both what sorts of acts constitute violence and what needs to be appealed to in explaining violence differs according to social scientists, biologists, anthropologists and neurophysiologists, and this generates serious problems with respect to even attempting to ascertain the differential bona fides (...)
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    The Moralized Economy in Hard Times.Michael J. Shapiro - 2011 - Theory and Event 14 (4).
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  16. The Ad Verecundiam Fallacy and Appeals to Expert Testimony.Michael J. Shaffer - 2007 - In Proceedings of the 6th ISSA Conference on Argumentation.
    In this paper I argue that Tyler Burge's non-reductive view of testiomonial knowledge cannot adeqautrely discriminate between fallacious ad vericumdium appeals to expet testimony and legitimate appeals to authority.
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    Samuel Huntington's moral geography.Michael J. Shapiro - 1998 - Theory and Event 2 (4).
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    Value eruptions and modalities: White male rage in the ′80s and ′90s.Michael J. Shapiro - 1997 - Cultural Values 1 (1):58-80.
    Conceptualizing and investigating the interarticulation of disparate registers of value expression, this article treats, specifically, the imbrication of anxieties about sexual ambiguity and counterfeit money. The expressions of such anxieties and the metaphoric slippage between them are shown in a variety of venues and cultural texts, but the main come from a reading of William Friedkin's film, To Live and Die in LA.
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    Wanted, Dead or Alive.Michael J. Shapiro - 2001 - Theory and Event 5 (4).
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  20. Senses, Early Modern Theories of the.Michael J. Olson - 2020 - Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences.
     
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    Contributors to the Pythais.Michael J. Osborne - 1984 - The Classical Review 34 (02):289-.
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    Hellenistic Athens.Michael J. Osborne - 1984 - The Classical Review 34 (02):264-.
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    Hobbes's Minimalist Moral Theory.Michael J. Green - 2021 - In Marcus P. Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 171–183.
    Thomas Hobbes's theory of the laws of nature covers only a subset of these rules, namely, those that “concern the doctrine of Civill Society”. There are many interpretations that attribute more ambitious aims to Hobbes, such as reconciling the claims of morality and interest, defending a version of divine command theory, showing that some aims are supremely rational, or using a theory of reciprocity to unite reason and morality. This chapter argues that Hobbes can accomplish his most important goals with (...)
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    Cell‐surface receptors: Puzzles and paradigms.Michael J. Geisow - 1986 - Bioessays 4 (4):149-151.
    The determination of amino acid sequences representing the cell‐surface receptors for transferrin,1 asialoglycoprotein,2 polymeric immunoglobulin (IgA/IgM),3 epidermal growth factor (EGF),4 lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL)5 and insulin6 has produced new paradingms for receptor architecture. This review examines common features of the protiens and describes the intriguing functional and evolutionary puzzles that have arisen from them.
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    Black Panther 's Afrofuturism.Michael J. Gormley, Benjamin D. Wendorf & Ryan Solinsky - 2022 - In Edwardo Pérez & Timothy E. Brown (eds.), Black Panther and Philosophy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. pp. 184–192.
    Black Panther presents an African cultural tapestry. The wide breadth of the African elements fit Black Panther well within Afrofuturism, a genre defined by its use and placement of people of African descent in the past, present, and future of society. Beyond these cultural elements, Black Panther 's Afrofuturism employs water imagery and spinal cord injury as potent symbols of disconnection and reconnection. Black Panther draws from a long tradition of Afrofuturist literature that is influenced by a desire to remedy (...)
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    Review essay: National identity and liberal political philosophy.Michael J. Green - 1996 - Ethics and International Affairs 10:191–201.
    Review of "One For All: The Logic of Group Conflict," by Russell Hardin; "On Nationality," by David Miller; and "Liberal Nationalism," by Yael Tamir.
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    What is an aisthêton? “Ordinary things” among the Neoplatonist commentators on the Categories.Michael J. Griffin - 2014 - Quaestiones Disputatae 4 (2):24-41.
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    Leibniz's non-tensed theory of time.Michael J. Futch - 2002 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16 (2):125 – 139.
    Leibniz's philosophy of time, often seen as a precursor to current forms of relationalism and causal theories of time, has rightly earned the admiration of his more recent counterparts in the philosophy of science. In this article, I examine Leibniz's philosophy of time from a new perspective: the role that tense and non-tensed temporal properties/relations play in it. Specifically, I argue that Leibniz's philosophy of time is best (and non-anachronistically) construed as a non-tensed theory of time, one that dispenses with (...)
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    Some practical suggestions for the improvement of science in developing countries.Michael J. Moravcsik - 1966 - Minerva 4 (3):381-390.
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    Ego, egocentricity, and self-transcendence: A western interpretation of eastern teaching.Michael J. Stark & Michael C. Washburn - 1977 - Philosophy East and West 27 (3):265-283.
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    Nietzsche's ocean, Strindberg's open sea.Michael J. Stern - 2008 - Berlin: Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität.
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    How Did Socrates Become a Christian? Irony and a Postmodern Christian (Non-)Ethic.Michael J. Strawser - 1992 - Philosophy Today 36 (3):256-265.
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    Philosophy and Jihād.Michael J. Sweeney - 2007 - Review of Metaphysics 60 (3):543-572.
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    What Is Constituent Ontology?Michael J. Loux - 2012 - In Lukás Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík & David Svoboda (eds.), Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic. Ontos Verlag. pp. 43-58.
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    Nietzsche and Islam (review).Michael J. McNeal - 2009 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 37 (1):105-107.
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    Subversive Joy.Michael J. McNeal - 2019 - Southwest Philosophy Review 35 (1):207-216.
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    (1 other version)Science Policy and Development in the Third World.Michael J. Moravcsik - 1987 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 7 (5-6):598-604.
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    Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Business Ethics: Evidence from the United States and China. [REVIEW]Michael J. Gift, Paul Gift & QinQin Zheng - 2013 - Journal of Business Ethics 114 (4):633-642.
    A number of empirical studies have examined business ethics across cultures, focusing primarily on differences in ethical profiles between cultures and groups. When managers consider whether or not to develop a business relationship with those from a different culture, their decision may be affected by actual differences in ethical profiles, but potentially even more so by their perceptions of ethicality in the counterpart culture. The latter issue has been largely ignored in extant empirical research regarding cross-cultural ethical profiles. In this (...)
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    Review of Barron H. Lerner. When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine.1. [REVIEW]Michael J. Green - 2007 - American Journal of Bioethics 7 (12):55-57.
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    Cooper Pursuits of Wisdom. Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus. Pp. xiv + 442. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. Cased, £24.95, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-691-13860-2. [REVIEW]Michael J. Griffin - 2014 - The Classical Review 64 (1):52-54.
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    The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. [REVIEW]Michael J. Gruenthaner - 1948 - Modern Schoolman 25 (3):206-209.
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    In Time and Eternity. [REVIEW]Michael J. Gruenthaner - 1947 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 22 (3):556-557.
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    The Book of Job. [REVIEW]Michael J. Gruenthaner - 1947 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 22 (2):369-370.
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    The Babylonian Talmud in Selection. [REVIEW]Michael J. Gruenthaner - 1944 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 19 (4):740-741.
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    The Old Testament. [REVIEW]Michael J. Gruenthaner - 1951 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 26 (4):622-623.
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  46. Book Review: Gerald McKenny, The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth’s Moral Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). xvi + 310 pp. £65 (hb), ISBN 978-0-19-958267-9. [REVIEW]Michael J. Leyden - 2011 - Studies in Christian Ethics 24 (2):253-257.
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    Philosophy of Language. [REVIEW]Michael J. Loux - 1975 - Teaching Philosophy 1 (2):189-190.
  48. The Moral Aspect of Nonmoral Goods and Evils: Michael J. Zimmerman.Michael J. Zimmerman - 1999 - Utilitas 11 (1):1-15.
    The idea that immoral behaviour can sometimes be admirable, and that moral behaviour can sometimes be less than admirable, has led several of its supporters to infer that moral considerations are not always overriding, contrary to what has been traditionally maintained. In this paper I shall challenge this inference. My purpose in doing so is to expose and acknowledge something that has been inadequately appreciated, namely, the moral aspect of nonmoral goods and evils. I hope thereby to show that, even (...)
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  49. The Concept of Moral Obligation.Michael J. Zimmerman - 1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The principal aim of this book is to develop and defend an analysis of the concept of moral obligation. The analysis is neutral regarding competing substantive theories of obligation, whether consequentialist or deontological in character. What it seeks to do is generate solutions to a range of philosophical problems concerning obligation and its application. Amongst these problems are deontic paradoxes, the supersession of obligation, conditional obligation, prima facie obligation, actualism and possibilism, dilemmas, supererogation, and cooperation. By virtue of its normative (...)
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  50. A Plea for Accuses.Michael J. Zimmerman - 1997 - American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (2):229 - 243.
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