Questions tagged [natural-philosophy]
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Does natural science assume indirect realism?
The wiki on Direct and Indirect Realism seems to claim that indirect realism is part of natural science. The wiki defines indirect realism as follows:
indirect or representative realism [is] the philosophical position
that our conscious…
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Is your phone a natural product?
We are part of this natural system where we live and that we named. Our cities, our trains, our streets, some beautiful and some disgraceful, are all part of our natural world, of what we have built for us.
Those streets, concrete buildings and…
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How does science treat supernatural claims?
The following claim X,
Something had a round trip from the Earth to the Mars within 1 second
might be treated by science as a supernatural claim because it violates the natural law (i.e. speed limit of object with mass). Thus for science, any…
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Non-traditional (individuals = graph edges) views on societies
In his book Large graphs and graph limits, mathematician and Abel prize winner László Lovász says on page 4:
We can say that the whole universe is a single (really huge, possibly
infinite) network, where the nodes are events (interactions…
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Would the existence of an eternal, uncaused object conflict with the naturalistic framework?
What I'm asking is whether naturalism is the notion that everything has a natural cause, or whether it is the notion that only everything that begins has a natural cause, whereas everything that did not begin is necessarily eternal but still…
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What are "generation and corruption" in Aristotle's philosophy?
In discussion of Aristotle's natural philosophy, the concept of "generation and corruption" is often invoked. It's the translated of one of his books' title (On Generation and Corruption). Today in everyday's use the words "generation" and…
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How can nature without self-awareness and intelligence create living beings with self-awareness and intelligence?
Look at the nature around you. Nature does not have intelligence and self-awareness, but it has created living beings with intelligence and self-awareness (an example of which is us humans). Philosophically, how can such a thing be justified?
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What is the difference between Humeans and primitivist approaches in relation to the laws of nature?
The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between Humeans who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter and non-Humeans (primitivists) who think that laws govern it. What is the difference? In any case, the…
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Was Luhmann influenced by Schelling?
Just wondering. I know little about Schelling and was reading a commentary by Forster on his philosophy of nature. Some of the ideas, such as "irritability" and production of the Umwelt recalled terms from Niklas Luhmann's systems theory.
A quick,…
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What is the historical relationship between physics and philosophy?
I often hear people say that physics is/was part of philosophy or that philosophy gave birth to physics but I think this isn't correct.
Imagine a big country called anonati. After a civil war, anonati is divided into 2 smaller countries anonati and…
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What is the bridge between Agrippa's and Descartes' mindsets? What to read to understand the radical change
After Reading a couple of works by Descartes (XVI century), I am now reading "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" by Cornelius Agrippa (around 1530). The difference in mindset and worldview is enormous. It seems that in around one hundred years,…
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Is there space even though there is only color, not objects? (re-question)
We can see black color when there’s no light at all. What I wonder is that there is concept spacetime even though there are no objects, but only color. I mean, does black color occupy the “space” (apart from mental space and real space) when there’s…
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What is "natural"?
The term "natural" is often used by people who have faith in "natural" things, by marketers promoting a product, etc.
However, what is the definition of "natural"? Shouldn't everything that exist be natural, since it appeared at some point?
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I know Survival of the fittest is realistic. But is it morally ethical?
Survival for the fittest and extinction for the weakest.
I know that should be the way.
But ethically if you think about it just because it happens in reality, does that statement make it morally right? Because weakest is the lowest tier of Human…
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What does "sense" mean in "A sense of the Future" title?
In Zoltan Torey's The Conscious Mind, the author discusses the epigenesis of language:
Characterizing human language by its construction, linguists constantly treat the atomic units in our speech, either the words themselves or the concepts for…
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