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  1. Natural world and political community-major problems.E. Tassin - 1991 - Filosoficky Casopis 39 (3):418-436.
     
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    The natural world as a philosophical problem.Jan Patočka - 2016 - Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. Edited by Ivan Chvatík, Lubica Učník, Erika Abrams & Ludwig Landgrebe.
    Introduction -- Stating the problem -- The question of the essence of subjectivity and its methodical exploitation -- The natural world -- A sketch of a philosophy of language and speech -- Conclusion.
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    Human Life and the Natural World: Readings in the History of Western Philosophy.Owen Goldin & Patricia Kilroe (eds.) - 1997 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    Human concern over the urgency of current environmental issues increasingly entails wide-ranging discussions of how we may rethink the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world. In order to provide a context for such discussions this anthology provides a selection of some of the most important, interesting and influential readings on the subject from classical times through to the late nineteenth century. Included are such figures as Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, St Francis of (...)
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  4. Natural World Physical, Brain Operational, and Mind Phenomenal Space-Time.Andrew A. Fingelkurts, Alexander A. Fingelkurts & Carlos F. H. Neves - 2010 - Physics of Life Reviews 7 (2):195-249.
    Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system – the brain with a mind. Brain activity is organized both temporally and spatially, thus representing space-time in the brain. Critical analysis of recent research on the space-time organization of the brain’s activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space-time in (...)
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  5. The Natural World.Jan Opsomer - 2016 - In Pieter D'Hoine & Marije Martijn, All From One: A Guide to Proclus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    In recent years, it has become clear that Proclus has an elaborate metaphysics, not only of the higher realm, but also of the natural world. This chapter first delimits its topic by explaining what physics or philosophy of nature is in Proclus’ view: the hypothetical study of all causes, but especially the transcendent causes of the natural world. After briefly addressing the question whether the world is eternal, the author moves on to presenting these causes (...)
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  6. Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics.David Copp - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or seriously compromising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural World, David Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism that can accommodate the normativity of morality. Moral naturalism is often thought to face special metaphysical, epistemological, and semantic problems as well as the difficulty in accounting for normativity. In the ten essays included in this volume, Copp defends solutions to these (...)
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    The Natural World: Naess, Doμgen, and the Question of Limits.Ermine L. Algaier Iv - 2015 - Environmental Ethics 37 (1):99-118.
    Juxtaposing the ecological insights of Arne Naess and Eihei Dōgen, Deane Curtin maintains that Dōgen’s metaphysical conception of sentience subsumes and corrects Naess’s ecologi­cal Self and its problem of limits. However, an alternative reading of Dōgen, one which deemphasizes the ontological status of the natural world in favor of how we epistemically view it, revitalizes Naess’s question of limits and enables us to reappropriate the problem as our problem. This line of thinking forces us to rethink how we (...)
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    Mystical Encounters with the Natural World:Experiences and Explanations: Experiences and Explanations.Paul Marshall - 2005 - Oxford University Press.
    Mystical experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall surveys and evaluates a wide range of explanations put forward by religious thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and offers his own perspective on the nature of these experiences.
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    Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Aleksander, Igor, The World in my Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines, Charlottesville, VA and Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2005, pp. 196,£ 17.95, $34.90. Aparece, Pederito A., Teaching, Learning and Community: An Examination of Wittgen. [REVIEW]Human Nature - 2005 - Mind 114:455.
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  10. The Natural World of Spirit.Nicholas Mowad - 2012 - Environmental Philosophy 9 (2):47-66.
    Hegel provides a previously unnoticed foundation for an environmental ethic according to which the environment is not a collection of mere objects to be exploited arbitrarily. Indeed, the environment is not even merely natural, but also an expression of culture. In identifying this relation between nature and culture, Hegel anticipates “bioregionalism,” though he would also be critical of this school of thought. I conclude that Hegel offers the foundations for an environmental ethic (though not a fully articulated theory) by (...)
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    Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility. Keith Thomas.Robin Attfield - 1984 - Isis 75 (3):588-589.
  12. Kovesi on Natural World Concepts and the Theory of Meaning.Alan Tapper - 2012 - In Alan Tapper & T. Brian Mooney, Meaning and morality: essays on the philosophy of Julius Kovesi. Leiden: Brill. pp. 167-88.
    Julius Kovesi was a moral philosopher whose work rested on a theory of concepts and concept-formation, which he outlined in his 1967 book Moral Notions. But his contribution goes further than this. In sketching a theory of concepts and concept-formation, he was entering the philosophy of language. To make his account of moral concepts credible, he needs a broader story about how moral concepts compare with other sorts of concepts. Yet philosophy of language, once dominated by Wittgenstein and Austin, came (...)
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    Placing Mind in the Natural World: In Search of an Alternative Naturalism.Manoj Kumar Panda - 2024 - Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 41 (2):317-338.
    In contemporary philosophy, various attempts have been made in relation to placing our minds or mental states in the natural world or nature. In this context, there is a clear divide between naturalism and anti-naturalism, materialism and immaterialism, etc. Driven by the influence of naturalistic turn in philosophy and scientism, many philosophers have tried to put forth various naturalistic accounts of the relationship between mind and natural world. However, many of these accounts are naturalistic based on (...)
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  14. and Duties to the Natural World.Holmes Rolston Iii - forthcoming - Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence.
     
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    Learning to Treat Our Natural World Realistically Through Unlearning Mainstream Economics? A Commentary on the Recent Work of Peter Soderbaum.Jamie Morgan - 2021 - Economic Thought 10 (1):14.
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    Ancient Ethics and the Natural World.Ursula Coope & Barbara M. Sattler (eds.) - 2021 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation between ancient ethics and the study of the natural world. Human beings are in some sense part of the natural world, and they live their lives within a larger cosmos, but their actions are governed by norms whose relation to the natural world is up for debate. The essays in this volume, written by leading specialists in ancient philosophy, discuss how these facts (...)
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    Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens & Michael Zimmerman.Erin Christine Moore - 2009 - Ethics, Place and Environment 12 (3):369-371.
    Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World Sean Esbjörn-Hargens & Michael Zimmerman Boston, Integral Books, 2009, xxxvi + 796 pp., cloth, $45.00 The science of ecology, wi...
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  18. Asubjective phenomenology, natural world and humanism-philosophy of Patocka and its relationship to Husserl and Heidegger.I. Srubar - 1991 - Filosoficky Casopis 39 (3):406-417.
  19. Social order and the natural world.Hist Set - forthcoming - History of Science.
     
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    Turning the Natural World into a Moral World: Michel Henry on the Vocation of Life.Max Schaefer - 2023 - Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences:1-17.
    It has been widely argued that Michel Henry dismisses the importance of the subject's worldly and intentional mode of existence in his account of the well-being of life. However, through a careful analysis of Henry's theory of life and his study of culture and barbarism, I will demonstrate that the prevailing position on this point is both correct and incorrect: (i) correct in that absolute life does not require a moral transformation of the world; and (ii) incorrect inasmuch as (...)
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  21. The natural world. The ecology of attention in Inga Simpson's Where the trees were.Bárbara Arizti - 2025 - In Jean-Michel Ganteau & Susana Onega Jaén, The ethics of (in-)attention in contemporary Anglophone narrative. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
     
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    Turning the Natural World into a Moral World: Michel Henry on the Vocation of Life.Max Schaefer - 2024 - Human Studies 47 (2):349-365.
    It has been widely argued that Michel Henry dismisses the importance of the subject’s worldly and intentional mode of existence in his account of the well-being of life. However, through a careful analysis of Henry’s theory of life and his study of culture and barbarism, I will demonstrate that the prevailing position on this point is both correct and incorrect: (i) correct in that absolute life does not require a moral transformation of the world; and (ii) incorrect inasmuch as (...)
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    The Awareness of the Natural World in Shinjin : Shinran's Concept of Jinen.Dennis Hirota - 2011 - Buddhist-Christian Studies 31:189-200.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Awareness of the Natural World in Shinjin: Shinran's Concept of JinenDennis HirotaAttainment of Shinjin and TruthThe primary issue regarding knowledge that Shinran (1173-1263) treats in his writings concerns the commonplace, "natural" presupposition that it is constituted by an ego-subject relating itself to stable objects in the world. From his stance within Buddhist tradition, Shinran identifies the crucial problem as the human tendency toward the (...)
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    Leibniz and the Natural World: activity, passivity and corporeal substances in Leibniz’s philosophy.Pauline Phemister - 2005 - Springer.
    In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings and for whom physical bodies are ultimately unreal and our perceptions of them illusory. Re-reading the texts without the prior assumption of idealism allows the more material aspects of Leibniz's metaphysics to emerge. Leibniz is found to advance a synthesis of idealism and materialism. His ontology posits indivisible, living, animal-like corporeal substances as the (...)
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    Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World.Kathleen Dean Moore - 2013 - Oregon State University Press.
    Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts—the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales—she examines our connections to our own bedrock. “When people lock themselves in their houses at night and seal the windows shut to keep out storms, it is possible to forget, sometimes for years and years, that human beings are part of the natural (...)
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    Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation.Katja Krause, Maria Auxent & Dror Weil (eds.) - 2022
    This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point from which to view translation as a process of interaction between diff erent epistemic domains. The book is structured around four dimensions (...)
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    Shakespeare and the Natural World.Tom MacFaul - 2015 - Cambridge University Press.
    Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature with recent thinking about the significance of religion in Shakespeare's plays. MacFaul offers a clear introduction to some of the key problems in Renaissance natural philosophy and their relationship to Reformation theology, with individual chapters focusing on the role of animals in Shakespeare's universe, the representation of rural life, and the way in which humans' consumption of (...)
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    A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World.Michael Esfeld & Dirk-Andre Deckert - 2017 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Dirk-André Deckert, Dustin Lazarovici, Andrea Oldofredi & Antonio Vassallo.
    This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today’s well-established physical theories. We propose an ontology of the natural world that is defined only by two axioms: (1) There are distance relations that individuate simple objects, namely matter points. (2) The matter points are permanent, with the distances between them changing. Everything else comes in as a means to represent the change (...)
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  29. A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World.Gregg Rosenberg - 2004 - New York, US: Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bat's physical structure and information processing leaves us guessing about the central questions concerning the character of its experience. A Place for Consciousness (...)
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    Humanity and the Natural World.Robert Cummings Neville - 2001 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 12:259-264.
    A key existential problem for paideia in the modern Western world—and perhaps for much elsewhere—is to build up the continuum of engagement from the subtle signs of contemporary scientific, artistic, and imaginative society down through the depths of nature. That continuum has been prevented by the modern creation of a fake culture of artificial self-sufficiency within which nature appears only tamed and cooked, and which deflects interpretive engagements of deeper nature except where leakages occur. What can be done about (...)
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  31. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility.Keith Thomas - 1984 - Journal of Religious Ethics 12 (2):280-281.
     
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    Nature's song: an elucidation of Perek shirah, the ancient text that lists the philosophical and ethical lessons of the natural world.Nosson Slifkin - 2001 - Nanuet, NY: Feldheim.
    A fascinating study of the nature of scientific laws, the age of the universe, and the development of life. Offers a unified approach to Torah and science.
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    Behaviour, Lockdown and the Natural World.Norman Dandy - 2020 - Environmental Values 29 (3):253-259.
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    The trees, my lungs: Self psychology and the natural world at an american buddhist center.Daniel Capper - 2014 - Zygon 49 (3):554-571.
    This study employs ethnographic field data to trace a dialogue between the self-psychological concept of the self object and experiences regarding the concept of “interbeing” at a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery in the United States. The dialogue develops an understanding of human experiences with the nonhuman natural world which are tensive, liminal, and nondual. From the dialogue I find that the self object concept, when applied to this form of Buddhism, must be inclusive enough to embrace relationships with animals, (...)
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  35. God and the natural world in the seventeenth century: Space, time, and causality.Geoffrey Gorham - 2009 - Philosophy Compass 4 (5):859-872.
    The employment by seventeenth-century natural philosophers of stock theological notions like creation, immensity, and eternity in the articulation and justification of emerging physical programs disrupted a delicate but longstanding balance between transcendent and immanent conceptions of God. By playing a prominent (if not always leading) role in many of the major scientific developments of the period, God became more intimately involved with natural processes than at any time since antiquity. In this discussion, I am particularly concerned with the (...)
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    Self-Knowledge in a Natural World.Jeremy Cushing - unknown
    In this dissertation, I reconcile our knowledge of our own minds with philosophical naturalism. Philosophers traditionally hold that our knowledge of our own minds is especially direct and authoritative in comparison with other domains of knowledge. I introduce the subject in the first chapter. In the second and third chapters, I address the idea that we know our own minds directly. If self-knowledge is direct, it must not be grounded on anything more epistemically basic. This creates a puzzle for all (...)
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  37. (1 other version)The Forgotten Earth: Nature, World Religions, and Worldlessness in the Legacy of the Axial Age/Moral Revolution.Eugene Halton - 2021 - In Saïd Amir Arjomand & Stephen Kalberg, From world religions to axial civilizations and beyond. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 209-238.
    The rise and legacy of world religions out of that period centered roughly around 500-600 BCE, what John Stuart-Glennie termed in 1873 the moral revolution, and Karl Jaspers later, in 1949, called the axial age, has been marked by heightened ideas of transcendence. Yet ironically, the world itself, in the literal sense of the actual earth, took on a diminished role as a central element of religious sensibility in the world religions, particularly in the Abrahamic religions. Given (...)
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    Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World.Kara Richardson - forthcoming - Theoria:e70000.
    Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret. Scholars frequently locate Avicenna's main defense of causal necessity in Metaphysics I.6.6 of The Book of Healing. A few look to Metaphysics II.1 of (...)
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    (1 other version)The moral status of nature : reasons to care for the natural world.Lars Samuelsson - 2008 - Dissertation,
    The subject-matter of this essay is the moral status of nature. This subject is dealt with in terms of normative reasons. The main question is if there are direct normative reasons to care for nature in addition to the numerous indirect normative reasons that there are for doing so. Roughly, if there is some such reason, and that reason applies to any moral agent, then nature has direct moral status as I use the phrase. I develop the notions of direct (...)
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    Shut-Up and Listen: Implications and Possibilities of Albert Memmi’s Characteristics of Colonization Upon the “Natural World”.Michael Danann Sitka-Sage, Laura Piersol, Ramsey Affifi & Sean Blenkinsop - 2017 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (3):349-365.
    This paper begins by exploring the anti-colonial work of Tunisian scholar Albert Memmi in his classic book The Colonizer and the Colonized and determining whether the characteristics of colonization that he names can be successfully applied to the current relationship between modern humans and the “natural world”. After considering what we found to be the five key characteristics: manufacturing the colonial, alienation and unknowability, violence, psychological strategies, and language, history, and metaphor we draw clear parallels, through selected examples, (...)
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  41. Delight in the natural world: Kant on the aesthetic appreciation of nature. Part 1: Natural beauty.Malcolm Budd - 1998 - British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (1):1-18.
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    On environmental justice, Part II: non-absolute equal division of rights to the natural world.Joseph Mazor - 2023 - Economics and Philosophy 39 (2):256-284.
    This article considers whether any interpretation of the idea of equal claims to the natural world can resolve the Canyon Dilemma (i.e. can justify protecting the Grand Canyon but not a small canyon from mining by a poor generation). It first considers and ultimately rejects the idea of subjecting natural resource rights to an intergenerational equal division. It then demonstrates that a pluralist theory of environmental justice committed to both respect for the separateness of persons and to (...)
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    Too much to tell: Narrative styles of the first descriptions of the natural world of the Indies.Henrique Leitão & Antonio Sánchez - 2017 - History of Science 55 (2):167-186.
    Describing a Mundus Novus was a very singular task in the sixteenth century. It was an effort shaped by a permanent inherent tension between novelty and normality, between the immense variety of new facts and the demand of credibility. How did these inner strains affect the narrative style of the first descriptions of the natural world of ‘the Indies’? How were the first European observers of the nature of America able to simultaneously transmit the idea of immensity and (...)
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  44. Delight in the natural world: Kant on the aesthetic appreciation of nature part III: The sublime in nature.Malcolm Budd - 1998 - British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (3):233-250.
  45. Overcoming Gnosticism: Hans Jonas, Hans Blumenberg, and the Legitimacy of the Natural World.Benjamin Lazier - 2003 - Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (4):619-637.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 64.4 (2003) 619-637 [Access article in PDF] Overcoming Gnosticism:Hans Jonas, Hans Blumenberg, and the Legitimacy of the Natural World Benjamin Lazier University of Chicago In 1984, about a decade before his own murder, the Romanian scholar of religion Ioan Culianu complained of a more widespread, if decidedly less grisly form of assault. 1 The gnostics, he declared in a moment of (...)
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    Shut-Up and Listen: Implications and Possibilities of Albert Memmi’s Characteristics of Colonization Upon the “Natural World”.Sean Blenkinsop, Ramsey Affifi, Laura Piersol & Michael De Danann Sitka-Spruce - 2017 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (3):349-365.
    This paper begins by exploring the anti-colonial work of Tunisian scholar Albert Memmi in his classic book The Colonizer and the Colonized and determining whether the characteristics of colonization that he names can be successfully applied to the current relationship between modern humans and the “natural world”. After considering what we found to be the five key characteristics: manufacturing the colonial, alienation and unknowability, violence, psychological strategies (bad faith), and language, history, and metaphor we draw clear parallels, through (...)
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  47. Artifice and the natural world: Mathematics, logic, technology.James Franklin - 2006 - In Knud Haakonssen, The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century philosophy. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
    If Tahiti suggested to theorists comfortably at home in Europe thoughts of noble savages without clothes, those who paid for and went on voyages there were in pursuit of a quite opposite human ideal. Cook's voyage to observe the transit of Venus in 1769 symbolises the eighteenth century's commitment to numbers and accuracy, and its willingness to spend a lot of public money on acquiring them. The state supported the organisation of quantitative researches, employing surveyors and collecting statistics to..
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    Shut-Up and Listen: Implications and Possibilities of Albert Memmi’s Characteristics of Colonization Upon the “Natural World”.Michael De Danann Sitka-Sage, Laura Piersol, Ramsey Affifi & Sean Blenkinsop - 2016 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (3):349-365.
    This paper begins by exploring the anti-colonial work of Tunisian scholar Albert Memmi in his classic book The Colonizer and the Colonized and determining whether the characteristics of colonization that he names can be successfully applied to the current relationship between modern humans and the “natural world”. After considering what we found to be the five key characteristics: manufacturing the colonial, alienation and unknowability, violence, psychological strategies, and language, history, and metaphor we draw clear parallels, through selected examples, (...)
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    Engaging with nature: essays on the natural world in medieval and early modern Europe.Barbara Hanawalt & Lisa J. Kiser (eds.) - 2008 - Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
    Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when treating the nonhuman natural world in the medieval and early modern periods. Their most daunting problem is that in both the visual and written records of the time, nature seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. In the broadest sense, nature was everywhere, for it was vital to human survival. Agriculture, animal husbandry, medicine, and the patterns of human settlement all have their basis in natural settings. Humans also marked (...)
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  50. Leibniz and the Natural World: Activity, Passivity, and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy (review). [REVIEW]Michael Futch - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (1):162-163.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Leibniz and the Natural World: Activity, Passivity, and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz’s PhilosophyMichael FutchPauline Phemister. Leibniz and the Natural World: Activity, Passivity, and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz’s Philosophy. New Synthese Historical Library, 58. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Pp. xiii + 293. Cloth, $149.00.Leibniz's metaphysics has long been viewed as one of the more noteworthy systems of idealism in early modern philosophy. At the ground-floor level (...)
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