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Human Studies, Volume 17, Number 2.

Animal cognition

Gerben J. Stavenga, The fourth structure of physical reality. Hilary Putnam, Is the Causal Structure of the Physical Itself Something Physical? Gerard O'Brien & Jonathan Opie, Finding a place for experience in the physical-relational structure of the brain. Group Theory and Physics. Symmetry is important in the world of atoms, and Group Theory is its mathematics Quantum mechanics showed that the elementary systems that matter is made of, such as electrons and protons, are truly identical, not just very similar, so that symmetry in their arrangement is exact, not approximate as in the macroscopic world.

Group Theory and Physics

Systems were also seen to be described by functions of position that are subject to the usual symmetry operations of rotation and reflection, as well as to others not so easily described in concrete terms, such as the exchange of identical particles. Elementary particles were observed to reflect symmetry properties in more esoteric spaces. Home.earthlink.net/~dckennedy/pubs/Groups.pdf. J. Ladyman, Review. Herman CDG De Regt. Representing the world by scientific theories: the case for scientific realism.

The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 17 (Sep. 2, 1971), pp. 507-520. Julia Driver, Uneasy Virtue.

Perfectionism

Unsorted. Logic. Computationalism. Dennett scholarship. Lovecraft scholarship. Conceptual Metaphor. Papers. Conservative science. Virtue. Natural rights. Normativity. Communitarianism.