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The myth of the metaphysical circle: an analysis of the contemporary crisis of the critique of metaphysics Universiteit Antwerpen
The temptations of metaphysics : epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of Mou Zongsan's Critique of the cognitive mind Universiteit Gent
Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing: On the Function of the Fundamental Scientific First Principles of Metaphysics KU Leuven
This thesis is concerned with answering the question, what is the central argument of Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing that brings its opening ontological approach to the subject of first philosophy to its ultimate theological goal and conclusion? This dissertation contends that it is the function of the fundamental scientific first principles of metaphysics, and in particular the fundamental primary notion necessary (wājib), to provide the ...
For and Against Metaphysics in the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper we discuss the relation of quantum theory to the problem of meta-physics. Based on metaphysical and anti-metaphysical stances, we put forward an 'interpretational map' of quantum mechanics in general and of the modal interpretation in particular. Thus, within the modal interpretation, we distinguish between: Modal Interpretations (which start from) the Mathematical Formalism (MIMF) and Modal Interpretations (which start from) ...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Politics. A Systematic Inquiry into Freedom and Determinism in Kant's Political Philosophy KU Leuven
Contemporary liberal trends of thought in social and political philosophy have again brought to the fore the practical scope of meaning of (in se metaphysical) concepts such as freedom and equality of citizens. In the context of (moral) claims for autonomy, self-determination of individuals and cosmopolitical hospitality of world-citizens on the one hand and political national or globalized coercion [by supra-national political/ juridical ...