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Bartosz Brożek - The Return of the Empirical Subject in the Philosophy of Mathematics
The lecture of Bartosz Brożek entitled 'The Return of the Empirical Subject in the Philosophy of Mathematics' delivered during the 'Philosophy in Science' Copernicus Center International Seminar.The goal of the seminar was to analyze philosophical issues in science from both historical and analytical perspectives.
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Wojciech Załuski, Human Nature after Darwin
New developments in evolutionary biology and related biological disciplines (for instance, neurobiology, behavioural genetics, primatology) seem to provide the underpinnings for a solid view of human nature (i.e. a view of the structure of the human mind, of the nature of human morality, and of the level of human rationality), which can be useful for social scientists in their research practice.
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God & Evolution: Where the Conflict Really Lies
Dr. Alvin Plantinga argues (1) that contemporary evolutionary theory is not incompatible with theistic belief, (2) that the main antitheistic arguments involving evolution together with other premises also fail, and (3) that naturalism, the thought that there is no such thing as the God of theistic religion or anything like him, is an essential element in the naturalistic worldview (a sort of quasi-religion in the sense that it plays some of the most important roles of religion) and that the naturalistic worldview is in fact incompatible with evolution. Hence there is a science/religion (or science/quasi-religion) conflict, all right, but it is a conflict between naturalism and science, not theistic religion and science.
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