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P_1_07 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_1_07 — Deep Time and Cognitive Limits

This document examines Deep Time and Cognitive Limits, a topic within the Philosophy Meaning research area. Key areas of investigation include Origins of the Concept, The Scale Problem, The "Human Line" Problem. The anal

deep time John McPhee James Hutton Silurian Hypothesis Gavin Schmidt Adam Frank
P_1_04 Credible Philosophy & Meaning

P_1_04 — Free Will: Determinism, Compatibilism, and Libertarianism

The free will debate is central to the meaning of human existence: Are we the authors of our choices, or is every decision the inevitable consequence of prior causes? Three major positions dominate: (1) Hard determinism

free will determinism compatibilism libertarianism philosophical Libet neuroscience
P_1_08 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_1_08 — Philosophy of Mind and the Body Problem

The mind-body problem — how do mental states (thoughts, feelings, consciousness) relate to physical states (neurons, brains, bodies)? — is one of the oldest and most intractable problems in philosophy. Descartes (1641) f

philosophy of mind mind-body problem dualism Descartes physicalism materialism
P_5_05 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_05 — Philosophy of Language

The philosophy of language asks: How do words and sentences get their meaning? How does language connect to reality? Can thought exist without language? Is meaning determined by the speaker's intention, by social convent

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P_5_14 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_14 — African Philosophy Beyond Ubuntu: Sage, Négritude, and Ethnophilosophy

African philosophy extends far beyond the Ubuntu concept most familiar to Western audiences. It is a diverse, complex, frequently contested field encompassing multiple traditions, methods, and debates. The "Great Debate"

African philosophy sage philosophy négritude ethnophilosophy Ubuntu Paulin Hountondji
P_5_04 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_04 — Process Philosophy — Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Becoming

Process philosophy, most fully developed in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929), proposes that reality is fundamentally constituted not by enduring substances but by dynamic events — "actual occasions of

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P_5_02 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_02 — Computational Phylogenetics of Mythology

This document examines Computational Phylogenetics of Mythology, a topic within the Philosophy Meaning research area. Key areas of investigation include The Traditional Approach: Comparative Mythology, The Biological Ana

phylogenetics mythology Yuri Berezkin Julien d'Huy Michael Witzel Laurasian
P_5_17 Credible Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_17 — Process Philosophy: Whitehead, Becoming, and the Metaphysics of Experience

Process philosophy — the metaphysical tradition holding that reality is fundamentally composed of processes, events, and becomings rather than static substances, objects, or things — represents one of the most ambitious

process philosophy Alfred North Whitehead actual occasions process theology becoming panexperientialism
P_2_13 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_2_13 — Philosophy of Biology: Teleology, Species Concepts, and Function

The philosophy of biology examines the conceptual foundations, explanatory structures, and ontological commitments of the biological sciences — asking questions that biology itself presupposes but does not typically addr

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P_2_14 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_2_14 — Philosophy of Action: Agency, Intention, and Collective Action

The philosophy of action investigates the nature of human agency — what it means to act (as opposed to merely moving), what makes an action intentional, how reasons relate to causes, and how individual agency extends to

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ZE_4_15 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_4_15 — Ethics of Nuclear Weapons: Deterrence, MAD, and Abolition

The ethics of nuclear weapons constitutes one of the most consequential moral questions of the modern era: Can the threat to annihilate millions of civilians ever be morally justified? Since the atomic bombings of Hirosh

nuclear weapons deterrence MAD mutually assured destruction Hiroshima Nagasaki
ZE_4_13 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_4_13 — Ethics of Wealth and Poverty: Rawls, Nozick, Singer, and Distributive Justice

The ethics of wealth and poverty asks one of the most consequential moral questions: What do the affluent owe the poor? And, more broadly, what constitutes a just distribution of resources? Three towering 20th-century ph

distributive justice wealth poverty Rawls Nozick Singer
ZE_3_06 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_3_06 — Ethics of Psychedelic Research and Therapy

The ethics of psychedelic research and therapy addresses the unique moral challenges posed by substances that profoundly alter consciousness in therapeutic, religious, and research contexts. After a 40-year research mora

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ZE_3_13 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_3_13 — Ocean Ethics — Maritime Law, Marine Rights, Ocean Governance

Ocean ethics examines the moral and legal governance of the world's largest ecosystem — the ocean covers 71% of Earth's surface, contains 97% of the planet's water, and produces 50% of the oxygen we breathe, yet remains

ocean ethics maritime law UNCLOS marine rights ocean governance rights of nature
ZE_3_04 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_3_04 — Ethics of Technology and Surveillance

Surveillance ethics addresses the moral implications of monitoring individuals and populations through technological means and the tension between security and privacy. The field draws on a long philosophical lineage — J

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ZE_1_07 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_1_07 — Social Contract Theory

Social contract theory holds that political authority and moral/political obligations are grounded in an agreement — actual or hypothetical — among individuals to form a society and accept governance. The theory addresse

social contract Hobbes Locke Rousseau Rawls state of nature
ZE_1_17 Credible Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_1_17 — Epistemic Ethics and Intellectual Virtue

Epistemic ethics — the study of moral and ethical dimensions of knowledge, belief, and inquiry — examines our obligations as knowers: when we are responsible for what we believe, how we treat others as sources and recipi

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ZE_1_02 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_1_02 — Political Philosophy — Power, Justice, and the State

Political philosophy examines the fundamental questions of collective human life: What is justice? What legitimates political authority? When is revolution justified? Who should rule? From Plato's philosopher-kings throu

political ethics-applied Plato Republic Aristotle Machiavelli Hobbes
ZE_2_12 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_2_12 — Philosophy of Alchemy — Transformation as Ethical Practice

The philosophy of alchemy examines transformation as both physical practice and ethical discipline — the alchemist's pursuit of the opus magnum (Great Work) was simultaneously a material project (transmuting base metals

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ZE_2_01 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_2_01 — Alchemy and Transmutation Across Civilizations

Alchemy — the art and science of transformation — emerged independently or semi-independently in at least three civilizations: Egyptian-Greek-Arabic-European (the Western tradition), Chinese (waidan/neidan), and Indian (

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