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What Can Aristotle and Whitehead Tell a Chemist About Chemical Change? Ross L. Stein
In this blog post, I analyze the chemical transformation of molecules from two metaphysical perspectives: substance metaphysics of the sort advanced by Aristotle and later by medieval Scholastic philosophers, such as Thomas Aquinas, and process metaphysics, especially that of Alfred North Whitehead. At the end of the day, we will…
Call for Papers: Social and Ethical Frontiers in Space
Experts from every discipline interested in exploring the many complex social and ethical questions raised by space exploration and the search for life on other planets are invited to attend the first joint meeting of the European Astrobiology Institute and the Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology.…