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  1. (6 other versions)Plato: The Republic.Sfetcu Nicolae - manuscript
    The Republic was written approximately between 380 and 370 BC. The title Republic is derived from Latin, being attributed to Cicero, who called the book De re publica (About public affairs), or even as De republica, thus creating confusion as to its true meaning. The Republic is considered an integral part of the utopian literary genre. The second title, Peri dikaiou (περὶ δικαίου, On Justice), may have been included later. The central theme of the book is justice, argued with the (...)
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  2. (1 other version)TO KNOW THEM, REMOVE THEM: AN OUTER METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO BIOPHYSICS AND HUMANITIES.Arturo Tozzi - manuscript
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  3. Wisdom and Beauty in Plato's Charmides.Inbal Cohen-Taber - 2022 - Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock.
    Although wisdom and beauty are prized everywhere, in what exactly they consist is a matter of dispute that even has tragic political implications. As the traditional elites of fifth-century BCE Athens felt their social privileges being chipped away by democratic encroachments, they clung to their traditional belief that they—and they alone—were “beautiful and good” enough to rule. Plato’s alternately comic and serious dialogue Charmides is set in this Athens and explores the nature of temperance (sōphrosunē: in eating, in drinking, in (...)
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  4. Analogue Quantum Simulation: A New Instrument for Scientific Understanding.Dominik Hangleiter, Jacques Carolan & Karim Thebault - 2022 - Cham: Springer.
    This book presents fresh insights into analogue quantum simulation. It argues that these simulations are a new instrument of science. They require a bespoke philosophical analysis, sensitive to both the similarities to and the differences with conventional scientific practices such as analogical argument, experimentation, and classical simulation. -/- The analysis situates the various forms of analogue quantum simulation on the methodological map of modern science. In doing so, it clarifies the functions that analogue quantum simulation serves in scientific practice. To (...)
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  5. (1 other version)To Know them, Remove their Information: An Outer Methodological Approach to Biophysics and Humanities.Arturo Tozzi - 2022 - Philosophia 51 (2):977-1005.
    Set theory faces two difficulties: formal definitions of sets/subsets are incapable of assessing biophysical issues; formal axiomatic systems are complete/inconsistent or incomplete/consistent. To overtake these problems reminiscent of the old-fashioned principle of individuation, we provide formal treatment/validation/operationalization of a methodological weapon termed “outer approach” (OA). The observer’s attention shifts from the system under evaluation to its surroundings, so that objects are investigated from outside. Subsets become just “holes” devoid of information inside larger sets. Sets are no longer passive containers, rather (...)
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  6. Plato's Charmides: An Interpretative Commentary.Voula Tsouna - 2022 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    The Charmides is a difficult and enigmatic dialogue traditionally considered one of Plato's Socratic dialogues. This book provides a close text commentary on the dialogue which tracks particular motifs throughout. These notably include the characterization of Critias, Charmides, and Socrates; the historical context and subtext, literary features such as irony and foreshadowing; the philosophical context and especially how the dialogue looks back to more traditional Socratic dialogues and forward to dialogues traditionally placed in Plato's middle and late period; and most (...)
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  7. 'Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic'.Phillip Sidney Horky - 2021 - Polis 38 (3):399-419.
    At the beginning of Republic 2 (358e–359b), Plato has Glaucon ascribe a social contract theory to Thrasymachus and ‘countless others’. This paper takes Glaucon’s description to refer both within the text to Thrasymachus’ views, and outside the text to a series of works, most of which have been lost, On Justice or On Law. It examines what is likely to be the earliest surviving work that presents a philosophical defence of law and justice against those who would prefer their opposites, (...)
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  8. “The Sleeping Beauty of the Brain”: Memory, MIT, Montreal, and the Origins of Neuroscience.Yvan Prkachin - 2021 - Isis 112 (1):22-44.
  9. Colloquium 2 Saving the Appearances of Plato’s Cave.Adriel M. Trott - 2021 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 36 (1):31-56.
    This article considers Plato’s view of philosophy depicted in his cave analogy in light of Arendt’s distinction between Socratic and Platonic philosophy. Arendt argues that philosophy functions, for Socrates, in an immanent world, characterized by examining and considering—in addition to refining opinions through persuasion about—the currency of politics, which thereby closely associates philosophy with politics. On her view, Plato makes philosophy transcend politics—the world of opinion—when Socrates fails to persuade the Athenians. The cave analogy seems to support Arendt’s view that (...)
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  10. Some Epistemological and Methodological Problems of Holistic Biological Modeling, Biosimilarity Identification and Complex Interpretation of the Origin of Life.Oleg V. Gradov - 2019 - European Journal of Philosophical Research 6 (1):22-39.
    This article considers the novel approach for epistemological interpretation of biomimetics or bionics and biosimilarity in different abiogenetic works with the terminological correction for elimination of the reifications (concretisms, hypostatizations), simplified metaphors and the results of metonymy. In the last part of this article one can see the analysis of the mistakes and problems of complex abiogenetic or supramolecular evolution projects within the aspects of the Conway law and the social organization of science and publishing sphere in subjective postmodern capitalistic (...)
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  11. (1 other version)Radium, biophysics, and radiobiology: tracing the history of radiobiology in twentieth-century China.Christine Yi Lai Luk - 2018 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (1):1-23.
    Radiobiology assesses the biological hazards of exposure to radioactive substances and nuclear radiation. This article explores the history of radiobiology in twentieth-century China by examining the overlapping of radium research and biophysics, from roughly the 1920s Nationalist period to the 1960s Communist period; from the foreign purchase of radium by the Rockefeller Foundation’s China Medical Board during the Republican era, to the institutional establishment of radiobiology as a subset of biophysics in the People’s Republic. Western historiography of radiobiology highlights the (...)
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  12. Divine Epiphany and Pious Discourse in Plato's Phaedrus.Andrea Nightingale - 2018 - Arion 26 (1):61.
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  13. School of Shadows: The Return to Plato's Cave.Claire Sommers - 2018 - Arion 25 (3):131.
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  14. Cave Myths and the Metaphorics of Light: Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius.Andrea Nightingale - 2017 - Arion 24 (3):39.
  15. The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard, by Wm. Blake Tyrrell. [REVIEW]Brian Harding - 2016 - The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 50:27-29.
  16. That Yelping Bitch: On Poetry in Plato's Republic.Robert Lloyd Mitchell - 2016 - Arion 24 (2):69.
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  17. brain/mind — WHY THINKING WORKS.Desmond Sander - 2016 - Melbourne: Aenesidemus Press.
    This short eBook introduces STRICT EMPIRICISM, an alternative to analytic philosophy, and MINDFUL PHYSICS, the alternative to modern physics that it licenses. Mindful physics illuminates what happens and what is made to happen. If you think that an adequate understanding of consciousness, language, laws, quantum mechanics, time and life will require a new understanding of thinking, then brain/mind is for you.
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  18. Quantum Information Biology: From Information Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics to Applications in Molecular Biology and Cognitive Psychology.Masanari Asano, Irina Basieva, Andrei Khrennikov, Masanori Ohya, Yoshiharu Tanaka & Ichiro Yamato - 2015 - Foundations of Physics 45 (10):1362-1378.
    We discuss foundational issues of quantum information biology —one of the most successful applications of the quantum formalism outside of physics. QIB provides a multi-scale model of information processing in bio-systems: from proteins and cells to cognitive and social systems. This theory has to be sharply distinguished from “traditional quantum biophysics”. The latter is about quantum bio-physical processes, e.g., in cells or brains. QIB models the dynamics of information states of bio-systems. We argue that the information interpretation of quantum mechanics (...)
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  19. A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China.Christine Yi Lai Luk - 2015 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological sounding (...)
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  20. The Idea of Universal Justice in Plato, Kant, and Benedict XVI.Nikolaj Zunic - 2015 - Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 11:173-194.
  21. An Allusion to Ibycus in Plato Phaedrus 251A-B.Clive Chandler - 2014 - Hermes 142 (4):474-475.
    It is proposed that Plato Phaedrus 251a-b contains an allusion to Ibycus 287.
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  22. Plato's Puppets of the Gods: Representing the Magical, the Mystical and the Metaphysical.Ken Moore - 2014 - Arion 22 (2):37.
  23. Biophysics: Searching for Principles.William Bialek - 2012 - Princeton University Press.
    Here, William Bialek provides the first graduate-level introduction to biophysics aimed at physics students.
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  24. New philosophy theories in physics and biomedicine =.Wanyuan Li - 2011 - Beijing: Zhongguo chuan mei da xue chu ban she.
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  25. Critias’ Definitions of ΣΩΦΡΟΣΥNH in Plato’s Charmides.Michael Eisenstadt - 2008 - Hermes 136 (4):492-495.
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  26. The Influence of Niels Bohr on Max Delbrück: Revisiting the Hopes Inspired by “Light and Life”.Daniel J. McKaughan - 2005 - Isis 96 (4):507-529.
    The impact of Niels Bohr’s 1932 “Light and Life” lecture on Max Delbrück’s lifelong search for a form of “complementarity” in biology is well documented and much discussed, but the precise nature of that influence remains subject to misunderstanding. The standard reading, which sees Delbrück’s transition from physics into biology as inspired by the hope that investigation of biological phenomena might lead to a breakthrough discovery of new laws of physics, is colored much more by Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life? (...)
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  27. Adriano Buzzati-Traverso and the foundation of the International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics in Naples.Mauro Capocci & Gilberto Corbellini - 2002 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33 (3):489-513.
    Despite a long tradition of research in applied genetics, particularly in agricultural research, in Italy the transition to the new knowledges and techniques of molecular biology was long and difficult. Political and financial constraints made academic institutions very slow to grasp the importance of molecular approaches to biology and medicine. In fact, the main studies concerning problems of molecular biology took place inside non-academic institutions. We reconstruct the complex paths leading to the birth of the International Laboratory of Genetics and (...)
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  28. Ultimate biophysics: Investing in the study of the biofield.Savely Savva - 2001 - World Futures 57 (1):1-19.
    The contemporary physical description of the universe reflects the inanimate world only. Broadening this description by including life may limit the application of well?established physical laws and may find new forces of the universe governing living organizations. This may also require adoption of some new assumptions and methodological principles, such as a broader principle of uncertainty, and recognition of the fact that humans? ability to manifest biofield communication is distributed very unevenly in the population. Based on available body of scientific (...)
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  29. Two compartmental models of EEG coherence and MRI biophysics.R. W. Thatcher, J. F. Gomez-Molina, C. Biver, D. North, R. Curtin & R. W. Walker - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (3):412-412.
    Studies have shown that as MRI T2 relaxation time lengthens there is a shift toward more unbound or “free-water” and less partitioning of the protein/lipid molecules per unit volume. A shift toward less water partitioning or lengthened MRI T2 relaxation time is linearly related to reduced high frequency EEG amplitude, reduced short distance EEG coherence, increased long distance EEG coherence, and reduced cognitive functioning (Thatcher et al. 1998a; 1998b).
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  30. Cellular Biophysics: Transport.Thomas Fischer Weiss - 1996 - Bradford.
    Book written to preserve the wisdom of the ancient healing sages of China, and to provide the conceptual tools needed for its practical application in healing diseases of the modern world.
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  31. Historical aspects of the origin of diffusion theory in 19th-century mechanistic materialism.Denys N. Wheatley & Paul S. Agutter - 1996 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 40 (1):139-156.
  32. Molecules, Cells, and Life: An Annotated Bibliography of Manuscript Sources on Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, 1900-1960, in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Lily E. Kay. [REVIEW]Stephen Wagner - 1991 - Isis 82 (3):613-613.
  33. From Physics to Biophysics. [REVIEW]Robert Olby - 1989 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 11 (2):305 - 309.
  34. Introduction to the Exact Science of Theoretical Embryogenesis.Christopher Roy Illert - 1983 - Illert-Verlag.
  35. Selection rules, causality, and unitarity in statistical and quantum physics.A. Kyrala - 1974 - Foundations of Physics 4 (1):31-51.
    The integrodifferential equations satisfied by the statistical frequency functions for physical systems undergoing stochastic transitions are derived by application of a causality principle and selection rules to the Markov chain equations. The result equations can be viewed as generalizations of the diffusion equation, but, unlike the latter, they have a direct bearing onactive transport problems in biophysics andcondensation aggregation problems of astrophysics and phase transition theory. Simple specific examples of the effects of severe selection rules, such as the relaxational Boltzmann (...)
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  36. A mathematical model of the equilibrium distribution of chemical complexes and the biological effects of chemical binding.L. D. Homer - 1967 - Acta Biotheoretica 17 (3):125-138.
    A general equation is derived describing the concentration of all possible complexes of a central molecule with a set of ligands bound to the central molecule. This deduction allows the reaction rate constants for the binding of a given molecule to the central molecule to depend on the species of molecules already bound and the location of the molecules already bound. The model thus allows for structural alteration of the central molecule by binding. Functions describing the concentration dependence of any (...)
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  37. One-way processes in physics and biophysics.L. L. Whyte - 1955 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 6 (22):107-121.
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  38. Cosmic Radiation and its Biological Effects. [REVIEW]Mark H. Bauer - 1951 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 26 (3):476-477.
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  39. Mathematical biophysics, cybernetics and significs.Anatol Rapoport - 1949 - Synthese 8 (1):182 - 193.
    It remains to summarize the contributions which each of the three disciplines discussed here is making toward the development of a science of man. "Significs" makes a study of the effects on human behavior of the linguistic aspects of the evaluative process, the most distinctly human aspect of the behavior of the human organism. "Mathematical Biophysics" seeks to describe the events associated with evaluative processes in physico-mathematical terms. "Cybernetics" is discovering important invariants common to these processes and others, particularly those (...)
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  40. (1 other version)Mathematical biophysics and the central nervous system.Alston S. Householder - 1946 - Acta Biotheoretica 8 (1-2):67-76.
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  41. Mathematical biophysics in its relation to the cancer problem.N. Rashevsky - 1940 - Acta Biotheoretica 5 (3):139-154.
    Es wird einführungsweise zuerst auf den allgemeinen Zusammenhang zwischen theoretischer und experimenteller Forschung hingewiesen, insbesondere darauf, dass die theoretische Forschung dem Experimentator nicht nur neue Probleme stellt, sondern auch die Ergebnisse vieler Versuche sinnvoll macht, unabhängig davon, ob diese Ergebnisse positiv oder negativ ausfallen. — Danach wird ein kurzer Überblick über einige neuere Ergebnisse der mathematischen Biophysik gemacht und es werden einige fundamentale Probleme der Krebsforschung vom Standpunkte dieser Ergebnisse diskutiert. Es wird auf eine Reihe neuer möglicher Versuche hingewiesen, welche (...)
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  42. Some remarks on the mathematical biophysics of organic assymetry.N. Rashevsky - 1939 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (3):197-203.
    Das Vorhandensein bilateraler Asymmetrie bei Organismen ist an und für sich biophysikalisch verständlich. Schwierigkeiten entstehen jedoch beim Versuch die auffallende Ungleichheit in den Häufigkeiten des Vorkommens von Rechts- und Linksasymmetrie biophysikalisch zu deuten. Es werden zwei Möglichkeiten für solch'eine Deutung besprochen. Die eine stützt sich auf die fundamentale Asymmetrie des elektromagnetischen Feldes, und wird als biologisch weniger geeignet angesehen. Die andere, welche dem Verfasser als wahrscheinlicher erscheint, beruht auf der Asymmetrie der organischen Moleküle.L'existence d'une asymétrie bilaterale en général chez des (...)
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  43. The relation of mathematical biophysics to experimental biology.N. Rashevsky - 1938 - Acta Biotheoretica 4 (2):133-153.
    Nach einer allgemeinen Diskussion des Zusammenhanges zwischen theoretischer und experimenteller Forschung, wird in Hinblick auf die vom Verfasser entwickelten physikalisch-mathematischen Grundlagen der Biologie, eine Reihe von Einzelproblemen betrachtet. Es wird an Hand von Kurvenmaterial gezeigt wie weit die mathematisch vorausgesagten Beziehungen mit den experimentellen Befunden übereinstimmen. Folgende Fragen werden besprochen: Zellatmung, Zellgrössen, deren Abhängigkeit von Stoffwechsel, Zellteilung, Protoplasmaströmungen, Nervenerregung, psychophysische Gesetze, Reaktion auf geometrische Gestalten.Après une mise au point générale de la relation entre les sciences théoriques et expérimentales, diverses questions (...)
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  44. The biophysics of space and time.N. Rashevsky - 1935 - Philosophy of Science 2 (1):73-85.
    In studying various possible physico-chemical interpretations of biological phenomena we arrived by a systematical development of what we have called “Mathematical Biophysics” at the interpretation of even such complex phenomena, as those involved in learning, Gestalt-discrimination and Gestalt-transposition. Yet, in spite of the apparent progress made along this newly trodden road, a sophisticated mind may feel that we are advancing into a peculiar “cul-de-sac.” Indeed we are discussing possible physico-chemical mechanisms underlying the discrimination, recognition and constancy-properties of various spatial forms. (...)
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  45. Foundations of mathematical biophysics.N. Rashevsky - 1934 - Philosophy of Science 1 (2):176-196.
    Mathematical methods in biology occupy a somewhat peculiar position, and the attitude of many biologists toward them is similar to that of many practical engineers toward what is called pure scientific research. The modern progressive engineer recognizes the value of pure science, which seeks for truth regardless of any possibility of practical applications; yet he still frequently shows a definite dislike towards such investigations. The whole history of civilization demonstrates that discoveries which, at the time they were made, did not (...)
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  46. (1 other version)A note on the needs and uses of energy measurements for work in psychological optics.C. E. Ferree & Gertrude Rand - 1917 - Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 14 (17):457-462.
  47. Some Points in Intracranial Physics.James Cappie - 1897 - The Monist 7 (3):358-379.
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  48. Using DNA to Search for Dark Matter.John Cramer - unknown
    Alternate View Column AV-91 Keywords: dark matter WIMPs weakly interacting massive particles detection DNA eV energy deposition Published in the September-1998 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine ; This column was written and submitted 02/20/98 and is copyrighted ©1998 by John G. Cramer. All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced in any form without the explicit permission of the author.
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