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  1. New physical foundations for cognitive science.Stephen W. Kercel - 2008 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 29 (1-2):159-193.
    Why should the subject of physics arise in a paper ostensibly concerned with cognitive science and evolutionary biology? If we were advocating a new physics of life and mind simply because we cannot devise an explanation of brain function within the framework of conventional physics, it would appear to reveal a fundamental flaw in the paradigm that we are discussing. If cognition is a biological process, and if biology is ultimately reducible to physics, should not physics be sufficient to entail (...)
     
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  2. Topology and Life Redux: Robert Rosen’s Relational Diagrams of Living Systems. [REVIEW]A. H. Louie & Stephen W. Kercel - 2007 - Axiomathes 17 (2):109-136.
    Algebraic/topological descriptions of living processes are indispensable to the understanding of both biological and cognitive functions. This paper presents a fundamental algebraic description of living/cognitive processes and exposes its inherent ambiguity. Since ambiguity is forbidden to computation, no computational description can lend insight to inherently ambiguous processes. The impredicativity of these models is not a flaw, but is, rather, their strength. It enables us to reason with ambiguous mathematical representations of ambiguous natural processes. The noncomputability of these structures means computerized (...)
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  3. Reductionism in Ethics and Science: A Contemporary Look at G. E. Moore's Open-Question Argument.Stephen W. Ball - 1988 - American Philosophical Quarterly 25 (3):197 - 213.
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    A Brief History of Time From The Big Bang to Black Holes.Stephen W. Hawking - 2020 - Bantam.
    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the origin and evolution of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for readers who have no prior knowledge of the universe and people who are interested in learning.
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    In Praise of Platonic Physicians.Stephen W. Luebke - 1983 - Hastings Center Report 13 (5):45-45.
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    From here to absurdity: the moral battlefields of Joseph Heller.Stephen W. Potts - 1982 - San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press.
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  7. Evolution, explanation, and the fact/value distinction.Stephen W. Ball - 1988 - Biology and Philosophy 3 (3):317-348.
    Though modern non-cognitivists in ethics characteristically believe that values are irreducible to facts, they nevertheless believe that values are determined by facts, viz., those specified in functionalist, explanatory theories of the evolutionary origin of morality. The present paper probes the consistency of this position. The conventionalist theories of Hume and Harman are examined, and are seen not to establish a tight determinative reduction of values to facts. This result is illustrated by reference to recent theories of the sociobiological mechanisms involved (...)
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    (1 other version)From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China.Stephen W. Durrant & Benjamin A. Elman - 1987 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (2):346.
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  9. The Equality Principle: Is It Linguistically Justifiable?Stephen W. White - 1974 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 55 (1):53-60.
     
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    Epistemology and cognition.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1988 - Artificial Intelligence 34 (2):251-264.
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    Eight reviews on connectionism.Stephen W. Smoliar & Mark J. Stefik - 1993 - Artificial Intelligence 62 (1):89-91.
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    The society of mind.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1991 - Artificial Intelligence 48 (3):349-370.
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    Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies.Stephen W. Durrant, John McCoy & Timothy Light - 1989 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (3):487.
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    The Taoist Apotheosis of Mo Ti.Stephen W. Durrant - 1977 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 97 (4):540-546.
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  15. Linguistic intuitions and varieties of ethical naturalism.Stephen W. Ball - 1991 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1):1-38.
  16. Maximin Justice, Sacrifice, and the Reciprocity Argument: A Pragmatic Reassessment of the Rawls/Nozick Debate.Stephen W. Ball - 1993 - Utilitas 5 (2):157-184.
    Theories of economic justice are characteristically based on abstract ethical concerns often unrelated to practical distributive results. Two decades ago, Rawls's theory of justice began as a reaction against the alleged ‘sacrifices’ condoned by utilitarian theory. One variant of this objection is that utilitarianism permits gross inequalities, severe deprivations of individual liberty, or even the enslavement of society's least well-off individuals. There are, however, more subtle forms of the objection. In Rawls, it is often waged without any claim that utilitarianismdoesin (...)
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    About Thinking, about "Art".Stephen W. Shipps - 1996 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 30 (1):73.
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  18. Bergmann's theory of freedom.Stephen W. Ball - 1985 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3):287-304.
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    Facts, values, and normative supervenience.Stephen W. Ball - 1989 - Philosophical Studies 55 (2):143 - 172.
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    Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond.Stephen W. Sawyer & Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (eds.) - 2018 - Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International.
    Offers a comprehensive account of Foucault’s relationship to neoliberalism that is driven not by polemics but a careful reading of Foucault’s texts and political positions.
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    Models of musical communication and cognition.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1990 - Artificial Intelligence 44 (3):361-372.
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    Catalogue of the University of Leeds Museum of the History of Education.W. B. Stephens - 1973 - British Journal of Educational Studies 21 (3):347-348.
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    Teaching Local History.W. B. Stephens - 1978 - British Journal of Educational Studies 26 (3):282-283.
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    CAHOST: An Excel Workbook for Facilitating the Johnson-Neyman Technique for Two-Way Interactions in Multiple Regression.Stephen W. Carden, Nicholas S. Holtzman & Michael J. Strube - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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    What's new: To boldly glow…. Applications of laser scanning confocal microscopy in developmental biology.Stephen W. Paddock - 1994 - Bioessays 16 (5):357-365.
    The laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM)LSCM: laser scanning confocal microscope; FISH: fluorescence in situ hybridisation; DiO6: 3,3′‐dihexyloxacarbocyanine iodide; NBD‐ceramide: 6‐((N‐(7‐nitrobenz‐2‐oxa‐1,3‐diazol‐4‐yl)amino)‐caproyl)sphingosine; DiO: 3,3′‐dioctadecyloxacarbocyanine perchlorate; DiI: 1,1′‐dioctadecyl‐3,3,3′,3′‐tetramethyl‐indocarbocyanine perchlorate; CCD: charge‐coupled device; DIC: differential interference contrast; FURA2: (‐(2‐(5‐carboxyoxazol‐2‐yl)‐6‐aminobenzofuran‐5‐oxy)‐2‐)2′‐amino‐5′‐methylphenoxy)‐ethane‐N,N,N′,N′‐ tetraacetic acid, sodium salt);BCECF: 2′,7′‐bis‐(carboxyethyl)‐5‐(and‐6‐)‐carboxyfluorescein;fluo‐3: 1‐(2‐amino‐5‐(2,7‐dichloro‐6‐hydroxy‐3‐oxo‐3H‐xanthen‐9‐yl)‐2‐(2′amino‐5′‐methylphenoxy)‐ethane‐N,N, N′,N′,‐tetraacetic acid, ammonium salt; DAPI: 4′,6‐diamidino‐2‐phenylindole, dihydrochloride; PET: positron emission tomogrophy; CT: computer‐assisted tomogrophy; CiD: cubitus interruptus dominus; MRC: Medical Research Council; TOTO‐1: benzothiazolium‐4‐quinolinium dimer; YOYO‐1: benzoxazolium‐4‐quinolinium dimer; ex.: excitation wavelength; em.: emission wavelength. is now established as an invaluable tool in (...)
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    Bibliographic Notes on Studies of Early China.Stephen W. Durrant & Cho-yun Hsu - 1983 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 103 (3):639.
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    Dworkin and His Critics: The Relevance of Ethical Theory in Philosophy of Law.Stephen W. Ball - 1990 - Ratio Juris 3 (3):340-384.
    Two deficiencies characterize the vast critical literature that has accumulated around Dworkin's theory of law. On the one hand, the main lines of the debate tend to get lost in the crossfire of objections by critics and rejoinders by Dworkin — with little dialogue between the critics, or any systematic interrelation or resolution of these largely isolated disputes. On the other hand, such arguments on various points of Dworkin's Jurisprudence tend to neglect or obscure underlying issues in philosophical ethics. The (...)
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    Neural darwinism: The theory of neuronal group selection.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1989 - Artificial Intelligence 39 (1):121-136.
  29. (1 other version)Precautionary reasoning in determining moral worth.Stephen W. Smith - 2008 - In Michael D. A. Freeman, Law and bioethics / edited by Michael Freeman. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Logical foundations of artificial intelligence.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1989 - Artificial Intelligence 38 (1):119-124.
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    Optimum Population: A Conceptual Appraisal and Revision.Stephen W. White - 1979 - Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10 (2):147-163.
    Every rational person knows that there is a finite limit to the carrying capacity of the earth. No ecologist was needed to tell us this, for the statement that finite systems cannot sustain infinite magnitudes is a truth of logic no sane person can choose to ignore and still claim to be rational. The question concerning how we shall approach the limits to population growth, and at what cost, is still an open question. Human beings have increasingly taken on a (...)
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  32. Gianfrancesco Pico and the fear of the imagination: From scepticism to witchcraft.W. Stephens - 2003 - Rinascimento 43:49-74.
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    A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung.Stephen W. Durrant & Susan Chan Egan - 1989 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (2):335.
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    Uncertainty in moral theory: An epistemic defense of rule-utilitarian liberties.Stephen W. Ball - 1990 - Theory and Decision 29 (2):133-160.
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    Artificial life.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1995 - Artificial Intelligence 73 (1-2):371-377.
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    Conceptual structures: Information processing in mind and machine.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1987 - Artificial Intelligence 33 (2):259-266.
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    The music collection.Stephen W. Smoliar - 1995 - Artificial Intelligence 79 (2):341-342.
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    Sources for English Local History.W. B. Stephens - 1983 - British Journal of Educational Studies 31 (2):168-170.
  39. Demos assembled: democracy and the international origins of the modern state, 1840-1880.Stephen W. Sawyer - 2018 - London: University of Chicago Press.
     
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    Qu’est-ce que la démocratie critique?Stephen W. Sawyer - 2023 - Multitudes 90 (1):113-118.
    Face aux conceptions exclusiviste et idéaliste de la démocratie qui la réserveraient aux quelques pays où elle est née, il faut penser la démocratie comme capacité à gérer les contradictions. Elle génère des attentes qui la dépassent nécessairement, d’où son dynamisme.
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    Advanced Placement and the Secondary School Curriculum.W. C. Stephens - 1965 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 58 (5):132.
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    Bibliographical essay / legal positivism, natural law, and the Hart/Dworkin debate.Stephen W. Ball - 1984 - Criminal Justice Ethics 3 (2):68-85.
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    Demos rising: democracy and the popular construction of public power in France, 1800-1850.Stephen W. Sawyer - 2025 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising, he presents readers of political history with a prequel whose ambitious claim is that a genuine demos became possible in France only with the development of government regulation and administration. Focusing on democracy as (...)
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    Individualised Claims of Conscience, Clinical Judgement and Best Interests.Stephen W. Smith - 2018 - Health Care Analysis 26 (1):81-93.
    Conscience and conscientious objections are important issues in medical law and ethics. However, discussions tend to focus on a particular type of conscience-based claim. These types of claims are based upon predictable, generalizable rules in which an individual practitioner objects to what is otherwise standard medical treatment. However, not all conscience based claims are of this type. There are other claims which are based not on an objection to a treatment in general but in individual cases. In other words, these (...)
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  45. Hegel on Proving the Existence of God.Stephen W. Ball - 1979 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):73 - 100.
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    Heart rate variability and deceleration as indexes of reaction time.Stephen W. Porges - 1972 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 92 (1):103.
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    Decomposing Modernity: Ernest Becker's Images of Humanity at the End of an Age.Stephen W. Martin - 1996 - Upa.
    This book reads Ernest Becker both as a prophet of modernity and as a sensitive observer of its decline. Situated within the disciplinary approach of 'theology of culture,' the book discerns in dialogue with Becker the contours of modern vision in its depth-dimension. Taking note of Becker's works as a whole, it identifies the two master images of human existence—homo poeta and homo heroica—which articulate this dimension, situating them in scholarly debate and comparing and relating them to the contemporary situation.
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    The use of gradient and dual space in line-drawing interpretation.Stephen W. Draper - 1981 - Artificial Intelligence 17 (1-3):461-508.
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    Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes?Stephen W. Durrant - 2012 - In Steven Shankman & Stephen W. Durrant, Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons. SUNY Press. pp. 283-298.
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    Heart rate variability: An autonomic correlate of reaction time performance.Stephen W. Porges - 1973 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 1 (4):270-272.
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