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Newtonian & Aristotelian Physics: Wolfgang Smith’s Path to Reconciliation

John Taylor The major milestone of a truly mathematical account of motion was accomplished with the publication of Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton in ...

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Surveying the Integral Cosmos: A Review of ‘Physics & Vertical Causation’

John Trevor Berger According to the experts of standard cosmology, we live in a universe which is uniformly egalitarian, a homogeneous mass of subatomic particl...

29 August 2023 Book Review Philosophy of Physics Wolfgang Smith

Project Schola Podcast

Physics and the Nature of Matter | Prof. Raphael De Paola (Part 1)

In this segment (Part 1 of Ep. 2), co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger welcome Prof. Raphael De Paola (Dept. of Physics, PUC-Rio) for an absorbing disc...

28 February 2023 Philosophy of Physics Podcast Raphael De Paola

Philos-Sophia Vlog

The Philos-Sophia Vlog | The Corporeal and the Physical

In Episode 10 of our continuing series of interview segments—which we rebooted in late March, following its original premiere in late 2020—Dr. Wolfgang Smit...

30 May 2022 Philos-Sophia Vlog Philosophy of Physics Wolfgang Smith

Philos-Sophia Vlog

The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Bifurcation

In the eighth episode of our continuing series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith—which we rebooted last month following...

2 May 2022 Philos-Sophia Vlog Philosophy of Physics Wolfgang Smith

Philos-Sophia Vlog

The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Corporeal World

The Philos-Sophia Vlog returns! We’re very excited to introduce the continuation of this series—which first premiered in late 2020—featuring Dr. Wolfg...

21 March 2022 Philos-Sophia Vlog Philosophy of Physics Wolfgang Smith

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Subcorporeal Physics and Vertical Causation

Wolfgang Smith and John Taylor With the discovery of quantum mechanics in the early decades of the twentieth century, it seemed that physics had at last discove...

3 May 2021 Philosophy of Physics Quantum Theory Vertical Causation

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Vertical Causation and Wholeness

Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: This article is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. Vertical causality made its appearance in the context of the mea...

25 March 2020 Philosophy of Physics Vertical Causality Wholeness

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To Be or Not To Be an Apple

Wolfgang Smith A Brief Response to Dr. Alec MacAndrew The title already of Dr. MacAndrew’s article—“When is an Apple Not an Apple?”—alludes to the...

17 December 2019 Philosophy of Physics Quantum Theory Visual Perception

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From Cosmos to Multiverse: The Ominous Descent

Wolfgang Smith We have spoken at length of the “tripartite cosmos” as envisaged in the sapiential traditions of mankind,1 which relegates the corporeal wo...

21 September 2019 Cosmology Philosophy Philosophy of Physics

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The Tripartite Wholeness

Wolfgang Smith The universe presents itself as extended in space and changing in time, and its spatio-temporal locus can be represented mathematically in terms ...

15 August 2019 Cosmology Philosophy of Physics Wholeness

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Does Physics Admit a Teleology?

Wolfgang Smith Our question—“Does physics admit a teleology?”—proves, first of all, to be incurably philosophical inasmuch as it has no meaning whatsoev...

18 March 2019 Cosmology Metaphysics Philosophy of Physics

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Vertical Causation (II): Corporeal Strata and The Distinction

Raphael De Paola All corporeal beings can be classified in one of four levels of the following hierarchical order: mineral, vegetable, animal, and human (i.e., ...

11 April 2018 Philosophy of Physics Vertical Causality Wolfgang Smith