Category: Philosophers

The Epistemic Implications of the Great Acceleration

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This website seeks to provide the resources necessary to overcome some of the challenges associated with the extraordinary growth of scientific and philosophical knowledge in an important area of interdisciplinary research. According to Derek de Solla Price (1975), the father of scientometrics (i.e., the science of studying science), 90% of all the scientists that have ever lived are…

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Maximum power in evolution, ecology, and economics

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This paper was written by Charles A. S. Hall and Timothy McWhirter and published in 2023. It provides a review of the development and use of the maximum power principle in evolutionary theory, ecology, and economics. It includes a discussion of how Alfred Lotka and H. T. Odum both described the maximum power principle applying…

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C. A. S. Hall, Efficiency MPP, Evidence, Ontological, Philosophers, Scientists, The Maximum Power Principle, The Will to Power

Boltzmann’s Time Bomb

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This paper was written by Huw Price and published in 2002. In it Price uncovers a unique approach to resolving a fundamental problem: Why are the laws of mechanics symmetric with respect to time and the fundamental laws of thermodynamics asymmetric with respect to time? This difference is fundamental to the irreversible processes investigated in…

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Maximum Power and its Philosophical Roots

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This book was written by Timothy McWhirter and published in 2025. It examines the relation between the maximum power principle developed by Alfred Lotka and H. T. Odum and the concept of the will to power developed by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It discusses the work of the scientists and philosophers that influenced the…

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Biological, Efficiency MPP, Evidence, Evolutionary, Morality, Morality WP, Ontological, Philosophers, Psychological, Pulsing, The Maximum Efficiency Principle, The Maximum Empower Principle, The Maximum Entropy Production Principle, The Maximum Power Principle, The Will to Power

Morality: From Error to Fiction

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This book was written by Richard Joyce and published in 2024. It is the third in a series of books Joyce has written that explore the relation between morality and evolution. The promotional materials provided for this book state the following. We make moral judgments about all sorts of things, both mundane and momentous. But…

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Evolutionary, Morality, Philosophers

The Evolution of Morality

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This book was written by Richard Joyce and published in 2007. This is the second book in a series Joyce has written that explore the relation between morality and evolution. The promotional materials provided for this book provide the following description. Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come…

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Evolutionary, Morality, Philosophers

The Myth of Morality

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This book was written by Richard Joyce and published in 2007. Joyce is an International Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney that has written a series of books that focus on investigating the relation between morality and evolution. In this book, Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of…

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Evolutionary, Morality, Philosophers

Deriving Ethics from Action: A Nietzschean Version of Constitutivism

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This paper was written by Paul Katsafanas and published in 2011. In this paper, Katsafanas develops a unique interpretation of Nietzsche’s metaethical position based on a version of constitutivism: the view that we can derive substantive normative conclusions from an account of the nature of agency. The abstract states: “This paper has two goals. First,…

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Morality, Morality WP, Paul Katsafanas, Philosophers, The Will to Power

The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

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This book was written by Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick and published in 2012. The authors provide a comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s book Beyond Good and Evil. In this book, Nietzsche provides his famous argument for the concept of the will to power, the version that applies to biotic and abiotic systems. Clark has argued…

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Biological, Maudemarie Clark, Ontological, Psychological, The Will to Power

Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered

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This paper was written by Brian Leiter and published in 2013. In this paper, Leiter provides a very interesting and valuable interpretation of many aspects of Nietzsche’s naturalism. However, given the focus of the investigation on this website, one aspect of this paper does stand out: Leiter’s view of what he calls “the metaphysics of…

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Brian Leiter, Ontological, Philosophers, Psychological, The Will to Power