🥚?🐔 What if the chicken came not before the egg, but as a byproduct of how we choose to understand causality, knowledge, and the limits of both?
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#philosophy #determinism #epistemology #teleology #nonlocality #philosophicalhumour #chickenandegg
Biological Variations Can't Even Yield a Tenth of a Complex Survival-Improving Biological Innovation #teleology #evolution futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2026/03/biol...
#transcendentalEthics #recursiveHolism #SystemsTheory #Utilitarianism #Morality #Ethics #Luhmann #Ontology #Teleology #Phenomenology
Four principles of very great relevance to judging the likelihood of chance biological origins. #evolution #teleology
futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2023/12/biol...
Fine-Tuning Denialism Can Lead to Largely Wasted Careers in Science #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2026/02/fine...
Your Origin Is Light-Years Beyond Any Genetic, Mechanistic or Neural Explanation #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2025/10/your...
-- Debunking Arguments for God with Graham Oppy --
(from @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6A...
#philosophy #cosmology #God #apologetics #theism #teleology
Ever heard of Sabda, the "Revelatory Word" pillar of The Cohesive Tetrad? This ancient concept (Q136720879) isn’t just mystical—it’s the bedrock of authoritative truth and ethical guidance. Imagine a divine compass for morality and purpose! #Philosophy #Ethics #Teleology
We have a new essay!
"Teleological Explanations: Purposes, Functions, and Goals in Biology" by Michael Zerella
1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/10/18/t...
#Teleology #teleological #biology #philosophy #philosophyofbiology
Screenshot of the KU Leuven Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) website showing details of a seminar titled CLPS Seminar: Auguste Nahas, Equilibrium Explanations and Teleology. The event is scheduled for October 3, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Europe/Brussels time) in room HIW1-01.20. Speaker: Auguste Nahas (IHPST, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne). Abstract Teleological explanations have two distinctive features that have been deemed problematic. First, they reverse the usual explanatory order of causal explanations by explaining a phenomenon in virtue of a consequence it brings about. Second, they involve normative considerations in so far as the goal sets standards of hypothetical requirement: there are good and appropriate ways of achieving a goal. Two possible strategies present themselves for making sense of these features. The eliminative strategy aims to show how these features may be translated without loss to an ordinary causal language that cites neither consequences nor normative facts. A naturalist strategy aims to show that these two distinctively teleological features are no impediment to its legitimacy as a form of explanation. Unfortunately, scholars intent on making sense of teleology are not always explicit about which strategy they are pursuing. A notable ambiguity in this area concerns negative feedback and equilibrium explanations, which have long been deemed candidates for teleology. However, it is not clear if these explanations fall into the eliminative or the naturalist strategy. In this paper, I review two prominent accounts of goal-directed behavior in terms of negative feedback and equilibrium seeking, to evaluate whether they lead to an eliminativist or reductive account of teleological explanation. I argue these modes of explanations can be rendered in two ways, one of which is fully eliminative, while the other preserves the consequence-explanatory character of teleology at the expense of its normative character.
If you are in Leuven tomorrow, join us for the first CLPS seminar of the academic year! Our speaker will be @augustenahas.bsky.social (IHPST, University of Paris 1–Sorbonne), who will present on negative feedback, equilibrium explanations, and their relationship to causation & #teleology #HPS #HPbio
The Top 10 Unsolved Problems of Science: A Candid List #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-...
4 Reasons Why Very Much of Protein Complex Origination Is Physically Inexplicable #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2024/03/4-re...
Exhibit A That Developmental Biologists Have No Credible Explanation of Human Morphogenesis #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2024/08/exhi...
Don't jump on the multiverse bandwagon -- it does nothing to explain cosmic fine-tuning #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2024/11/fail...
Handling Biological Complexity, the Mainstream Gives Us Flagrant Falsehoods and Fairy Tales #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2024/12/hand...
The Missing Specifications Problem in Biology #teleology futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
This difference between the #physical (operational) and #symbolic (functional) is often overlooked in most contemporary discourses about #life and #mind (e.g. #TAME)
Not *all* life is #teleology.
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency-2005
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Dry mediæval
axiology’s mad claims
dead leaf falls. Purpose? #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #μverse #teleology #bunk #Aquinas #StAugustine
GOP Senator saying medicaid lets able bodied people play video games with their free time. Brother, I believe that's what we'll all be doing in the future. Work is going out of style. Wait till we're all immortal. Get with the times, old man! #Teleology #BigBeautifulBill #Futurism #Immortalism
Sabine Hossenfelder: #Teleology: Rethinking How We Do #Physics #Astronomy #Science #Nature
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#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #ontyranny #snyder #teleology #communism #narrative #inevitable #goal #socialist #badhypothesis #fallacy #falsedichotomy #superiority
Stop Blaming the Past – Here's the Real Reason You Feel Stuck
Blame the past? Or decode the goal behind your behavior?
🎥 New video breaks down how to shift your story.
youtu.be/fGgmuvt9b88
#ReframeReality #YouTubeGrowth #MindsetReset #GoalDrivenLife #adler #behavior #GoalOrientation #teleology
What If Your Behavior Has a Hidden Goal?
🎧 New pod drop! You are not lazy. You are purposeful.
Learn how even your worst habits serve a goal—until you choose a better one.
Listen now → creators.spotify.com/pod/show/emb...
#PodcastWisdom #adler #behavior #GoalOrientation #teleology #MindHack
Courage to Be Disliked 6/10
🔁 But here’s the shift: Adler focused on teleology—the belief that behavior is purposeful and goal-driven.
We act today based on what we want, not what we went through.
#Teleology #LiveWithPurpose #GoalOriented #YouVsYou
Understanding Teleology: Not everything has a purpose—some things exist simply because they helped survival and reproduction, not due to a grand design or objective. #evolution #teleology #purpose
