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View article: Henry More and Thomas Hobbes’s Corporeal God
Henry More and Thomas Hobbes’s Corporeal God Open
Thomas Hobbes’s strict monistic materialism led many contemporaries to believe he must be an atheist—to hold God to be a corporeal being, they claimed, was effectively to deny his existence. This paper is an addition to those works suggest…
View article: ‘Like nets or cobwebs’: Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction
‘Like nets or cobwebs’: Kenelm Digby, Isaac Newton and the problem of rarefaction Open
This article aims to bring out the problematic nature of condensation and rarefaction for early modern natural philosophers by considering two historically significant attempts to deal with it, first by Sir Kenelm Digby in his Treatise on …
View article: THE GENERAL RESURRECTION AND EARLY MODERN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY
THE GENERAL RESURRECTION AND EARLY MODERN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY Open
Noting that the doctrine of the general resurrection attracted renewed attention after the Reformation, and after the atomist revival led to the displacement of traditional hylomorphism by alternative matter theories, this article surveys …
View article: On the robustness of machine learning models for stress and anxiety recognition from heart activity signals
On the robustness of machine learning models for stress and anxiety recognition from heart activity signals Open
Many recent studies have addressed the detection of negative affective states such as stress and anxiety from physiological signals taken from body-worn sensors. Typically, machine learning classifiers are applied to features derived from …
View article: Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics
Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics Open
As well as the mathematically-supported celestial mechanics that Newton developed in his Principia, Newton also proposed a more speculative natural philosophy of interparticulate forces of attraction and repulsion. Although this spe…
View article: On the robustness of machine learning models for stress and anxiety recognition from heart activity signals
On the robustness of machine learning models for stress and anxiety recognition from heart activity signals Open
Many recent studies have addressed the detection of negative affective states such as stress and anxiety from physiological signals taken from body-worn sensors. Typically, machine learning classifiers are applied to features derived from …
View article: On the robustness of machine learning models for stress and anxiety recognition from heart activity signals
On the robustness of machine learning models for stress and anxiety recognition from heart activity signals Open
Many recent studies have addressed the detection of negative affective states such as stress and anxiety from physiological signals taken from body-worn sensors. Typically, machine learning classifiers are applied to features derived from …
View article: An exploration of maternity and newborn exposure, training and education among staff working within the North West Ambulance Service
An exploration of maternity and newborn exposure, training and education among staff working within the North West Ambulance Service Open
Aim: Providing emergency and urgent care to pregnant patients and newborns in the pre-hospital setting often presents some of the most challenging and complex incidents attended to by ambulance staff. A service evaluation survey was undert…
View article: Monitoring of Post-Brain Injuries By Measuring Plasma Levels of Neuron-Derived Extracellular Vesicles
Monitoring of Post-Brain Injuries By Measuring Plasma Levels of Neuron-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Open
Background: Extracellular vesicles (EV) released from neurons into the blood can reflect the state of nervous tissue. Measurement of neuron derived EV (NDE) may serve as an indicator of brain injury. Methods: A sandwich immunoassay was est…
View article: Award-winning papers for free download
Award-winning papers for free download Open
On 15 October 2021 ICE president Rachel Skinner will present awards to the following papers published in the various ICE Proceedings journals in 2020. Journal editorial panels nominated their best papers and an awards committee, chaired by…
View article: Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium
Reassessing the Wider Aspects of Newton’s Thought – A Symposium Open
After a brief introduction, this “symposium” presents four essay reviews of three recent major studies of Newton’s life and works beyond the mathematics, physics and natural philosophy for which he is principally known: Jed Buchwald’s and …
View article: Magic and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Magic and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Open
View article: Brutus es un hombre honorable
Brutus es un hombre honorable Open
La pregunta que planteo en este artículo es justamente la razón por la cual, desde sus fundamentos igualitarios, surgió la desigualdad. Hay buena información sobre cómo se ha defendido la desigualdad a lo largo de milenios, pero no hay res…
View article: Enlarging the bounds of moral philosophy: Why did Isaac Newton conclude the <i>Opticks</i> the way he did?
Enlarging the bounds of moral philosophy: Why did Isaac Newton conclude the <i>Opticks</i> the way he did? Open
This paper draws attention to the remarkable closing words of Isaac Newton's Optice (1706) and subsequent editions of the Opticks (1718, 1721), and tries to suggest why Newton chose to conclude his book with a puzzling allusion to his own …