Design Limitations, Errors and Hazards in Creating Decision Support Platforms with Large- and Very Large-Scale Data and Program Cores by Elias Koukoutsis, Constantin Papaodysseus, George Tsavdaridis, Nikolaos V. Karadimas, Athanasios Ballis, Eirini Mamatsi, Athanasios Rafail Mamatsis

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Vaccinophobia, “fundamentalism” and the fine tuning of the present-day pandemic by Vladimir Shokhin

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Kant'ın Eleştirel Felsefe Öncesi Eserlerinde ve Eleştirel Felsefesinde Fiziko-Teolojik Delilin Kullanımı by Nur Betül Atakul

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Furkân Sûresinin 30. Âyetine Dair Müfessirlerin Yaklaşımları Ve Hz. Peygamber’in Allah’a Münâcâtının Makâsidî Tefsir Açısından Yorumu by Zakir Demir

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On the theory of mental representation block. a novel perspective on learning and behavior by Tobore Onojighofia Tobore

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Critical Discourse Analysis, Description, Explanation, Causes: Foucault's Inspiration Versus Weber's Perspiration by Gary Wickham, Gavin Kendall

“…The FOUCAULTian governmentality approach, in relying on a teleology—the ultimate purpose of human endeavour is the quest for ever-growing human reason, a reason that is the universal basis of moral judgements, especially moral judgements about political and legal actions—leads not to description, explanation and the possible identification of causes, but to critique, to the inappropriate conflation of, on the one hand, description, explanation and the identification of causes with, on the other, political criticisms sourced in the teleology. …”
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The Practice of Governance, Social Compartmentalization and Fragmentation of Desires by Sandra Hernández-González

“… This article aims to relate natural teleology to the practice of governance. To do so, it presents the phenomenon of social fragmentation and evaluates it –following A. …”
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Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel by Diletta De Cristofaro

“…Traditional apocalyptic narratives reveal a utopian teleology to history, a conception of time that deeply informs western modernity and its metanarratives. …”
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Divine providence and natural contingency: new perspectives from Aquinas on the divine action debate by Kopf, S

“…</p> <p>PART TWO returns to the source texts of a (theo-physical) compatibilist and teleological alternative, Thomas Aquinas, to reveal a richer account of providence, and undertakes a careful examination of its relation to natural causation, contingency and teleology.…”

Hylomorphism and the new mechanist philosophy in biology, neuroscience, and psychology by De Haan, D

“…In this essay I forge a rapprochement between Neo-Aristotelian hylomorphism and the “new mechanist philosophy” in biology, neuroscience, and psychology by drawing attention to their shared commitments concerning multilevel organization, mechanisms, and teleology. Significantly, the new mechanists endorse organization realism (a touchstone of hylomorphism). …”

A alternativa como categoria em Lukács: a captura das mediações humano-genéricas The alternative category in Lukács: the capture of human generic mediations by Sonia Regina Landini

“…As analytical category we detach the reflections of Lukács concerning the alternative category, taking it as mediation between teleology and posited structures, between process of objectivation of teleology and posited structures.…”
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The role of "Critique of Judgment" in the explanation of experiential causality in transcendental idealism of Kant by Mohammadreza Behtash, Ali Karbasizadeh

“…Kant in the "Critique of Judgment", with assertion on distinction between a priori, constitutive, and absolutely necessary principle of causation and a-posteriori, unnecessary, and experiential causality laws, tries to fill the gap between the two classes of laws by a priori and regulative principle and of purposiveness that mechainism and organism(teleology) are it's applications and so completes his explanation about his transcendental idealism about experiential causality.Kant in the "Critique of Judgment", with assertion on distinction between a priori, constitutive, and absolutely necessary principle of causation and a-posteriori, unnecessary, and experiential causality laws, tries to fill the gap between the two classes of laws by a priori and regulative principle and of purposiveness that mechainism and organism(teleology) are it's applications and so completes his explanation about his transcendental idealism about experiential causality.…”
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TRANSGENERATIONAL NEMESIC CHAOS IN THE ANTIGONE: SOPHOCLES' CLASSICAL FOREWARNING TO HEGEMONISTS by John D. Pappas, Demetra Asimakopoulou

“…From such perspective, the downfall of the dynasty might have been predestined by divine providence or cosmic teleology: In a transgenerational period, the polis might have been converging to a stable equilibrium all along, in line with the natural order of the universe, i.e. an equilibrium preconditioned on the extinction of the hubristically aberrant dynasty. …”
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Do moral philosophies influence auditors’ ethical judgments? / Maheran Zakaria, Hasnah Haron and Ishak Ismail by Zakaria, Maheran, Haron, Hasnah, Ismail, Ishak

“…This paper attempts to examine the influence of two moral philosophies namely deontology and teleology evaluations on auditors’ ethical judgments. …”
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Natural Purpose (organism) and its relation to the Final Purpose in Kant's third critique by morteza Saeidi Aboueshaqi, mahdi zakeri

“…Kant in Critique of Judgment, regards nature as the system of purposes, and contrary to the cause and effect system and the mechanistic approach that dominated his philosophy in the critique of pure reason, teleology and the teleological approach became the most important feature of Kant's third critique. …”
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On Althusser's Philosophy of the Encounter by Paul Cockshott

“…It provides a possible technique of both rejecting teleology whilst retaining the arrow of time.…”
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HISTORICISM AND HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL METHOD IN WOLFHART PANNENBERG’S THEOLOGY by Andrey Lavrentyev

“…Discussed are the issue of application of the methods of historical science in theology, the problem of historical anthropocentrism, coexistence «natural» and «supernatural» events in history, teleology and contingency of history. It is come to conclusion of special significance of historical knowledge for Christian theology…”
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Aristotle on the movement of animals by Evgeny Afonasin

“…Theophrastus’ critique of Aristotelian teleology and the idea of the first mover (published in this issue of the journal). …”
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God is an Artificer: A Reply to Professor Edward Feser by Gaine, S

“…Professor Feser’s contribution to the philosophical conversation he presents is particularly congenial to any theologian working in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, where Aristotelian notions of causality and teleology serve extensively, and so it is from the perspective of Aquinas’s theology that I am going to reply to one of Professor Feser’s points about the theological implications of his philosophical position.…”

Messianisme et politique: Note sur le sionisme religieux by Joseph Cohen, Raphäel Zagury-Orly

“…Keywords: Messianism, Zionism, religious Zionism, teleology, theology, history. …”
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