The Anthropic Cosmological Principle: A Thematic Case of Teleology and Causality in Contemporary Science

The successive versions of the anthropic cosmological principle reintroduced teleology in cosmology, articulating it with two forms of mechanical causality – probabilism and determinism. According to the thematic analysis of science proposed by Gerald Holton, we can say that teleology is the opposin...

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Main Author: Barbosa, João (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51246
Country:Portugal
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