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On the Ontology of Life: The Recent Contributions of Tymieniecka, Gibson, and Shotter to the Development of an Ecological Approach to Philosophy

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I first began to think clearly about an ecological approach to philosophy at the time of the 18th World Congress of Philosophy which met in Bristol, England in 1988. Since 1995 I have as a participant become vividly aware of the contributions of the meetings of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning to this novel approach.

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Rogers, W.K. (2000). On the Ontology of Life: The Recent Contributions of Tymieniecka, Gibson, and Shotter to the Development of an Ecological Approach to Philosophy. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Paideia. Analecta Husserliana, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2525-5_6

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