Existentialism and My ‘Postwolf’ Dachshund: Authenticity in the Age of Genetic Engineering
ABSTRACT Human genetic engineering has the potential to profoundly alter the traits of future generations, raising critical ethical questions about authenticity and identity. Essentialist perspectives reject genetic engineering, claiming it inherently compromises authenticity by deviating from a species‐typical genome.
Donrich Thaldar
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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By accident and by design: Composing affective atmospheres in an urban art intervention
C. Michels, C. Steyaert
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ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller +2 more
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Liminal Bioethics for Liminal Statuses: A New Method for Analysing Novel Biological Entities
ABSTRACT Novel biological entities such as cell lines and organoids do not typically fit into established conceptual categories, such as ‘human’ or ‘nonhuman’, ‘gift’ or ‘property’. This makes developing robust ethical principles or policy solutions difficult.
Michael Wee, Ilina Singh
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El 'campo' sigue vivo: una interpretación socioeconómica del Holocausto
El presente trabajo pretende ser una crítica de la sociedad moderna, tecnológica e industrial. Alejados de las categorías de una filosofía de la historia con fe ciega en el progreso, consideramos los campos de exterminio como una consecuencia de la ...
Daniel Francisco Álvarez Espinosa
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ABSTRACT Classical bioethics examines moral issues in terrestrial medicine and the life sciences. According to Konrad Szocik, space bioethics merely relocates those questions to harsher environments. We argue that this view is incomplete: space bioethics is a genuinely original domain.
Maurizio Balistreri
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Causal factors and configuration paths for chemical occupational accidents: grounded theory and fsQCA analysis of 154 cases in China. [PDF]
Wang Y, Zheng C, Wang L.
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Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime
Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan +5 more
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Community-dwelling stroke survivors' physical activity experiences: a qualitative systematic review protocol. [PDF]
Zhang H +5 more
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