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(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca +2 more
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The Concept of Ethos: Aristotle and the Contemporary Ethical Debate [PDF]
, 2016 The problem of the self has recently regained a wide interest in the philosophical panorama. The need to rethink the agent has then encouraged the rediscovery of Ancient Philosophy.
Dal Poz, Irene
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A Taxonomy of Views about Time in Buddhist and Western Philosophy [PDF]
, 2017 We find the claim that time is not real in both western and eastern philosophical traditions. In what follows I will call the view that time does not exist temporal error theory. Temporal error theory was made famous in western analytic philosophy in the
Miller, Kristie
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Rewiring the Technological Future of Information and Biology With Nucleic Acid Information Materials
Transformative Chemistry, EarlyView.Nucleic acid information materials (NAIMs) repurpose DNA from genetic carriers into programmable matter, integrating biotechnology with information technology to rewire the future of molecular computing, ultra‐dense data storage, and intelligent medicine.
Fangfei Yin +3 more
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Party political chaplaincy? – Methodist ministry to political parties
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The debate on church and party politics is far from being exhausted in South Africa. Although the Methodist Church of Southern Africa discourages the participation of clergy persons in political parties, it is becoming critical that the church offers a ...
Ndikho Mtshiselwa, Simphiwe S. Mthembu
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The Logic of Time: from Aristotle to Computer Science [PDF]
, 2017 Charla tipo conferencia-seminario dada para alumnos de un másterThis short course will explore that continuous thread which connects the discussion about time in philosophy with the modern use of temporal logic in computer science. It will go through the
Bresolin, Davide
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of male and female empowerment, as well as gender empowerment inequality, on the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Using a conditional mixed process model, we analyse survey data from 743 households across Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces in China.
Junpeng Li +3 more
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‘Borne again in repetition’ : reincarnation, afterlives, and cultural memory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome [PDF]
, 2016 The present article reads the social and cultural afterlives of a particular marginalised group in colonial Calcutta in Amitav Ghosh’s fourth novel The Calcutta Chromosome, and seeks to examine how these reconstructions of afterlives are linked with the ...
Maiti, Soumava
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Placing the White Scholar in Indigenous Philosophy [PDF]
, 2013 A review of Stephen Muecke's Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2004)
Conor, Liz
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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