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Bioethics: Reincarnation of Natural Philosophy in Modern Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The theory of evolution of complex and comprising of human systems and algorithm for its constructing are the synthesis of evolutionary epistemology, philosophical anthropology and concrete scientific empirical basis in ...
Cheshko, Valentin Teodorovich   +2 more
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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 3-22, January 2026.
Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
wiley   +1 more source

The justification of legal punishment in Kant’s philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesКантовский сборник, 2013
The subject matter of the article is the problem of justification of punishment within Kant’s practical philosophy. Modern interpretations tend to reduce this problem to the issue of “retributivism”: To what extent is Kant’s theory of punishment to be ...
Aronson D.
doaj   +1 more source

Polanyian meditations on economy and society: a review of ‘Market Society: The Great Transformation Today’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
When one considers anthropology’s recent encounter with ‘globalisation’ -- whether understood as a “totalizing” discourse (Tsing 2000), as the dialectical antinomy of localization, as expanding constellations of diasporas and transnational social spaces”
Dale, G
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Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 6, Page 2700-2718, December 2025.
Abstract This paper explores how meaningful work is conceptualised by recent graduates. Whilst the imperative to maximise economic returns from higher education (HE) endures in HE policy, less attention is given to how meaningful work is and its relationship to values and identities.
Michael Tomlinson, Manuel Souto‐Otero
wiley   +1 more source

Antinomies et analogies comme outils transversaux en sociologie : en partant de Proudhon et de Passeron

open access: yesSociologies, 2015
The paper proposes the notions of "antinomies" and of "balance of the opposite" (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon), then of "analogies" (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Ricœur and Jean-Claude Passeron), as transverse instruments of sociology in dialogue with philosophy ...
Philippe Corcuff
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of the Relationships of Love, Hate and Indifference [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In Franceschi (2002), I presented a theory based on the matrices of concepts aiming at providing an alternative to the classification proposed by Greimas, in the field of paradigmatic analysis.
Franceschi, Dr Paul
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Harm behind the counter: ‘regulatory labour’ and the offloading of risk onto front‐line employees in the post‐Gambling Act era

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 580-605, December 2025.
Abstract Under‐explored in socio‐legal discussions of the legal and regulatory structures focused on harm reduction in gambling, alcohol consumption, and other liberalized consumer activities are the specific ways in which these are interpreted and deployed by front‐line staff in the context of their existing forms of labour and employment pressures ...
SAMUEL KIRWAN   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Qua‐Talk and Other Forms of Quackery: Part One

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The Latin term “qua” is used occasionally in ordinary discourse but more often as a philosophical term of art. Its purpose is sometimes to avoid what would otherwise be contradictions, as in “necessarily two‐legged qua cyclist, contingently two‐legged qua mathematician.” In this paper, I identify and clarify several of the philosophical uses ...
James Van Cleve
wiley   +1 more source

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