Global value, full value and societal costs:capturing the true cost of destroying marine ecosystems [PDF]
Failler, Pierre, Pan, Haoran
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Toward a New Welfare Foundation for Sustainability [PDF]
The debate over various definitions of sustainability has for the most part been conducted within the framework of traditional welfare economics. Discussion has centered on technical issues imbedded within the functional forms of various optimization ...
John M. Gowdy
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DO ALL THE RESOURCE PROBLEMS IN THE WEST BEGIN IN THE EAST? [PDF]
Economics can make good policy better and bad policy go away- a message often constrained by the political realities surrounding federal resource policy toward the West.
Shogren, Jason F.
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Natural Selection _In Utero_ Contributes to the Male Longevity Deficit in Contemporary Human Populations [PDF]
Much literature invokes natural selection to explain the pervasive deficit in the average lifespan of men compared to women.^1^ The explanation assumes that mothers, not fathers, provisioned children over much of human existence, and that women who lived
Ralph Catalano
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JUMPING TOGETHER: A WAY FROM SOCIOBIOLOGY TO BIO‐SOCIO‐HUMANITIES
Sociobiology is a grand narrative of evolutionary biology on which to build unified knowledge. Consilience is a metaphorical representation of that narrative. I take up the same metaphor but apply it differently.
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The Aesthetics of Theory Selection and the Logics of Art [PDF]
Philosophers of science discuss whether theory selection depends on aesthetic judgments or criteria, and whether these putatively aesthetic features are genuinely extra-epistemic.
McCallum, Kate, O’Loughlin, Ian
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Science and religion in E. Wilson: the unity of science and the religion of evolution
After a brief presentation of the status quaestionis of the current relationship between science and ethics, the article explores the particular reasoning of E. Wilson on the relation between science and religion.
Leopoldo José Prieto López
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Philosophy at the Beginning of the 21st Century [PDF]
À la dernière moitié du 20 e siècle, la postmodernité a rejeté entièrement la notion de réalité objective et celui de vérité. On doit s'en souvenir que la vérité en dépend de ce qu’il montre et s'il n'y avait aucune réalité objective il n'y avait aucune ...
Little, Bruce A.
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A Water-Resistant, Self-Healing Encapsulation Layer for a Stable, Implantable Wireless Antenna. [PDF]
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Big Data: Big Challenges, Big Opportunities: The Reification of Consilience [PDF]
Reed, Daniel A.
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