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Why Does Feminism Matter To Aesthetics? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Peter Lamarque recently reported on current trends in aesthetics in the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics. Noticeably absent from his list, however, is the emergence and acceptance of feminist approaches in aesthetics, especially among analytic ...
Shaw, Joshua
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

Killing in a posthuman world: the philosophy and practice of critical military history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Book synopsis: The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts brings into focus the diverse influence of the work of Rosi Braidotti on academic fields in the humanities and the social sciences such as the study and scholarship in - among others ...
Bourke, Joanna
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

“Critical Thinking: An Approach that Synthesizes Analytic Philosophy” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper concentrates on the resurrection of the journey of analytic philosophy from the perspective of ‘critical thinking,’ a tool of proper thought and understanding.
Chakraborty, Sanjit
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Understanding place attachment to remote environments: An Antarctic case study

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Anthropocene presents unique challenges for humanity’s relationship with remote environments. Transboundary environmental problems, such as climate change or plastics pollution, affect places that are beyond most people’s direct experience.
Katie Marx   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Political Philosophy of Race [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Toward a Political Philosophy of Race, by Falguni Sheth, SUNY Press, 2009. Events involving the persecution of African‑Americans and other racial groups are normally thought to involve a pre-existing minority being singled out out for persecution.
Lamey, Andy
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source

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