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A. V. Shchusev and the Competition for V. I. Lenin Library [PDF]
Проект Байкал, 2019 The history of the competition for the new building of V. I. Lenin Library is presented. The article features the three winning projects of the competition.
Dmitry Khmelnitsky
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Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT In Section One of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume distinguishes between two sorts of writing on human nature: first, one that appeals to common sense to make virtue seem attractive and, second, one that attempts to describe the principles governing the mind.
Jacovides M.
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Vaccination hesitancy: To be vaccinated, or not to be vaccinated, that is the question in the era of COVID-19. [PDF]
Public Health Nurs, 2023 Abstract COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy poses serious challenges in achieving adequate vaccine coverage in the general population. While most studies on vaccine hesitance determinants during the COVID‐19 pandemic were quantitative, qualitative research on the reasons for vaccine resistance is still lacking.
Perrone C +6 more
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The Pad, the ‘Fat’ Belly, and the Politics of Female Appetite
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 457-474, December 2023., 2023 Abstract 1793 saw the emergence, vogue, and decline of ‘the pad’, a fashionable false belly worn by women under their outer garments. At the time, the pad was most explicitly condemned as a disguise for illegitimate pregnancy and as a distorter of the ‘natural’ female shape — the slender waist.
Charlotte Goodge
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Aristotle on Contrariety as a Principle of First Philosophy
, 2006 This dissertation aims to reconstruct Aristotle’s theory of contrariety as a principle of first philosophy. According to Aristotle, any genus has one contrary opposition.
O'Meara, Dominic J., +3 more
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Critical Idealism as Method: Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1105-1114, December 2023., 2023 Abstract To commemorate the centenary of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms this essay focuses on how Cassirer in the development of a distinctive philosophical method analyzed the newest development within philosophy and science. Discussing Einstein's theory of relativity and Russell's formal logic Cassirer found tools to expand the ...
Esther Oluffa Pedersen
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Whores Aboard and Laws Abroad: English Women and Sexual Slander in Early Colonial New South Wales
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 916-934, October 2023., 2023 Abstract In the nineteenth century, a gendered reform movement – the Slander of Women Acts – swept through the British common law world, making it easier for women to sue for defamatory allegations of sexual immorality. By examining two slander cases brought by women in early New South Wales and radical reforms passed in 1847, this article locates the ...
Jessica Lake
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Do you need to know in order to act? The case for a Suárezian legacy in early modern occasionalism
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 506-526, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The goal of this article is to suggest that in early modern discussions of agency and causal efficacy it is possible to detect an attempt at pushing to its extreme consequences a specific account of agency and causality that was developed in late scholastic thought. More specifically, the article examines Francisco Suárez's (1548–1617) account
Andrea Sangiacomo
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Sustainability and Semantic Diversity: A View from the Malayan Rainforest
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 546-559, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Sustainable development goals assume that basic notions, such as health, life, and water, can be universally and easily expressed and understood across diverse communities and stakeholders. Yet, there is growing evidence pointing to considerable semantic diversity in how humans represent the world in language.
Niclas Burenhult
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Studia Gilsoniana, 2019 The chief aim of this article is to show that St. Thomas Aquinas’s Fourth Way of demonstrating God’s existence can only be made precisely intelligible by comprehending it as a real, generic whole in light of its specific organizational principles ...
Peter A. Redpath
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