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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

Telecological Collapse: The Inevitability of Climate Breakdown in the Transmedial Podcast Drama Forest 404

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Cannabis, Religion, and Trust in the Medical Profession: A Cross‐Religious Study of Patients' Attitudes Toward Medical and Recreational Use in Northern Israel

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the global expansion of medical cannabis, limited empirical attention has been given to the sociocultural and religious factors shaping patient attitudes, particularly in multi‐faith societies. Israel provides a distinctive context for such examination, combining advanced medical cannabis regulation with substantial religious diversity.
Loay Zaknoun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jungian categories as modes of reading: The case of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 2, Page 89-110, April 2026.
Abstract This essay advocates renewed attention toward Jungian literary criticism, emphasizing its unique and creative perspectives on both fictional worlds and on reading. A fresh turn to Jungian criticism offers, in particular, valuable insight for texts on the peripheries of the canon.
Edsel Parke
wiley   +1 more source

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