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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Describing neutron spin echo data from undulating lipid vesicles: recent advances

open access: yesJournal of Applied Crystallography, EarlyView.
We present results and practical considerations for the analysis of neutron spin echo data from vesicles with undulating membranes using a framework that was recently published [Granek et al. (2024). Eur. Phys. J. E47, 12]. We show the importance of vesicle diffusion, size, lamellarity and osmotic pressure as well as the effects of membrane viscosity ...
Ingo Hoffmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source

For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Einstein like -para Sasakian manifolds

open access: yesKuwait Journal of Science, 2013
Einstein like  -para Sasakian manifolds are introduced. For an  -para Sasakian manifold to be Einstein like, a necessary and sufficient condition in terms of its curvature tensor is obtained.
SADIK KELES   +3 more
doaj  

Relativistic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations for vector and tensor states [PDF]

open access: green, 2011
Paweł Caban   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

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