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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.To establish and update the list of nesting sites in Sicily and its minor islands. To investigate the Sicilian distribution and nesting suitability using spatial distribution models (SDMs). Performing a gap analysis in a GIS environment considering the protected area network in Sicily.
Chiara Siddiolo +3 more
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Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?
Études Platoniciennes, 2014 The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria
Anne-Laure Therme
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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Approaching Empedocles through PWL practices
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of CultureTo approach the poem-fragments of Empedocles as a discourse emerging from the drama of living, is to allow their performatively theorized snapshots to return from mere stills to moving images of practice in modulated stages of training.
Lucio Angelo Privitello
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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 486-500, December 2024.Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Equivocal and Deceitful Didactic Poetry. What Style matters can say about Empedocles' audience
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento OcidentalSince antiquity, Empedocles has been considered as an example of both successful and unsuccessful communication. Aristotle credits him with vividness of images, but blames him for failure of clarity, and eventually compares his obscureness to that of ...
Ilaria Andolfi
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Philia and neikos in Keats’s 'Song of four faeries'
Literator, 2007 Despite the fact that Keats’s “Song of four faeries” received very little critical attention, the poem raises interesting issues regarding the creative and destructive forces in nature.
A.C. Swanepoel
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ChemPlusChem, Volume 89, Issue 7, July 2024.The alchemical symbols for metals, acids, bases and salts were still in everyday use in much of the 18th century. The modern notation, which we use today, is due to Berzelius, but the transition was long and arduous and took place between ca. 1775 and 1820 roughly simultaneously with but distinct from the Chemical Revolution.
Curt Wentrup
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 401-414, July 2024.Abstract This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's ...
Louis Groarke
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 185-193, June 2026.
Benjamin Hutchens
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