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Repoliticising the Coast: A Post‐Foundational Commentary on Integrative Governance and Blue Infrastructure

Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 2, July‐December 2025.
ABSTRACT European coasts are contested spaces due to conflicting uses and impacts, prompting the introduction of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). These governance frameworks aim to promote cooperation, resolve conflicts and ensure socio‐ecological outcomes acceptable to multiple actors, even as large‐scale ...
Luca Scheunpflug, Kira Gee
wiley   +1 more source

“Challenging public rhetoric justifying immigrants as ‘indecent’”

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020
Elites employ various rhetorical strategies in public discourse, including on the topic of immigration. As such, those with influence rely on storytelling to shape views about the narratives related to immigrants as a minority out-group.
Aaron Martin, Lisette LeMerise, Riya Chhabra, Sudharshana P. Kanduri, Julia Beleshi   +4 more
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Making Sense of Public Policy in a Fragmented World: the Search for Solutions and the Limits of Learning [PDF]

, 2012
This paper explores innovation, learning and change in an environment where the historical moment of ‘New Public Management’ (NPM) has given way to unprecedented fluidity in public policy and decision making. To begin, we examine key elements of the post-
Fenwick, John, McMillan, Janice
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The logic of idealization in political theory

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 930-942, July 2025.
Abstract The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fundamental ambiguity over idealization's intended inferential logic: the precise way in which idealizations might yield normative knowledge.
Jonathan Leader Maynard
wiley   +1 more source

Karl Barth's Anti‐Ideological Theology: A Reconsideration of Barth's Approach to Philosophy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 372-400, July 2025.
Abstract Barth's approach to borrowing from philosophical figures and schools is underwritten by several convictions that made such an approach intelligible. These convictions entailed that (1) Barth had no firm commitment to a philosophical school; (2) Barth's use of philosophy and philosophical terminology displays a pragmatic though principled ...
Kimlyn J. Bender
wiley   +1 more source

UNIQUENESS, THE IMAGE OF GOD, AND THE PROBLEM OF METHOD: ENGAGING VAN HUYSSTEEN

Zygon, 2008
Wentzel van Huyssteen's book Alone in the World? provides a thoughtful and nuanced account of human evolution from a theological perspective. Not only does his work provide what is perhaps the only sustained theological reflection specifically on human ...
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Chisholmian Foundationalism and the Naturalization of Epistemology

Crítica, 2019
El reciente proyecto de naturalización de la epistemología ha producido gran cantidad de discusiones teóricas, muchas de las cuales (Goldman, Kornblith) se esfuerzan por aludir a la investigación realizada en las ciencias cognoscitivas con el fin de ...
Jane Duran
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 249-268, July 2025.
Abstract It is customary to present René Descartes as the initiator of the problem of other minds in modern philosophy. Briefly, the other minds problem is this. (1) Our acquaintance with thinking relies on inner observation or introspection. (2) In contrast, our observations of others can only access their body surfaces and behaviour.
Olli Lagerspetz
wiley   +1 more source

Cartesian naturalism: natural science in the Meditations

Cogent Arts & Humanities
In a letter to the translator accompanying the French translation of the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes presents a clearly foundationalist view of learning. In this perspective, the ultimate basis of all learning is metaphysics (the first philosophy)
Yasuhiko Tomida
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Plantinga's Internal and External Approach toRationality of Belief in God [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2015
Various views about the rationality/irrationality of believing in God have been suggested by western religious and secular thinners. The theory of "Basicalism" together with its similar views such as "Evidentialism", "Fideism ...
Mahdi Farajipak
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