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Pseudo-quantities, New Public Management and Human Judgement
Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2012 In this article I will introduce a new concept: pseudoquantities. A pseudo-quantity is a spurious quantity that purports to indicate the dimensions of something but is actually arbitrary and, if taken at face value, misleading. A real quantity informs us
Sven-Eric Liedman
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Paladyn, 2019 We explore the impressions and conceptualisations produced by participants after their first encounter with the teleoperated robot, Telenoid R1.
Damholdt Malene Flensborg +4 more
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The Pythagorean Symbolism in Plato’s Philebus [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2016 The Philebus contains what may be called a Pythagorean semiotics. That is, the dialogue has a number of embedded references and allusions to central aspects and ideas of Pythagoreanism.
Kenneth R. Moore
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Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021 In a world described or experienced as unfair, what can philosophical practitioners propose in order to help individuals and communities strive for a meaningful life? One answer, empirically informed by the author’s practice as philosophical counselor in
Luis de Miranda
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The history of the idea of allergy [PDF]
Allergy, 2013 About 100 years ago, a young paediatrician understood that the function of the immune system should be rationalized not in terms of exemption of disease but in terms of change of reactivity. He coined a new word to represent such an idea: 'allergy': the first contact of the immune system with an antigen changes the reactivity of the individual; on the ...
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On Emotions, Knowledge and Educational Institutions: An Explorative Essay
Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2016 In this essay I formulate some reflections around the theme feelings and education.1 I will outline some essential features of the research and will argue that a historical approach to the subject will contribute by adding nuance to and complementing the
Thomas Karlsohn
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Movement and Balance. A comment on Derek Attridge’s Moving Words
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2020 This paper discusses some central problems that occur within cognitive versification studies. Derek Attridge’s Moving Words (2013) comments on Richard Cureton’s concept of temporalities. Attridge understands poetic rhythm as movement.
Eva Lilja
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Language on Display: Latin in the Material Culture of Fascist Italy
Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2023 This article explores the various uses and functions of the Latin language in the material culture of Fascist Italy. It shows that Latin words and phrases were used across diverse media and artistic styles, served several communicative purposes, and went
Han Lamers
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Journal of Open Humanities DataIn a project about the development of 20th-century patient organizations and their ideas about disease, we are investigating discursive shifts in the organizations’ periodicals—mostly magazines and newsletters—using topic modelling.
Ylva Söderfeldt +3 more
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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2009 This article discusses the notion of Byzantium and Byzantium's potential capacities as a multifaceted borderland, as shaped and perceived in Julia Kristeva's novel Murder in Byzantium.
Helena Bodin
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