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Ideas, History and Social Sciences
Part of a collective project for promoting the study of the history of political ideas within the field of the social sciences in French academia, this interview focuses on method, and more specifically on Prof. Quentin Skinner's relationship to the social sciences (from Max Weber to Peter Winch and Pierre Bourdieu).
Barthas, Jérémie, Skornicki, Arnault
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Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
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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In my current research on the intellectual history of international relations, I aim to use digital methods of text analysis to explore conceptual content and change in diplomatic texts.
Benjamin G. Martin
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Human Social Evolution: Self-Domestication or Self-Control?
The self-domestication hypothesis suggests that, like mammalian domesticates, humans have gone through a process of selection against aggression – a process that in the case of humans was self-induced.
Dor Shilton +4 more
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The Original in the Digital Age
In 2021, an NFT of a digital artwork by the artist @beeple was sold for $69 million. This sale is the starting point for a logical-historical journey tracing the fate of the Original in the digital age.
Doron Avital, Karolina Dolanska
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On Emotions, Knowledge and Educational Institutions: An Explorative Essay
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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The ethics of species extinctions
This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael Soulé’s assertion that the untimely
Anna Wienhues +3 more
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Lennart Nilsson’s A Child Is Born: The Many Lives of a Best-Selling Pregnancy Advice Book
This article examines the circulations and transformations of photographer Lennart Nilsson’s pregnancy advice book Ett barn blir till (A Child Is Born) through its five Swedish editions from 1965 to 2009 as well as some of the translations in English and
Solveig Jülich
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Pseudo-quantities, New Public Management and Human Judgement
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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German and Central European Jews shaped many primary Jewish responses to modernity. The religious renewal, or the alleged “Jewish Renaissance” among German Jews in the first decades of the 20th century, offers a radical encounter with tradition as part ...
Yossef Schwartz
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