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“From Moses to Moses”: Late Medieval Jewish and Christian Interpretation of Moses’s Prophecy

Religions, 2020
The paper examines how the figure of the biblical Moses was philosophically interpreted in medieval Jewish and Christian writings. It highlights a turning point in a new concept of prophecy and scriptural authority and suggests that this transformation ...
Yossef Schwartz
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Ellen Key and the concept of Bildung

Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2014
The essay presents Ellen Key’s educational concept and show her place in the educational tradition of which she is a part. Around the turn of the century in 1900 her name was on many lips, not just in Sweden but also in major parts of Western Europe ...
Ronny Ambjörnsson
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Bossy matrons and forced marriages: Talmudic confrontationalism and its philosophical significance

Open Philosophy, 2020
This article introduces the confrontational theology of the rabbinic literature of late antiquity by means of a well-known, yet ill-understood legend.
Fisch Menachem
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Distributed Adaptations: Can a Species Be Adapted While No Single Individual Carries the Adaptation?

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Species’ adaptation to their environments occurs via a range of mechanisms of adaptation. These include genetic adaptations as well as non-traditional inheritance mechanisms such as learned behaviors, niche construction, epigenetics, horizontal gene ...
Ehud Lamm, Oren Kolodny
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Introduction: Cultures of Disaster

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2015
No abstract available.
Anders Ekström, Kyrre Kverndokk
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Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Music is an interactive technology associated with religious and communal activities and was suggested to have evolved as a participatory activity supporting social bonding. In post-industrial societies, however, music's communal role was eclipsed by its
Dor Shilton, Sam Passmore, Patrick E. Savage   +2 more
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What is in three words? Exploring a three-word methodology for assessing impressions of a social robot encounter online and in real life

Paladyn, 2019
We explore the impressions and conceptualisations produced by participants after their first encounter with the teleoperated robot, Telenoid R1.
Damholdt Malene Flensborg, Christina Vestergaard, Kryvous Anna, Smedegaard Catharina Vesterager, Seibt Johanna   +4 more
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Topic Timelines for Enabling Close and Distant Reading of Discursive Shifts. A Pilot Case Using Periodicals of European Diabetes Organizations

Journal of Open Humanities Data
In 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, Andrew Burchell, Julia Reed, Maria Skeppstedt   +3 more
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Talking with tradition: On Brandom’s historical rationality

Open Philosophy, 2020
Robert Brandom’s notion of historical rationality seeks to supplement his inferentialism thesis by providing an account for the validity of conceptual contents.
Gazit Yael
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Reafferent origins of image-forming vision

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
We propose that reafference was central to the evolution of image-forming vision. Early neural animals used copies of their own motor commands to predict the optic flow generated by self-motion and suppress the expected component in retinal input.
Abraham Englander, Eva Jablonka
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