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A 150-year conundrum: cranial robusticity and its bearing on the origin of aboriginal australians. [PDF]

Int J Evol Biol, 2011
The origin of Aboriginal Australians has been a central question of palaeoanthropology since its inception during the 19th Century. Moreover, the idea that Australians could trace their ancestry to a non‐modern Pleistocene population such as Homo erectus in Southeast Asia have existed for more than 100 years, being explicitly linked to cranial ...
Curnoe D.
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Aquinas and Anscombe on Connaturality and Moral Knowledge1

New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, Page 668-688, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The idea of ‘connatural knowledge’ is attributed to Aquinas on the basis of passages in which he distinguishes between scientific and affective experiential knowledge of religious and moral truths. In a series of encyclicals beginning with Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris, popes have celebrated and commended Aquinas as the supreme guide in philosophy
John Haldane
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James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 76-91, March 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the English scholar James Cowles Prichard's attention to language and comparative philology within his wider project on the natural history of man. It reveals that linguistic evidence was among the most important elements for Prichard in his overarching scientific aim of investigating human physical diversity, and served ...
Ian Stewart
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A Criminal Law for Semicitizens

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 56-72, February 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT A significant number of influential philosophical theorists of punishment argue that only those who enjoy the status of citizenship in a political community can legitimately be punished by that polity. Yet, the strength of this approach wanes when these scholars treat individuals who clearly do not respond to their idealised conception of ...
Ivó Coca‐Vila, Cristián Irarrázaval
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Machine Learning and Theological Traditions of Analogy

Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 254-274, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Progress in machine learning or artificial intelligence presents us with computer systems that exhibit properties at least in some way akin to aspects of human (or wider animal) cognition. In naming and thinking about these machine learning capacities, it would seem ill‐advised either to suggest simple equivalence with human faculties, or ...
Andrew Davison
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Lykaon, der Wolfsmann, und Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 67-85, April 2021., 2021
Viele der rezenten Studien zur Ästhetik des Monströsen nehmen auf Michel Foucaults Vorlesungsreihe Les anormaux Bezug, in der er u. a. der diskursiven Transformation des Monsters von einem somatischen hin zu einem moralischen Abweichungsphänomen nachgeht.
Thomas Emmrich
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Did Christ die for Neanderthals?

New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1098, Page 225-238, March 2021., 2021
Abstract The discovery that Neanderthals once existed raises the question of their relationship with homo sapiens. Neanderthals have been studied in various disciplines, giving rise to a range of opinions about them. This article raises the question in a theological perspective, asking what a Thomist should make of the status of Neanderthals, whether ...
Simon Francis Gaine
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After Augustine, after Markus: the problem of the secular at the end of antiquity

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 12-35, February 2021., 2021
This article revisits Robert Markus's account of the de‐secularization of the Latin West between Augustine and Gregory the Great. It uses letters of advice for rulers written by early sixth‐century clerics to contest his narrative of a ‘grand simplification’ of Christian thought.
Robin Whelan
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Arendt und kein Ende? Representing the political in recent work on Hannah Arendt

, 2023
The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 571-585, Fall 2023.
Joseph D. O'Neil
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