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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
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Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World
ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Feeling Virtue: An Enactive Theory of Approval
ABSTRACT A neo‐sentimentalist theory of virtue holds that a trait is virtue if, and only if, it merits approval. Neo‐sentimentalists tend to be sceptical about the prospect of such a theory because it seems unlikely that feelings of approval can be characterised without reference to the notion of virtue. I argue that that scepticism is uncalled for. My
Rafael Graebin Vogelmann
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Abstract Background and Objective Adequate blood supply remains a challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Malawi has a 13% shortfall in required blood supplies. Innovative recruitment and retention strategies are crucial to ensuring a sufficient number of donors and blood supply.
Princess Kaira +8 more
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Abstract Assessment is a contested term in school conceptualisation and practices. Assessment in music education has a variety of meanings, and complexities can arise from music teacher and school leader understandings of the term. Using an activity theory conceptual framework and Q methodology, this longitudinal research project sought to develop ...
Anthony Anderson +4 more
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Forecasting House Prices: The Role of Market Interconnectedness
ABSTRACT While the existing research uncovers interconnections between various housing markets, it largely ignores the question of whether such linkages can improve house price predictions. To address this issue, we proceed in two steps. First, we forecast disaggregated house price growth rates from Australia and China to determine whether ...
Zac Chen +3 more
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Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology. [PDF]
Jacovides M.
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ABSTRACT Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was a blockbuster publication that problematized notions about the origins and nature of scientific revolutions. What became Kuhn's famous rubrics of “normal science” and “paradigms” were similar to concepts of “tacit knowledge” and scientific “frameworks” or “dogmas” in Michael ...
Mary Jo Nye
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