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Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life Ennemis : accompagnements de fin de vie difficiles

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 128-144, April 2025.
Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish‐Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio ...
Lawrence Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Time-plans of the organisms: Jakob von Uexküll’s explorations into the temporal constitution of living beings

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2011
The term “time-plan” is introduced in the article to sum up the diversity of temporal processes described by Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) in the framework of the general Planmässigkeit of nature.
Riin Magnus
doaj   +1 more source

Natural languages and RNA virus evolution

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, Volume 602, Issue 11, Page 2565-2580, 1 June 2024.
Abstract figure legend Investigating information approaches applied to molecular biology across diverse disciplines. Abstract Information concepts from physics, mathematics and computer science support many areas of research in biology. Their focus is on objective information, which provides correlations and patterns related to objects, processes ...
Ascensión Ariza‐Mateos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

De la fundamentación de la metafísica al mundo circundante

open access: yesMutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía
Helmuth Plessner fue probablemente el primero en caracterizar la teoría del mundo circundante (Umwelt) de Jakob von Uexküll como fenomenológica, considerándola una auténtica “fenomenología del comportamiento vivo”.
Stephanie Martinic Caneo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bee Work | Departure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
How do we get closer to the nature of the bee’s, or any non-human\u27s, experience, mystery that it is? This essay is a lyrical meditation on the power (and challenges) of poetry and language to access non-human ...
Simpson, Anne
core   +1 more source

Merleau-Ponty and the Measuring Body [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In recent years a growing number of scholars in science studies and related fields are developing new ontologies to displace entrenched dualisms. These efforts often go together with a renewed interest in the roles played by symbolisms and tools in ...
Abram David   +32 more
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Science as systems learning. Some reflections on the cognitive and communicational aspects of science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper undertakes a theoretical investigation of the 'learning' aspect of science as opposed to the 'knowledge' aspect. The practical background of the paper is in agricultural systems research – an area of science that can be characterised as ...
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted
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Race and breathing therapy: The career of Lothar Gottlieb Tirala (1886–1974)

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2004
The historiography of life, work and visions of Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944) has grew up during the last years. But up to now lifes of his important followers in science are still unknown.
Florian Mildenberger
doaj   +1 more source

Social Objects [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
One reason for the renewed interest in Austrian philosophy, and especially in the work of Brentano and his followers, turns on the fact that analytic philosophers have become once again interested in the traditional problems of metaphysics.
Smith, Barry
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Die ganze Welt ist eine Bühne: Zur Ökologie und Ontologie menschlicher und tierischer Lebenswelt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Die klassische bikategoriale Ontologie von Substanzen und Akzidentien ist für die Festlegung der Strukturen menschlichen und tierischen Verhaltens nicht hinreichend, da die Umwelten dieses Verhaltens sich nicht in dieses klassische System einfügen.
Smith, Barry
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