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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Appreciation Game. A Monist Ontology of Works of Art

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract A pluralist ontology of art states that works of art can belong to distinct ontological categories whereas a monist ontology states that all works of art belong to one ontological category. A monist ontology would be preferable since it is more informative about the nature of art, and may pave the way for a definition of art.
Enrico Terrone
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing With the Two Systems of Thought—a Review of ‘Seeing Things As They Are: a Theory of Perception’ by John Searle (2015) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
As so often in philosophy, the title not only lays down the battle line but exposes the author’s biases and mistakes, since whether or not we can make sense of the language game ‘Seeing things as they are’ and whether it’s possible to have a ...
Starks, Michael R.
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How much sampling is enough? Four decades of understorey bird mist‐netting across Amazonia define the minimum effort to uncover species assemblage structure

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Mist‐net sampling comprises a key methodological component of assemblage‐wide avifaunal studies, particularly in the understorey of closed‐canopy tropical forests. To investigate mist‐net bird captures and species assemblage structure, we compiled data from 312 sites across the Pan‐Amazon.
Pilar L. Maia‐Braga   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where does Awareness Dawn? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
JOHN SEARLE is clear, challenging and profound, and his book The Mystery of Consciousness reflects its author. It offers an engaging debate between Searle and David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Roger Penrose and Israel Rosenfield.
Percival, Ray Scott
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Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession, 1880–1905

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We draw on the historical case of the UK pharmacy industry from 1880–1905 to examine how, in the face of a competitive threat to their survival, lower status professionals seek to reinvigorate the memory of their role in providing community service in the public interest.
Graeme Currie, Andrew Wild, Andy Lockett
wiley   +1 more source

The Foundation Stone of Psychology and Philosophy--A Critical Review of 'On Certainty' by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969) (1951). (review revised 2019) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A critical review of Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' which he wrote in 1950-51 and was first published in 1969. Most of the review is spent presenting a modern framework for philosophy (the descriptive psychology of higher order thought) and positioning ...
Starks, Michael
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

MENTE, LINGUAGEM E INTERPRETAÇÃO LEGAL: INTENCIONALIDADE DERIVADA E INTERPRETAÇÃO LITERAL DE TEXTOS LEGAIS

open access: yesVertentes do Direito
Este artigo explora a interpretação legal através da perspectiva dos estudos sócio-ontológicos de John Searle a partir da década de 60. A indagação central gira em torno da possibilidade de uma interpretação literal da lei.
Alysson Fernando Paiva Chaves   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Searle's New Mystery, or, How not to Solve the Problem of Consciousness

open access: yesRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2013
John Searle repeatedly claims to have offered a solution to the mind-brain problem, especially as regards the mystery of consciousness. The aim of this paper is to present and analyse Searle’s theory of biological naturalism, from its earliest expression
Saulo de Freitas Araujo
doaj   +1 more source

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