Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
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Is there such a thing as pragmatics? -- Review of Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics 2nd ed. (2009)(review revised 2019) [PDF]
, 2019 Clearly neither I nor anyone will ever read any substantial part of this massive tome so I will discuss the one article that interests me most and which I think provides the framework necessary for the understanding of all the rest. I refer to the one on
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Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession, 1880–1905
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1874-1906, June 2026.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
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L. AUSTIN’S AND JOHN R. SEARLE’S CONCEPTION OF TRUTH
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2015 John L. Austin’s and John R. Searle’s Conception of Truth. One of the oldest and most accepted theories of truth is the correspondence theory of truth. I argue that both John L. Austin and John R.
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QUATRO OBJEÇÕES DE JOHN SEARLE AO COGNITIVISMO
Kínesis, 2009 Cognitivismo é uma tendência recente da Ciência Cognitiva que defende que o computador fornece uma imagem correta da natureza do mental, e não deve ser visto como metáfora apenas. No entanto, esta visão não se compromete em afirmar que computadores têm,
Rodrigo Canal
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Seeing With the Two Systems of Thought—a Review of ‘Seeing Things As They Are: a Theory of Perception’ by John Searle (2015) [PDF]
, 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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Norm Circles and Critical Realism
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT An increasing number of scholars have employed the critical realist concept of norm circles in empirical research. Norm circles are social structures, composed of human agents, that tend to encourage people to conform with norms. As such, they provide a (partly) structural explanation for social normativity, which in turn plays an important ...
Dave Elder‐Vass, Manuel Heckel
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The Logical Structure of Consciousness (behavior, personality, rationality, higher order thought, intentionality) [PDF]
, 2017 After half a century in oblivion, the nature of consciousness is now the hottest topic in the behavioral sciences and philosophy. Beginning with the pioneering work of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the 1930’s (the Blue and Brown Books) and from the 50’s to the ...
Starks, Michael R.
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La Fundación Piedra de Psicología y Filosofía- -Una revisión crítica de 'Sobre la Certeza' (On Certainty) de Ludwig Wittgenstein (1951) (ed 1969) (revision revisado 2019) [PDF]
, 2020 Una revisión crítica de 'On Certainty' de Wittgenstein, que escribió en 1950-51 y fue publicada por primera vez en 1969. La mayor parte de la revisión se dedica a presentar un marco moderno para la filosofía (la psicología descriptiva del pensamiento de ...
Starks, Michael Richard
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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