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Surrationalism after Bachelard: Michel Serres and le nouveau nouvel esprit scientifique [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Michel Serres is often presented as a radical break with the work of Gaston Bachelard. The aim of this paper is to partly correct this image, by focusing on Serres’s early Hermes series (1969-1980). In these books Serres portrays himself as a
Simons, Massimiliano
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 163-188, July 2025.Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
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J. Ebbeler, Discipling Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters. [PDF]
, 2013 Review of Ebbeler, Disciplining ...
Robin Whelan
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Foreknowledge and causal determinism
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract I evaluate Patrick Todd's critique of the idea accepted by many, including (in contemporary philosophy) Nelson Pike and John Martin Fischer, that there can be non‐causal constraints on human actions (including basic actions). I suggest that Todd's critical reflections, although illuminating, are not persuasive.
John Martin Fischer
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Nunc, tum, nuper : Lucrèce et l’histoire
Aitia, 2020 Does Lucretius develop a conception of history, either as a theory of progress or as a theory of decadence? In fact, the passages where he talks about the past periods of Nature and successive human inventions are rather a reflection on the present and ...
Pierre-François Moreau
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Theory of Evolution and Faith in Creation On the History of a Tense Relationship [PDF]
, 2012 This overview of the history of the idea of evolution includes the work of many European scholars often omitted from such accounts, particularly in the United States.
Schmitz-Moormann, Karl
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The path to which wild error leads: A Lucretian Comedy of Errors [PDF]
, 2013 Disrupting the causal progress of his comic design, Shakespeare's narrative swerve introduces the accidental into a teleological plot, allowing the errancy of individual will while promoting new energetic narrative structure. Offering a Lucretian reading
Langley, E
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Raman Spectroscopy Against Harmful Nitrogen‐Based Compounds in Cultural Heritage Materials
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 55, Issue 12, Page 1224-1235, December 2024.A comprehensive review of the use of Raman spectroscopy to detect nitrogen‐based compounds harmful to cultural heritage. ABSTRACT Nitrogen‐based compounds are widespread in the environment due to various sources of natural and anthropogenic origin that introduce them from the most reducing form (the acidic ammonium cation) to the most oxidized (the ...
Jennifer Huidobro +2 more
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The Six Books of Lucretius’ De rerum natura: Antecedents and Influence
Dictynna, 2010 Lucretius’ De rerum natura is one of the relatively few corpora of Greek and Roman literature that is structured in six books. It is distinguished as well by features that encourage readers to understand it both as a sequence of two groups of three books
Joseph Farrell
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 463-478, November 2024.Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical survey of classical Latin literature—with a few insights into slightly later (i.e. Augustan or early imperial) literature—as transmitted in ancient manuscripts dating prior to the third century, i.e.
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
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