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The Supervenience Argument, Overdetermination, and Causal Drainage: Assessing Kim's Master Argument [PDF]
This paper examines Jaegwon Kim's Supervenience Argument (SA) against nonreductive physicalism, concentrating on Kim's response to two of the most important objections against the SA: First, the Overdetermination Argument, according to which Kim has no convincing argument against the possibility that mental causation might be a case of genuine or ...
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Emotional Communities in Ælfric’s Maccabees [PDF]
The present article studies Ælfric of Eynsham’s homily based on the biblical books of Maccabees. It uses Barbara H. Rosenwein’s concept of an “emotional community” to elucidate Ælfric’s treatment of anger and violence in the process of adapting the ...
Jacek Olesiejko
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Gödel’s Master Argument: what is it, and what can it do? [PDF]
This text is expository. We explain Gödel’s ‘Master Argument’ for incompleteness as distinguished from the 'official' proof of his 1931 paper, highlight its attractions and limitations, and explain how some of the limitations may be transcended by ...
Makinson, David
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“The great strength of argument”: the experience of preparing a master class on rhetoric
This paper is the empirical research, which focused on training medical students argue speech. The concept of the author is that it determines the sequence of study of this topic in the general context of this section, the student communicative speech ...
O S Guzina
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Systemic aspects of the transition to sustainable energy
The supply of free energy to our societies is today an intricate system comprising the regimes of technologies, regulatory frameworks, socio-economic impacts and techno-ecological interactions.
Schlögl R.
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Topological effects in ring polymers: A computer simulation study
Unconcatenated, unknotted polymer rings in the melt are subject to strong interactions with neighboring chains due to the presence of topological constraints. We study this by computer simulation using the bond-fluctuation algorithm for chains with up to
A. Kolinski +45 more
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Self-dualities and Galois symmetries in Feynman integrals
It is well-known that all Feynman integrals within a given family can be expressed as a finite linear combination of master integrals. The master integrals naturally group into sectors.
Sebastian Pögel +4 more
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‘God can only do what God does do’: Peter Abelard’s Megarian argument in Theologia ‘Scholarium’, Opera Theologica III Peter Abelard’s contribution to a constellation of central themes in post-Carolingian medieval philosophy, namely on causation ...
Johann Beukes
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Logicism, Possibilism, and the Logic of Kantian Actualism [PDF]
In this extended critical discussion of 'Kant's Modal Metaphysics' by Nicholas Stang (OUP 2016), I focus on one central issue from the first chapter of the book: Stang’s account of Kant’s doctrine that existence is not a real predicate.
Stephenson, Andrew
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Against trauma: silence, victimhood, and (photo-)voice in northern Namibia
The article shows how the discourses of trauma, victimhood and silence regarding local agency contributed to the production of the nationalist master narrative in postcolonial Namibia. However, I point out repositories of memory beyond the narratives of
Heike Becker
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