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Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects. [PDF]
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Clim Change, 2022 The figure exemplifies the four interrelated processes examined by engineering and physical sciences on drought risk and society over the past two decades. The intersection and direction of the arrows reflect respectively the interrelation and the evolution of these processes.
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Examination of Afghanistan's Development Traps
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically,
Klemen Knez, Tina G. Lokar
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Autopsies on the body of nature: Dark ecology in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 286-303, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Verstörung—often considered a minor work by Bernhard—is a somewhat overlooked example of ecologically oriented fiction in the German language. In this novel, Bernhard examines the implications of a darkly ecological concept of the environment (as this article characterizes it with reference to Timothy Morton), confronting it with ...
Bastian Ljung Franch
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OBJECT‐ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 315-339, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The object‐oriented ontology group of philosophies, and certain strands of posthumanism, overlook important ethical and biological differences, which make a difference. These allied intellectual movements, which have at times found broad popular appeal, attempt to weird life as a rebellion to the forced melting of lifeforms through the ...
Yogi Hale Hendlin
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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Development and Change, Volume 53, Issue 5, Page 987-1009, September 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Scholarship that identifies ‘distribution’ as the key to inclusive governance has promoted suspicion of development agendas that foreground ‘production’. This article analyses controversy around food and cash transfers and decentralized development funding in Indonesia's contested Papua territory.
Jacob Nerenberg
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Truth as Conformation in Herbert of Cherbury
New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1102, Page 857-872, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Thomas Aquinas, like many other, but by no means all medieval theologians and philosophers, espoused a theory of truth by identity. Truth exists primarily in the mind, but insofar as it realises the truth of things, truth exists in things also.
Catherine Pickstock
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Forget Meillassoux! A critique of speculative materialism [PDF]
Hastapenak, 2022 Quentin Meillassoux´s philosophical project aims at challenging some of the most fundamental assumptions of contemporary philosophy. His polemic against “correlationism”, which he understands as the main paradigm of philosophy from Kant onwards, is ...
Mario Aguiriano Benéitez
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On Quentin Meillassoux and the Problem of Evil
Open Theology, 2020 The problem of evil and the injustice it brings out has a long history in western philosophy and it has been one of the core arguments against the existence of God as an all-powerful and all-good Being.
Mangion Claude
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Power, Possibility, and Agency: Speculative Realism and Whitehead’s Theory of Relations
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2020 At the turn of the twentieth century, the debate between supporters of internal and external relations showed how our assumptions on the nature of relations result in ontological, epistemic, and ethical commitments. In this debate, Alfred North Whitehead
Christian Frigerio
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