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Ecology and EvolutionIncreasing frequency and severity of forest fires is affecting natural ecosystems on a global scale. Temperate forests that have experienced severe wildfires are likely to encounter difficulties to recover and establish new cohorts of plants in the short‐
Andrés Fuentes‐Ramírez +4 more
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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley +3 more
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Conservation & SocietyThe IUCN Red List evaluates species’ extinction risk based on quantitative data about population size, distribution, and changes over time. Species are assigned to nine categories representing their conservation status.
Robert Petitpas
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Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
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Embedding mental files in the world
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Frontiers in Forests and Global ChangeAltered fire regimes are mainly driven by anthropogenic factors and amplified by climate anomalies globally. Biological legacies that persist after fire are key for the post-fire vegetation recovery, facilitating the establishment and growth of new plant
Bernardita Diaz-Mons +14 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Using the US Agency for International Development (USAID) PREDICT program as a case study, I argue that mainstream emerging disease science (re)produces Orientalist imaginaries of pandemic risk through narratives about wildlife infections as inherently “backwards” in epidemic time relative to human and domestic animal infections. This temporal
Mollie Holmberg
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