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Indonesian inquiry: A narrative of biocultural teaching on Sulawesi Utara

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Using phenomenology, narrative inquiry and autoethnographic approaches, this study analyses a program of faculty development conducted alongside the delivery of an international field school. Through this study, we explore the value and benefits of inter‐cultural field programming and how these might serve to complement or to redress ...
David Zandvliet, Wiske Rotinsulu
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Methodological naturalism arises as a topic in metaethics in two ways. One is the issue of whether we should be methodological naturalists when doing our moral theorising, and another is whether we should take a naturalistic approach to metaethics itself.
Nolan, Daniel
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Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decision‐making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision‐making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the comparative scope of decision‐making analyses to phylogenetically diverse organisms.
Liberty Severs, Qiuran Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Sartrean Account of Mental Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The antipsychiatrists in the 1960's, specifically Thomas Szasz, have claimed that mental illness does not exist. This argument was based on a specific definition of physical disease that, Szasz argued, could not be applied to mental illness.
Krgovic, Jelena
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Vicarious Touch: A Potential Substitute for Social Touch During Touch Deprivation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Restricted interpersonal touch experiences, for instance due to COVID‐19 social distancing measures, result in detrimental effects on anxiety, loneliness and psychological well‐being. Yet, interventions capable of mitigating the impact of social touch deprivation, as experienced during the COVID‐19 pandemic, remain insufficient. In this study,
Louise P. Kirsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explanatory Challenges in Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
There are several important arguments in metaethics that rely on explanatory considerations. Gilbert Harman has presented a challenge to the existence of moral facts that depends on the claim that the best explanation of our moral beliefs does not ...
Schechter, Joshua
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A Defence of Moderate Communitarianism: A Place of Rights in African Moral-Political Thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article attempts to defend Kwame Gyekye’s moderate communitarianism (MC) from the trenchant criticism that it is as defective as radical communitarianism (RC) since they both fail to take rights seriously. As part of my response,
Molefe, Motsamai
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Clinical Outcomes After Temperament Based Therapy With Support (TBT‐S): A 12‐Month Naturalistic Follow‐Up Study

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigated clinical outcomes in a mixed sample of adult patients with an eating disorder (ED) after receiving Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT‐S) at a tertiary eating disorder clinic. Method A naturalistic 12‐month follow‐up study of 46 patients and 65 supports who received the 5‐day TBT‐S treatment was ...
Joakim Skoog   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An ‘axe for the frozen sea’ : Estrin’s magic agential realism, insect thigmotaxis, and the problem with Kafka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper seeks to demonstrate how Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams: the Half Life of Gregor Samsa constitutes the first piece of magic agential realist literature about insects.
Chen, Melvin
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