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Rethinking the relation between human and nature: Insights from science fiction
Business and Society Review, Volume 130, Issue S1, Page S53-S67, Spring 2025.Abstract Facing the accumulation of data that suggest near‐future dramatic changes in our way of life, current visions of transition are anchored in an incremental paradigm that excludes radical change. Using science fiction literature and cinema, this article aims to build such drastic change hypotheses and explore the political–ecological features of
Corinne Gendron, René Audet
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 682-692, September/October 2016., 2016 Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920–2001) was a Soviet climatologist perhaps best known in the West for his contribution to understandings of climate change. He acted as director of the Main Geophysical Observatory (named after A.I. Voeikov) in Leningrad (St Petersburg) from 1954 and played an active role in advancing Soviet climate agendas within an ...
Jonathan D. Oldfield
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ON COMMON GOOD, MONEY AND CREDIT [PDF]
, 2014 As Kosick maintained, homo oeconomicus is not only a theoretical aberration, it is an aberration of reality. The idea of human beings that Neo-classical Economics portrays is, without a doubt, a degeneration, and does little as the explicative axis of ...
Pérez, Pedro Páez
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Water as the Earth’s Buffer and Immune System
Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 A comprehensive review on water as a buffer of the planet and its immune system is presented. The relationship between the quality of drinking water, the level of development of human intelligence, and its health is highlighted. The problems of obtaining cytogenetically and physiologically safe high‐quality drinking water are discussed along with the ...
Vladyslav V. Goncharuk +1 more
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Dual-Aspect Monism, Mind-Matter Complementarity, Self-Continuity and Evolutionary Panentheism [PDF]
, 2017 Physicalism as a worldview and framework for a mechanistic and materialist science seems not to have integrated the tectonic shift created by the rise of quantum physics with its notion of the personal equation of the ...
Todd, Peter B.
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Homesteading the noosphere: The ethics of owning biological information [PDF]
, 2018 The idea of homesteading can be extended to the realm of biological entities, to the ownership of information wherein organisms perform artifactual functions as a result of human development.
Wadholm, Robert R.
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ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NOOSPHERE
, 2023 Abstract It is investigated to what extent V.I. Vernadsky's belief about the noosphere can be realized and is being realized in modern and future reality. For this purpose the potential possibility of the formation of the noosphere has been determined, depending on the activities of mankind and the laws of nature.
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Science and Theology: A Working Synthesis [PDF]
, 2008 Theologians and scientists, working independently, have provided worldviews that lead to questions about the meaning of existence and human life. When these disciplines interact, opportunity exists for more profound insight.
Frank, Marie-Thérèse +2 more
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The influence of cosmism on the development of social hope
Cхід, 2021 This paper reveals philosophical aspects of the cosmism’s influence on social hope formation. The relevance of the topic of this work is the need to study the impact of space and its interpretations on the future of the geosocial organism of our planet ...
Oleh Masiuk
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