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Genesis of the term noosphere and its use by P. Teilhard de Chardin and V. I. Vernadsky [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2020
This article reconstructs the genesis of the term noosphere and its understanding by P. Teilhard de Chardin and V. I. Vernadsky. The article demonstrates that the main difference in the concepts of noosphere of V. I. Vernadsky and P.
Egor Shushakov
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Ethics after Humanity

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 611-638, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Can humanity survive climate change and mass extinction? Concepts of humanity assumed or implicit in the field at the founding of this journal are under critical pressure from multiple directions. Reading across schools of thought confronting relations sometimes called Anthropocene, this essay explains five tasks for religious ethics “after ...
Willis Jenkins
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Biocultural innovation: Innovating at the intersection of the biosphere and ethnosphere

Journal of Product Innovation Management, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 610-629, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Scientists, economists, and politicians increasingly recognize that Indigenous peoples possess invaluable knowledge and practices that have the potential to drive innovation to solve critical global challenges. Indeed, thousands of important drugs—including lifesaving cancer treatments—have their origins in centuries old Indigenous knowledge ...
Jarrod P. Vassallo, Sourindra Banerjee, Jaideep C. Prabhu   +2 more
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THE MACHINE IN THE GHOST: TRANSHUMANISM AND THE ONTOLOGY OF INFORMATION

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 714-731, September 2023., 2023
Abstract An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them. Transhumanism is one such technoscientific ideology that holds to a very specific ontology of information which need not be the
Michael Burdett, King‐Ho Leung
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Vernadsky's concept of the noosphere and its reflection in ethical and moral values of society

Історія науки і техніки, 2022
The paper assesses the topicality of Vernadsky's concept of the noosphere, coined over almost twenty years starting in the early 20th century. Emphasizing the uniqueness of Vernadsky's concept of the noosphere as the transformation of the biosphere by a ...
Galina Jasečková, Milan Konvit, Lukáš Vartiak   +2 more
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Soviet and Russian perspectives on geoengineering and climate management

WIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 4, July/August 2023., 2023
Geoengineering futures. Abstract Soviet science contributed significantly to our understanding of anthropogenic climate change and, as part of this, played a central role in the emerging science underpinning climate modification and geoengineering initiatives.
Jonathan D. Oldfield, Marianna Poberezhskaya   +1 more
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Of kin and system: Rights of nature and the UN search for Earth jurisprudence

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 820-834, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Since 2009, the United Nations programme on Harmony with Nature has sought a new philosophy of global environmental governance known as Earth jurisprudence. This paper examines how Harmony with Nature has advanced Earth jurisprudence to unite Indigenous legal traditions, rights of nature, and mounting evidence from Earth system science ...
Jeremy. J. Schmidt
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Modern Philosophy and Origen

Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 204-219, April 2022., 2022
Abstract This essay asks in what ways modern (i.e. twentieth‐century) philosophy can either make use of Origen or inform our reading of him. It argues in the first section that the predominantly exegetic method of Origen makes it difficult for analytic philosophy to accommodate his reasoning.
Mark J. Edwards
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Comparing definitions of data and information in data protection law and machine learning: A useful way forward to meaningfully regulate algorithms?

Regulation &Governance, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 156-176, January 2022., 2022
Abstract The notion of information is central to data protection law, and to algorithms/machine learning. This centrality gives the impressions that algorithms are just yet another data processing operation to be regulated. A more careful analysis reveals a number of issues.
Raphaël Gellert
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Powerful knowledge, transformations and Didaktik/curriculum thinking

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1652-1674, December 2021., 2021
From the vantage point of knowledge transformations entailed in curriculum making, this article seeks to contribute to a rethinking of the concept of powerful knowledge. It makes a case for linking the teaching of content knowledge to the development of human powers (understanding, ways of thinking, capabilities and dispositions) by way of knowledge ...
Zongyi Deng
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