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Formation of Ian McEwan’s artistic perspectivism

open access: yesСемиотические исследования
Artistic perspectivism is considered to be the author’s value-based creative will. From this perspective, we analyse the formation of Ian McEwan’s specific perspectivism based on his first novels The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers.
Maksim A. Rozanov
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
wiley   +1 more source

No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 606-618, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
wiley   +1 more source

Amerindian Cosmologies and European Prehistoric Cave Art: Reasons for and Usefulness of a Comparison

open access: yesArts, 2013
Several anthropological studies conducted in recent years among different Native American cultures have revealed a series of common features in ontological premises and cosmological frameworks.
Enrico Comba
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Perspectival Instruments [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2022
AbstractDespite its potential implications for the objectivity of scientific knowledge, the claim that “scientific instruments are perspectival” has received little critical attention. I show that this claim is best understood as highlighting the dependence of instruments on different perspectives. When closely analyzed, instead of constituting a novel
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System as a Unifying Process: An Onto‐Epistemic Notion of System

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 1763-1772, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article proposes an onto‐epistemic notion of system as a relational process of unifying a multiplicity of actuals and abstractions into an actual unity, thereby encompassing concreteness and abstraction onto the same plane. This notion rejects the opposition between constructivism and realism within systems studies, the excessive focus on
Felipe Rodrigues Oliveira e Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Materiality of the Ancient Dead – Post-burial Practices and Ontologies of Death in Southern Sweden AD 800–1200

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2016
This text discusses reuse and modifications of older graves in southern Sweden during the Late Iron Age and early medieval period (c. 9th to 12th centu- ries AD).
Fredrik Fahlander
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A sea of anchors: towards (more) global psychological anthropologies—Introduction to a virtual special issue

open access: yesEthos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract This commentary reflects on the contemporary trajectories and futures of psychological anthropology through the metaphor of a “sea of anchors.” Rather than reproducing binaries of center and margin, we conceptualize “anchors” as temporary and dynamic points of orientation through which theories, methods, collaborations, and infrastructures ...
Thomas Stodulka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectivism and Special Relativity

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2021
The special theory of relativity holds significant interest for scientific perspectivists. In this paper, I distinguish between two related meanings of “perspectival,” and argue that reference frames are perspectives, provided that perspectival means ...
Mahdi Khalili
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Perspectival Quantum Realism

open access: yesFoundations of Physics, 2022
AbstractThe theories of pre-quantum physics are standardly seen as representing physical systems and their properties. Quantum mechanics in its standard form is a more problematic case: here, interpretational problems have led to doubts about the tenability of realist views.
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