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Perspectivism in the scientific views of N.T. Rymar: the ethical and aesthetic vector of a creative individual

open access: yesСемиотические исследования
The scientific review examines the origins of the concept of perspectivism in the scientific works of Professor N.T. Rymar and the development of this concept in his later works.
Ivan A. Viktorov   +1 more
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Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’.
Ivana Živaljević
doaj   +1 more source

"Vårt liv drar bort i förvandling"

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2015
”Our Life Glides By in Transformation”. Literature and Scholarship in the Flux of Time This article – originally a sexagenarian lecture – first considers the transience of the inner life of human beings, bringing out the unique ability of literature ...
Torsten Pettersson
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Sustainability assessment and complementarity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Sustainability assessments bring together different perspectives that pertain to sustainability in order to produce overall assessments and a wealth of approaches and tools have been developed in the past decades. But two major problematics remain.
Alrøe, Hugo F., Noe, Egon
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

“Ontological predation” and the conjuring of liberal fixations: ruminations on (inter)dependencies and “savage” (dis)possessions [PDF]

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros
This essay explores (inter) dependency through the concepts of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s “floating signifiers” and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s “ontological predation”, placing them in dialogue with other social theories, such as Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s ...
Gustavo S. Azenha
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Rationality as the Rule of Reason [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The demands of rationality are linked both to our subjective normative perspective (given that rationality is a person-level concept) and to objective reasons or favoring relations (given that rationality is non-contingently authoritative for us).
Antti Kauppinen   +35 more
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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
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

Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
wiley   +1 more source

A Perspective on Perspectivism

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2023
Book review: Smith, Kenneth. Perspectivism. A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. London: Routledge, 2022. 320 pages.
William Outhwaite
doaj   +1 more source

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