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Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 439-466, May 2026.
Drawing on the theory of practical reasons, John Gardner has offered a seminal account of excuses in criminal law. His proposal is that an excuse asserts that the defendant acted for what she justifiably believed to be sufficient reason for her to perform the offending act although she had no such reason.
Andreas Vassiliou
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Le point de vue du sociologue sur le point de vue du groupe

Methodos
To want to describe the world objectively, instead of commenting on texts, sociologists have come to underestimate the contribution of writing and the inevitable presence of a point of view. What are the perceptible traces from the sociologist’s point of
Jacques Siracusa
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 251-275, April 2026.
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 63-72, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and Consilience [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems
Epistemological questions about knowledge of complex systems are not addressed as often as ontological questions about what complex systems are. As with many philosophical issues, one can identify two approaches to answering the former type of question ...
Ragnar van der Merwe
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Divergences and Convergences of Perspective: Amerindian Perspectivism, Phenomenology, and Speculative Realism

Open Philosophy, 2022
According to Viveiros de Castro, comparison as ontology defines the ontological turn in anthropology. It presents a necessity for philosophy to approach the matter with comparative strategy.
Šatkauskas Ignas
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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Predictive processing's flirt with transcendental idealism

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 87-109, March 2026.
Abstract The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) Completeness (PP aims for a comprehensive account of mental phenomena)
Tobias Schlicht
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Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
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Towards Pluri-Perspectivism Bioethics [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2013
Why are we lawyers still dealing with Bioethics? Who has given us the opportunity to, out of our own self-sufficiency, which legal doctrine and practice have enabled, make a journey towards the field of Bioethics? The separation of the law from Bioethics,
Đurđić Vojislav, Trajković Marko
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