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Examining Scientific Perspectivism: Instruments, Models, and Kinds
, 2022 This thesis is an examination of perspectivism in philosophy of science, an approach proposed as a via media between standard realist and antirealist views. The thesis is structured into four parts. Part I introduces the varieties of perspectivism in the
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Amerindian Cosmologies and European Prehistoric Cave Art: Reasons for and Usefulness of a Comparison
Arts, 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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Foundations 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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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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Current 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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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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Putting Perspectivism in Perspective: An Assessment of the Commitment of Cosmological Perspectivism and Multinaturalism to the Decolonization of Anthropology [PDF]
, 2023 The legacies of colonialism in anthropology have yet to be scrubbed from the discipline, even after decades of calls to actualize a “decolonized” anthropology. Why is this?
Breuhan, Alexander
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Le point de vue du sociologue sur le point de vue du groupe
MethodosTo 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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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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