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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
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If insects have phenomenal consciousness, could they suffer?

Animal Sentience, 2016
Klein & Barron’s (K & B’s) suggestion that insects have the capacity for phenomenal consciousness is a refreshing and challenging departure from the cautious and agnostic stance that is taken by many researchers when considering this possibility.
Elizabeth S. Paul, Michael T. Mendl
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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
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What if We Seem to Seem and Not Seem? Estimating the Unreasonable Price of Illusionism

Problemos
With its strategic consideration of phenomenal consciousness illusorily seeming to us, illusionism claims to deny phenomenality and thereby obviate the hard problem of consciousness.
Biplab Karak
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Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
wiley   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson, Sally Staton   +2 more
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Liver Organoids: From Disease Modelling to Regenerative Medicine

Cell Proliferation, EarlyView.
Liver organoids provide a versatile platform for disease modelling and drug discovery, leveraging stem cells and engineering techniques. They bridge research and clinical applications, offering significant potential for advancing precision medicine and regenerative therapies for liver diseases.
Tiepeng Wang, Xiaotian Qu, Jinhong Si, Junkang Meng, Ting Zhang, Shuliang Niu   +5 more
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Approaching the nature of consciousness through a phenomenal analysis of early vision. What is the explanandum?

Frontiers in Psychology
Loorits (2014) identifies the solution to the hard problem of consciousness in the possibility of fully analyzing seemingly non-structural aspects of consciousness in structural terms.
Bruno Forti
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Kant on Rational Reference: Theology as transcendental philosophy

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The Critical Kant famously held that our cognition requires intuition, or essentially singular representation. Kant is also often understood as taking a dismissive attitude toward his rationalist predecessors' accounts of how we cognize singulars or individuals.
Maya Krishnan
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The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
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