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Review of The New Wittgenstein-- Crary & Read Eds. 403p (2000) [PDF]
Ludwig Wittgenstein is the most famous philosopher of modern times but very few understand his pioneering work and there has been a collective amnesia regarding him in recent decades.
Starks, Michael
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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Review of The Art of the Infinite by R. Kaplan, E. Kaplan 324p(2003) [PDF]
This book tries to present math to the millions and does a pretty good job. It is simple and sometimes witty but often the literary allusions intrude and the text bogs down in pages of relentless math--lovely if you like it and horrid if you don´t.
Starks, Michael
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Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination
Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Suicide by Democracy-- An Obituary for America and the world [PDF]
America and the world are in the process of collapse from excessive population growth, most of it for the last century, and now all of it, due to 3rd world people. Consumption of resources and the addition of 4 billion more ca.
Michael, Starks
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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Review of Making the Social World by John Searle (2010) (review revised 2019) [PDF]
Before commenting in detail on making the Social World (MSW) I will first offer some comments on philosophy (descriptive psychology) and its relationship to contemporary psychological research as exemplified in the works of Searle (S) and Wittgenstein (W)
Starks, Michael
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ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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Review of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Edward Kanterian (2007)(review revised 2019) [PDF]
Overall, it is first rate with accurate, sensitive and penetrating accounts of his life and thought in roughly chronological order, but, inevitably (i.e., like everyone else) it fails, in my view, to place his work in proper context and gets some ...
Starks, Michael
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Acting authentically: Using play to cultivate authentic interrelating in role performance
Summary Research is increasingly demonstrating that authenticity and human connection are fundamental and interrelated human needs. However, organizational roles often constrain authenticity and connection in workplace interactions, especially roles that are highly scripted.
Lyndon E. Garrett
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