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Communal Reverie: A Wisdom Technology for Collective Imaginal Attunement

open access: yesReligions
Communal Reverie, a group practice designed to facilitate the cultivation of collective imaginal attunement, has been framed a “collective wisdom technology.” It draws significant influence from the philosophy and practical protocols informing Collective
Sam C. Hinds
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From Galileo to Hubble: Copernican principle as a philosophical dogma defining modern astronomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
For centuries the case of Galileo Galilei has been the cornerstone of every major argument against the church and its supposedly unscientific dogmatism.
Kakos, Spyridon
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Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract By pushing for adequate modes of conceptualisation, ontological turn theorists have made significant headway in the attempt to take seriously ontological worlds that are typically considered irreconcilable to those of the Western intellectual project.
Daniel Tranter‐Santoso
wiley   +1 more source

Yan Zun and the Lines of Dao: Reading Daodejing Chapter 42 Through Laozi, Heshang Gong, and Wang Bi

open access: yesReligions
This study restores the late Western Han thinker Yan Zun to his rightful place in the history of Daoist thought. Despite the deep influence of his Laozi zhigui, its fractured transmission has led to modern neglect.
Thomas Michael
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On the First Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology

open access: yes, 2003
We consider the little-known anthropic argument of Fontenelle dealing with the nature of cometary orbits, given a year before the publication of Newton's Principia.
Cirkovic, Milan M.
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Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
Emilsson, Eyjolfur   +3 more
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
wiley   +1 more source

The Ever Changing Shape of the Universe: A Kuhnian Analysis of Edwin Hubble\u27s Discoveries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Thomas Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, sought to explain how science changes, functions, and advances. According to Kuhn, science periodically undergoes a paradigm-shift during which time the prevailing methodologies, theories ...
Bugnacki, John
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Messing with Methods: Doing Anthropology in Uncertain Times

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The introduction to this special issue reconsiders anthropological methods in the lingering shadows of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Bringing together ethnographically grounded contributions across Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, India, Indonesia, Fiji, Myanmar, Pakistan and Western Sahara, it examines how methods are unsettled and reworked in ...
Malini Sur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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