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Open Mind (Camb)Causal selection is the process underlying our intuition that an outcome happened because of a given event, or that an event is the cause of an outcome. When a forest catches fire after a lightning strike, for example, people tend to say that the lightning bolt was the cause of the fire, not mentioning the presence of oxygen in the air, although they ...
Konuk C, Quillien T, Mascarenhas S.
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Philosophical Studies, 2023 AbstractThe counterfactual comparative account of harm faces problems in cases that involve overdetermination and preemption. An influential strategy for dealing with these problems, drawing on a suggestion made by Derek Parfit, is to appeal to plural harm—several events together harming someone.
Carlson, Erik +2 more
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Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy
Religions, 2022 Every life has a beginning and an end. Natality and mortality are both profound existential fundaments of life that may lead us to question meaning in life as well as to find meaning.
Joanna Wojtkowiak, Carmen Schuhmann
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Religions, 2021 In a growing number of countries, legislation permits physicians—under strict conditions—to grant a request for physician-assisted dying (PAD). Legally allowing for the possibility of granting such a request is in accordance with central humanistic ...
Carmen Schuhmann +3 more
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Derechos políticos de las mujeres
Entretextos, 2016 El artículo aborda el largo recorrido que han transitado las mujeres para hacer vigentes sus derechos políticos. Aun en condiciones adversas la lucha no ha cesado.
Martha Lucía Micher Camarena
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Ratio, 2011 AbstractIn this paper I argue that the best form of deontology is one understood in terms of prima facie duties. I outline how these duties are to be understood and show how they offer a plausible and elegant connection between the reason why we ought to do certain acts, the normative reasons we have to do these acts, the reason why moral agents will ...
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Grammatical number inflection in Arabic-speaking children and young adults with Down syndrome
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2020 Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have more difficulties with the structural aspects of language, including morphology (concatenation and non-concatenation) and syntax (word order and grammatical/concord rules), than with other language ...
Bassil Mashaqba +3 more
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Três perspectivas sobre natureza e sociedade na Amazônia
Revista de Antropologia, 2015 Três perspectivas sobre natureza e sociedade na ...
Nádia Heusi Silveira
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Plato and Hermes in Mani’s Prophetology: a possible adaptation to the theurgical milieu
Filosofia Unisinos, 2022 The aim of this article is to set forth conjectures that are likely to explain the inclusion of Plato and Hermes as heralds of Mani in the testimony of Ephrem of Syria.
João Paulo Dantas, Gabriele Cornelli
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