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“Dogs make people human:” Toward a tender interspecies understanding in Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The critical and popular appeal of Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018), which centers on the bond between an unnamed female writer and a Great Dane, Apollo, suggests that readers are drawn to thoughtful explorations of human–animal encounters in literature.
Martyna Bryla
wiley   +1 more source

Ventricular Pacing Inhibition After Dual‐Chamber Leadless Pacing Associated With a Retained Right Ventricular Lead

open access: yesPacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An 88‐year‐old pacemaker‐dependent man with a retained low‐impedance, noise‐producing right ventricular lead underwent implantation of a dual‐chamber leadless pacemaker. On postoperative day 1, he developed recurrent syncope with pauses up to 13 s.
Yuya Nakamura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consent, Trust, and Sexual Ethics

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT No one describes a passionate night using the language of consent. Partners in long‐term relationships rarely think of intimacy in terms of permission. If consent is absent precisely when things go well, why does it dominate sexual ethics? Critics have pressed this challenge but have failed to explain why consent is irrelevant rather than ...
Elise Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

There Are No Abilities to Succeed

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
wiley   +1 more source

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