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Rethinking Climate Change on the Role of Human Power Generation, Alternative Perspectives, Potential Solutions, and a Plea for Action

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
All energy matters Let us broaden the discussion on solutions to climate change. Greenhouse gases have upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth's energy balance. Consequently, all sources of heat affect the temperature of the Earth. Although the amount of additional heat generated by humans is a fraction of that produced by the sun, it is generated ...
Martin Bertau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Husserl’s Universal Empiricism is a Moderate Rationalism

open access: yesAxiomathes, 2018
Husserl claims that his phenomenological–epistemological system amounts to a “universal” form of empiricism. The present paper shows that this universal moment of Husserl’s empiricism is why his empiricism qualifies as a rationalism.
Philipp Berghofer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sartre's Postcartesian Ontology: On Negation and Existence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article maintains that Jean-Paul Sartre’s early masterwork, Being and Nothingness, is primarily concerned with developing an original approach to the being of consciousness. Sartre’s ontology resituates the Cartesian cogito
Arthur C. Danto   +17 more
core   +1 more source

Local realities, global discourses and decolonising the curriculum in a post‐92 UK context: Academic voices on enacting decolonial curriculum change

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
wiley   +1 more source

From Contingency Management to Transformative Climate Risk Adaptation? Analysis of Private Sector Agency in Navigating Complex Climate Risk Realities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing complexity and severity of cross‐border climate risks characterised by non‐linear impact chains and deep uncertainty questions the capacity of environmental governance to tackle these problems effectively and in a just manner. To increase the efficiency of climate action, the private sector has been called upon to leverage market ...
Päivi Tikkakoski, Sirkku Juhola
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on empiricism and rationalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper aims to correct some widely held misconceptions concerning Kant's role in the formation of a widespread narrative of early modern philosophy.
Vanzo, Alberto
core   +1 more source

Rationing conscience [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2016
Decisions about allocation of limited healthcare resources are frequently controversial. These decisions are usually based on careful analysis of medical, scientific and health economic evidence. Yet, decisions are also necessarily based on value judgements.
openaire   +3 more sources

Rationalizing rational expectations: Characterizations and tests

open access: yesQuantitative Economics, 2021
In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in two different data sets that cannot be matched.
D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

Rational observers of rational systems [PDF]

open access: yes2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016
This report is the original submission to the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held in December 2016. The proceedings of the conference contains the six page final version. The submission has 8 pages.
Nemcova, Jana   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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