Dead time, hard time, and narrative redemption: Delimiting the life proper
Abstract Is every detail of your life a candidate for the meaningful, valuable, or worthwhile? If not, which do you exclude? Thaddeus Metz nominates “dead time”: the nail‐clipping, line‐waiting, traffic‐jam enduring, generally commonplace moments of our life. Dead time, while prevalent, is not remarkable. Metz recommends that we set at least some of it
Kathy Behrendt
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Intergenerational equity based optimization model joint of water allocation and water quality management. [PDF]
Lv C, Chen Y, Huang Q.
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Against Rawlsian Political Autonomy
ABSTRACT According to the idea of public reason, fundamental political questions should be resolved solely on the basis of considerations that all citizens can reasonably accept. While various rationales—such as the ideal of civic friendship—have been offered in support of public reason, most arguments assume ideal, well‐ordered conditions.
Akira Inoue
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Role of the upper airway microbiota in respiratory virus and bacterial pathobiont dynamics in the first year of life. [PDF]
Kelly MS +15 more
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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Public health, pluralism, and the telos of political virtue. [PDF]
MacKay KL.
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ABSTRACT This study examines the role of inherited circumstances in labor market inequality of opportunity in Chile. We estimate their contribution as the change in total inequality after removing their influence. Since this contribution may differ depending on whether it is measured before or after removing the influence of other factors, we use the ...
Carlos Gradín, Gabriela Zapata‐Román
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Patient Selection for Deep Brain Stimulation for Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration. [PDF]
Chan JL +5 more
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Posttraumatic reexperiencing and alcohol use: Mediofrontal theta as a neural mechanism for negative reinforcement. [PDF]
Rawls E +4 more
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Rock Particles Promote Dew Formation: Aiming to Explain Ambiguous Published Findings
ABSTRACT The role played by rock particles (RPs) in dew formation and their effect on nonrainfall water (NRW) is controversial. RPs may affect the amounts of NRW that accumulate on/under the RPs. While some scholars maintain that RPs increase NRW, other argue to the contrary, a conclusion that was apparently supported following measurements with ...
Giora J. Kidron, Rafael Kronenfeld
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