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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Cognitive liberty and the psychedelic humanities. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 González Romero O.
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationships of personal values and health beliefs with past and intended use of complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (CAIM) in Finland. It also investigates the extent to which CAIM users and non‐users endorse holistic versus reductionistic health beliefs and whether experiencing benefits or harms from ...
Salla Ahola +2 more
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The Religious Naturalism of William James: A New Interpretation Through the Lens of Liberal Naturalism [PDF]
This thesis argues that recent developments in philosophical naturalism mandate a new naturalistic reading of James. To that end, it presents the first comprehensive reading of James through the lens of liberal rather than scientific naturalism ...
Bunzl, Jacob Herbert
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Belief in a Just, Unjust, and Random World: Three Different Beliefs
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Belief in a Just World (BJW) reflects assumptions about the predictability and congruence of events. Although extensively studied, little is known about its opposite: whether it is the Belief in an Unjust World (BUW), the Belief in a Random World (BRW), or whether these are independent constructs.
Javier Mayoral‐López +3 more
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Polyamorous Bastards: James Baldwin\u27s Opening to a Queer Religious Naturalism
, 2018 In this chapter, I explore in the rich conceptual space suggested by Baldwin’s bastard metaphor, specifically using the trope of the bastard to advance a queer African-American religious naturalism that resists and challenges normative views of nature ...
White, Carol W.
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Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Are expressions like “sense of responsibility,” “sense of community,” and “business acumen” merely metaphors, or do they refer to deeper, socially embedded forms of perception? This article introduces the concept of “sensing frames”: the socially learned, culturally shaped, and pragmatically enacted modalities through which people perceive and
Giampietro Gobo +2 more
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