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A meme-based approach to oral traditional theory [PDF]

, 2006
The most complex, beautiful, and longstanding tradition in the world is the great and continuous four-billion-year-old web of life, what Richard Dawkins calls "the river out of Eden" (1995).
Drout, Michael D. C.
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Why Does Pain Hurt?: How Evolutionary Theory Contradicts Materialism [PDF]

, 2023
In this essay I argue that Darwinian theory, far from supporting a philosophy of metaphysical materialism, actually calls materialism into question. Once this is recognized we see that evolutionary theory, for all its successes (which are considerable ...
Oxenberg, Richard
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A Manifesto of Nodalism [PDF]

, 2014
This paper proposes the notion of Nodalism as a means describing contemporary culture and of understanding my own creative practice in electronic music composition.
Augé, Bauman, Blackmore, Bolognini, Bourriaud, Dawkins, Deleuze, Dennett, Edelman, Foucault, Jan, Kirby, Lyotard, Manovich, Nattiez   +14 more
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O przysłówkach w przekładzie i o wartościowaniu w tekście – na przykładzie wybranych fragmentów polskich tłumaczeń książek Richarda Dawkinsa

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem
ON ADVERBS IN TRANSLATION AND ON EVALUATION IN TEXT – BASED ON SELECTED FRAGMENTS IN THE POLISH TRANSLATIONS OF BOOKS BY RICHARD DAWKINS The use of adverbs can be related to the expression of evaluative meanings, which play a key role, for example, in
Tomasz Konik
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Reduction, supervenience, emergence and naturalistic truth: reductionism, holism and the description of human nature

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2013
Methodological reduction is often wrongly identified with ontological reduction. For anyontology has always existential problems of its own which are absent in a methodological approach.
Carlos Castrodeza
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Does a Cadillac engine need a biological and phylogenetic explanation? [PDF]

, 2016
In this text we briefly explore whether ridiculing material objects like a ‘Cadillac engine’, a ‘desk’, ‘gold bars in a vault’ as reduction ad absurdum in ‘dialectical duels’ or as a metaphor for teaching evolution is really phylogenetically justified,
Fröbisch, Jörg, Romano, Marco
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Memes inside and outside the Internet - how digital entertainment mirrors the human psyche [PDF]

, 2017
The essay sets out to explain how the meme-sharing mechanism on the Internet is the reflection of human psyche. Starting from Richard Dawkins’ definition of meme, the analysis focuses on the search of what make Internet memes go viral, with the ...
Pavani, Sara Natsuki
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Are obese plant genomes on a diet? [PDF]

, 2000
Richard Dawkins' (1976) selfish DNA hypothesis (that the only purpose of DNA is to perpetuate itself) is clearly reflected in the case of repetitive DNA, especially retrotransposons.
Rabinowicz, P. D.
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Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomorphic Models [PDF]

, 2007
The plurality of models of ultimate reality is a central problem for religious philosophy. This essay sketches what is involved in mounting comparative inquiries across the plurality of models.
Wildman, Wesley J.
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Demythologizing Messiah From Albrecht Ritschl to Richard Dawkins

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The authors analyze the development of the cultural and theological image of Jesus from Albrecht Ritschl and the early days of Cultural Protestantism to the modern New Atheism movement.
Vladislav Topalović, Vedran Golijanin
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