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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Foraging ecology and conservation of honeybees, bumble bees and solitary bees

, 2021
This thesis contributes to two inter-related fields of research: bee conservation and bee foraging ecology. The first focuses on solitary bee ecology, identifying forage and habitat requirements along with educating the general public on aspects of solitary bee behaviour to aid in the conservation of the studied species.
openaire  

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

Aggregation and the Structure of Value

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
wiley   +1 more source

A phototaxis assay to measure sublethal effects of pesticides on bees

Scientific Reports
In agricultural areas, bees are pervasively exposed to pesticides at sublethal concentrations. Methods to establish whether these concentrations may cause negative effects are needed to assess the potential hazards of field-realistic levels of exposure ...
Gonzalo Sancho, Sergio Albacete, Celeste Azpiazu, Fabio Sgolastra, Anselm Rodrigo, Jordi Bosch   +5 more
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A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia—a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to ...
Susumu Cato, Hun Chung
wiley   +1 more source

Silene, a versatile model system: from sex and genome evolution to ecology and speciation

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Fundamental and applied research in evolutionary biology benefits from the use of model systems in which approaches from disparate disciplines can be integrated. Here, we review recent progress in evolutionary research on the long‐standing model system Silene, a large genus with a well‐resolved phylogeny and newly available, expanded genomic ...
Sophie Karrenberg, Václav Bačovský, Andrea E. Berardi, Isabelle De Cauwer, Tatiana Giraud, Fanny E. Hartmann, Roman Hobza, Vojtěch Hudzieczek, Gabriel A.B. Marais, Jenna R. Miladin, Bengt Oxelman, Alexander S.T. Papadopulos, Daniel B. Sloan, Janet C. Steven, Helena Štorchová, Pascal Touzet, Fabienne Van Rossum   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Agrarian Question in the Web of Life

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi
wiley   +1 more source

“We have nothing to do with it”: How statements of denial by armed actors shape public perceptions and emotions

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Armed groups operating in conflicts around the world publish statements of denial to dissociate themselves from acts of violence. Existing research argues that armed groups publish denial statements to avoid public backlash, favorably frame the conduct of their campaigns, and distance themselves from unsanctioned actions conducted by rank‐and ...
Ilayda B. Onder, Mark Berlin
wiley   +1 more source