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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
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Gradient corrections to the quantum effective action

Journal of High Energy Physics
We derive the quantum effective action up to second order in gradients and up to two-loop order for an interacting scalar field theory. This expansion of the effective action is useful to study problems in cosmological settings where spatial or time ...
Sofia Canevarolo, Tomislav Prokopec
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Deleuze on Spinoza’s Geometrism

Philosophies
In his seminars, Deleuze claims that Spinoza is ‘an absolute geometrist’. This article contextualizes, explains and substantiates this aspect of Deleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza.
Florian Vermeiren
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How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano, Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio   +2 more
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Motivating Financial Companies Towards Compliance: The Effects of a Cooperative and Deterrent Regulatory Style in a Letter Experiment

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to examine the effects of a cooperative and deterrent style, portrayed through regulatory letters, on motivation and compliance. Study 1 examined a general sample (N = 492) in an online experiment, to assess motivation and compliance‐intentions. Study 2 focused on non‐compliant financial service providers (N = 2803)
Sarwesh R. Ishwardat, Elianne F. van Steenbergen, Tessa Coffeng, Naomi Ellemers   +3 more
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What does it mean to be a post‐Newtonian? Schelling on competing scientific models

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract While Schelling's position has often been portrayed as highly critical of Newton, his discussion of Newton's theories has never been thoroughly studied. The goal of this paper is to analyze in more detail the relationship between Schelling and Newton, with an eye toward the fundamental question that guides Schelling: how can conflicts between ...
Raphaël Authier
wiley   +1 more source

Contribuições de Baruch Spinoza para as ciências

Góndola, Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de las Ciencias
Baruch Spinoza fue un filósofo holandés del siglo XVII que ideó un enfoque racional y sistemático para el estudio de la naturaleza. Él enfatizó la importancia de un enfoque crítico y escéptico en el conocimiento científi co.
Mariza da Rosa, Carla Mariely Rosa, Vanderlei Folmer   +2 more
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative MRI at 7-Tesla reveals novel frontocortical myeloarchitecture anomalies in major depressive disorder

Translational Psychiatry
Whereas meta-analytical data highlight abnormal frontocortical macrostructure (thickness/surface area/volume) in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), the underlying microstructural processes remain uncharted, due to the use of conventional MRI scanners and ...
Jurjen Heij, Wietske van der Zwaag, Tomas Knapen, Matthan W. A. Caan, Birte Forstman, Dick J. Veltman, Guido van Wingen, Moji Aghajani   +7 more
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