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Measuring Counterintuitiveness in Supernatural Agent Dream Imagery. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2019
Nordin A, Bjälkebring P.
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Teaching a Course on the History of Behavior Analysis. [PDF]

Perspect Behav Sci, 2022
Morris EK.
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The will of the middleperson: Triangular communication and its asymmetries in the figures of the Hebrew prophet and the Jewish Shtadlan

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Ancient rhetoric instructs the advocate to evoke in themselves the emotions they wish to elicit in the judge in order to successfully act as the Fürsprecher (advocates) of their clients. Taken to its extreme, this formula of “affection through auto‐affection” renders the figure of the Fürsprecher a double‐sided representative who compensates ...
Shira Miron
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Understanding and truth in Hannah Arendt: The critical reception of the Eichmann trial and the will

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article highlights a shift in Hannah Arendt's intellectual development regarding the will during the 1960s, traced into the early 1970s when she focused on thinking, willing, and judging. I argue that this change was driven by reactions to her report on Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Andrew Song
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THE EFFECTS OF SUPERNATURAL AND SPIRITUAL OVERTONES TOWARDS THE MORAL VALUES SET IN STEPHEN KING'S THE GREEN MILE [PDF]

The fact that in a certain literary work, the element of supernaturalism usually only functions as a sugar coating/sensation maker is a commonsensical notion that is circulating among many parties.
YANUAR ISWAHYUDI
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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Lucretius

, 2014
This is the second chapter of George Santayana’s book Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (Harvard University, 1910). “Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe sum up the chief phases of European philosophy, naturalism, supernaturalism, and ...
Santayana, George
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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