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Disinformation as weaponised ignorance: A hybrid teleological–epistemic framework [PDF]
Cyberspace StudiesBackground: Contemporary debates on disinformation are dominated by two influential approaches: Fallis’s functional (teleological) model and Simion’s purely epistemic Disinformation as Ignorance-Generating Content (DIGC) model. Their respective strengths
Ramin Rambod, Hadi Samadi, Shahla Eslami
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Weighing and Balancing in the Justification of Judicial Decisions
Informal Logic, 2008 In legal theory, it is widely claimed that decisions in hard cases are based on weighing and balancing. However no reconstructions are given of the deep structure of the complex argumentation underlying the justification of these decisions.
Eveline Feteris
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Critical Examination of Dawkins’ Biological Reductionism within the Framework of the Gene-Centric Theory and Its Comparison with Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophical Anthropology [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهDawkins’s gene-centered theory offers an evolutionary account of living beings in which the gene plays a decisive role in shaping behavior and biological structures, and the human being is understood as the product of genetic processes.
mohamad Heydarifard
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Ethics, Globalization, and the Role Educators Play [PDF]
Athens Journal of Education, 2017 This paper questions the role educators’ play in sustaining, promoting, and teaching the globalization business model in spite of the uneven privilege and distress that accompanies associated practices. Proponents of this business model claim it is based
Blaine T. Garfolo, Barbara L’Huillier
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SAINT AUGUSTINE’S AND DANTE’S MODELS OF HISTORY
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2017 In this paper, I will try to analyze St. Augustine’s and Dante’s views towards history by showing how their visions can be articulated into particular models of history, i.e.
Vlad-Lucian ILE
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On postmodernism, “the stairs of avant-garde”, and Brodsky
Sign Systems Studies, 2003 This article attempts to analyse Russian postmodernist poetics, proceeding from the concept of the “trans-semiotic stairs”, as presented by J. Faryno for describing the avant-garde.
Ülle Pärli
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Evolutionary theory provides a fundamental framework for understanding human anatomy and health. However, evolution acceptance and conceptual understanding are distinct constructs that may not co‐vary. This study aimed to assess (1) evolution acceptance and (2) knowledge of human evolution in health sciences students.
Thomas Colard +4 more
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Towards a few ideals in the concept of teaching. Teaching as a vehicle in education
Nordic Studies in Education, 2020 Recently researchers have become increasingly aware of the value of the concept of teaching as an implementer of educational goals. At least many of Gert Biesta’s recent theoretical-conceptual studies on teaching and the teacher provide indications of ...
Harri Pitkäniemi
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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Conceptual Change and Sustainable Business Transformation: A Phenomenon‐Driven Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we ponder profound questions of societal sustainability transitioning through the concept of conceptual change—a category of change that, compared with other scientific domains, has so far received little attention in scholarship of business.
Jean‐Pierre Imbrogiano +3 more
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