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Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
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The psychological motivation of users actively constructing information cocoons from the perspective of Adler's teleology: an empirical study based on a sample of Chinese university students. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Wu H, Zou Y, Zou Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Three aspects of representation in neuroscience. [PDF]

Trends Cogn Sci, 2022
Baker B, Lansdell B, Kording KP.
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 565-572, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Excessive teleological thinking is driven by aberrant associations and not by failure of reasoning. [PDF]

iScience, 2023
Ongchoco JDK, Castiello S, Corlett PR.
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The Role of Early Visual Experience in Cross‐Signal Dependency Detection

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Temporal co‐occurrence of two sensory signals is a powerful indicator of their potential association. Detection of such coincidences is believed to be a key contributor to perceptual organization and a primary objective of cortical computations. Here, we investigate whether the development of this ability requires early sensory experience.
Priti Gupta, Lukas Vogelsang, Marin Vogelsang, Neil Khemani, Manvi Jain, Naviya Lall, Dhun Verma, Chetan Ralekar, Suma Ganesh, Pawan Sinha   +9 more
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Post-Tantric Teleology [PDF]

Teleological thinking is often viewed with suspicion in modern philosophy, especially when it is linked to ideas of salvation or to fixed final states.
Rudolph, Hans-Joachim
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Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains-Part Two. [PDF]

Biol Theory
Levin M, Resnik DB.
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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 543-558, July 2026.
Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 612-628, July 2026.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley   +1 more source