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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
Constellations, EarlyView.
Arturo Chang
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Infection control in the brain and the eye
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester +2 more
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, 2008 Since the nineteenth-century, it is almost a philosophical commonplace to maintain that the notion of “teleology” is a useless tool, a legacy of the past to be delivered into the dustbin of history.
Costa, Paolo
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The Teleology of Action in Plato's Republic
, 2017 This book explores the functional teleology of action present in Plato’s Republic. In many discussions of ancient philosophy, teleology is acknowledged as an important theme: events, actions, and the bodies of organisms in nature have particular ...
Andrew Payne
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, 2012 Recent research in cognitive science has shown that humans innately prefer teleological explanations. Children even go so far as to hypothesize the existence of a deity in order to justify teleological explanations.
Green, Brian Patrick
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The Discourse of Equality in Spanish Museums. How Social Media Communicate International Women's Day
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International Women's Day on March 8th is an arena for discourse in contemporary Spain, highlighted by intra‐feminist tension and ideological polarization. In their role as sociocultural mediators, museums construct narratives of gender equality.
Héctor Navarro‐Güere +2 more
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Green Purpose: Teleology, Ecological Ethics, and the Recovery of Contemplation
, 2021 © The Author(s) 2020. According to one influential narrative, a significant root of our ecological crisis is to be found in the Christian appropriation of teleology, undergirding the anthropocentrism endemic to Western thought.
Nordlander, Andreas,
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Undergraduate Biology Students’ Teleological and Essentialist Misconceptions
Education Sciences, 2018 Research in developmental psychology has shown that deeply-rooted, intuitive ways of thinking, such as design teleology and psychological essentialism, impact children’s scientific explanations about natural phenomena.
Florian Stern +4 more
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Learning with a Warmer World: Climate Change Education for Forms of Life*
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Climate change poses a threat to young people's capacity to flourish both now and in the future. In response, Aristotelian Climate Change Education (CCE) aims to cultivate radicalized climate virtues in students and give them structured opportunities to contemplate Socrates's question—“How should one live?”—amidst conditions of unprecedented ...
Melissa Diamond, Tomas Rocha
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Walter Benjamin and teleology [PDF]
, 2018 Se suele afirmar, y con razón, que la representación de la historia en el pensamiento de Walter Benjamin es esencialmente antiteleológica. Pese a esto, en sus escritos se encuentran dos importantes menciones del término “teleología” que permiten pensar ...
Pérez López, Carlos Alberto
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