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“They Have Mouths, But Do Not Speak”: The Efficacy of Communicative Language Teaching Methods in Biblical Hebrew Education Within the UK University Context

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the findings from a survey of the methods used by Biblical Hebrew teachers in UK universities, particularly the degree to which they incorporate some techniques characteristic of Communicative Language Teaching alongside traditional grammar‐translation techniques to form best practice approaches.
Marian Kelsey
wiley   +1 more source

Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Nietzsche as Optimistic Nutritionist: Reading Ecce Homo as a Practical Guide to a Spinozistic Ethics of Self‐Preservation

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his From Bondage to Freedom, Michael LeBuffe argues that Spinoza's theory of ethics hinges on a figure that he calls the optimistic nutritionist. LeBuffe sets up the optimistic nutritionist as a thought experiment useful for illustrating how Spinoza's ethical theory can be put into practice.
Johan Dahlbeck
wiley   +1 more source

PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

open access: yesTheoria, 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

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