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Aggregation and the Structure of Value
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
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Outline of an Uexküllian bio-ontology
Sign Systems Studies, 2001 Traditionally, ontology, or at least western ontology, bas been an anthropocentric enterprise, that takes only human experiences into account. In this paper I argue that a prolific biocentric ontology can be based on UexkülI's Umwelt theory.
Morten Tønnessen
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Constitutive Moral Luck and Strawson's Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility [PDF]
, 2018 Galen Strawson’s Basic Argument is that because self-creation is required to be truly morally responsible and self-creation is impossible, it is impossible to be truly morally responsible for anything.
Hartman, Robert J.
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, 2012 This article explores the Rawlsian goal of ensuring that distributions are not influenced by the morally arbitrary. It does so by bringing discussions of distributive justice into contact with the debate over moral luck initiated by Williams and Nagel.
Knight, C.
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Provenance legacies override species effects in shaping oak rhizosphere microbiomes and metabolomes
New Phytologist, EarlyView.Graphical representation of experimental setup. Quercus spp. seeds were collected at two origins: upper Rhine basin (URB) and north German lowland (NGL). Summary As climate change drives more frequent drought‐heat extremes, selecting drought‐tolerant trees is crucial for future forest resilience. However, the role of tree–microbial associations remains
Sebastian Bibinger +9 more
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Thomas Nagel: Geist und Kosmos
Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, 2015 Besprechung von Thomas Nagel: Geist und Kosmos.
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Vibrations and diverging length scales near the unjamming transition
, 2005 We numerically study the vibrations of jammed packings of particles interacting with finite-range, repulsive potentials at zero temperature. As the packing fraction $\phi$ is lowered towards the onset of unjamming at $\phi_{c}$, the density of ...
Andrea J. Liu +3 more
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Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Plant viruses cause significant crop losses, a situation that could worsen due to anthropogenic activities driving global climate change, one factor of which is the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration. This study assessed the impact of elevated CO2 concentration (eCO2, 1000 vs. 400 ppm) on two genotypes of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris
Tiffanie Scandolera +12 more
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Nagel y Williams acerca de la suerte moral
Revista de Filosofia, 2006 Este artículo explora el llamado fenómeno de la suerte moral, centrándose en el planteamiento seminal de Thomas Nagel y Bernard Williams. Se pretende clarificar los diversos aspectos envueltos en la cuestión y remarcar las divergencias entre ambos ...
Sergi Rosell
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The Idea of the Nation-State as an Obstacle to the Right to Global Development
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2015 A stark question remains with us today. Has the idea of the nation-state always sought to conceal an illusion? For over four hundred years, since Westphalia of 1648, thinkers have probed the mystery of the nature and existence of "sovereign, independent ...
Rajesh Sampath
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