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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
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Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drought‐induced tree mortality underscores the need for improved physiological models to predict tree responses to water stress. We employed a hysteresis modelling approach analyzing diel water absorption and desorption cycles to understand drought‐induced shifts in physiological thresholds.
Mauro Brum +7 more
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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to most readers of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein's logic is empty or contentless, since it consists of tautologies that do not picture reality. This view, however, does not explain how and why Wittgenstein's ‘logic of depiction’ is transcendental (T, 4.015 and 6.13), especially given that Kant introduced transcendental logic through ...
Simone Nota
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Irrational dynamics, superpitchfork bifurcation, and equilibrium hierarchy in a mass-spring system exhibiting chaos and bursting. [PDF]
Sci RepAbobda LT.
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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