Resolving a debate over social freedom
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract When I am unable to drive due to a road blockade, there seems to be a morally relevant difference between a case in which the road is blocked by workers and a case in which the road is blocked by a landslide. Many political philosophers tried to capture this pretheoretical judgment at a more abstract level through the formulation of a concept ...
Ilkin Huseynli
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Understanding and truth in Hannah Arendt: The critical reception of the Eichmann trial and the will
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article highlights a shift in Hannah Arendt's intellectual development regarding the will during the 1960s, traced into the early 1970s when she focused on thinking, willing, and judging. I argue that this change was driven by reactions to her report on Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Andrew Song
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Measuring Italian citizens' engagement in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic containment measures: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Graffigna G +6 more
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
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Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe‐Stephen, and Temporal Experience
Noûs, EarlyView.
Emily Thomas
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Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns*
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains ...
Deborah A. Potter
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Disentangling the influence of ecological and historical factors on seed germination and seedling types in a Neotropical dry forest. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Cortés-Flores J +4 more
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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Physiological and morphological correlates of blood parasite infection in urban and non-urban house sparrow populations. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Bichet C +5 more
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