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Canalization and Creative Evolution: Images of Life from Bergson to Whitehead and Beyond
When Whitehead famously wrote that the status of life in nature constituted the modern problem of both philosophy as well as science, he may well have had Bergson in mind. Indeed, Bergson’s Creative Evolution stands as one of the most serious engagements
Tano S. Posteraro
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‘Two Walks With Objects’ attempts a tainted auto-ethnographic review of the affects and actions arising from reviewing the images remaining from two walks with objects, the first in 2013 and the second in 2017. The article sets out, within the context of
Phil Smith
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Vitalismo come esigenza: Claude Bernard e l’indecisione epistemologica della tarda Modernità [PDF]
Was Claude Bernard a mechanicist or a vitalist? What we intend to show first is that, with a careful choice of quotes, it is possible to prove both claims. Then is it a theoretical weakness and an epistemological indecision?
Delio Salottolo
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Beyond the ‘other’ as constitutive outside: : The politics of immunity in Roberto Esposito and Niklas Luhmann [PDF]
This article re-conceptualises the ‘constitutive outside’ through Roberto Esposito’s theory of immunity to detach it from Laclau and Mouffe’s political antagonism.
Richter, Hannah
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Trumpism and being in worlds that fall between worlds [PDF]
In response to Kyle McGee’s Heathen Earth, this paper says something about the place of toxic legacies in the rise and sustenance of ‘Trumpism’. It takes an interest in rusting factories, melting ice, etc., but as assemblages that are tricky because they
Moncrieff, Lilian
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Humans as Animals and Things in Pre-Buddhist China
This paper examines the way thinkers in the pre-Buddhist world in China viewed the animal-human divide. It argues that the boundaries between humans and animals were porous.
Michael Nylan
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Re-energising the role of vitalism theory in child development, nature orientation and research [PDF]
This article discusses the merits of vitalism theory in practice. It suggests a more creative and ecological approach to vitalism theory in the field of child health and development as a way of unlocking childhood potential and research innovation.
Carlyle, Donna
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Title: “But no one wants to wear clothes: Oh mother, let us always go naked!” Mollie Faustman’s Portrayal of Naked Children The Swedish modernist artist Mollie Faustman (1883–1966) depicted the child throughout her artistic practice as a painter, as a ...
Kristin Hallberg
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Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was [PDF]
Philosophy of biology is often said to have emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. Prior to this time, it has been alleged that the only authors who engaged philosophically with the life sciences were either logical empiricists who sought to
Gawne, Richard, Nicholson, Daniel J.
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