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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Topology in Physics - A Perspective
, 1993 This article, written in honor of Fritz Rohrlich, briefly surveys the role of topology in physics.Comment: 16pp, 2 figures included (encapsulated ...
A. P. Balachandran +10 more
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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The Voice Disrupted: Articulation, Hesitation, and Moral Seriousness in F. R. Leavis's Pedagogy
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Steven Cranfield
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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Brazilian fiction prose about World War II
, 2008 This paper points out some Brazilian works of fiction that deal with the 2nd World War. The writers studied are José Geraldo Vieira (1897-1977), João Alphonsus (1901-1944) and Boris Schnaiderman (1917). In their works, we notice the peculiar ways in which the discourse attitude specific to fiction can unveil hidden aspects of reality.
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Fear in Illinois: A Father\u27s Grief [PDF]
, 2012 Like a prose poem, the passage leaped off of the page of the Lutheran and Missionary as I scanned the newspaper\u27s columns. Sitting in the reading room of the Abdel Ross Wentz Library at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, my heart raced.
Rudy, John M.
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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
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