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Laws and Reasons Why

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

Killer whales

open access: green
MN Weiss (21871229), DP Croft (14531462)
openalex  

Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World‐Making

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The paper departs from existing analyses of ‘world making’, bringing cultural and environmental geographies into further conversation through linking theories of crafting and world‐making together, through the lens of the contemporary aquarium and nascent oceanic geographies.
Rachael Squire, Kimberley Peters
wiley   +1 more source

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