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Darshi Arachige deposited Free Will, Libet Experiments, Priming, Breakdown of Bicameral Mind and “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman, Penguin (Australia), 2012 in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago“Thinking Fast and Slow” by Prof. Daniel Kahneman is an excellent book on behavioural economics that also makes a reader wonder about other ideas such as free will, priming and the role of language in his or her daily existence. This review is not meant as an easy read. It switches topics often to convey several ideas within a short essay.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Notes from Geoffrey Leech’s ‘Principles of Pragmatics’ in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoMy notes (taken c. 1990) on Geoffrey Leech’s ‘Principles of Pragmatics’ (London: Longman, 1983). Pagination on the left; my parenthetical comments in italics.
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Presentación “Garantía de recursos financieros para la ejecución efectiva del Plan” – Foro de consulta ciudadana SEMARNAT – 11-oct-2021 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPresentación respecto a la garantía de los recursos financieros para la ejecución del Plan de Saneamiento de la Cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan en el marco del foro de consulta ciduadana celebrado el 11 de octubre de 2021
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Allan Savage deposited Creed of Life as Realized Through Book Reviews in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis book is a compendium of book reviews reflecting my “Creed of Life.” The fact is that my Creed of Life has been fashioned through these authors, as well as others not mentioned here, whose works were personally important to me and significant to my intellectual development. This list is continually being lengthened as authors, living or dea…[Read more]
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Allan Savage deposited Critical Thinkers on the Threshold of Posthumanity in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn this book I contemplate the possibility of posthuman philosophy within the religious and theological schools of thought. In doing this, I do not focus on the traditional philosophical humanism which characterizes the scholastic and neo-scholastic approach within Western philosophy. Rather, I focus on a dehellenized philosophical way of thinking…[Read more]
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Martin Janello deposited Philosophy of Happiness: A Basic Primer in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA down-to-earth exposition of the work by Martin Janello on the Philosophy of Happiness. It introduces the fundamental notions that happiness is of existential importance for individuals and humanity – and that we each have it within our power to improve our lives and make this a better world in the process. It also spells out that our success in…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited 60 millones de muertos el año de la pandemia: Grandes cifras in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEl año de la pandemia no murieron cuatro millones de personas. Murieron casi 60 millones, de diversas causas, entre ellas un número indeterminado por Covid-19. Las grandes cifras engañan mucho, y más si están intervenidas y subvencionadas.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEnglish abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer’s theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________ Spanish…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEnglish abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer’s theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________ Spanish…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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Martin Janello deposited The Happiness Principle: Why We Need A Personal Philosophy Of Happiness in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoHappiness is a universal human objective. We all want to be happy. But how we define, pursue, and maintain happiness often seems vague and elusive. That is why we need a personal philosophy of happiness.
This presentation lays out the underlying considerations and examines why other avenues of securing happiness are not succeeding. And it…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Con la boca muy pequeña in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoUn comentario sobre la reacción de los estudiantes de la Universidad de Zaragoza, y la reacción institucional, ante el anuncio del Ministerio de Educación (en 2005) de una reforma que reduciría drásticamente el catálogo de titulaciones de Humanidades. ___________________________________________________________________________
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited Making and Meeting Online: A White Paper on E-Conferences, Workshops, and Other Experiments in Low-Carbon Research Exchange in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoAcademics fly a lot: to research sites and archives, to conferences and workshops. Yet flying has many negative repercussions. Air travel has disproportionate climate impacts, and for reasons of time, money, and border security, produces many barriers for marginalized scholars, shaping who is able shows up at conferences and thus, who participates…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Símbolo político: El chamizo de los Indignados in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la gestión de la opinión pública durante las protestas del 15-M en 2011. La choza los “Indignados” en la Puerta del Sol se promueve en los medios como el ombligo simbólico del país. Enfatizamos la importancia simbólica de los centros en el condicionamiento de la opinión pública. Aquí tenemos, pues, un monument…[Read more]
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André Francisco Pilon deposited Governance, Authority and Social Change: an Ecosystem Approach in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoPart of the literature about politics is dedicated to questions of authoritarianism, which, in the vision of the authors, would be a crescent menace to democratic regimes throughout the world. This is the point: democracy, in the paper, is different from what actually happens in the practice and can be even be the opposite. In the so called…[Read more]
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Michael Maidan deposited Idolatry, Secularization, Philosphy in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe role of the concept of idolatry in Levinas’ thought. Idolatry and Totalitarian thought.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La macdonaldización de la sociedad in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La macdonaldización de la sociedad in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]
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