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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoPeople can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.
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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny in the group
Film-Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoPeople can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.
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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny in the group
Analytic Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoPeople can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La piel que habito’: Transexualidades y transtextualidades in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: ´La piel que habito´, película de 2011 de Pedro Almodóvar, es una historia sugerente, llena de ecos de debates de actualidad, y que señala en muchas direcciones diferentes, todas interesantes, pero el núcleo donde se unen todas es un personaje tan patológico que es totalmente implausible, excepto como ficción cinemat…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited V stands for Vanadium in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoV stands for Vanadium * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Pramod Ranjan deposited COVID-19, science and responsibility of the intellectuals in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Der Offenbarungseid in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoWissenschaftler und Denker haben sich widerstandslos für die Durchsetzung der herrschenden Corona-Agenda einspannen lassen.
Der durch das Coronavirus veranlasste Lockdown hat nicht nur unsere körperliche Freiheit ausgehöhlt, sondern auch unsere geistige Freiheit untergraben. In vielen Ländern wurde für das Denken Käfighaltung angeordnet. Offen…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoAlthough he obtained a medical degree at the University of Caen in 1618, Isaac Beeckman never practised medicine. Instead, he developed an atomistic conception of Galenic physiology by discussing, throughout his notebook, the constituents and functioning of the living body. Interestingly, Beeckman applied his atomistic interpretation to the notion…[Read more]
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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited YERELDEN KÜRESELE EVRİLEN EKOLOJİK KRİZİN PSİKO-SOSYAL VE POLİTİK EKOLOJİK AÇILARDAN İRDELENMESİ in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEcological crisis is a complete balls-up. Deepening crisis has ultimately been moving nature and humanity towards a tremendous zero-point. It is essential to make a holistic and true ascertainment about the reason of the crisis, in order to explain its meaning and overcome it. A more holistic approach can be provided with multidimensional…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन विमर्श के कारण निशाने पर जेएनयू in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoसामान्य तौर पर यह समझा है कि चूंकि दिल्ली स्थित जेएनयू के वामपंथ का गढ़ था, इसलिए दक्षिणपंथी ताकतें उससे नाराज थीं। अतएव, सत्ता में आने के बाद उन्होंने इस गढ़ को नष्ट कर देना चाहा। सन् 2016 में इस विश्वविद्यालय में घटी घटनाओं को इसी संदर्भ में देखा-समझा जाता रहा है।
लेकिन प्रमोद रंजन का यह बहुचर्चित लेख बताता है कि जेएनयू पर दक्षिणपंथ क…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Kherson eleison in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoKherson eleison * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Lenguaje sin evolución in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited तकनीकी बर्बरता के नए युग की शुरुआत है ऑनलाइन शिक्षा in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoनावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशयनों ने संज्ञान लिया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई है।
यहां प्रस्तुत है, उनकी एक टिप्पणी…
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Allan Savage deposited Philosophical Consciousness and Christian Humanity in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis book is not a set of introductory essays. It has been written with the more seasoned philosopher in mind. I follow Leslie Dewart’s general understanding of consciousness as a means of personal
adjustment based upon the unique experience of a human being. He notes that consciousness as “human adjustment differs from the animal kind in that m…[Read more] -
Allan Savage deposited Philosophical Consciousness and Christian Humanity in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis book is not a set of introductory essays. It has been written with the more seasoned philosopher in mind. I follow Leslie Dewart’s general understanding of consciousness as a means of personal
adjustment based upon the unique experience of a human being. He notes that consciousness as “human adjustment differs from the animal kind in that m…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited विज्ञान और तकनीक की ओर था पेरियार का झुकाव in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoपेरियार के बारे यह तो सभी जानते हैं कि वे जातिवाद के मुखर विरोधी थे और उन्होंने दक्षिण भारत में ब्राह्मणवाद विरोधी आंदोलन चलाया। लेकिन उनके लेखन में गहराई से रेखांकित करने लायक बात विज्ञान और तकनीक के प्रति उनका आकर्षण है। वे विज्ञान और तकनीक के बूते भविष्य को देखते हैं और उसके अनुरूप समाज को तैयार रहने का आह्वान करते हैं। इसी तरह, स्त्…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited विज्ञार और तकनीक ओर था पेरियार का झुकाव in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoपेरियार के बारे यह तो सभी जानते हैं कि वे जातिवाद के मुखर विरोधी थे और उन्होंने दक्षिण भारत में ब्राह्मणवाद विरोधी आंदोलन चलाया। लेकिन उनके लेखन में गहराई से रेखांकित करने लायक बात विज्ञान और तकनीक के प्रति उनका आकर्षण है। वे विज्ञान और तकनीक के बूते भविष्य को देखते हैं और उसके अनुरूप समाज को तैयार रहने का आह्वान करते हैं। इसी तरह, स्त्…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Historia de varios padres in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: Un tema importante en ‘Mantícora’, la novela de Robertson Davies, es el de la búsqueda de la relación con el padre, por parte de protagonista, David Staunton, abogado alcohólico y solitario, agobiado por su familia rica y por verse desheredado. Pero padres puede haber más de uno, en la realidad o en la imaginación. Y, hay que p…[Read more]
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited Creating a Constitutional Absolute Monarchy: Li Jiaju, Dashou, and Late Qing Interpretations of the Japanese Parliament in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis paper explores interpretations of the Japanese parliament by governmental actors in the Qing empire, most importantly the commissioners for constitutional research Li Jiaju 李家駒 (1871–1938) and Dashou 達壽 (1870–1939). It shows that, within a theoretical framework formed in dialogue with their Japanese constitutionalist colleagues, these actors…[Read more]
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