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- Interpreting academic integrity transgressions among learning communities.ChrisScogings,Meena Jha,Sanjay Mathrani,Binglan Han &Anuradha Mathrani -2021 -International Journal for Educational Integrity 17 (1).Educational institutions rely on academic citizenship behaviors to construct knowledge in a responsible manner. However, they often struggle to contain the unlawful reuse of knowledge by some learning communities. This study draws upon secondary data from two televised episodes describing contract cheating practices prevalent among international student communities. Against this background, we have investigated emergent teaching and learning structures that have been extended to formal and informal spaces with the use of mediating technologies. Learners’ interactions in formal spaces are influenced (...) by ongoing informal social experiences within a shared cultural context to influence learners’ agency. Building upon existing theories, we have developed an analytical lens to understand the rationale behind cheating behaviors. Citizenship behaviors are based on individual and collective perceptions of what constitutes as acceptable or unacceptable behavior. That is, learners who are low in motivation and are less engaged with learning may collude; more so, if cheating is not condemned by members belonging to their informal social spaces. Our analytical lens describes institutional, cultural, technological, social and behavioral contexts that influence learner agency. (shrink)No categories
- Nomos in Attic rhetoric and oratory.Chris Carey -1996 -Journal of Hellenic Studies 116:33-46.
- Solemn Oath of a Physician of Russia.Podovalenko Larisa Yurievna &Chris Speckhard -1993 -Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3 (4):419-419.
- Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change 3rd Edition.Chris Abel -2017 - Abingdon: Routledge.Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism,Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity formation. From his earliest writings predicting the computer-based revolution in customised architectural production, through his novel studies on 'tacit knowing' in design or hybridisation in regional and colonial architecture, to his radical theory of the 'extended self', Abel has been a consistently fresh and provocative (...) thinker, contesting both conventions and intellectual fashions. This revised third edition includes a new introduction and six additional chapters by the author covering a broad range of related topics, up to recent concerns with genetic design methods and virtual selves. Together with the former essays, the book presents a unique global perspective on the changing cultural issues and technologies shaping human identities and the built environment in diverse parts of the world, both East and West (from the book cover). (shrink)
- Governing chaos: Postmodern science, information technology and educational administration.Bill Green &Chris Bigum -1993 -Educational Philosophy and Theory 25 (2):79–103.
- On Philosophy and Philosophers: Unpublished Papers, 1960–2000.W. P. Małecki &Chris Voparil (eds.) -2020 - Cambridge University Press.On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. The first collection of new work to appear since his death in 2007, these previously unseen papers advance novel views on metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, philosophical semantics and the social role of philosophy, critically engaging canonical and contemporary figures from Plato and Kant to Kripke and Brandom. This book's diverse offerings, (...) which include technical essays written for specialists and popular lectures, refine our understanding of Rorty's perspective and demonstrate the ongoing relevance of the iconoclastic American philosopher's ground-breaking thought. An introduction by the editors highlights the papers' original insights and contributions to contemporary debates. (shrink)No categories
- In Search of 1992—A Stroll Through the Law Books.DockseyChris &Williams Karen -1992 -Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 12 (1):99-111.
- Southeast Asia-sacred forests and human-environment relations.Nikolas ÅrhemChris Coggins,Hoan Thi Phan Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono &Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani Ha Van Le -2022 - In Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen,Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation. New York: Routledge.Export citation
Bookmark - What Is to Be Done? Leninism, Anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution Today, edited by Werner Bonefeld and Sergio Tischler.Chris Wright -2006 -Historical Materialism 14 (2):241-257.
- Social Finance Meets Financial Innovation: Contemporary Experiments in Payments, Money and Debt.Chris Clarke &Lauren Tooker -2018 -Theory, Culture and Society 35 (3):3-11.This special section explores the intersection of social finance and financial innovation in contemporary technologies of relational finance. The articles that follow study detailed cases of contemporary experiments in payments, money and credit-debt relations. By way of introduction, in this short piece we outline three paradoxes at the heart of these experiments: the feudal life of capitalist financial innovation; the social life of supposedly asocial crypto-currencies; and the market life of relational financial dissent.No categories
- China's fengshui forests: the fate of lineage wind-water polities under ecological civilization.Chris Coggins,Jesse Minor &Bixia Chen -2022 - In Chris Coggins & Bixia Chen,Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation. New York: Routledge.Export citation Bookmark
- Sacred forests of Asia: spiritual ecology and the politics of nature conservation.Chris Coggins &Bixia Chen (eds.) -2022 - New York: Routledge.Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from political ecology, (...) the book views ecology and polity as constitutive elements interacting within local, regional, and global networks. Readers will find the very first systematic comparative analysis of sacred forests that include the karchall mabhuy of the Katu people of Central Vietnam, the leuweng kolot of the Baduy people of West Java, the fengshui forests of southern China, the groves to the goddess Sarna Mata worshiped by the Oraon people of Jharkhand India, the mauelsoop and bibosoop of Korea, and many more. Comprising in-depth, field-based case study, each chapter shows how the forest's sacrality must not be conceptually delinked from its roles in common property regimes, resource security, spiritual matters of ultimate concern, and cultural identity. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of indigenous studies, environmental anthropology, political ecology, geography, religion and heritage, nature conservation, environmental protection, and Asian Studies. (shrink)
- Uranium: capitalism, colonialism, and ecology.Chris Colella -2022 - In Jennifer Mateer, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet & Maleea Acker,Energies beyond the state: anarchist political ecology and the liberation of nature. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.Export citation Bookmark
- Paul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the “Zhuangzi”:Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the “Zhuangzi.”. [REVIEW]Chris Fraser -1998 -Ethics 108 (4):799-802.
- Chris Ware, conference poster, “Comics: Philosophy and Practice,” May 2012.Chris Ware -2014 -Critical Inquiry 40 (3):Foldout-Foldout.
- Letter from London, onChris Petit, Abbas Kiarostami, Lynne Ramsay, Iain Sinclair, J. G. Ballard, and Surveillance Cinema.Chris Darke -2003 -Film-Philosophy 7 (1).
- The Logic of Inconsistency.Chris Mortensen -1981 -Philosophical Quarterly 31 (124):275-277.No categories
- Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages.Chris Harman -2011 -Historical Materialism 19 (1):98-108.While recognising the power and fundamental importance of Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages, this essay explores some of the problems associated with the relative silence within the text about the issue of the forces of production and their development. By contrast, Harman suggests that Wickham’s most important contribution to our understanding of the period, his concept of a peasant-mode of production, is best understood against the backdrop of prior developments of the forces of production. Moreover, the peasant-mode’s temporality is (...) itself best understood against the background of further developments of the forces of production. (shrink)
- Rezensionsabhandlung:Chris Thomale: Recht und Sprache.Chris Thomale -2013 -Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 99 (3):420-432.
- Guanxi, Relationships and Ethics.Chris Provis -2004 -Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 6 (1).
- The Real and its Double.Chris Turner (ed.) -2012 - Seagull Books.As a maverick philosopher unafraid of challenging the ideas and methods of his colleagues, Clément Rosset’s work attempts to connect sometimes-lofty academic philosophy with the concerns of everyday life. For decades, he has worked to illuminate some of the most obscure metaphysical issues, often using popular film, theatre, novels, and comic books to illustrate his ideas, and as a result he has gained a reputation as both a happy sage and a singular mind. In _The Real and Its Double,_ expertly (...) translated byChris Turner, Rosset takes on the question of the Real and humanity’s natural ability to sidestep and bypass it. The key to this type of evasion, Rosset suggests, is a certain form of oracular thinking that lies buried in the origins of Western metaphysics and psychology. Here, Rosset eschews the prolix and paradoxical psychological theories of Derrida and Lacan in favor of an exceptional lucidity that speaks to his Nietzschean-tragic love of life. If good philosophy can be defined as expressing complicated things in a simple way, then here, in one of his best-known works, Rosset has proven himself a master. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)Your red isn't my red! Connectionist Structuralism and the puzzle of abstract objects.Chris Percy -2024 -Synthese 203 (6):1-39.This paper presents a nine step argument for “Connectionist Structuralism” (CS), a physical nominalist position that takes seriously the non-physical phenomenology of abstract objects. CS provides an ontology of sensible properties as a subtype of abstract objects, e.g. “is red” or “is a rectangle”. CS proposes that each sensible property a person draws on corresponds to a subset of their brain structure with functionality isomorphic to a suitable connectionist network. While a common assumption in parts of the artificial intelligence literature, (...) such discussions have not developed formal accounts nor engaged with metaphysical issues that potentially undermine it. Using evidence from cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, and evolutionary biology, as well as a fully worked toy example, we describe how CS can support our core cognitive uses of sensible properties and account for our core phenomenal experiences of them. Six phenomenal features are accounted for—feeling intangible, non-located, transparent, and unchanging, along with raw sensation and ante rem phenomenologies—with potential future accounts for further phenomena such as synaesthesia, semantic clarity, and sensory overload. A response is provided to three common objections to nominalist positions that similarly reject intangible, universal benchmarks for sensible properties: referential opacity; identity of indiscernibles; and infinite regression. CS leads to a four-layer hierarchy of similarity for whether your “red” is the same as mine, arguing they are likely non-identical but can be made close enough for practical purposes. Finally, we describe future work to elaborate CS as a metaphysical project and test it through empirical research. (shrink)No categories
- Individuals, groups, and business ethics.Chris Provis -2012 - New York: Routledge.Ethical principles and ethical decision making -- Ethics, society, and individuals -- Individuals, expectations, and groups -- Institutions, norms and ethics -- A hypothetical case : endeavour organisation -- Conflicts of obligations -- Obligations, exploitation, and identity -- Decisions, groups, and reasons.
- Review of The Logic of Conventional Implicatures byChris Potts. [REVIEW]Chris Potts -2004 -Linguistics and Philosophy 30 (6):707-749.We review Potts’ influential book on the semantics of conventional implicature (CI), offering an explication of his technical apparatus and drawing out the proposal’s implications, focusing on the class of CIs he calls supplements. While we applaud many facets of this work, we argue that careful considerations of the pragmatics of CIs will be required in order to yield an empirically and explanatorily adequate account.
- Mississippi barking: Hurricane Katrina and a life that went to the dogs.Chris McLaughlin -2021 - Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Edited by Carol Guzy.On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and around the world,Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost 2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished. Miraculously, many pets did (...) manage to survive. But in the months that followed the hurricane, thousands of them were fending for themselves in the ruins of devastated neighborhoods. They roamed the streets in feral packs or struck out alone. Their plight triggered a grassroots rescue effort unlike any this country had ever seen, and while relief organizations such as the Red Cross were tending to the human survivors, and movie stars and celebrities were airlifting food and endorsing seven-figure checks, a much smaller and meagerly funded effort was underway to save the four-legged victims. With no prior experience in disaster response and no real grasp of the hell that awaited them, scores of animal lovers, including McLaughlin, made their way to the Gulf Coast to help in any way they could. Including photos from four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carol Guzy, Mississippi Barking spans the course of two years as McLaughlin and others ventured into the wreckage of the Gulf Coast to rescue the animals left behind. McLaughlin tells the moving stories of the people she met along the way, both those who lost everything to the hurricane and those working beside her rescuing and transporting animals away from the neglected, derelict conditions in which they barely survived. Within this story of tragedy and cruelty, suffering and ignorance, Mississippi Barking also bears witness to selfless acts of bravery and compassion, and the beauty and heroics of those who risked everything to save the animals that could not save themselves. (shrink)
- Praxis, symbol and language.Chris Sinha -2018 -Interaction Studies 19 (1-2):239-255.This article focuses on the interweaving of constructive praxis with communication inontogenesis, inphylogenesisand in biocultural niche evolution (ecogenesis), within anEvoDevoSocioframework. I begin by discussing the nature of symbolization, its evolution from communicative signaling and its elaboration into semantic systems. I distinguish between thesymbol-readyand thelanguage-readybrain, leading to a discussion of linguistic conceptualization and itsdual groundingin organism and language system. There follows an outline account of the interpenetration in the human biocultural niche-complex ofsemiosphereandtechnosphere,mediated by the evolution of the niche of infancy. Symbolization (...) (the foundation of the semiosphere) is by definition normative; the normative character of the technosphere is demonstrated by the interrelations in human development between affordance, action schema and canonical functional object schema. A model of the neuro-computational implementation of dual grounding is proposed. (shrink)No categories
- Earthbound in the Anthropocene.Chris Danta -2022 -Derrida Today 15 (1):87-92.
- The social functions of consciousness.Chris D. Frith -2008 - In Lawrence Weiskrantz & Martin Davies,Frontiers of consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 225--244.
- IRL: finding realness, meaning, and belonging in our digital lives.Chris Stedman -2020 - Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, an imprint of 1517 Media.It's easy and reflexive to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we aren't living our real, offline lives. Yet so much of who we are and what we do now happens online, making it hard to know which parts of our lives are real. IRL,Chris Stedman's personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness--who we are and where (...) we fit in the world--can be freshly understood in our increasingly online lives. Stedman offers a different way of seeing the supposed split between our online and offline selves: the internet and social media are new tools for understanding and expressing ourselves, and the not-always-graceful ways we use these tools can reveal new insights into far older human behaviors and desires. IRL invites us to consider how we use the internet to fulfill the essential human need to feel real--a need many of us once met in institutions, but now seek to do on our own, online--as well as the ways we edit or curate ourselves for digital audiences. The digital search for meaning and belonging presents challenges, Stedman suggests, but also myriad opportunities to become more fully human. In the end, he makes a bold case for embracing realness in all of its uncertainty, online and off, even when it feels risky. -- from jacket. (shrink)No categories
- Douglas Maurice MacDowell 1931-2010.Chris Carey -2011 - In Carey Chris,Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 172, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, X. pp. 233.Douglas Macdowell, one of the most distinguished students of Greek oratory, law and comedy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, was for 30 years Professor of Greek at Glasgow University. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1993 and was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Obituary byChris Carey.No categories
- Pindar and the Emergence of Literature by Boris Maslov.Chris Eckerman -2016 -American Journal of Philology 137 (3):541-545.
- The injustices of merit.Chris Horner -2003 -Think 2 (5):17-20.Chris Horner questions whether a ‘meritocracy’ is something for which we should really be aiming. ‘The class war is over. But the struggle for true equality has only just begun.’ Tony Blair.
- Editor's Introduction.Chris Nagel -2003 -Glimpse 4:2-3.No categories
- Rorty and the Ethos of the Pragmatic Community: Replies.Chris Voparil -2023 -Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58 (4):352-384.Abstract:In this essay I respond to four commentators who participated in a symposium on my book, Reconstructing Pragmatism. Issues that emerge include: Addams’s and Rorty’s mutual commitment to cultivating affective rationality; how Royce and Rorty share an ethical imperative in their philosophy and where both can learn from Alain Locke; what a post-Rortyan pragmatism might look like and the best path toward realizing it; the significance of recovering the serious, unironic Rorty and the limits of weak misreadings; Rorty’s pragmatic maxim; (...) and reflections on how best to sustain the habits and practices of a robust pragmatic tradition and community. In places, for understandable reasons the commentaries stray from the book’s argument about Rorty’s relation to classical pragmatism and address larger issues surrounding Rorty’s work and its broader reception. I don’t respond to all such matters but try to here and there, which hopefully gives what follows a relevance for contemporary pragmatism beyond the book itself. (shrink)
- Romanticism and speculative realism.Chris Washington &Anne C. McCarthy (eds.) -2019 - New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.Cutting-edge essays on theory, aesthetics, and human and nonhuman ontology.
- Free Will: A Case of Perspective.Chris Weigel -2018 -Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 23:111-116.Successor views in the free will literature are views that reject the assumption behind the compatibility question, the question of whether free will is compatible with causal determinism. Specifically, they challenge the assumption that the compatibility question must be answered with either a yes or a no. One premise typically found in arguments for successor views is the premise that there are certain challenging cases where we have compatibilist and incompatibilist intuitions within the same case. This paper gives empirical support (...) for that premise by presenting an experiment that yields an actor-observer asymmetry in intuitions about the compatibility questions. Given causal determinism, intuitions are incompatibilist when we think about someone else doing an action, but intuitions are compatibilist when we think about our own action as judged by someone else. (shrink)
- Theology and ethics of the land.Chris Wright -1999 -Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 16 (3):81-86.No categories
- Heads up sociology.Chris Yuill -2018 - New York: DK Publishing. Edited by Christopher Thorpe & Megan Todd.From gender and identity to welfare and consumerism, sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Questions posed include: What is my "tribe"? Why do people commit crimes? Who decides if someone has a mental illness? What's work for? Does aid do any good? Heads Up Sociology explores these fascinating questions and more.
- Comparative and Superlative Quantifiers: Pragmatic Effects of Comparison Type: Articles.Chris Cummins &Napoleon Katsos -2010 -Journal of Semantics 27 (3):271-305.It has historically been assumed that comparative and superlative quantifiers can be semantically analysed in accordance with their core logical–mathematical properties. However, recent theoretical and experimental work has cast doubt on the validity of this assumption. Geurts & Nouwen have claimed that superlative quantifiers possess an additional modal component in their semantics that is absent from comparative quantifiers and that this accounts for the previously neglected differences in usage and interpretation between the two types of quantifier that they identify. Their (...) semantically modal hypothesis has received additional support from empirical investigations. In this article, we further corroborate that superlative quantifiers have additional modal interpretations. However, we propose an alternative analysis, whereby these quantifiers possess the semantics postulated by the classical model and the additional aspects of meaning arise as a consequence of psychological complexity and pragmatic implicature. We explain how this model is consistent with the existing empirical findings. Additionally, we present the findings of four novel experiments that support our model above the semantically modal account. (shrink)
- Life, Death, Renewal.Chris Matthew Sciabarra -2014 -Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 14 (1):1-4.This essay discusses the passing of two figures important to Ayn Rand studies: Allan Gotthelf and Barbara Branden. It also contextualizes some of the essays published in the current issue.
- Justice-based ethics: challenging South African perspectives.Chris Jones (ed.) -2018 - [Durbanville, South Africa]: AOSIS.The book reflects academically on important and relevant ethical fields from a multidimensional South African context. The book challenges conventional borders from different ethical, theological, philosophical, economic and cultural perspectives with insight and expertise and seeks to add academic-ethical value, locally and globally, with its different points of departure deeply embedded in justice. From a mainly qualitative methodological perspective, this scholarly book demonstrates that ethics requires analytical thinking and critical people who, in an existentially and emancipatory way, can help make (...) the world a more just, decent and humane place in which to live. The authors, who represent different academic and cultural backgrounds, present in their respective chapters their research systematically, intersectionally and constructivistically, based on profound theoretical analysis and reasoning. This epistemology results in an act of knowing that actively gives meaning and order to the reality to which it is responding. By doing this, they point out that people are in an ongoing process of becoming more human – allowing ourselves and our fellow human beings to flourish and to reach fuller potential through justice-based ethical reflection and action. (shrink)
- The interactions of Canadian ethics consultants with health care managers and governing boards during times of crisis.Chris Kaposy,Victor Maddalena,Fern Brunger,Daryl Pullman &Richard Singleton -2017 -AJOB Empirical Bioethics 8 (2):128-136.No categories
- Heraclitus, Seaford, and Reversible Exchange.Chris Kassam &Robbie Duschinsky -2017 -Journal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (4):609-633.A "figure of reversible exchange" can be discerned in the fragments of Heraclitus. Again and again we encounter this rhetorical pattern: in the first part of a fragment multiplicity is framed and contained within unity, only for this movement subsequently to be inverted. This inversion, a chiasmus, is not merely a discursive tool of emphasis through contrast; its usage in forming watery and unstable contrasts between the Many and the One, and between Becoming and Being, suggests that the figure operates (...) in Heraclitus with metaphysical stakes. An invitation to an analysis of the philosophical stakes of the language of the Heraclitus fragments has long been open: whereas in the Rhetoric Aristotle criticizes... (shrink)
- The Monkey's Mask: Identity, Memory, Narrative and Voice.Chris Kearney -2003 - Trentham Books.Here is a book to help educators and policy makers to critique the current bland curriculum and provide approaches to learning which are relevant and inspiring ...
- Hypothetical Consent and Political Obligation.Chris King -2020 -Southwest Philosophy Review 36 (1):55-63.Hypothetical Consent Situations are widely employed in normative argument as if they help to justify normative claims or to explain normative facts. Historically, however, there is plenty of suspicion about them. In this light, there is a tendency to prefer theories of political obligation that do not depend upon hypothetical consent to explain political obligations – those that appeal, for instance, a general moral principle or to actual consent. This paper makes no full-throated defense of hypothetical consent. But it does (...) try to identify more carefully than is usually done what sorts of cases they represent and to show that at least two concerns about them are unwarranted. (shrink)No categories
- The response of teachers to new subject areas in a national science curriculum: The case of the earth science component.Chris King -2001 -Science Education 85 (6):636-664.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Nature Religion and the Ethics of Authenticity.Chris Klassen -2011 -Environmental Ethics 33 (3):295-305.In The Ethics of Authenticity, Charles Taylor speaks of the malaises of modernity in which individualism and authenticity lose their moral force by becoming simply a type of relativism and/or soft despotism. In contrast, Taylor suggests that individualism and authenticity need to be understood as holding moral salience through the dialogical nature of human life and the external horizons of meaning necessary to the very formulation of the authentic self. Individual choice only makes sense when some choices are more socially, (...) politically, and/or ethically valuable than others. Taylor’s discussion of the ethics of authenticity can be applied to the religious movement of contemporary Paganism and the marked hesitation on the part of Pagans to claim any expected responsibility on the part of other Pagans toward nature and/or the environment. (shrink)
- The Metaphor of Goddess: Religious Fictionalism and Nature Religion within Feminist Witchcraft.Chris Klassen -2012 -Feminist Theology 21 (1):91-100.This paper explores the way some contemporary feminist Pagan practitioners talk about nature and goddess. I see these feminist Pagans as providing an example of a religion of nature, much like that of Donald Crosby’s that focuses on nature as the ultimate. However, unlike Crosby’s religion of nature, which could be perceived as isolationist, these feminist Witches’ willingness to maintain theistic language through religious fictionalism, even though non-realist, supports their community participation in an increasingly realist Pagan context.No categories
- Effects of vole fluctuations on the population dynamics of the barn owl tyto Alba.Chris Klok &Andre M. de Roos -2007 -Acta Biotheoretica 55 (3):227-241.Many predator species feed on prey that fluctuates in abundance from year to year. Birds of prey can face large fluctuations in food abundance i.e. small mammals, especially voles. These annual changes in prey abundance strongly affect the reproductive success and mortality of the individual predators and thus can be expected to influence their population dynamics and persistence. The barn owl, for example, shows large fluctuations in breeding success that correlate with the dynamics in voles, their main prey species. Analysis (...) of the impact of fluctuations in vole abundance with a simple predator prey model parameterized with literature data indicates population persistence is especially affected by years with low vole abundance. In these years the population can decline to low owl numbers such that the ensuing peak vole years cannot be exploited. This result is independent of the length and regularity of vole fluctuations. The relevance of this result for conservation of the barn owl and other birds of prey that show a numerical response to fluctuating prey species is discussed. (shrink)
- Does cultural evolution need matriliny?Chris Knight -2001 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (2):339-340.Cetacean cultural transmission is associated with lengthened postmenopausal life histories and relatively stable matrilineal social structures. Although Homo erectus was not marine adapted, broadly comparable selection pressures, life history profiles, and social structures can be inferred.
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