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Anti-immigrant backlash has emerged in recent years as a considerable threat to democracy. In many countries illiberal and anti-democratic political forces driven in part by anti-immigrant sentiment have damaged or threaten ...
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Background
Becoming a caregiver can be a transformative journey with profound, multifaceted implications for well-being. However, existing research predominantly emphasizes the negative aspects of caregiving, ...
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This paper explores how, given a proof, we can systematically transform it into a proof that contains no irrelevancies and which is as strong as possible. I define a weaker and stronger notion of what ...
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The recent dating of the Cerne Abbas Giant came as a surprise. This huge, naked figure was cut into a Dorset hillside not, as many have supposed, in prehistory, nor in the early modern period, but in the early Middle Ages. ...
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I will outline four justifications of regional ecological obligations calling for different political authorities to collaborate for ecological reasons: through voluntary agreement between political entities united by an ...
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The article investigates how gender differences in school performance are conceptualized in recent Swedish and Norwegian public commission reports against the backdrop of an increasing public focus on “problem boys” and ...
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Combining high birth rates with gender equality and women’s reproductive choice is often put forward as a Nordic success story. We analyze Norwegian governmental commission reports delivered 1984–2017, ...
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of two seminal definitions of points within the region-based framework: one by Whitehead (1929) and the other by Grzegorczyk (Synthese, 12(2-3), 228-235 1960). Relying on the work of ...
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Abstract Quine maintained that philosophical and scientific theorizing should be conducted in an untyped language, which has just one style of variables and quantifiers. By contrast, typed languages, such as those advocated ...
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‘Everyone knows what attention is’ according to William James. Much work on attention in psychology and neuroscience cites this famous phrase only to quickly dismiss it. But James is right about this: ‘attention’ was not ...
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Infants by 6 months recognize that speech communicates information between third parties. We investigated whether 6-month-olds always expect speech to communicate or whether they also consider social features of communication, ...
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Abstract In this paper, I argue that a realist account of the modality of moral supervenience is superior to a non-cognitivist account. According to the recommended realist account, moral supervenience amounts to strong ...
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Signed in 1959, the Antarctic Treaty is usually hailed as an example of what states can achieve when they leave aside their interests and truly collaborate. It was over 30 years ago, however, that the last significant legal ...
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Ordinarily, the order in which some objects are attached to a scale does not affect the total weight measured by the scale. This principle is shown to fail in certain cases involving infinitely many objects. In these cases, ...
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Abstract Several studies have investigated the comprehension of decontextualized English nominal metaphors. However, not much is known about how contextualized, non-nominal, non-English metaphors are processed, and how ...
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Growing up and the World of the Child: A Search for Theoretical Interpretants. Leif Ahnström, Professor of Social Geography, University of Oslo (2005)
Foreword by Dagfinn Føllesdal, Professor of Philosophy (emeritus), ...
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This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael ...
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Biological conservation practices and approaches take many forms. Conservation projects do not only differ in their aims and methods, but also concerning their conceptual and normative background assumptions and their ...
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The chapter focuses on the interactions between the two major linguistic players in Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Egyptian and Greek. Egyptian was the majority language, while in the aftermath of the country’s ...
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Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change.
How do you become a citizen? Ever since ...
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Abstract That nature, including insentient entities such as trees, rivers, or ecosystems, should be recognized as right-holders is an enticing thought that would have substantial practical repercussions. But the position ...
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Historikeren Gerhard Schøning hevdet at den norrøne overleveringens flertydige omtale av Odin skjulte ikke mindre enn tre ulike historiske skikkelser som hadde gitt seg ut for å være, og blitt akseptert som, den norrøne ...
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It is generally accepted that there is a visual field, but the analogous notion of an auditory field is rejected by many philosophers on the grounds that the metaphysics or phenomenology of audition lack the necessary ...
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Objective Staff’s attitudes to the use of coercion may influence the number of coercive interventions employed and staff willingness to engage in professional development projects aimed at reducing the use of coercion ...
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Abstract Thin Objects has two overarching ambitions. The first is to clarify and defend the idea that some objects are ‘thin’, in the sense that their existence does not make a substantive demand on reality. The second ...
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The use of the Norwegian intonation pattern Polarity Focus highlights the polarity of a contextually given thought and enables the speaker to signal whether she believes it to be a true or false description of some state ...
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Mange studieretninger har grunnemner innen matematikk, fysikk, kjemi og statistikk som del av studieprogrammet. Erfaringsmessig er det vanskelig å motivere studenter i disse fagene som for mange kun blir støttefag. Disse ...
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Abstract Most work in the epistemology of testimony is built upon a simple model of communication according to which, when the speaker asserts that p, the hearer must recover this very content, p. In this paper, I argue ...
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Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial ...
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Bob Hale has defended a new conception of properties that is broadly Fregean in two key respects. First, like Frege, Hale insists that every property can be defined by an open formula. Second, like Frege, ...
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Abstract In the literature, predicativism is connected not only with the Vicious Circle Principle but also with the idea that certain totalities are inherently potential. To explain the connection between these two aspects ...
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In a recent paper, Dan-el Padilla Peralta examined the publication and citation practices of three prominent North American classics journals to lay the foundations for exposing and demystifying the anti-Black and racially ...
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The territorial impacts of climate change will affect millions. This will happen not only as a direct consequence of climate change, but also because of policies for mitigating it—for example, through the installation of ...
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In this chapter, an overview of the main answers that contemporary political theorists in the analytic tradition have given to the following questions is offered: (1) Do states have a right to exclude poor foreigners, and ...
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Artikkelen tar opp spørsmål om makt og demokrati i Norge fra et kjønnsperspektiv tjue år etter den forrige Makt- og demokratiutredningen (NOU 2003: 19). Den er strukturert i en del som undersøker tilgang på makt der vi ...
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Rusreformutvalget ble nedsatt av Solberg-regjeringen i 2018 og anbefalte å avkriminalisere bruk av narkotika. Vi plasserer reformforslaget i en historisk kontekst og belyser debatten med vekt på hvordan forskning ble brukt ...
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Abstract Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral and political ...
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Abstract The ubiquity of experts in contemporary policy-making has been met with enthusiasm in some quarters, but has also faced severe criticism. Beyond the democratic concerns regarding expert power, critics have raised ...
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According to Weyl, “‘inexhaustibility’ is essential to the infinite”. However, he distinguishes two kinds of inexhaustible, or merely potential, domains: those that are “extensionally determinate” and those that are not. ...
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Objectives
We investigated the relationship between childhood weight status and academic achievement across sexes and different school subjects in Norway.
Study Design and Setting
We used data from the Norwegian ...
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Abstract Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), ...
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The village of Duved in northern Sweden faces rapid transformation related to the tourism industry, including new housing and recreational facilities in the mountains. Existing places with inherent social values that play ...
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Contingentists—who hold that it is contingent what there is—are divided on the claim that having a property or standing in a relation requires being something. This claim can be formulated as a natural ...
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Abstract What is absolutely unrestricted quantification? We distinguish two theoretical roles and identify two conceptions of absolute generality: maximally strong generality and maximally inclusive generality. We also ...
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In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across ...
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Abstract Serious actualists take it that all properties are existence entailing. I present a simple puzzle about sentence tokens which seems to show that serious actualism is false. I then consider the most promising ...
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Abstract This paper evaluates the proof-theoretic definition of ground developed by Poggiolesi in a range of recent publications and argues that her proposed definition fails. The paper then outlines an alternative approach ...
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Den 30. november 1979 åpnet en ny middelalderutstilling på Historisk museum i Oslo. Utstillingens design var utformet av den internasjonalt anerkjente arkitekten Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) og museets konservator Martin Blindheim ...
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This article explores the role of the Latin language in the context of political performance and spectacle under Italian Fascism. We investigate the different ways in which Latin words, phrases, and texts ...
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Informal rigour is the process by which we come to understand particular mathematical structures and then manifest this rigour through axiomatisations. Structural relativity is the idea that the kinds of structures we ...
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This article is about the Swedish daily comic strip Rocky by Martin Kellerman. The article views Rocky as an example of autofiction due to Kellerman’s use of an anthropomorphic cartoon self and the daily comic strip’s ...
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Visual perception is widely taken to present properties such as redness, roundness, and so on. This in turn might be thought to give rise to accuracy conditions for experience, and so content, regardless of which metaphysical ...
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Each of our sensory modalities—vision, touch, taste, etc.—works on a slightly different timescale, with differing temporal resolutions and processing lag. This raises the question of how, or indeed whether, these sensory ...
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Santa Birgitta di Svezia (1303-1373), una delle più importanti visionarie del tardo Medioevo, fu celebrata come profetessa e sibilla fino a tutto il XVII secolo. È opinione comune che lo status di profetessa di Birgitta ...
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Abstract One Health medicine aims to improve health by focusing on the relations between the health of humans, animals, and the environment. However, One Health does not provide a clear idea of these relations, which are ...
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We investigated the effect of optionality on the acquisition of new/given markers, with a special focus on grammaticalization as a stage of optional use of the emerging form. To this end, we conducted a narrative-elicitation ...
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In the Dot task, children and adults involuntarily compute an avatar's visual perspective, which has been interpreted by some as automatic Theory of Mind. This interpretation has been challenged by other researchers arguing ...
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When people hear words for objects with prototypical colors (e.g., ‘banana’), they look at objects of the same color (e.g., lemon), suggesting a link in comprehension between objects and their prototypical colors. However, ...
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In referential communication, gaze is often interpreted as a social cue that facilitates comprehension and enables word learning. Here we investigated the degree to which head turning facilitates gaze following. We presented ...
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Previous research has pointed at communicative efficiency as a possible constraint on language structure. Here we investigated adjective position in American Sign Language (ASL), a language with relatively flexible word ...
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One of the defining features of the Byzantine historiographical tradition is the dominant narrative roles played by emperors and, in the later period, by Ottoman sultans. This article explores this characteristic feature ...
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What explains the truth of a universal generalization? Two types of explanation can be distinguished. While an ‘instance-based explanation’ proceeds via some or all instances of the generalization, a ‘generic explanation’ ...
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Visual experience is often characterised as being essentially spatial, and auditory experience essentially temporal. But this contrast, which is based upon the temporal structure of the objects of sensory experience rather ...
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Halfdan Egedius’ Lørdagskveld (1893) har blitt et viktig verk i to forskjellige historier, eller mytologier. For det første som en del av ideen om Telemark som arnested for nasjonalromantikken, og for det andre som en ...
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This study explores the connection between language and social cognition by empirically testing different typological analyses of various demonstrative systems. Linguistic typology classifies demonstrative systems as ...
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This paper offers an overview of the role of saints and angels in Christian liturgical and magical texts based on the evidence of the papyri. It shows that whereas late antique liturgy had a predilection for the saints and ...
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Il saggio esamina e pubblica per la prima volta due lettere scritte nel 1683 da una monaca benedettina, Suor Maria Candida Colomba, a papa Innocenzo XI, in cui in seguito a una visione della Vergine, questa invita il papa ...
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Modal logic has been used to analyze potential infinity and potentialism more generally. However, the standard analysis breaks down in cases of divergent possibilities, where there are two or more ...
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Abstract Often philosophers, logicians, and mathematicians employ a notion of intended structure when talking about a branch of mathematics. In addition, we know that there are foundational mathematical theories that can ...
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Among Shenoute’s anti-pagan activities described in sections 81–88 of Besa’s so-called Life of Shenoute, we find a fascinating scene of the torments of the Beyond, formulated as a curse and at the same time as a prophetic ...
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This paper focuses on how Jean Pillot, author of the most popular French grammar of the sixteenth century in terms of editions, took efforts to contrast his native language with Greek. His Gallicæ linguæ institutio ...
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In the Eudemian Ethics II 1, 1219a34–b8, Aristotle defines happiness as ‘the activity of a complete life in accordance with complete virtue’. Most scholars interpret a complete life as a whole lifetime, which means that ...
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This chapter explores questions of power within emerging design practices in the 1960s and 1970s through two case studies: the Nord-Odal project in Norway and teaching activities of Finnish designer Harry Moilanen. These ...
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Abstract Many theorists of conceptual engineering appeal to the functions, roles, purposes or aims of concepts to articulate how conceptual engineering ought to be done. The functional approach to conceptual engineering ...
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Argentina and Chile, known in the world of Antarctic politics as the ‘South American claimants’, have shown themselves since the inception of their interests in the White Continent as standing alone and in opposition to ...
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According to the received view in metaethics, a Neo-Humean theory of rationality entails that there cannot be any objective moral reasons, i.e. moral reasons that are independent of actual desires. In this paper, I argue ...
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Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate. It seems plausible that some people would be prepared to ...
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I systematically defend a novel account of the grounds for identity and distinctness facts: they are all uniquely zero-grounded. First, this Null Account is shown to avoid a range of problems facing other accounts: a ...
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