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Hunter, J. Arthur. What these walls could tell. Kalkaska, Mich: V.B.Q. Ling, 2000.

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Hot and cold. Vero Beach, Fla: Rourke Pub., 2006.

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Point Alpha: Hot spot of history. Petersberg: Imhof, 2007.

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Pages from Cold Point: And other stories. Feltham: Zenith, 1993.

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Skinner, Kiron K. (EDT)/ Palazhchenko, Pavel (FRW)/ Schultz, George P. (FRW). Turning points in ending the Cold War. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2008.

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A Cold War turning point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

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If I could turn my tongue like that: The Creole language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

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The regional cold wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: Crucial periods and turning points. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2015.

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Skardon, C. Philip. A lesson for our times: How America kept the peace in the Hungary-Suez Crisis of 1956 : commemorating an historic turning point in the Cold War. Bloomington, Ind: AuthorHouse, 2010.

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Werner, Wouter, and Lianne Boer. ‘It Could Probably Just as Well Be Otherwise’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795896.003.0003.

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One of the core insights of Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is that there must be ‘a sense of possibility’. This chapter analyzes debates on the law applicable to cyberwar, as debates emanating from a sense of possibility, which translates into imageries of the way cyberwar might, could, or ought to happen, i.e. how possible future realities are construed. The analysis is limited to the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare. The basic point of much legal analysis is to make sense of new phenomena in terms of pre-existing legal rules, or, to make the unfamiliar, familiar. The creation of these legal imageries is contrasted with non-legal imageries of cyberwar, as found in military and security studies. The purpose of this exercise is to carve out more clearly what is particular about the way in which international lawyers have imagined the future in this domain.

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Pages From Cold Point. Arena Arrow, 1986.

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Pages from cold point. Abacus Books (Sphere), 1991.

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Paul, Bowles. Pages from Cold Point. Peter Owen Ltd, 2004.

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Paul, Bowles. Pages From Cold Point. Arena Arrow, 1986.

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Cold Jac (Pont Hoppers). Pont Books, 2002.

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Horne, Gerald. Barnett Bestrides the Globe. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041198.003.0010.

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This chapter discusses the epochal meeting of mostly Asian and African nations in Bandung, Indonesia. Bandung was not just a turning point for the world; it was also a turning point for Claude Barnett and his agency. Bandung also signaled the coming era of decolonization and, with Africa surging to independence, Africans could now open government-to-government relations with Washington and there was less of a perceived need for those like Barnett to act as intermediaries and lobbyists. In any case, those like Barnett were coming to be seen not as honest brokers or disinterested politicos but just one more in a long line of entrepreneurs lusting after the vast resources of Africa and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, decolonization also meant that the newly liberated nations could exert pressure on Washington to erode the more egregious aspects of Jim Crow, which helped to foment “integration” that in turn served to erode the rationale for the Associated Negro Press (ANP).

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Pacholik, Barb, and Jana G. Pruden. Boiling Point and Cold Cases: More Saskatchewan Crime Stories. University of Regina, 2013.

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Cavuldak, Ahmet, ed. Die Grammatik der Demokratie. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845288499.

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Peter Graf Kielmansegg is one of the most important analysts of democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In this volume, Kielmansegg’s ‘Grammar of Democracy’ is explored and critically acclaimed by renowned political scientists, historians and sociologists for the first time. Kielmansegg’s theoretical work on democracy, which centres around the point at which history and political science overlap and has an impressive consistency despite its many layers and threads, contains many suggestions that can be developed productively, and his form, style and approach could also inspire the fields of history and political science. The contributions in this book demonstrate in an exemplary manner what form an analysis of Kielmansegg’s work could take and how it could succeed. With contributions by Ahmet Cavuldak, Herfried Münkler, Jürgen Kocka, Edgar Wolfrum, Eckhard Jesse, Frank Decker, Hartmut Rosa, Tine Stein, Hans Vorländer, Marcus Höreth, Birgit Enzmann, Philipp Erbentraut, Oliver Hidalgo, Uwe Backes, Vincent August, Felix Wassermann, Sandra Wirth, Ellen Thümmler

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Ford, Matthew. The Bureaucracy as Battlefield. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190623869.003.0006.

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If science could not be used to come to a resolution as to what weapon system ought to be adopted then selection decisions would have to be taken on other criteria. In this chapter we investigate different ways to explain bureaucratic decision-making as it relates to military innovation. In the process I point out the inadequacies of the Bureaucratic Politics Model for explaining change in the military.

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Maus, Derek. Turning Points in World History - The Cold War. Greenhaven Press, 2002.

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Bianconi, Ginestra. Diffusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753919.003.0014.

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This chapter addresses diffusion, random walks and congestion in multilayer networks. Here it is revealed that diffusion on a multilayer network can be significantly speed up with respect to diffusion taking place on its single layers taken in isolation, and that sometimes it is possible also to observe super-diffusion. Diffusion is here characterized on multilayer network structures by studying the spectral properties of the supra-Laplacian and the dependence on the diffusion constant among different layers. Random walks and its variations including the Lévy Walk are shown to reflect the improved navigability of multilayer networks with more layers. These results are here compared with the results of traffic on multilayer networks that, on the contrary, point out that increasing the number of layers could be detrimental and could lead to congestion.

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Nadler, Anthony M. Beyond the Phantom Public. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040146.003.0006.

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This concluding chapter discusses the intellectual resources of critical media studies and applies them to debates about the future of news. The changes taking place in news media concern not only content but the very modes through which people engage the media in everyday life, as well as the ways media connect individuals to larger communities. Although interactive media is not inherently destined to level hierarchies of power, it is certainly possible that societal appropriations of new media technologies could mean a reworking of the infrastructure that regulates which ideas and visions circulate from point to point in the media system. The issue lies in how crucial decisions at this critical juncture will be made and what course they will set for the years to come.

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Lagerkvist, Johan. Curtailing China’s Rise before the Real Takeoff? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675387.003.0010.

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Could the trajectory of economic modernization that has expanded China’s global profile over the last three decades run off the rails due to internal conflict? This chapter analyzes an important link in the censorship chain: social media companies that must monitor citizens’ communication, thus assisting in keeping a lid on social activism, its organization, and mobilization. The chapter then analyzes the well-known 2011 social protest that occurred in the village of Wukan. The findings point to “thin” loyalty to government rules and institutions inside the system of censorship and at the lowest level of the polity. The chapter argues if a profound economic or political crisis in which “thin” loyalty and weak legitimacy at both the top of the censorship system and at the bottom of society would have serious implications, then China’s system of censorship could crumble. This scenario would destabilize domestic rule and China’s rise to global preeminence.

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Gordon, Gregory S. Problems Regarding the Crime of Direct and Public Incitement to Commit Genocide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190612689.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 reveals the intrinsic ambiguity and incoherence within the incitement to genocide framework. It identifies four primary problems with the framework, as laid out in the ICTR foundational cases: (1) inadequate explanation of the scope of the “direct” element; (2) a deficient definition of the “public” criterion; (3) failure to identify the essential components of “incitement”; and (4) an inconsistent and incoherent treatment of “causation.” Moreover, the Media Case Trial Chamber judgment offered a basic doctrinal base to which, in theory, future decisions could return as a point of repair and build on as a platform for incitement’s normative development. Unfortunately, as this chapter demonstrates, subsequent cases, including Mugesera v. Canada (2005), the Media Case Appeals Chamber judgment (2007), and Prosecutor v. Bikindi (2008), have failed to do that. Thus, the current iteration of incitement fails to promote deterrence and could be manipulated by authoritarian governments to suppress legitimate expression.

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Gillies, Donald. The Propensity Interpretation. Edited by Alan Hájek and Christopher Hitchcock. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607617.013.18.

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The propensity interpretation of probability was introduced by Popper in 1957, and the chapter begins with a discussion of Popper’s initial account of propensities and a comparison with Peirce’s related ideas. The original propensity interpretation had a number of strands, some of which could be accepted while others were rejected. This meant that the propensity interpretation could be, and was, developed in different ways by different philosophers of science. One point at issue was whether propensities were objective probabilities of single events. This led to a distinction between (i) single-case propensity theories, and (ii) long-run propensity theories. Another problem concerned the relation between propensities and causes – if propensities had a causal import, because of what is known as the Humphreys’ paradox they might not satisfy the standard axioms of probability. The chapter concludes by discussing how propensities might be connected to observed frequencies via the theory of statistical testing.

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Bowman, Alan. The State and the Economy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790662.003.0002.

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The main fiscal instruments the Roman government could use to affect economic behaviour and performance were currency, taxation, and regulation of markets. This chapter is primarily concerned with taxation, and considers the central features of the relationship between direct and indirect taxation and trade, taking Hopkins’s taxes-and-trade model as a point of departure. It argues that, before AD 300, taxation was fairly low, but not as low as Hopkins thought, when we consider the things he omitted. Various fiscal stimuli, the government use of coin, and taxation all affected trade positively in different ways. After Diocletian, by re-establishing the currency as central to government fiscal operations and by reducing the transaction costs that fell directly upon central government, rates of taxation could effectively be lowered without significant loss of revenue, and that institutionalization of the relationship between imperial and municipal taxation was broadly beneficial from a fiscal viewpoint.

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Canfield, Donald Eugene. The Great Oxidation. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691145020.003.0008.

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This chapter deals with the “great oxidation event” (GOE), which represents a quantum shift in the oxygen content of the atmosphere. It suggests that the GOE represents the evolution of cyanobacteria. According to the geologic record, the oxygen content of Earth's atmosphere increased dramatically around 2.3 billion years ago. Since cyanobacteria likely evolved much earlier, it does not appear that a well-oxygenated atmosphere is a necessary or immediate consequence of the activities of oxygen-producing organisms. Atmospheric chemistry is a slave to the dynamics of the mantle, as the interior and exterior of the planet are connected in a profound way. Indeed, it took half of Earth's history for the mantle to quiet to point where oxygen could accumulate. This, however, represented a watershed, a tipping point if you will, where the chemistry of Earth's surface was forever altered.

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Debaise, Didier. What is the Subject? Translated by Tomas Weber. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423045.003.0006.

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In his reading of Descartes, Whitehead extracts a definition of the subject as a relation through which feelings are unified and appropriated. The key point of disagreement is found in the inverse relations that each constructs between the subject and feeling. If Whitehead does in fact take up the problem’s terms, he is nevertheless radically opposed to the Cartesian economy organised around a subject qua foundation of feeling. Whitehead’s reading could be criticised, of course: he takes a Cartesian proposition, pushes it in the direction of speculative philosophy, only to return, finally, to Descartes’ own internal coherence, opposing it to an entirely different economy of thought. This, however, would be to lose what is important in Whitehead’s reading of Descartes. Whitehead is not doing history of philosophy. The relevance of each of his critiques and reprises could, of course, be justly attacked in so far as they are constructed on grounds that would have been completely foreign to the original thinkers.

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Bakan, Michael B. Amy Sequenzia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855833.003.0010.

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Amy Sequenzia is a non-speaking autistic woman with cerebral palsy and seizure disorder, but the last thing she needs is your pity and the last thing she wants is to be your “inspiration.” Amy is proud of who she is: a writer, an activist, a difference maker. And she is also proudly autistic, to the point that when asked, “If you could wave a magic wand and make your autism ‘disappear,’ would you?” she replies, “I would break the wand before anyone could wave it.” Amy has synesthesia and experiences music as color. Music also enables her to experience bodily sensations that she claims would otherwise be unavailable to her. “I am usually not very aware of my body,” she writes. “To simply get up from a chair is sometimes hard, as if my body forgets how to move . . . . So when I feel the music inside my body, when I feel my blood running with the music, it is an amazing thing.”

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(Foreword), Pavel Palazhchenko, George P. Shultz (Foreword), and Kiron K. Skinner (Editor), eds. Turning Points In Ending The Cold War (Hoover Institution Press Publication). Hoover Institution Press, 2007.

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Stokes, Laura. Toward the Witch Craze. Edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.032.

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The early modern witch craze could never have taken place without crucial transformations in elite attitudes toward magic that opened the ears of judges to popular witch fears. The groundwork for these transformations was laid during the generations of social upheaval and papal schism that followed the Black Death, but the turning point came with demonological innovations in the early fifteenth century. These innovations coincided with a revolution in criminal justice that armed judges with powerful tools for extracting all manner of confessions at a time when they were increasingly disposed to lend credence to the accusations of the populace against suspected witches.

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Defila, Rico, and Antonietta di Giulio. Managing Consensus in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Teams: Tasks and Expertise. Edited by Robert Frodeman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198733522.013.27.

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Collaborative problem framing is crucial to arrive at integrated results in inter- and transdisciplinary research projects. Its significance is supported by empirical evidence gained in a survey, which shows significant differences concerning common goals, language, and theoretical basis between teams who had achieved a synthesis and those that had not. A shared view of a problem and of how to deal with it is the starting point for inquiries of individuals and/or subprojects, and the point to return to after their results are available. Thus, balancing collaborative and individual work is crucial in managing such projects. Managing inter- or transdisciplinary projects covers a number of highly demanding processes taking place during their life span. It is a complex and demanding scientific task that could be called “content-rich moderation” (following the German “Inhaltsreiche Moderation”) to express its nature. To succeed, managers of inter- or transdisciplinary projects need different kinds of expertise.

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Kelly, Nigel. The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends (Point of Impact). Tandem Library, 2001.

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Deaver, Jeffery. The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Center Point Platinum Mystery (Large Print)). Center Point Large Print, 2006.

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Kelly, Nigel. The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends (Point of Impact). Heinemann Library, 2001.

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Kelly, Nigel. Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends (Point of Impact (Paperback)). Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2001.

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Kelly, Nigel. The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends (Point of Impact). Heinemann, 2006.

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends (Point of Impact). Heinemann Library, 2001.

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Poplack, Shana. Confirmation through replication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256388.003.0007.

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This chapter reviews a series of replications of the studies reported in previous chapters on eight typologically distinct language pairs, making use of a wide array of phonological, morphological, and syntactic diagnostics (e.g., vowel harmony, word order, case-marking, adjectival expression, nominal determination patterns, verb incorporation strategies). Wherever a conflict site between donor and recipient languages could be determined, lone items were systematically shown to behave like the latter, often to the point of assuming the fine details of its variable quantitative conditioning. Results confirm that the integration process and its outcome—grammatical identity of donor-language items with recipient-language counterparts—are universal.

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Johnson, Ben Wood. Sartrean Ethics. Glasstree, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.20850/9780997902815.

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This text examines the nature of the works Sartre compiled about ethics. It explores some of the arguments that are often offered against the role Sartre played in the ethical genre. It seeks to demonstrate that Sartre was a moral philosopher by referencing the works of several scholars in the field. My position in the text is that Sartre was not just a philosopher. He was also a moral philosopher. I argue that Sartre had an undeniable ethical dimension in his philosophy. I point out several works, which could substantiate that claim. I argue that it is necessary to magnify the intellectual relevance of this great thinker in the ethical discipline.

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Godfrey, Barry, Pam Cox, Heather Shore, and Zoe Alker. Life Before the Institution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788492.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 explores the factors leading to the ‘onset’ of actual, perceived, and potential delinquency within our sample. It reconstructs key details of the early lives of children in our study, explores contemporary distinctions made between vulnerable and ‘criminal’ children, and shows how decisions made at this point by the authorities could alter the course of children’s lives. It explores the possibilities of historical risk factor research and suggests new approaches to writing the history of harm. It does not purport to identify the ‘causes’ of delinquency but rather to identify the factors that led our sample into the public gaze, into the courts, and into one of our four institutions.

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Condry, Ian. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0025.

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This essay focuses on Japanese rappers but also explores arguably anti-American sentiments in popular culture otherwise seen as American. Condry is interested in the way Japanese rappers can be very provocative while simultaneously not being easily categorized as either “pro-Japanese” or “anti-American.” Instead he finds that they struggle to define an ethical politics across national boundaries. This essay exemplifies the ways that popular culture can be a vehicle for soft power, but makes a point of showing that it would be a mistake to view the spread of U.S. popular culture styles in itself as an effective national tool in world politics. Condry includes examples from Japanese rap musicians’ portrayals of 9/11 and the Iraq War. They may love hip-hop music and culture but still view U.S. government policies with skepticism. Provocatively, the essay asks how the analysis of soft power might be transformed if, instead of focusing on how American or Japanese soft power could be heightened, we instead asked how transnational goals of human rights, environmental protection, and fair trade (among others) could be made more “attractive” to the world as a whole.

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Pietroski, Paul M. Massively monadic, potentially plural. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812722.003.0007.

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This chapter offers evidence for the following hypothesis: the concepts fetched via lexical meanings are predicative (monadic) or minimally relational (dyadic), even though we often lexicalize concepts of other types. Denoting concepts are used to introduce predicative analogs, while “supradyadic” concepts are used to introduce predicative and/or dyadic analogs. Given a Fregean language, lexicalization could be a more transparent process in which concepts are simply labeled with words of matching types. In this sense, lexicalization effaces certain conceptual distinctions; and it is argued that mass/count/plural distinctions provide another illustration of this point. In this context, there is discussion of Boolos’s plural interpretation of second-order quantification, which also plays a role in chapter seven.

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Dewar, Jacqueline M. Gathering Evidence: The Basics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821212.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 provides an introduction to gathering data for scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) investigations, including the importance of triangulation, that is, collecting several different types of evidence. Examples are given of typical kinds of quantitative (numerical) and qualitative (non-numerical) data that might be used in a SoTL study. That quantitative and qualitative data are more closely related than it might seem at first is discussed. The taxonomy of SoTL questions—What works? What is? What could be?—provides a starting point for considering what type of data to collect. Suggestions are offered for ways to design assignments so that the coursework students produce can also serve as evidence, something that benefits both students and their instructor.

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Boden, Margaret A. 3. Language, creativity, emotion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199602919.003.0003.

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If AI cannot model language, creativity, and emotion, hopes of artificial general intelligence (AGI) are illusory. These quintessentially ‘human’ areas have been modeled, but only up to a point. ‘Language, creativity, emotion’ questions whether AI systems could ever appear to possess these areas. It first considers natural language processing (NLP). NLP generation is more difficult than NLP acceptance due to both thematic content and grammatical form. On the creativity front, AI technology has generated many ideas that are historically new, surprising, and valuable. AI concepts also help to explain human creativity by distinguishing three types: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. It concludes that if we are ever to achieve AGI, emotions such as anxiety must be included—and used.

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Goodall, Alex. Troubled Spirits. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038037.003.0008.

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This chapter illustrates how reincarnation provided Henry Ford with a sense of purpose he could find only in an absolute order generated by a coherent structure underpinning the universe. According to him, the eternal animating spirit was something like a “Queen Bee in the complicated hive which constitutes the individual.” These beliefs have since become part of the mythology surrounding America's most famous industrial pioneer. A shared hostility to radical politics was a central part of the process by which the alliance of church and industry was cemented. Antiradical ethics expressed a point where religious and corporate conceptions of the good seemingly came together, since Bolsheviks challenged the established norms both of this world and the next.

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Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne. The Quaker Antislavery Commitment and How It Revolutionized French Antislavery through the Crèvecoeur–Brissot Friendship, 1782–1789. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038266.003.0013.

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This chapter examines the friendship between J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and French abolitionist Jacques-Pierre Brissot. Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer was long seen as the first expression of American literary consciousness. The book proved to be a best seller when it came out in England in 1782. London was then one of the major places where the French “literary underground” could publish magazines and books free of government censorship. A number of French journalists thus resided in London and contributed to various publications. One of them was Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville. Reading Letters formed a turning point in his career as an activist, prompting him to seek an acquaintance with Crèvecoeur.

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Short, Simine. Encouraging Progress in Flying Machines. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036316.003.0008.

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This chapter details Octave Chanute's contributions to the effort to develop flying machines. By the early days of the twentieth century, the ancient taboo of flight slowly emerged as a thoroughly modern inquiry of science. To realize his personal goal of witnessing sustained mechanical flight, Chanute freely shared what he had learned; for him, technical information was a public commodity and he impressed on his correspondents the need to share what they had discovered so that future investigators could avail themselves of the known and take problems to the next level. By linking his many correspondents into an informal network, Chanute provided motivation and became the focal point of a far-reaching international community of flying machine experimenters.

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Adams, Peter J. Reflecting on the Inevitable. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.001.0001.

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Death studies have, over the past twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying. But, despite its importance, a specific focus on the nature of personal mortality has attracted surprisingly little attention. Reflecting on the Inevitable: Mortality at the Crossroads of Psychology, Philosophy, and Health breaks new ground by bringing together available ideas and research on the meaning of one’s own death. Its content is organized around the question of how an ongoing relationship might be possible when the threat of consciousness coming to an end points to an unthinkable and unspeakable nothingness. The book then argues that, despite this threat, an ongoing relationship with one’s own death is still possible by means of conceptual devices that help shape personal mortality into a relatable object. Four of these devices, or “enabling frames,” are examined: essential structures, passionate suffusion, point-of-transition, and self-generative process. While each frame conceptualizes mortality differently, they share a capacity to move it from unintelligibility to something we can think and speak about, thereby enabling us to maintain an ongoing engagement. The final chapters explore ways in which pursuing a relationship with our own deaths could become a normal and acceptable activity throughout our lives.

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Barrett, Justin L. The Argument from Positive Epistemic Status. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842215.003.0010.

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Plantinga’s suggested argument for God from positive epistemic status takes as its starting point that many of our beliefs have positive epistemic status and that such positive status is best thought of as derived from our belief-forming faculties functioning properly in an appropriate environment. Plantinga suggests that this proper function is best understood in terms of a designer having engineered these faculties for particular purposes, the best candidate for this designer being God. A ready objection is that the needed “proper” functioning could be derived from evolution and, so, God is not obviously the best candidate for being the “designer.” This essay evaluates versions of this objection in reference to recent scientific research from cognitive developmental psychology and cognitive science of religion.

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