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Abnormal subcortical activity in congenital mirror movement disorder with RAD51 mutation
(Turkish Society of Radiology, 2018)PURPOSE Congenital mirror movement disorder (CMMD) is characterized by unintended, nonsuppressible, homologous mirroring activity contralateral to the movement on the intended side of the body. In healthy controls, unilateral ... -
Ambivalence for cognitivists: a lesson from chrysippus?
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2017)Ambivalence—where we experience two conflicting emotional responses to the same object, person or state of affairs—is sometimes thought to pose a problem for cognitive theories of emotion. Drawing on the ideas of the Stoic ... -
"And they had a big, big, very long fight:" The development of evaluative language in preschoolers' oral fictional stories told in a peer-group context
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-04)This study examined the development of evaluative language in preschoolers' oral fictional narratives using a storytelling/story-acting practice where children told stories to and for their friends. Evaluative language ... -
Are there expressive constraints on incarceration?
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Aristotle on the naturalness of death from old age
(Akdeniz Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi, 2018)In this work, I explore and critically evaluate Aristotle’s views on the naturalness of dying from old age. His views are not straightforward, because Aristotle regards old age as a kind of decay and he talks about decay ... -
Assertion, denial, content, and (logical) form
(Springer Netherlands, 2016)I discuss Greg Restall’s attempt to generate an account of logical consequence from the incoherence of certain packages of assertions and denials. I take up his justification of the cut rule and argue that, in order to ... -
Assessing the association between Corporate Financial Influence and implementation of policies to tackle commercial determinants of non-communicable diseases: A cross-sectional analysis of 172 countries
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-02-22)Objective: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of global death and disability. Tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods are major contributing risk factors. WHO Member States have unanimously endorsed a set ... -
Attempts
(Springer Netherlands, 2021-06-14)It’s generally assumed that, if an agent x acts by ϕ-ing, then there occurs an event which is x’s ϕ-ing. But what about when an agent tries to do something? Are there such things as attempts? The standard answer is ‘Yes’. ... -
Austin, Kersten, and the model of sovereignty
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Autocratisation and universal health coverage: synthetic control study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)Objective: To assess the relation between autocratisation—substantial decreases in democratic traits (free and fair elections, freedom of civil and political association, and freedom of expression)—and countries’ population ... -
Automaticity, consciousness and moral responsibility
(2007)Cognitive scientists have long noted that automated behavior is the rule, while conscious acts of self-regulation are the exception to the rule. On the face of it, automated actions appear to be immune to moral appraisal ... -
Autonomy, divinity, and the common good: Selflessness as a source of freedom in thomas hill green and mary augusta ward
(Routledge, 2018)An often-mentioned marker of the influence of British Idealism at the end of the 19th century is the best-selling novel of 1888, Mrs Humphry (Mary Augusta) Ward’s Robert Elsmere, which draws heavily on Idealist themes and ... -
Baker’s theory of material constitution and thinking things into existence
(University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy, 2018)The paper provides a critical evaluation of Lynne Rudder Baker’s nonmereological theory of material constitution in light of the “thinking into existence” objection, formulated by Theodore Sider and Dean W. Zimmerman. ... -
Basic education and capability development in Turkey
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Basic income and the problem of cumulative misfortune
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006)This paper defends a regularly paid basic income as being better equipped to tackle unfair inequalities of outcome. It is argued that the timing of "option-luck" failures – in particular, whether they occur early in a ... -
Beyond neonatal imitation: aerodigestive stereotypies, speech development, and social interaction in the extended perinatal period
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)In our target article, we argued that the positive results of neonatal imitation are likely to be by-products of normal aerodigestive development. Our hypothesis elicited various responses on the role of social interaction ... -
Body, skill, and look: Is bodybuilding a sport?
(Springer Netherlands, 2018)I argue that bodybuilding should not qualify as a sport, given that at the competition stage it lacks an essential feature of sports, namely, skillful activity. Based on the classic distinction between Leib (the lived body) ... -
Cameades
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Carl Schmitt
(2014)
