Kantian Review

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    Stephen Howard, Kant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus Postumum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 73. ISBN: 9781009013765 (pbk) $22.00. [REVIEW]Jeffrey Edwards - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):501-506.
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    Kant on the Despotic Danger of a World State.Bo Fang - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):387-404.
    In this article, I argue that Kant’s real reason for rejecting a world state in practice is that a world state would be in greater danger of despotism than individual states. Kant hopes that public participation and self-enlightenment of the people in the public sphere could counter the despotic danger in individual states. However, in a world state, state affairs are too distant from the lives of individuals, making it difficult for individuals to maintain enthusiasm for public discourse and political (...)
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    Kant on the Despotic Danger of a World State – CORRIGENDUM.Bo Fang - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):519-519.
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    Jens Timmermann, Kant’s Will at the Crossroads: An Essay on the Failings of Practical Rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. xvi + 188. ISBN 9780192896032 (hbk) $80.00. [REVIEW]Patrick Frierson - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):513-518.
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    Michael Bennett McNulty (ed.), Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. xi + 280. ISBN 9781108661072 (hbk) $32.99. [REVIEW]David Hyder - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):506-508.
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    Robert Stern (1962–2024).Jessica Leech & Joe Saunders - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):347-350.
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    Alain Séguy-Duclot, Kant, le premier cercle. La déduction transcendantale des catégories (1781 et 1787). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. pp. 299. ISBN 9782406106838 (pbk) 29.00€. [REVIEW]Christian Onof & Dennis Schulting - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):508-513.
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    The Will of All in Kant’s Groundwork.T. A. Pendlebury - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):423-445.
    In Kant’s Groundwork II, the Formula of Universal Law (FUL) seems to be the argumentative link between the notion of a categorical imperative and later formulae (e.g. of humanity), its function as this link dependent on its equivalence to both. Some commentators have denied this equivalence and read the section as a failure. Others have abandoned its expository development by reading later formulae into the FUL. I argue that we need do neither if we distinguish the universality of the FUL (...)
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    The Will of All in Kant’s Groundwork.T. A. Pendlebury - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):423-445.
    In Kant’s Groundwork II, the Formula of Universal Law (FUL) seems to be the argumentative link between the notion of a categorical imperative and later formulae (e.g. of humanity), its function as this link dependent on its equivalence to both. Some commentators have denied this equivalence and read the section as a failure. Others have abandoned its expository development by reading later formulae into the FUL. I argue that we need do neither if we distinguish the universality of the FUL (...)
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    Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.), Kants gesammelte Schriften. Neuedition der Abtheilung I (Werke). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2023 -, 9 volumes. [REVIEW]Riccardo Pozzo - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):489-501.
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    Kant on Remorse, Conversion, and the Descent into the Hell of Self-Cognition.Benjamin Vilhauer - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3):447-466.
    Kant’s conception of remorse has received little discussion in the literature. I argue that he thinks we ought to experience remorse for both retributivist and forward-looking reasons. This account casts helpful light on his ideas of conversion and the descent into the hell of self-cognition. But while he prescribes a heartbreakingly painful experience of remorse, he acknowledges that excess remorse can threaten rational agency through distraction and suicide, and this raises questions about whether actual human beings ought to cultivate their (...)
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  12. Kant’s Principia Diiudicationis and Executionis.John Walsh - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (3).
    A core feature of Kant’s Critical account of moral motivation is that pure reason can be practical by itself. I argue that Kant developed this view in the 1770s concerning the principium diiudicationis and principium executionis. These principles indicate the normative and performative aspects of moral motivation. I demonstrate that cognition of the normative principle effects the moral incentive. So, the hallmark of Kant’s Critical account of motivation was contained in his pre-Critical view. This interpretation resolves a controversy about Kant’s (...)
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    Owen Ware, Kant on Freedom Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023 Pp. 64 ISBN 9781009074551 (pbk) £17.00. [REVIEW]Uygar Abaci - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):337-341.
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    American Reconstruction and the Abolition of Second Slavery: On Pascoe’s Intersectional Critique of Kant’s Theory of Labour.Elvira Basevich - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):229-237.
    To highlight the promise of Jordan Pascoe’s Kant’s Theory of Labour, my comments concern the diagnostic and prescriptive dimensions of the book’s excellent intersectional critique of dependent labour relations. The diagnostic dimension of Pascoe’s critique establishes that the organisation of dependent labour relations is a neglected problem of Kantian justice. The prescriptive dimension offers solutions to this problem but is underdeveloped. To enhance the book’s prescriptive dimension, I draw on the noted Africana philosopher W. E. B. Du Bois for guidance. (...)
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    Followability, Necessity, and Excuse: Interpreting Kant’s Penal Theory.Robert Campbell - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):169-186.
    Philosophers traditionally interpret Kant as a retributivist, but modern interpreters, with reference to Kant’s theory of justice and problematic passages, instead propose penal theories that mix retributive and deterrent features. Although these mixed penal theories are substantively compelling and capture the Kantian spirit, their dual aspects lead to a justificatory conflict that generates an apparent dilemma. To resolve this dilemma and clear the ground for these mixed theories, I will outline and reinterpret Kant’s penal theory by situating it in his (...)
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    Between Faith and Judgement: Kant’s Dual Conception of Moral Certainty.Sara Di Giulio - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):187-207.
    There are two main meanings in Kant’s concept of moral certainty (moralische Gewissheit, certitudo moralis): first, it applies to the kind of certainty embodied in rational faith in the existence of God and a future life; second, it applies to the conscientiousness (Gewissenhaftigkeit) required of an agent in the practice of moral judgement. Despite the growing attention to Kant’s theory of conscience and his concept of conscientiousness, this article is the first to discuss ‘moral certainty’ as the aim of ‘conscientiousness’ (...)
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    Proops’s ‘Nugget of Gold’ in Kant’s Dialectic.Desmond P. Hogan - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):267-275.
    The Fiery Test of Critique describes Kant’s indirect proof of idealism from the Antinomy of Pure Reason as the ‘nugget of gold’ in the Critique of Pure Reason’s Transcendental Dialectic. Here, I offer critical reflections on Proops’s reading of Kant’s indirect proof.
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    Kant's Critique of the Ontological Argument: Comments on Ian Proos's The Fiery Test of Critique.Anja Jauernig - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):277-287.
    The main interpretative claims in the chapter on Kant’s critique of the ontological argument in Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique are critically discussed.
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    Kant’s Critique of the Ontological Argument: Comments on Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique.Anja Jauernig - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):277-287.
    The main interpretative claims in the chapter on Kant’s critique of the ontological argument in Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique are critically discussed.
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    Andrew Jones, How Kant Matters for Biology. A Philosophical History Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023 Pp. xii + 233 ISBN 9781786839732 (hbk) £75.00. [REVIEW]Anton Kabeshkin - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):331-334.
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    Understanding the First Paralogism: A Friendly Disagreement.Patricia Kitcher - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):289-298.
    My comments focus on Proops’s treatment of the Paralogisms. I agree with many aspects of his discussion, including his views about the project of Rational Psychology and his analyses of how, exactly, the arguments of the Paralogisms are defective in form, but I disagree with his interpretation of the First Paralogism. I argue that the source of confusion that Kant diagnoses is not the grammatical distribution of ‘I’ as singular, but the fact that the I-representation is both empty and necessary (...)
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    ‘“I think” is the Sole Text of Rational Psychology’: Comments on Ian Proops’s The Fiery Test of Critique.Béatrice Longuenesse - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):299-308.
    I focus on two main points in Ian Proops’s reading of Kant’s Paralogisms of Pure Reason: the structure of the paralogisms in the A edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, and the changes in Kant’s exposition of the paralogisms from A to B. I agree with Proops that there are defects in the A exposition and that Kant attempted to correct those defects in B. But I argue that Proops fails to give its due to what remains fundamental in (...)
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    Luigi Filieri, Sintesi e Giudizio. Studio su Kant e Jakob Sigismund Beck Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2020 Pp. 342 ISBN 9788846758699 (pbk) €30.00. [REVIEW]Gualtiero Lorini - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):341-345.
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    Response to Critics: Kant’s Theory of Labour.Jordan Pascoe - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2).
    Elvira Basevich, Martin Sticker, and Helga Varden offered generative criticism of my monograph, Kant’s Theory of Labour. In this response, I explore how the resources they offer for thinking about gender, labour, and the state’s responsibility to ensure the material conditions of freedom can deepen both our attentiveness to patterns of systemic injustice in Kant’s political philosophy, and the resources Kant offers for addressing contemporary patterns of intersectional and material injustice.
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  25. ‘In Itself’: A New Investigation of Kant’s Adverbial Wording of Transcendental Idealism.Tobias Rosefeldt - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):209-227.
    This article offers the first systematic investigation of the linguistic forms in which Kant expresses his transcendental idealism since Gerold Prauss’ seminal book Kant und das Problem der Dinge an sich. It is argued that Prauss’ own argument for the claim that ‘in itself’ is an adverbial expression that standardly modifies verbs of philosophical reflection is flawed and that there is hence very poor exegetical evidence for so-called ‘methodological two-aspect’ interpretations of Kant’s transcendental idealism. A comprehensive investigation of Kant’s adverbial (...)
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    Working Oneself Up and Universal Basic Income.Martin Sticker - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):239-247.
    I respond to a challenge raised by Jordan Pascoe: Kant’s conception of obtaining full citizenship through working oneself up necessarily condemns some people to passive citizenship. I argue that we should not focus on work to establish universal full citizenship. Rather, a Universal Basic Income, an income paid regularly to everyone and without conditions, can secure everyone’s full citizenship. Moreover, I argue that such a scheme is more Kantian in nature than hitherto assumed.
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    Jordan Pascoe’s Kant’s Theory of Labour: A Kantian Engagement.Helga Varden - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):249-256.
    This article critiques Jordan Pascoe’s Kant’s Theory of Labour (CUP 2022). After outlining some of its many distinctive contributions, I consider Pascoe’s ideas on women, marriage, method, and the challenges involved in engaging with (classical) texts that express various ‘isms’. In addition to giving readers an introduction to many of the exciting ideas presented in the book, my aim is to stimulate further discussion of the kind all excellent books strive to create.
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    Ian Proops: Kant on Transcendental Freedom ( The Fiery Test of Critique: Chs. 11–12).Allen Wood - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (2):309-316.
    Kant’s position on the problem of free will can be perplexing and frustrating: all the real questions about human agential capacities or even about issues of moral imputability are empirical questions, which have empirical answers. But there remains a metaphysical or transcendental problem about the possibility of freedom, which is forever insoluble. Ian Proops’ discussion in The Fiery Test of Critique is to be commended for displaying the rare virtue of appreciating this last point and presenting Kant’s position about it (...)
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    Barbara Herman (2022) The Moral Habitat. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 272. ISBN 9780192896353 (hbk) $41.99. [REVIEW]Lucy Allais - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):156-162.
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    Why Did Kant Conceive of the Critique of Pure Reason as a Critique? Comments on Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics.Karin de Boer - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):103-113.
    My response to Gabriele Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (2023) focuses on Kant’s conception of the role of critique in the Critique of Pure Reason. On my account, Gava’s emphasis on the constructive elements of the Critique downplays the critique of former metaphysics elaborated in all three parts of the Transcendental Doctrine of Elements. After some comments on Kant’s conception of the Critique as a doctrine of method, I support this view by discussing the (...)
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  31. The Nature of the Critique of Pure Reason and the Architectonic Unity of Metaphysics: A Response to my Critics.Gabriele Gava - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1).
    I respond to Karin de Boer, Thomas Land, and Claudio La Rocca’s comments on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (CUP 2023). I first provide a quick outline of some of the main claims I make in the book. I then directly address their criticisms, which I group into three categories. The first group of comments raises doubts concerning my characterization of the central tasks of the critique of pure reason. The second targets the fact that (...)
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    The Method of Metaphysics and the Architectonic: Remarks on Gava’s Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics.Claudio La Rocca - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):115-124.
    The article addresses some aspects of Gava’s book, highlighting two main points: (1) the notion of philosophy in a cosmic sense; (2) its connection with the meaning of the concept of method. Regarding (1) I show how Gava’s interpretation of the systematic concept of philosophy does not account adequately for the scholastic concept. This has consequences for the notion of philosophy in a cosmic sense itself; its nature as an objective archetype and its personification in the ideal of a master (...)
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    Comments on Gabriele Gava, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics.Thomas Land - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):125-133.
    I raise three objections for Gava’s thesis that the primary task of the Critique of Pure Reason is to develop a doctrine of method for metaphysics, understood as an account of the special kind of unity that a body of cognitions must exhibit to count as a science. First, I argue that this thesis has difficulty accommodating Kant’s concern with explaining the possibility of synthetic a priori judgements. This concern is motivated by a question that is prior to the issue (...)
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    Gualtiero Lorini (2023) Die anthropologische Normativität bei Kant. Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann. pp. 151. ISBN 9783826072932 (pbk) 28.00€. [REVIEW]Robert B. Louden - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):162-165.
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    Maxims: Responsibility and Causal Laws.Jon Mandle - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):1-18.
    Although maxims are central to Kant’s ethical theory, his account of them remains obscure. We can make progress towards understanding Kantian maxims by examining not only their role as the object of moral judgement but also their connection to freedom of the will and causality. This requires understanding maxims as causal laws that explain the actions that we impute to agents. In this way, they are analogous to causal laws of nature, but they are limited in scope to the agents (...)
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    Luigi Caranti (2022) The Kantian Federation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 66. ISBN 9781009016971 (pbk) $22.00. [REVIEW]Toshiro Osawa - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):153-156.
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    The Postulate of Immortality in the Critique of Practical Reason(and Beyond).Lawrence Pasternack - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):19-38.
    It is widely claimed that the second Critique’s argument for the postulate of immortality is relevantly different from the first Critique’s argument for the postulate. It is also widely claimed that after the second Critique, Kant distances himself from its particular version of the argument, and even the postulate altogether. It is the purpose of this article to challenge these claims, arguing instead that (a) there is overwhelming textual evidence showing that Kant did not abandon the postulate; (b) the second (...)
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  38. Kant’s Derivation of Imperatives of Duty.Laurenz Ramsauer - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):39-59.
    On the currently dominant reading of the Groundwork, Kant’s derivation of ‘imperatives of duty’ exemplifies a decision procedure for the derivation of concrete duties in moral deliberation. However, Kant’s response to an often-misidentified criticism of the Groundwork by G. A. Tittel suggests that Kant was remarkably unconcerned with arguing for the practicality of the categorical imperative as a decision procedure. Instead, I argue that the main aim of Kant’s derivation of imperatives of duty was to show how his analysis of (...)
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    Kant on Free Speech: Criticism, Enlightenment, and the Exercise of Judgement in the Public Sphere.Kristi Sweet - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):61-80.
    In this article, I offer a novel and in-depth account of how, for Kant, free speech is the mechanism that moves a society closer to justice. I argue that the criticism of the legislator preserved by free speech must also be the result of collective agreement. I further argue that structural features of judgements of taste and the sensus communis give guidance for how we should communicate publicly to succeed at the aims Kant has laid out, as judgements of taste, (...)
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    Susan Meld Shell (2022) The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant’s Critique of Taste. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 75. ISBN 9781009011808 (pbk) $22.00. [REVIEW]Kristi Sweet - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):165-168.
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    Living Freedom: The Heautonomy of the Judgement of Taste.Zhengmi Zhouhuang - 2024 - Kantian Review 29 (1):81-102.
    Different from the autonomy of understanding in cognition and the autonomy of practical reason in praxis, the heautonomy in the judgement of taste is reflexive. The reflexivity consists not only in the fact that the power of judgement legislates to its own usage but also, and more importantly, it legislates to itself through its own operative process. This normativity, based on the self-referential structure of pure aesthetic judgement and the a priori principle of subjective, internal purposiveness, can be regarded as (...)
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  42. Kant on the Conceptual Possibility of Actually Infinite Tota Synthetica.Rosalind Chaplin - 2024 - Kantian Review (3):367-386.
    Most interpreters hold that Kant rejects actually infinite tota synthetica as conceptually impossible. This view is attributed to Kant to relieve him of the charge that the first antinomy’s thesis argument presupposes transcendental idealism. I argue that important textual evidence speaks against this view, and Kant in fact affirms the conceptual possibility of actually infinite tota synthetica. While this means the first antinomy may not be decisive as an indirect argument for idealism, it gives us a better account of how (...)
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  43. Individual Maxim Tokens, not Abstract Maxim Types.Samuel Kahn - 2024 - Kantian Review (3):405-421.
    I argue that Kant’s Categorical Imperative should be applied to individual maxim tokens rather than abstract maxim types. The article is divided into five sections. In the first, I explain my thesis. In the second, I show that my thesis disagrees with Rawls. In the third, I argue for my thesis on the basis of the wording of the Categorical Imperative and on the basis of considerations about autonomy. In the fourth, I argue for my thesis on the basis of (...)
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  44. Analytic Cognition in Kant.Michael Yuen - 2024 - Kantian Review (3):1–21.
    Kant refers to analytic cognition in several prominent places. The prevailing wisdom, however, denies the possibility of analytic cognition within his theory of cognition. I shall argue that this is mistaken. I show that we can account for analytic cognition’s possibility by appealing to variants of the more familiar conditions on the cognition of objects. I also highlight analytic cognition’s connection to insight and analytic knowledge. In the process, I provide a fuller account of Kant’s view of our mental lives (...)
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    Review of Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique. [REVIEW]J. Colin McQuillan - 2024 - Kantian Review (2):334-337.
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  46. Replies to Critics of the Fiery Test of Critique.Ian Proops - 2024 - Kantian Review (2):317-329.
    A set of replies to critics of my 2021 book 'The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant's Dialectic' (OUP). -/- The criticisms are based on talks given at an Author-meets-critics symposium at Princeton University on April 22nd, 2023. The critics are: Beatrice Longuenesse, Patricia Kitcher, Allen Wood, Des Hogan, and Anja Jauernig.
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