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    Orphan genes are not a distinct biological entity.Andres Barboza Pereira, Matthew Marano, Ramya Bathala, Rigoberto Ayala Zaragoza, Andres Neira, Alex Samano, Adekola Owoyemi & Claudio Casola - 2025 - Bioessays 47 (1):2400146.
    The genome sequencing revolution has revealed that all species possess a large number of unique genes critical for trait variation, adaptation, and evolutionary innovation. One widely used approach to identify such genes consists of detecting protein‐coding sequences with no homology in other genomes, termed orphan genes. These genes have been extensively studied, under the assumption that they represent valid proxies for species‐specific genes. Here, we critically evaluate taxonomic, phylogenetic, and sequence evolution evidence showing that orphan genes belong to a range (...)
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    Transparency and Self-Knowledge.Alex Byrne - 2018 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    You know what someone else is thinking and feeling by observing them. But how do you know what you are thinking and feeling? This is the problem of self-knowledge: Alex Byrne tries to solve it. The idea is that you know this not by taking a special kind of look at your own mind, but by an inference from a premise about your environment.
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  3. What's So Bad About Killer Robots?Alex Leveringhaus - 2018 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 35 (2):341-358.
    Robotic warfare has now become a real prospect. One issue that has generated heated debate concerns the development of ‘Killer Robots’. These are weapons that, once programmed, are capable of finding and engaging a target without supervision by a human operator. From a conceptual perspective, the debate on Killer Robots has been rather confused, not least because it is unclear how central elements of these weapons can be defined. Offering a precise take on the relevant conceptual issues, the article contends (...)
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    If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution.Alberto Acerbi & Alex Mesoudi - 2015 - Biology and Philosophy 30 (4):481-503.
    Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to broadly Darwinian principles. Yet how far the analogy between cultural and genetic evolution should be pushed is open to debate. Here, we examine a recent disagreement that concerns the extent to which cultural transmission should be considered a preservative mechanism allowing selection among different variants, or a transformative process in which individuals recreate variants each time they are transmitted. The latter is associated with the notion of “cultural (...)
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    (1 other version)Epistemic Objects as Interactive Loci.Alex Levine - 2011 - Axiomathes 21 (1):57-66.
    Contemporary process metaphysics has achieved a number of important results, most significantly in accounting for emergence, a problem on which substance metaphysics has foundered since Plato. It also faces trenchant problems of its own, among them the related problems of boundaries and individuation. Historically, the quest for ontology may thus have been largely responsible for the persistence of substance metaphysics. But as Plato was well aware, an ontology of substantial things raises serious, perhaps insurmountable problems for any account of our (...)
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    The Hierarchical Transformation of Event Knowledge in Human Cultural Transmission.Alex Mesoudi & Andrew Whiten - 2004 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 4 (1):1-24.
    There is extensive evidence that adults, children, and some non-human species, represent routine events in the form of hierarchically structured 'action scripts,' and show superior recall and imitation of information at relatively high-levels of this hierarchy. Here we investigate the hypothesis that a 'hierarchical bias' operates in human cultural transmission, acting to impose a hierarchical structure onto descriptions of everyday events, and to increasingly describe those events in terms of higher hierarchical levels. Descriptions of three everyday events expressed entirely in (...)
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    Improving your reasoning.Alex C. Michalos - 1970 - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall.
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  8. (1 other version)Principles of Logic.Alex C. Michalos - 1971 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 22 (2):205-206.
     
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  9. Human rights, self-determination, and external legitimacy.Alex Levitov - 2015 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 14 (3):291-315.
    It is commonly supposed that at least some states possess a moral right against external intervention in their domestic affairs and all human rights violations give members of the international community reasons to undertake preventive or remedial action against offending states. No state, however, currently protects or could reasonably be expected to protect its subjects’ human rights to a perfect degree. In view of this reality, many have found it difficult to explain how any existing or readily foreseeable state could (...)
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    "An Unaccountable Pleasure": Hume on Tragedy and the Passions.Alex Neill - 1998 - Hume Studies 24 (2):335-354.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume Studies Volume XXIV, Number 2, November 1998, pp. 335-354 "An Unaccountable Pleasure": Hume on Tragedy and the Passions ALEX NEILL Hume begins his essay "Of Tragedy" with a description of what he calls "a singular phaenomenon": It seems an unaccountable pleasure, which the spectators of a well-written tragedy receive from sorrow, terror, anxiety, and other passions, that are in themselves disagreeable and uneasy. The more they are (...)
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    Blind and Incremental or Directed and Disruptive? On the Nature of Novel Variation in Human Cultural Evolution.Alex Mesoudi - 2021 - American Philosophical Quarterly 58 (1):7-20.
    Many scholars have rejected cultural evolutionary theory on the grounds that cultural variation is directed and intentionally created, rather than incremental and blind with respect to function, as is the case for novel genetic variation in genetic evolution. Meanwhile, some cultural evolution researchers insist that cultural variation is blind and undirected, and the only directional force is selection of randomly-generated variants. Here I argue that neither of these positions are tenable. Cultural variation is directed in various ways. While this does (...)
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    The Monster of Supercapitalism.Alex C. Michalos - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 91 (S1):37 - 48.
    Among other interesting claims made in Robert Reich's 2007 treatise, Supercapitalism, it is asserted in various ways that proponents of corporate social responsibility (CSR) or what I would call 'business ethics' are engaged in relatively unproductive exercises. Their resources would be better used if they undertook the hard work of engagement in democratic political processes leading to legislation that would force corporations to pursue the public interest as well as their own. In this article, I summarize some of Reich's central (...)
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  13. Partition epistemology and arguments from analogy.Alex Levine - 2009 - Synthese 166 (3):593-600.
    Nineteenth and twentieth century philosophies of science have consistently failed to identify any rational basis for the compelling character of scientific analogies. This failure is particularly worrisome in light of the fact that the development and diffusion of certain scientific analogies, e.g. Darwin’s analogy between domestic breeds and naturally occurring species, constitute paradigm cases of good science. It is argued that the interactivist model, through the notion of a partition epistemology, provides a way to understand the persuasive character of compelling (...)
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    A Study on Ethically Problematic Selling Methods in China with a Broaden Concept of Gray-marketing.Guijun Zhuang & Alex S. L. Tsang - 2008 - Journal of Business Ethics 79 (1-2):85 - 101.
    This paper expands the definition of gray-marketing to include some ethically problematic marketing activities and techniques used in personal selling in China. Based on this, a conceptual model of gray-marketing for a particular type of selling in which both the sellers and the buyers exhibit problematic ethics in an exchange and the associated hypotheses are developed and tested. The findings show that, first, the respondents have different ethical evaluations of different marketing practices used in personal selling such as giving and (...)
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    A science of culture: Clarifications and extensions.Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten & Kevin N. Laland - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (4):366-375.
    We are encouraged that the majority of commentators endorse our evolutionary framework for studying culture, and several suggest extensions. Here we clarify our position, dwelling on misunderstandings and requests for exposition. We reiterate that using evolutionary biology as a model for unifying the social sciences within a single synthetic framework can stimulate a more progressive and rigorous science of culture. (Published Online November 9 2006).
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    The Tradition and Ideology of Naming Seleukid Queens.Alex McAuley - 2018 - História 67 (4):472.
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  17. Why liberals should support same sex marriage.Adrian Alex Wellington - 1995 - Journal of Social Philosophy 26 (3):5-32.
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    Press Freedom Index (PFI).Alex C. Michalos - 2021 - In Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos, Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 1488-1490.
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    Panama Papers.Alex C. Michalos - 2021 - In Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos, Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 1443-1445.
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    The Unreality and Moral Superiority of Football.Alex C. Michalos - 1976 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 3 (1):22-24.
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    The Force of Numbers: Investigating Manual Signatures of Embodied Number Processing.Alex Miklashevsky, Oliver Lindemann & Martin H. Fischer - 2021 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14.
    The study has two objectives: to introduce grip force recording as a new technique for studying embodied numerical processing; and to demonstrate how three competing accounts of numerical magnitude representation can be tested by using this new technique: the Mental Number Line, A Theory of Magnitude and Embodied Cognition account. While 26 healthy adults processed visually presented single digits in a go/no-go n-back paradigm, their passive holding forces for two small sensors were recorded in both hands. Spontaneous and unconscious grip (...)
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  22. Philosophy of Language: Second Edition.Alex Miller - 2007 - Mcgill-Queen's University Press.
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    Mathematical models of foreign policy decision-making: Compensatory vs. noncompensatory.Alex Mintz, Nehemia Geva & Karl Derouen - 1994 - Synthese 100 (3):441 - 460.
    There are presently two leading foreign policy decision-making paradigms in vogue. The first is based on the classical or rational model originally posited by von Neumann and Morgenstern to explain microeconomic decisions. The second is based on the cybernetic perspective whose groundwork was laid by Herbert Simon in his early research on bounded rationality. In this paper we introduce a third perspective — thepoliheuristic theory of decision-making — as an alternative to the rational actor and cybernetic paradigms in international relations. (...)
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    ‘Masking the fissure’: Some thoughts on competences, reflection and ‘closure’ in initial teacher education.Alex Moore - 1996 - British Journal of Educational Studies 44 (2):200-211.
    A profile of teacher competences is described and interrogated in the light of inherent, language-based problematics. It is argued that such texts tend to constrain the modes and parameters within which to think about one's practice, in addition to masking possible deficiences in education systems through a pathologisation of the individual practitioner. The importance of keeping alive alternative discourses is stressed. Such discourses, it is argued, should recognise the complex idiosyncratic, contingent aspects of teaching and learning, and should include students' (...)
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    Daniele Goldoni, Gratitudine. Voci di Hölderlin, Christian Marinotti Edizioni, Milano, 2014, 229 páginas.Àlex Mumbrú Mora - 2019 - Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 36 (2):575-577.
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    Sleep and Social Memory Consolidation.Santamaria Amanda, Churches Owen, Chatburn Alex, Keage Hannah & Kohler Mark - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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    Prestige Does Not Affect the Cultural Transmission of Novel Controversial Arguments in an Online Transmission Chain Experiment.Ángel V. Jiménez & Alex Mesoudi - 2020 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 20 (3-4):238-261.
    Cultural evolutionary theories define prestige as social rank that is freely conferred on individuals possessing superior knowledge or skill, in order to gain opportunities to learn from such individuals. Consequently, information provided by prestigious individuals should be more memorable, and hence more likely to be culturally transmitted, than information from non-prestigious sources, particularly for novel, controversial arguments about which preexisting opinions are absent or weak. It has also been argued that this effect extends beyond the prestigious individual’s relevant domain of (...)
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    Les classes sociales en R.F.A.Hans Jung & Alex Lindenberg - 1988 - Actuel Marx 4 (1):71.
    In this period of transition of state monopoly capitalism the working class has become the large majority. Within this majority the proletariat, due to the exchange character of its power, constitutes the care. Beside it new groups of intellectuals are emerging with radical-democratic demands.
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    Wronging Rights?: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights.Aakash Singh Rathore & Alex Cistelecan (eds.) - 2011 - New Delhi: Routledge India.
    This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian, its balanced internal structure not just throwing these two critiques together, but actually forcing them to enter into confrontation and dialogue. The book is organised in three parts: at each end, the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian critiques are represented by some of their main thinkers, while in the middle, an American intermezzo functions as a genuine Derridian supplement: always already (...)
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    Two visual systems must still perceive events.J. Alex Shull & Geoffrey P. Bingham - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1):118-119.
    Perception of (and during) events is a necessary feature of any perceptual theory. Norman's dual-process approach cannot account for the perception of events without substantial interactions between the dorsal and ventral systems. These interactions, as outlined by Norman, are highly problematical. The necessity for interactions between the two systems makes the distinction useless.
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  31. Hgp : The Holy Genome Project? An Answer To The Questionnaire Concerning The Unesco Declaration On Protection Of The Human Genome.Alex Mauron - 1995 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 5 (5):117-119.
     
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    6. Communion in Joy: Will to Power and Eternal Return in Grand Politics.Alex McIntyre - 1997 - In The Sovereignty of Joy: Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics. University of Toronto Press. pp. 127-152.
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    Business Case for Business Ethics.Alex C. Michalos - 2021 - In Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos, Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 245-246.
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    Business Ethics: A European Review.Alex C. Michalos - 2021 - In Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos, Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 288-289.
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  35. Conjoining Mathematical Empiricism with Mathematical Realism: Maddy’s Account of Set Perception Revisited.Alex Levine - 2005 - Synthese 145 (3):425-448.
    Penelope Maddy's original solution to the dilemma posed by Benacerraf in his 'Mathematical Truth' was to reconcile mathematical empiricism with mathematical realism by arguing that we can perceive realistically construed sets. Though her hypothesis has attracted considerable critical attention, much of it, in my view, misses the point. In this paper I vigorously defend Maddy's account against published criticisms, not because I think it is true, but because these criticisms have functioned to obscure a more fundamental issue that is well (...)
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    Mass Ornament and Ritournelle.Alex Taek-Gwang Lee - 2025 - Deleuze and Guattari Studies 19 (1):29-52.
    This article discusses Kracauer’s analysis of mass ornament in light of Deleuze’s concept of ritournelle. Kracauer was interested in the spectacle of Tiller Girls and found the principle of the capitalist production process in its ornamental formations. Capitalism destroys any natural organisms for its means and excludes any resistance from its effective procedure. This operation necessarily comes along with calculation and mechanisation. All individuals have scaled up statistics charts and scrambled with machines completely. People have turned into masses who are (...)
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    Historicity and linguisticity: around the concept fusion of horizons in the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.Alex Cárdenas Guenel - 2020 - Alpha (Osorno) 51:241-249.
    Resumen: Durante la década del sesenta, la revista Movie hereda de Cahiers du cinéma las preferencias por la politique des auteurs y por cierto cine norteamericano. No obstante, sin abandonar esa predilección por un “cine de directores”, a lo largo de su trayectoria la revista británica intentará desarrollar un riguroso método de análisis formal a través de detallados close readings de los films. Algunos de sus integrantes buscan aplicar al cine los planteos de F. R. Leavis y la revista Scrutiny (...)
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    A Millennium of Buddhist Logic, Vol. 1.Brendan S. Gillon & Alex Wayman - 2001 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 (4):672.
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  39. Alimentação e literatura : Eça de Queiroz e a cozinha burguesa d'A cidade e as serras.Michelle Medeiros & Alex Galeno - 2013 - In Maria da Conceição de Almeida Moura & Alex Galeno, Ensaios de complexidade 3. Natal: EDUFRN, Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.
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    El «cogito» cartesiano: escisión óntica de la ontología.Àlex Verdés I. Ribas - 2016 - Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 1:603.
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    Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race: Michael Gordin: Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 416pp, US$28 HB.S. S. Schweber, Alex Wellerstein, Ethan Pollock, Barton J. Bernstein & Michael D. Gordin - 2011 - Metascience 20 (3):443-465.
    Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-23 DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9495-z Authors S. S. Schweber, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Alex Wellerstein, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Ethan Pollock, Department of History, Box N, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA Barton J. Bernstein, History Department, Building 200, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2024, USA Michael D. Gordin, (...)
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    Abbecedario del reale.Felice Cimatti & Alex Pagliardini (eds.) - 2019 - Macerata: Quodlibet.
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    Pelluchon, Corine (2018). Manifest animalista: La causa animal com a camí per a un nou humanisme.Àlex Agustí Polis - 2021 - Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 67:270-274.
    Pelluchon, Corine Manifest animalista: La causa animal com a camí per a un nou humanismeBarcelona: Rosa dels Vents, 141 p.ISBN 978-84-16930-41-8.
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    (1 other version)Filosofía oriental: un acercamiento a sus perspectivas.Alex McKee Del Olmo - 1999 - Dilema: Revista de Filosofía 3 (5):90-95.
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    Ancient Observations on Business Ethics: Middle East Meets West. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos - 2008 - Journal of Business Ethics 79 (1-2):9 - 19.
    Drawing on a small sample of writings from distinguished philosophers and poets living in the Middle East in the period from the eighth to the first century BCE, it is shown that a variety of business practices provided familiar examples of how people ought to act and live, morally speaking, to enjoy the best sort of life and to be the best sort of person. The writings reveal that we share a common heritage and humanity with people living 20 to (...)
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    The Problem of Inductive Logic. Imre Lakatos. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos - 1972 - Philosophy of Science 39 (1):90-91.
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    Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. By Michael Wheeler. New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1976, $2.50 . 320 pages. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos - 1979 - Dialogue 18 (2):270-272.
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    Reviews. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos, Bruce A. Forster, Jeff Foss, John McMurtry & William D. Graf - 1983 - Journal of Business Ethics 2 (2):157-168.
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    Science and Man. By Tad S. Clements. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. Pp. xiii, 152. $9.00. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos - 1969 - Dialogue 8 (1):161-164.
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    Subliminal Seduction. By W.B. Key. New York: New American Library, 1972, $1.95 . 200 pages. [REVIEW]Alex C. Michalos - 1979 - Dialogue 18 (2):272-274.
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