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Existentialism as Biology
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Existentialism is compatible with a broadly biological vision of who we are as discussed by the authors, which is grounded in an analysis of concrete or individual possibility, which differs from standard conception.Abstract:
Existentialism is compatible with a broadly biological vision of who we are. This thesis is grounded in an analysis of “concrete” or “individual” possibility, which differs from standard conception...read more
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Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a traditionalist group of Mennonites in the midwestern United States was used to examine the relationship between religion, community, guilt, anxiety, and the experience of natural disaster.
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Causal democracy and causal contributions in Developmental Systems Theory : Philosophy and Biology, Psychology, and Neuroscience
TL;DR: The authors showed that causal symmetry is neither a platitude about multiple influences nor a denial of useful distinctions, but a powerful way of exposing hidden assumptions and opening up traditional formulations to fruitful change.
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Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology
TL;DR: The author examines nonhistorical approaches to biological teleology the inference of function from structure in fossils and the uses of casual role function in evloutionary biology.
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The genesis of shame
TL;DR: This article propose a conception de la honte, which explique the prise de conscience de leur nudite par Adam and Eve, which depasse la sphere privee for alimenter le debat public sur l'auto-presentation sociale and le debate moral sur le rapport culturel au corps and a la sexualite.
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In Defense of Sentimentality
TL;DR: The second book in a series devoted to his work on the emotions, Robert Solomon as discussed by the authors presents a defense of the emotions and of sentimentality against the background of what he perceives as a long history of abuse in philosophy and social thought and art and literary criticism.