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Delineating dingoes: framing the domestication process as a landscape
This paper examines existing frameworks for understanding domestication and proposes a domestication landscape framework. Driven by the selection...
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Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes: implications for seed sovereignty and agrobiodiversity
Genetic modification (GM) of crop plants is frequently described by its proponents as a continuation of the ancient process of domestication. While...
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Translation adaptation of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) terminology for speakers of other cultures: features of cultural connotation
BackgroundIn the translation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), it is crucial to preserve the authenticity of its philosophical, historical, and...
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Mathematical sciences as symbolic form: the objects and objectivity of science in Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of science and culture
In this paper, I explore how Cassirer’s early and mature epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of culture make up a coherent and...
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The selfish machine? On the power and limitation of natural selection to understand the development of advanced AI
Some philosophers and machine learning experts have speculated that superintelligent Artificial Intelligences (AIs), if and when they arrive on the...
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The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding
In the following I show that Hubert Dreyfus’ account of skill rests on a misguided interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s work on understanding in Being...
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Human domestication and the roles of human agency in human evolution
Are humans a domesticated species? How is this issue related to debates on the roles of human agency in human evolution? This article discusses four...
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Reframing Legalization, Compliance and Rule by Law as Law as Practice: The Example of Authoritarian Rule, the 1994 Genocide and the Pursuit of National Unity in Rwanda
Domestication and compliance with international human rights laws are generally conceptualized as endpoints that states linearly strive to achieve....
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Rethinking Cognition: Morphological Info-computation and the Embodied Paradigm in Life and Artificial Intelligence
This study aims to place Lorenzo Magnani’s Eco-Cognitive Computationalism within the broader context of current work on information, computation, and...
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Negotiating Existence: The Ontological Dilemma and the Problem of Categories of Animals and Humans in the Context of Rights
This paper critically examines the conceptual and ethical challenges in framing human-animal relationships through the lens of rights and justice....
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Kill Stories: A Critical Narrative Genre in the Zhuangzi
This essay suggests that a narrative genre of “kill stories” has a prominent philosophical function in the Zhuangzi莊子. Kill stories depict the...
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On Our Moral Entanglements with Wild Animals
In Just Fodder, Milburn argues for a relational account of our duties to animals. Following Clare Palmer, he argues that, though all animals have...
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Computational domestication of ignorant entities
Eco-cognitive computationalism considers computation in context, following some of the main tenets advanced by the recent cognitive science views on...
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Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms
Advances in precision agriculture (PA), driven by big data technologies and machine learning algorithms can transform agriculture by enhancing crop...
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Relational values and management of plant resources in two communities in a highly biodiverse area in western Mexico
In many cultures, interactions between humans and plants are rooted in what is called “relational values”—values that derive from relationships and...
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The Ethical Problem of Exploitation of Animals for Tourism
Domestication of animals took place as a biological and cultural process. This was the basis for the Neolithic revolution resulting in the quicker...
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