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Climate Change Graz Post Doc Fellowship Program 2025 (M/F/D)
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Europe
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University of Graz
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Graz
Country:
Austria
Job Description:
The Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz offers fellowships for PostDoc researchers from all academic fields working on climate change to collaborate with one of their research groups (https://climate-change.uni-graz.at/en/research-fields/) such as Climate and Environmental Ethics (
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Trading Time for Tissue: The Morality of Organ Donation Programs in Prisons
 In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a program within the Department of Corrections that would allow incarcerated individuals to donate bone marrow or organs in exchange for a reduced sentence. The bill aimed not only to address the […]
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice
 Continental philosophers and contemporary artists transform the classics into living practices – A volume of original essays, four previously untranslated articles, novel visual art, and reproduced images, by an international lineup of today’s leading thinkers and practitioners – Features non-expository or non-argumentative elements, such as exhortative, prescriptive, or didactic dimensions (telling the reader to do something specific, such as, do an exercise, write something, etc.) – Thinkers and art-practitioners collaborate to produce a combined written . . . Read More
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Tyla, Coloureds, Color, and Culture Part III
 American YouTuber Armon Wiggins went viral on X after referring to Tyla as an “uppity African,” an insult with which the broadcaster and rapper Joe Budden concurred. Wiggins writes: “Hey I don’t think I like TYLA’s personality I think someone needs to check her cus she doesn’t understand American Culture AT ALL…she almost gives off […]
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Mary Wollstonecraft
/Mary-Wollstonecraft-x-162279570-56aa24f45f9b58b7d000fc2b.jpg) [Revised entry by Sylvana Tomaselli on February 22, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) is a moral and political philosopher whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism. One of the reasons her pronouncements on the subject remain challenging is that her […]
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Ancient Philosophy Society 2025 Meeting Registration
 Registration for the meeting is now open. Note that APS membership is required to register for the meeting. We strongly encourage you to register for the banquet on the night of Saturday the 26th as well. Historically, the banquet has been a great chance to get to know other participants, and we hope to continue that tradition this year. You can pay membership dues and register for the meeting and banquet at the following link: . . . Read More
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The Ethics and Rationality of Voting
 [Revised entry by Jason Brennan on February 21, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] This entry focuses on six major questions concerning the rationality and morality of voting: Is it rational for an individual citizen to vote? Is there a moral duty to vote?…
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Inquiring into Being: Essays on Parmenides
 Inquiring into Being is a study of Parmenides, the early Greek pre-Socratic philosopher often credited as the first metaphysician and whose sole written work was a philosophical poem. In his poem, Parmenides has a narrating goddess character indicate the sense of being that must be and cannot be as a corrective to the errors mortals make when accounting for the ultimate nature of reality while showing a keen scientific understanding of natural phenomena. Inquiring into . . . Read More
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Religious Diversity (Pluralism)
 [Revised entry by David Basinger on February 21, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] In many, if not most, areas of thought, significant differences of opinion exist among individuals who seem to be equally knowledgeable and sincere. Such diversity of opinion, though, is nowhere more evident than in the area of religious thought. On […]
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Aristotle and Tragic Temporality
 Aristotle and Tragic Temporality treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his Poetics and Ethics, rather than the natural philosophy of the Physics. Sean D. Kirkland first takes up Aristotle’s discussion of our tragic temporal situatedness—our having to act, think, and live always between a determining past we can never fully . . . Read More
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