The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience
A Chiasmic Reading of Responsibility in the Neighborhood of Levinas, Heidegger and Others
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Open AccessEffects of developmental environment on animal personality in a tropical skink
Developmental environments play a significant role in sha** animal phenotype, including behavior. Within a species, individuals often differ in behavior in a consistent and repeatable way (i.e., demonstrate ...
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Heritability of climate-relevant traits in a rainforest skink
There is justified concern about the impact of global warming on the persistence of tropical ectotherms. There is also growing evidence for strong selection on climate-relevant physiological traits. Understand...
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Behavioural responses of an Australian colubrid snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) to a novel toxic prey item (the Cane Toad Rhinella marina)
The invasion of a toxic prey type can differentially affect closely related predator species. In Australia, the invasive Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) kills native anurophagous predators that cannot tolerate the to...
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Chemoreception and mating behaviour of a tropical Australian skink
In many reptile groups, molecular systematics is currently revealing high levels of cryptic diversity (i.e. genetically distinct lineages that are difficult to distinguish morphologically). One obvious mode fo...
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Ontogenetic shifts in a prey’s chemical defences influence feeding responses of a snake predator
Foraging theory suggests that predator responses to potential prey should be influenced by prey chemical defences, but the effects of ontogenetic variation in such defences on prey vulnerability to predators r...
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Adaptation or preadaptation: why are keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii) less vulnerable to invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) than are other Australian snakes?
Biological invasions can expose native predators to novel prey which may be less nutritious or detrimental to predators. The introduction and subsequent spread of cane toads (Bufo marinus) through Australia has k...
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Something different for dinner? Responses of a native Australian predator (the keelback snake) to an invasive prey species (the cane toad)
Predictions from foraging theory suggest that the probability a native predator will incorporate a novel type of prey (such as an invasive species) into its diet depends upon the potential benefits (e.g., nutr...
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Locomotor performance in an invasive species: cane toads from the invasion front have greater endurance, but not speed, compared to conspecifics from a long-colonised area
Cane toads (Bufo marinus) are now moving about 5 times faster through tropical Australia than they did a half-century ago, during the early phases of toad invasion. Radio-tracking has revealed higher daily rates ...
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Anarchic Responsibility
When Levinas writes: ‘Here, ethics signifies “Be responsible for the other as thou art responsible for thyself”’ from the context it can be inferred that by ‘here’ is meant in the Torah. Taking Levinas to be e...
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Critical Responsibility
Kantian critique distinguishes the faculties of mind and shows how the elements distinguished — sensibility, imagination, understanding, will, reason — should, but can fail, to cooperate with each other. Man i...
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Ontological Responsibility and the Poetics of Nature
Levinas argues that Heidegger is so preoccupied with giving being its due that he fails to do justice to the human being who is my neighbour. It is arguable that Levinas is so preoccupied with doing justice to...
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Something Like the Middle Voice
How much more attuned the ear may become to the middle voice of Gelassenheit if it is orientated toward Biblical doctrines of grace depends on whether these doctrines require faith from the person in the state of...
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The Absolute Master
Saul Kripke, in Naming and Necessity, explicates identity in terms of originarity, a being’s being from origin or birth.1 Heidegger, in Being and Time, explicates the identity of each human being in terms of term...
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Introduction to Metaphysics
John Stuart Mill records in his Autobiography that in the autumn of 1826 he asked himself: ‘Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are loo...
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Who is My Neighbour?
Who is my neighbour? The discussion of this question throughout the ages has ranged from asking whether my neighbour is the Jew and the friend, through whether my neighbour is any and every other human being i...
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Post-Critical Poiesis and Thinking
From the middle of the 1930s Heidegger’s thinking of the belonging together of Dasein and Sein becomes a thinking of the belonging together of the thinker and the poet, especially the poet of poets Hölderlin who ...
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The Responsibility of Saving the World Through Song
Arkady, who is of Russian origin, probably knows Dostoevsky’s Brothers and his Markel. He certainly knows Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, at least the most celebrated of these, the third of the first part containing ...
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The Feeling Intellect
Proto-ethical responsibility is a responsiveness which is a responsibility because it is a response to another’s need, whether or not that other be a human being. It is proto-ethical, not ethical in the usual ...
