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Introduction: Grounding Then and Now
This volume examines the conceptions of non-causal explanations (also called grounding claims) that were developed by philosophers and theologians working in the Aristotelian tradition from the Middle Ages onward...
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William of Ockham on Essential Dependence and Causation
It has become a commonly held view that Ockham does not defend a reductionist account of efficient causality, and that for him causal powers cannot be eliminated from causal statements. This paper argues that ...
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Open AccessCreation and preclinical evaluation of genetically attenuated malaria parasites arresting growth late in the liver
Whole-sporozoite (WSp) malaria vaccines induce protective immune responses in animal malaria models and in humans. A recent clinical trial with a WSp vaccine comprising genetically attenuated parasites (GAP) w...
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Retraction Note to: Contingency and Causal Determinism from Scotus to Buridan
The chapter published in the book ‘Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science’, pages 27–59, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67378-3_3, has been retracted b...
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RETRACTED CHAPTER: Contingency and Causal Determinism from Scotus to Buridan
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Ockham on Habits
This paper is dedicated to William of Ockham’s theory of habit, which he considers to be a disposition of a power of the soul. I will argue that Ockham’s view on the relation between a habit and its manifestat...
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The Many Virtues of Second Nature: Habitus in Latin Medieval Philosophy
This chapter consists of a systematic introduction to the nature and function of habitus in Latin medieval philosophy. Over the course of this introduction, several topics are treated: the theoretical necessity t...
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Open AccessA Plasmodium plasma membrane reporter reveals membrane dynamics by live-cell microscopy
During asexual replication within the Anopheles mosquito and their vertebrate host, Plasmodium parasites depend on the generation of a massive amount of new plasma membrane to produce thousands of daughter parasi...
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Correction to: Ockham’s Semantics of Real Definitions
The original version of this chapter was inadvertently published without the following acknowledgement.
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An Interview with Claude Panaccio
This chapter is a transcript of an interview that we conducted with Claude Panaccio in February 2017. We discussed his intellectual and philosophical biography, some of his political views, and his significant...
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Retraction Note to: An Introduction to Mental Language in Late Medieval Philosophy
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Ockham’s Semantics of Real Definitions
This chapter is dedicated to Ockham’s semantics of real definitions, a topic that has not attracted scholarly attention, but merits comment since it reveals an important point of Ockham’s resemblance nominalis...
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RETRACTED CHAPTER: An Introduction to Mental Language in Late Medieval Philosophy
The introduction to this volume is divided into two parts. The first part includes an overview of the state of the art on mental language as a key topic and tool in the philosophical analyses of the fourteenth...
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Open AccessSAS6-like protein in Plasmodium indicates that conoid-associated apical complex proteins persist in invasive stages within the mosquito vector
The SAS6-like (SAS6L) protein, a truncated paralogue of the ubiquitous basal body/centriole protein SAS6, has been characterised recently as a flagellum protein in trypanosomatids, but associated with the cono...
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Plasticity and redundancy among AMA–RON pairs ensure host cell entry of Toxoplasma parasites
Malaria and toxoplasmosis are infectious diseases caused by the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium and Toxoplasma gondii, respectively. These parasites have developed an invasion mechanism involving the formation ...