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Superorganisms of the Protist Kingdom: A New Level of Biological Organization
The concept of superorganism has a mixed reputation in biology—for some it is a convenient way of discussing supra-organismal levels of organization,...
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How Could Henrik Ibsen’s Plays Contribute to Humanizing Business and Nurturing the Development of Ethical Leadership?
Henryk Ibsen represented various historically-based distortions (idealism, unbearable guilt, abuses of the will to power, moral corruption) of our...
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The Notion of Awareness of Self-awareness and the Problem of Infinite Regress in the Cheng Weishi Lun
This essay aims to show that the fourfold division theory of consciousness in the Cheng Weishi Lun 成唯識論 (* Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra ) is the third...
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Immunitarianism: defence and sacrifice in the politics of Covid-19
As witnessed over the last year, immunity emerged as one of most highly debated topics in the current Covid-19 pandemic. Countries around the globe...
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Corruption in Bank Lending: The Role of Culturally Endorsed Leadership Prototypes
This paper examines the impact of three culturally endorsed leadership prototypes on bank lending corruption. We bring together studies that approach...
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Sonic Virtuality, Environment, and Presence
The article presents a brief introduction to the concept of sonic virtuality, a view of sound as a multi-modal, emergent perception that provides a...
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On the Unethical Use of Privileged Information in Strategic Decision-Making: The Effects of Peers’ Ethicality, Perceived Cohesion, and Team Performance
In order to make strategic decisions and improve their firm’s performance, top management teams must have information on the competitive context in...
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Selfhood and the Problem of Sameness: Some Reflections
This paper examines the problem of sameness in terms of being it the classical problem of personal identity and various philosophical positions on...
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The Narrative Self and the Minimal Self
The aim of the chapter is to provide a detailed introduction to the multidimensional analysis of the self. The chapter examines the contrast between...
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Human Agency
This chapter opens the discussion of agencyAgency in organismsOrganisms by starting with human agency, which is a bundle of adaptive processes with...
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Semiosis
SignSign is a semiotic Semiotics tool, whose form Forms is meaningful for certain agentsAgents. AgentsAgents use signs to regulate their...
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Mathematical Foundations of Anticipatory Systems
A natural system is an anticipatory system if it contains an internal predictive model of itself and its environment, and in accordance with the...
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The History of Philosophy as an ‘Organism’: The School of Schelling
The followers of Schelling, henceforth called Schellingians, undertook different approaches in their composition of general histories of philosophy....
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Considering Intra-individual Genetic Heterogeneity to Understand Biodiversity
In this chapter, I am concerned with the concept of Intra-individual Genetic Hetereogeneity (IGH) and its potential influence on biodiversity...
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The Subject of the Baroque (Surpassing the Logical Relation Between a Concept and Its Object)
“The Subject of the Baroque” (“surpassing the logical relationrelation between a conceptconcept and its object”)” is the first of the three chapters...
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Alethic Reference
I put forward precise and appealing notions of reference, self-reference, and well-foundedness for sentences of the language of first-order Peano...