1,721,756 research outputs found
Replication Data for: The Long Twilight of Gold: How a Pivotal Practice Persisted in the Assemblage of Money
No full textWhy has gold persisted as a significant reserve asset despite momentous changes in international monetary relations since the collapse of the classical gold standard? IPE theories have little to say about this question. Conventional accounts of international monetary relations depict a succession of discrete monetary regimes characterized by specific power structures or dominant ideas. To explain the continuous importance of gold, we draw on insights from social psychology and new materialist theories. We argue that international monetary relations should be understood as a complex assemblage of material artifacts, institutions, ideas, and practices. For much of its history, this assemblage revolved around the pivotal practice of referencing money to gold. The centrality of gold as experienced by policymakers had important effects. Using archival and other evidence, we document these effects from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference through the transition to floating exchange rates in the mid 1970s – a period during which most IPE scholars underestimate the role of gold. Power relations and economic ideas were obviously important but contributed little to a fundamental development: the long process of reluctantly coming to terms with the limitations of specie-backed currency, and the progressive and still ongoing de-centering of gold in international monetary relations
Disputatio Theologica, De Cantico Zachariae : Luc. I. vers. 67. fin. Paraphrastice cum Annotationibus exposito / Quam, Auspice Deo, sub Praesidio Dn. Sebastiani Schmidt ... defendendam suscepit M. Abraham Calovius, Wittebergensis Saxo. Ad d. Mens. Anno MDCXXCIV.
No full textIntroduction: Towards an Ethics of Mind
Full text linkThis chapter locates our overall approach within the dialectic of contemporary philosophical debates and provides an overall framework for discussion. First, I introduce the problem of mental normativity. I show how this problem poses a prima facie threat to the common assumption in epistemology and metaethics that beliefs and other attitudes are governed by robust normative requirements. Secondly, I motivate philosophical inquiry about an ethics of mind by tracing this field back to recent debates in the ethics of belief. I characterize the ethics of mind as being concerned with two main questions: 1. How can we be responsible for our attitudes? 2. What attitudes should we have? Finally, I give an overview over the structure of the book and summarize the chapters
Controls on runoff generation along a steep climatic gradient in the Eastern Mediterranean
No full textAbstractStudy regionLower Jordan River.Study focusThe main aim of this study was to identify differences in catchment runoff reactions across a variety of scales and a strong climatic gradient and to correlate them to physical catchment properties. For this purpose we observed rainfall and runoff responses on a hillslope (1000m2) and in several nested catchments (3.2–129km2) over a period of five years. Catchment characteristics and surface cover types were derived from high-resolution aerial images. To gain process understanding a single high magnitude event was analysed in detail using information from soil moisture plots.New hydrological insights for the regionOur results show that runoff in the semi-arid headwater area is strongly related to long lasting rainfall events of high amounts and is predominantly generated by saturation excess overland flow (SOF). Observations from the arid runoff plot indicated a strongly contrasting behaviour with dominating Hortonian overland flow (HOF). At catchment scale we found an accentuated runoff response when we compared arid with semi-arid conditions, which can be attributed to different geological substrate, more abundant rock surfaces, shallower soil and sparser vegetation cover. Identified strong correlations between event rainfall and runoff volumes may provide promising options for the assessment and management of surface runoff as a water resource
Recension du livre de Jochen Schmidt & Sebastian Kaufmann. Kommentar zu Nietzsches Morgenröthe [J. Schmidt]/ Kommentar zu Nietzsches Idyllen aus Messina [S. Kaufmann]
No full textJochen Schmidt – Sebastian Kaufmann. Kommentar zu Nietzsches Morgenröthe [J. Schmidt]. Kommentar zu Nietzsches Idyllen aus Messina [S. Kaufmann](Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken, 3, 1). Un vol. de xiv-611 p. Berlin, Boston, De Gruyter, 2015. Prix : 69,95 €. ISBN 978-3-11-029303-6 (hbk) ; 978-3-11-029327-2 (pdf) ; 978-3-11-038889-3 (e-book)
Responsibility for Attitudes, Object-Given Reasons, and Blame
Full text linkI argue that the problem of responsibility for attitudes is best understood as a puzzle about how we are responsible for responding to our object-given reasons for attitudes – i.e., how we are responsible for being (ir)rational. The problem can be solved, I propose, by understanding the normative force of reasons for attitudes in terms of blameworthiness. I present a puzzle about the existence of epistemic and mental blame which poses a challenge for the very idea of reasons for attitudes. We are left with three options: denying that there are any reasons for attitudes, opting for pragmatism about reasons for attitudes, or arguing that the challenge rests on a misunderstanding of the normative force of reasons for attitudes. I finally suggest a version of the last strategy. We can understand the normative force of reasons for attitudes, and thereby solve the problem of mental responsibility, by acknowledging that the way we blame each other for failing to respond correctly to our reasons for attitudes is different from the way we blame each other when one failed to respond correctly to reasons for action
Disputatio Theologica De Phrasi Scripturae, qua Deus dicitur Indurare, Excoecare, Seducere, &c. / Quam A.D. Praesidio ... Dn. Sebastiani Schmidt, SS. Theol. D. ... Solenniter Examini Eruditorum obtulit Joh. Joachimus Schaedlerus, Argentorat. Ad diem 27. Septembr. A.S. MDCLV. Argentorati, Recudit Jacobus Thilo
No full text
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
- …
