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Coverture and the Debtors' Prison in the Long Eighteenth Century
Alexander Wakelam
Jan 07, 2022
Abstract: Until the late nineteenth century, the activities of English women were curtailed by the common law doctrine of coverture. While previous scholarship has documented how wives were able to subvert coverture to trade...
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Redeeming Poetics
Steven Toussaint
Sep 28, 2022
In this essay, I argue that ‘poetics’—defined as ‘poet-criticism’, a practitioner’s firsthand reflection on poetic composition (poiēsis) and verse technique (technē)—makes possible for philosophical theology something that has...
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Modelling fatigue crack growth in shape memory alloys
Abstract: We present a phase field‐based framework for modelling fatigue damage in Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs). The model combines, for the first time: (i) a generalized phase field description of fracture, incorporating multiple...
Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation
Natalie Jones
Feb 21, 2023
The question of the substantive law that international courts and tribunals can apply in adjudicating climate change cases has been widely debated. This article focuses on the potential of self‐determination, a cornerstone of...
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Resistance and refusal to algorithmic harms
Industrial, academic, activist, and policy research and advocacy movements formed around resisting ‘machine bias’, promoting ‘ethical AI’, and ‘fair ML’ have discursive implications for what constitutes harm, and what...
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Nor shadow of turning
J Webster
Oct 11, 2022
Abstract: To all intents and purposes, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Brethren of Gamrie, and the Orange Order each claim a monopoly over theological truth, believing that they are right and that everyone else is...
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What Neanderthals and AMH ate
ABSTRACT: Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal populations in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and southern Iberia and discovered a short period of...
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Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics
Jose Isidro Belleza
Apr 14, 2023
This essay will especially consider the role of the cogitative power and affectivity in the formation of vocal utterances, showing how the Thomistic account of the integration of passion with reason provides a fascinating...
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