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A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It

Mackie Functionalist Socialization , Family and Character *

According to functionalism, the family internalizes and transmits society's supposed value consensus from one generation to the next, and such socialization explains morality, social order, and cultural uniformities. I present three investigations tha t challenge the concept of functionalist socialization, and propose alternative theories that may better explain observations. First, I present e...

A Reply to Pickering

I felt I should reply to Andy Pickering’s short Response to my long Review of his book; I did not want to leave it uncontested in the literature.1 I will pick up a couple of points from his comments to indicate just what it is that he has failed to grasp about my Review. If these points are understood, then all else falls into place. Though Pickering writes that my critical remarks ‘form a disc...

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The Lazarus and Bewley [2005, LB05] evaluation of the Archer and Jacobson [2003, AJ03] methodology was designed to examine various sensitivities of a wind power parameterization that was applied globally to estimate 80 m wind power. Their original work has since been updated in a sequence of papers which has, in part, resulted in a reduction of their original power estimates due to some changes...