Embracing the belief that humblest of individuals participated in Jesus’s birth with their presence and gifts alongside wisest, Christians every era have wished to display own participation contribution this foundational Christian event. This article describes ways which a traditional, rural-inspired society like Santiago, Chile at end nineteenth beginning twentieth centuries expressed itself t...

According to a wrong interpretation of the Bell theorem, it has been repeatedly claimed in recent times that we are forced by experiments to drop any possible form of realism in the foundations of quantum mechanics. In this paper I defend the simple thesis according to which the above claim cannot be consistently supported: the Bell theorem does not concern realism, and realism per se cannot be...

Russell (1913) famously characterised the “law of causality” as a harmful “relic of a bygone age”, and urged the “complete extrusion” of the word ‘cause’ from the philosophical vocabulary. His justification for this proposal is, in large part, the descriptive claim that physicists, in particular, but more generally the practitioners of any ‘advanced’ science, do not in fact seek causes, conjoin...

The young Scottish physician Mungo Park, aged 23, arrived in Africa in 1795 with a mission as specific as it was complex in those bygone days, namely to travel the entire length of the River Niger. In 1799, the story of this journey was published in a book that sold 1500 copies in the first month alone, with two further editions published that same year, as well as the translation of the work i...

This article considers the roles played by ethnic mentions, or ethnonyms, in the discursive reconstruction of a former neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, “Syrian Town.” We argue that these labels engage in the production of ethnic difference by depicting a social world composed of discrete types while presupposing a local class divide and a contrasting neighborhood imagined as elite and priv...

Hydraulic heritage systems, both underground and exposed, have been known to be sustainable for millennia. Persian and also Roman aqueducts are examples of such hydrosystems. Their values are often overlooked but they have undeniable advantages: they have functional interconnectedness with their surrounding society and ecology, which sometimes leads to revitalization plans. By using the notion ...

In this Article I first argue that Section 62 of the Restatement (Third) of Restitution & Unjust Enrichment sits in tension with the principles expounded in the rest of the work. I then try to show that this tension is mostly unnecessary because the majority of the cases covered by Section 62 could be either (1) explained by the rules of other sections or (2) dismissed as quaint products of a b...