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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35867079 | Culpable and reckless conduct
Culpable and Reckless Conduct is a Common Law offence under Scots Law.
The foundation of this offence concerns the object to criminalise the unacceptable risk taking of persons who do not give necessary consideration to the consequences of their own actions. The risk would be t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35890754 | Sharism
Sharism is a philosophy on sharing content and ideas, developed by Isaac Mao. Inspired by user-generated content, sharism states that the act of sharing something within a community produces a proper value for each of its participants: "the more you share, the more you receive". As knowledge is produced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35891814 | Open Goldberg Variations
The Open Goldberg Variations is a non-profit project that created a high quality studio recording and typeset score of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, and placed them directly into the public domain. By releasing an entirely free version of the classical masterpiece, the pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35936970 | Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
The Ferrater Mora Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics was founded in England in 2006 by Andrew Linzey, a member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford, though the centre is not affiliated with the University. Other founding fellows were Ara Paul Barsam, Mark H. Bernste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35945873 | José Ferrater Mora
José Ferrater Mora or Josep Ferrater i Mora (in Catalan) (30 October 1912 – 30 January 1991) was a Spanish philosopher. He was the author of over 35 books, including a four-volume "Diccionario de filosofía" (Dictionary of Philosophy, 1944) and "Being and Death: An Outline of Integrationist Phi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35965479 | Coercive citation
Coercive citation is an academic publishing practice in which an editor of a scientific or academic journal forces an author to add spurious citations to an article before the journal will agree to publish it. This is done to inflate the journal's impact factor, thus artificially boosting the j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35966574 | Priscilla Cohn
Priscilla N. Cohn (12/14/33 Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Villanova, Pennsylvania 06/27/2019) was Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. She was the associate director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and co-editor with of the Centre's "Journal of Animal Ethics". She... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35998600 | Steve F. Sapontzis
Steve F. Sapontzis (born February 9, 1945) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, East Bay who specializes in animal ethics and environmental ethics. He is the author of "Morals, Reason, and Animals" (1987) and "Subjective Morals" (2011)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36018304 | Philanthropedia
Philanthropedia, a division of GuideStar, is an expert crowdsourcing resource for funders and others to learn about high-impact nonprofit organizations. The site features more than 11,000 reviews from 1,400 experts who are interviewed and surveyed. The site also features rankings based on a combi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36019265 | GreatNonprofits
GreatNonprofits is a 501(c)-3 registered non-profit organization based in the United States that describes itself as "the leading developer of tools that allow people to find, review, and share information about great – and perhaps not yet great – nonprofits". The site allows donors, volunteers, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36021099 | Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775
Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765–1775 is a book that examines the role of nonviolent struggle in the period before the American Revolution. Edited by Walter H. Conser, Jr., Ronald M. McCarthy, David ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36024828 | First World privilege
First World privilege is any unearned advantages accrued by an individual by virtue of being a national of a First World country.
First-World privilege is often explicitly maintained by legal means by means such as immigration laws and trade barriers. Further, very few nations have law... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36031263 | David DeGrazia
David DeGrazia is an American moral philosopher specializing in bioethics and animal ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1989, and the author or editor of several books on ethics, including "Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Mora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36111282 | Charitybuzz
Charitybuzz is an internet company that raises funds for nonprofit organizations through online charity auctions with celebrities and brands. Auction experiences include music, entertainment, business, politics, sports, art, fashion and other industries.
The company was founded in 2005 by CEO Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36129790 | Animals, Men and Morals
Animals, Men and Morals: An Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Non-humans (1971) is a collection of essays on animal rights, edited by Oxford philosophers Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch, both from Canada, and John Harris from the UK. The editors were members of the Oxford Group, a group of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36183638 | Crime preparation
Crime preparations are acts or actions performed by criminal offenders during any period of time before the actual crime is committed and range from mere intent to overt action.
In some jurisdictions, the very act of preparing for a crime is a criminal offense in itself, though it is gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36201759 | National Vigilance Association
The National Vigilance Association was a British society established in August 1885 "for the enforcement and improvement of the laws for the repression of criminal vice and public immorality".
The Association was established in response to articles exposing child prostitution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36240703 | Outercurve Foundation
The Outercurve Foundation was an independent 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation founded by Microsoft. Its goal was to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." They ran several software projects, some of which were connected to the .... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36277646 | Compliance (film)
Compliance is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by Craig Zobel, based upon a strip search phone call scam that took place in Mount Washington, Kentucky, in which the caller, posing as a police officer, convinced a restaurant manager to carry out unlawful and intrusive procedure... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36394841 | Loreta Anilionytė
Loreta Anilionytė (born in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian philosopher, writer and translator. She is an associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of the Lithuanian University of Educology and A Ph.D. of Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (formerly of Philosophy, Sociology and Law Institute).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36435268 | New Testament household code
The New Testament Household Codes ("Haustafeln"), also known as New Testament Domestic Codes, consist of instructions in the New Testament writings of the apostles Paul and Peter to pairs of Christian people in different domestic and civil structures of society. The main foci of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36444583 | Elisa Aaltola
Elisa Aaltola (born 1976) is a Finnish philosopher, specialised in animal philosophy, moral psychology and environmental philosophy.
She was a visiting PhD student at the Institute for Ethics, Environment, and Public Policy at Lancaster University and submitted her doctoral thesis to the Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36450911 | Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (born October 5, 1969), who publishes as Ásta, is an Icelandic philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University.
Born in Reykjavík, Ásta has a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Brandeis University in 1992, AM in philo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36468174 | Stephen Darwall
Stephen Darwall (born 1946) is a contemporary moral philosopher, best known for his work developing Kantian and deontological themes. He is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.
A 1968 graduate of Yale University, he earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36478815 | New Text Confucianism
New Text Confucianism () is a school of thought in Confucianism that was based on Confucian classics recompiled in the early Han dynasty by Confucians who survived the burning of books and burying of scholars during the Qin dynasty. The survivors wrote the classics in the contemporary chara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36508246 | Djémil Kessous
Djémil Kessous (born in 1946) is a retired civil servant who worked for the French Council of State, and a writer of social, and philosophical works He is a son of the Algerian politician Mohamed El Aziz Kessous.
He has published in French the books La théorie générale de l'évolution (L'Harma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36522030 | Michael Northcott
Michael Stafford Northcott (born 1955) is Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for his contributions to environmental theology and ethics.
Born in London on 13 May 1955 to James and Betty Northcott, Michael Northcott was raised in Kent, England, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36563953 | Paul Waldau
Paul Francis Waldau (born 1950) is an American ethicist and former professor at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he headed the graduate program on anthrozoology, which he founded. He has several times served as Barker Lecturer in animal law at Harvard Law School, and is the author of a nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36613122 | Andrea Biglia
Andrea Biglia (c.1395 – 1435) was an Italian Augustinian humanist, known as a moral philosopher and historian.
He was born in Milan, and became an Augustinian hermit in 1412. After time studying in Padua he came to the Santo Spirito, Florence in 1418.
In 1423 he moved to Bologna, and by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36679343 | Robert Allen Phillips
Robert Phillips (born April 18, 1968) is the George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the Schulich School of Business; York University. in 2016-17 he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business. He has also taugh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36692019 | Pharantzem
Pharantzem, also known as P’arhanjem; Parantzem; Pharandsem; Paranjem and Parandzem of Siwnik’ (Siunik) (, flourished 4th century – died winter 369/370) was an Queen of Armenie by marriage to Arsaces II (Arshak II). She was regent of Armenia during the absence of her spouse and son in 368-370, and are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36704229 | Quasi-judicial proceeding
A quasi-judicial proceeding is a trial that adopts the form of a judicial process without a formal basis in law.
The word 'quasi' consists of two Latin words: Quam + Si. Quam, in Latin, means ‘as much as’ and Si means ‘if.’ The prefix ‘quasi’ connotes the meaning – ‘similar to but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36768802 | Scam City
Scam City is a television show which started airing on Travel + Escape in June 2012, and has subsequently aired on the National Geographic Channel, and in Australia on the subscription channel Nat Geo People. Host Conor Woodman travels to some of the world's most popular cities in an effort to expose t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36794221 | Pregnancy from rape
Pregnancy is a potential result of rape. It has been studied in the context of war, particularly as a tool for genocide, as well as other unrelated contexts, such as rape by a stranger, statutory rape, incest, and underage pregnancy. The current scientific consensus is that rape is at least a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36808984 | Wlodek Rabinowicz
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Włodzimierz Rabinowicz, born on 14 January 1947 in Warsaw) is a Polish-Swedish philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Lund University. Rabinowicz's areas of expertise include ethics, normativity, decision theory and utilitarianism. During the period of 1995–98 he was editor-in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36827543 | Ding zui
Ding zui () is the Chinese practice of hiring impostors or body doubles to stand trial and receive punishment in one's place. The term translates as "substitute criminal," and is reported to be a relatively common practice among China's wealthy elite.
Accusations of "ding zui" surfaced in 2012 duri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36827846 | Objectivism's rejection of the primitive
Ayn Rand's Objectivism rejects an array of ideas and modes of living that it deems are primitive by nature and indicative of a primitive culture. Objectivism views primitive states of existence as being "savage" and marred in mysticism, fatalism, ignorance, superstition, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36862013 | Bertrando Spaventa
Bertrando Spaventa (26 June 1817 – 20 September 1883) was a leading Italian philosopher of the 19th century whose ideas had an important influence on the changes that took place during the unification of Italy and on philosophical thought in the 20th century.
Elder brother of Italian patr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36865726 | Confession
A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of persons – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that he believes the other party is not already aware of, and is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36888112 | Section Eleven of the Constitution of South Africa
Section Eleven of the Constitution of South Africa, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees the right to life. This section has been interpreted to prohibit the death penalty, but not to prohibit abortion. It also has important implications for euthanasia, self-d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36897200 | Environmental stewardship
Environmental stewardship refers to responsible use and protection of the natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices. Aldo Leopold (1887–1949) championed environmental stewardship based on a land ethic "dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36910299 | DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transporter
The Captive Air Amphibious Transporter (CAAT) is a 1:5 scale tracked amphibious vehicle prototype being developed by DARPA. It drives on the water with air-filled pontoons attached to the tracks, and is intended to demonstrate how to transport standard 20- or 40-foot cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36942673 | Bishops' Ban of 1599
On 1 June 1599, John Whitgift (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Richard Bancroft (the Bishop of London) signed their names on an order to ban a selection of literary works. This act of censorship has become known among scholars as the "Bishops' Ban" and is one of four such acts during the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36969180 | List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups
The following is a list of notable U.S.-based organizations classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an American civil rights organization, as anti-LGBT hate groups. The SPLC defines "hate groups" as those t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36997300 | Ignacio López de Ayala
He was a professor of poetry at the Reales Estudios de San Isidro in Madrid. He authored a neoclassical tragedy, "Numancia destruida" (1775). His works were mainly heroic romances. He was also a respected historian, authoring history books on Frederick the Great ("Historia de Federico el G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37021899 | Jeffrey Bishop
Jeffrey Paul Bishop (born 1967) is a philosopher, bioethicist, author and the "Tenet Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics" at Saint Louis University. The director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to dea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37165784 | David Resnik
David Benjamin Resnik (born November 30, 1962) is an American bioethicist who works at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He is known for his work on scientific misconduct. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37220332 | Salvino Azzopardi
Salvino Azzopardi (21 June 1931 – 6 August 2006), was a Maltese Jesuit priest, philosopher at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth in Pune, India. He specialised in logic, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, mysticism, and metaphilosophy. As a philosopher he combined insights from Indian and Western Philosoph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37236427 | Woman Hating
Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality is a 1974 book by the American radical feminist author and activist Andrea Dworkin.
While Dworkin was living in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, she met Ricki Abrams, a prostitute and a fellow expatriate. Abrams introduced Dworkin to early radical feminist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37251163 | Reproductive coercion
Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction or reproductive control) is a collection of behaviors that interfere with decision-making related to reproductive health. These behaviors are meant to maintain power and control related to reproductive health by a current, former, or h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37292533 | Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal
Jimmy Savile (1926–2011) was an English media personality who was well known in the United Kingdom for his eccentricities and, at the time of his death, was generally respected for his charitable work. He was knighted in 1990. In late 2012, almost a year after his death, reports... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40832516 | Sexual Desire (book)
Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation, published as Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic in the United States, is a 1986 book about the philosophy of sex by the philosopher Roger Scruton, in which the author discusses sexual desire and erotic love, arguing against the idea ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40854186 | William MacAskill
William MacAskill (born William Crouch, 24 March 1987) is a Scottish philosopher, ethicist, and one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. He is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a researcher at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford and Director ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40856663 | The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror is a lecture and book written by Michael Ignatieff as part of the Gifford Lectures. In it, Ignatieff considers the question of how, in a liberal democracy, it is possible to balance the legitimate rights o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40870950 | Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gallaudet University. She is the first signing Deaf woman to receive a PhD in philosophy in the world, as well as the first deaf person to receive a PhD at the University of New Mexico.
Her work primarily focuses on d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40875116 | Ernest R. House
Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy. He has been a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2002. House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001. Before that, he was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40938764 | John Loike
John Loike (born 1950 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an American research biologist and bioethicist in Columbia University.
Loike has a Ph.D from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. His research focuses on the role of inflammation in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40965587 | Cascade Framework
Cascade Framework is a free CSS framework for creating websites and web apps. Similar to Bootstrap and Foundation, it contains a wide range of HTML and CSS-based interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.
Dissatisfied with the architecture of Bootstrap and Foundation,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40979596 | Social reserves
Social Reserves refer to the intangible ties that bind a country together. As a resource, they may be contrasted to a country’s financial reserves. The term bears some similarity to the Bhutanese concept of Gross national happiness, in that it attempts to value quality of life in a way that goes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40982897 | North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is a set of principles that has guided wildlife management and conservation decisions in the United States and Canada. Although not formally articulated until 2001, the model has its origins in 19th century conservati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41021138 | Shōzō Tanaka
He was born in the village of Konaka in present-day Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, and was the son of the village headman. In 1857, he became headman after his father and served for twelve years. In 1879, he founded the "Tochigi Shimbun", a periodical in which he discussed human rights and contemporary i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41052978 | Censorship of student media
Censorship of student media pertains to the suppression of free speech by school administrative bodies of student-run news operations. Typically this involves interfering with the operation and final publishing authority of a school newspaper, radio, television or other electronic onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41061920 | Peter Comensoli
Peter Andrew Comensoli (born 25 March 1964) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was named the ninth Archbishop of Melbourne on 29 June 2018. He had been serving as the third Bishop of Broken Bay in New South Wales from December 2014. From 2011 to 2014 he was an auxiliary bishop o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41069761 | Habitica
Habitica, formerly HabitRPG, is an online task management application run by HabitRPG, Inc. Unlike most task management programs, Habitica takes the form of a role-playing game. Habitica is an open source project.
Habitica is a self-improvement web application with game mechanics overlaid to help t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41081596 | Emmanuel Goffi
Emmanuel Roberto Goffi (born December 10, 1971) is a philosopher, an ethicist and a specialist in international relations. He has served in the French Air Force during 25 years. He left at the rank of (captain). He is currently a professor with the Institut libre d'étude des relations internationa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41091186 | Act to Restrain Abuses of Players
The Act to Restrain Abuses of Players (1606) was a censorship law passed by the English Parliament, and introduced fines for plays which 'jestingly or profanely' used the names of God or Jesus. Plays written after 1606 avoided such terms as a consequence of the act, and new edit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41093787 | The Wanderground
The Wanderground is a speculative fiction novel by Sally Miller Gearhart, published in 1979 by Persephone Press. It is Gearhart's first and most famous novel, and continues to be used in Women's Studies classes as a characteristic example of the separatist feminism movement from the 1970s.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41143560 | Dual control (politics)
Dual control is the situation in which a national government agrees to share control of its country with representatives of foreign governments, called "controllers", because it is indebted to them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41175714 | Joshua Greene (psychologist)
Joshua D. Greene is an American experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. He is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Most of his research and writing has been concerned with moral judgment and decision-making. His recent research focuses on fundamental i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41207422 | Social equality
Social equality is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in possibly all respects, possibly including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights and equal access to certain social goods and social services. However, it may al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41256757 | Marie-Jo Thiel
Marie-Jo Thiel (born 7 May 1957) is a French ethics academic. She is the director of the Centre européen d’enseignement et de recherche en éthique (CEERE - the European Centre for teaching and Research in Ethics) in Strasbourg. She is a university professor at Strasbourg; her primary assignment is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41335468 | Hazelcast
In computing, Hazelcast IMDG is an open source in-memory data grid based on Java. It is also the name of the company developing the product. The Hazelcast company is funded by venture capital and headquartered in San Mateo.
In a Hazelcast grid, data is evenly distributed among the nodes of a compu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41364887 | The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image is a work of critical theory by American surgeon Leonard Shlain, published by Viking Press in 1998. Shlain argues that learning written language, especially alphabetic language, alters human brain function in a w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41373899 | Ethan Couch
Ethan Anthony Couch (born April 11, 1997) is an American who at age 16 killed four people while driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs on June 15, 2013, in Burleson, Texas. He was intoxicated, driving on a restricted license and speeding in a residential area when he lost control, colliding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41381012 | Sex for fish
Sex for fish sometimes referred to as "fish for sex" is a phenomenon in which female traders engage in sexual relationships with fishermen to secure their supply of fish. The women fish traders are often pressured into having sex with the fishermen who supply them with daily fresh fish. Along the be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41390850 | Wassmann Foundation
The Wassmann Foundation, Washington, D.C, is an arts collective based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2001, the collective has a rotating membership from a range of fields, including artists, writers, curators, musicians and film-makers. The foundation oversees the estate of the fictitiou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41404789 | Susanne Sreedhar
Susanne Sreedhar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Sreedhar's work on social contract theory has been influential, and has mostly been aimed at the nature and scope of obligation within political systems, and the possibility of ethical civil disobedience within a Hobb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41438927 | Decriminalizing sex work
The decriminalization of sex work is the removal of criminal penalties for sex work (specifically, prostitution). Sex work, the consensual provision of sexual services for money or goods, is criminalized in most countries. Decriminalization is distinct from legalization and regulation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41482615 | Animal Welfare (journal)
Animal Welfare is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering studies on the welfare of animals, whether in captivity (e.g. on farms, in laboratories, zoos and as companions) or in the wild. Its scope includes animal welfare science, animal cognition, ethology, behavioural eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41502434 | Ultimaker
Ultimaker is a 3D printer-manufacturing company based in the Netherlands, with offices and assembly line in the US. They make FFF 3D printers, develop 3D printing software, and sell branded 3D printing materials. Their product line includes the Ultimaker S5, Ultimaker 3 series, Ultimaker 2+ series and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41518104 | Đuro Arnold
Đuro Arnold (24 March 1853 – 22 February 1941) was a Croatian writer and philosopher.
Arnold was born as the 19th of 24 children of Ivan, a tax gatherer, and Sofija, née Vukanić. His ancestors arrived from Switzerland during the French Revolution. He was born in Ivanec and spent his early childh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41567488 | Sharon Lloyd
Sharon Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She co-founded the USC Center for Law and Philosophy, and directs the USC Levan Institute’s Conversations in Practical Ethics Program. Lloyd’s work, especially on the philosophy of Thomas Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41579694 | Constantine Sandis
Constantine Sandis, FRSA (; born 1 October 1976) is a Greek and British philosopher working on philosophy of action, moral psychology, David Hume, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Sandis read Literae Humaniores at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, where he was taught by Gabriele Taylor, R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41652549 | Marcia Y. Riggs
Marcia Y. Riggs is an American author, the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics, and the Director of ThM Program at Columbia Theological Seminary, a womanist theologian, and a recognized authority on the black woman’s club movement of the nineteenth century. She was one of six Luce Schol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41675841 | Deborah Bowman (academic)
Deborah Bowman is a British academic, Professor of Ethics and Law at St George's, University of London.
Bowman has written widely about medical ethics in both academic and popular publications, including the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Medical Teacher, Die Psychiatr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41700391 | Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System
Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System (; also known as the Ten Principles of the One-Ideology System) are a set of ten principles and sixty-five clauses establishing standards for governance and guiding the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41743009 | Burgfrieden
The Burgfrieden or Burgfriede was a German medieval term that referred to imposition of a state of truce within the jurisdiction of a castle, and sometimes its estate, under which feuds, i.e. conflicts between private individuals were forbidden under threat of the imperial ban.
The lord of the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41757150 | Matthew O'Donnell
Monsignor Matthew O'Donnell MA, BD, DPh was an Irish priest who served as the 26th president of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
He was born in Mungret, Co Limerick, in 1932 and studied at St Mary's College, Galway, before moving to begin his studies for the priesthood at Maynooth where he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41789047 | Feinstein International Center
The Feinstein International Center (FIC) is a research and teaching center based at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The Center promotes the use of evidence and learning in operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41875279 | Nelson Thomas Potter Jr.
Nelson Thomas Potter Jr. (September 22, 1939 – May 12, 2013) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
In 1961, he graduated summa cum laude from Monmouth College and in 1969, he received as Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41878731 | Noëlle McAfee
Noëlle McAfee is professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and psychoanalytic studies at Emory University, where she has taught since 2010. McAfee previously taught at several other universities, including serving as Allen-Berenson Visiting Associate P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41895225 | Diana Tietjens Meyers
Diana Meyers is a philosopher working in the philosophy of action and in the philosophy of feminism. Meyers is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.
Diana Meyers holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a Master's degree and PhD from The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41899489 | Diego Mateo Zapata
Diego Mateo Zapata (1664-1745) was a Spanish physician and philosopher. In 1724, he and Juan Muñoz y Peralta were both denounced to the Spanish Inquisition as judaisers. Spanish philosopher Diego Mateo Zapata was tortured during the Inquisition for following and endorsing the teachings of Juda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41932528 | Adrienne Asch
Adrienne Asch (September 17, 1946 – November 19, 2013) was a bioethics scholar and the founding director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University in New York City. She was also the Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work and Professor of Epidem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41949493 | Bertrand Kiefer
Bertrand Kiefer (born 1955) is a Swiss medical doctor, theologian and ethicist. He is editor of the "Revue médicale suisse".
Bertrand Kiefer is a member of the Swiss Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41961484 | Peg O'Connor
Peg O'Connor, is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies as well as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her present research interests include two separate but intersecting strains: Wittgenstein's approach to ethics, and the philosophy of ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42016439 | Cambodian humanitarian crisis
The Cambodian humanitarian crisis from 1969 to 1993 consisted of a series of related events which resulted in the death, displacement, or resettlement abroad of millions of Cambodians.
The crisis had several phases. First was the Cambodian Civil War between the Lon Nol governme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42091559 | Open source in Kosovo
The first project in open source in Kosovo was the adjustment of Open Office Packet in December 2003.
On 28 July 2004 the Albanian team, users of Linux (GGSL), was one of the first public organizations for the purpose of getting information about the field of open source.
This conferenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42119822 | Richard Huxtable
Richard Huxtable (born 1974) is the Deputy Director and Professor in Medical Ethics and Law at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, at the University of Bristol. He is known principally for his work on legal and ethical issues in end-of-life decision-making and euthanasia, surgery and paediatrics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42150045 | Ann Buchholtz
Ann K. Buchholtz was Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Research Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University. She served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management and was past Division Chair of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) division, as well as in... |
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