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The extension of collective agreements in France, Portugal and Spain
2020
This article examines the role of extension provisions for collective agreements in France, Portugal and Spain, three countries that have faced pressure to introduce more flexibility in their employment regimes during recent economic crises. The article establishes the continuing importance of extension provisions for maintaining high bargaining coverage in all three countries and traces the origin of national differences in their evolution to the strategies of the various actors, governments, employers and trade unions, and the context in which they are operating. It also looks at the characteristics of the extension regulations themselves.Cet article examine le rôle des mécanismes d’exten…
On the divide between animate and inanimate
2015
Vitalism was abandoned already for a long time ago, yet the impression that animate beings differ in some fundamental way from inanimate objects continues to thrive. Here, we argue that scale free patterns, found throughout nature, present convincing evidence that this demarcation is only imaginary. Therefore, all systems ought to be regarded alike, i.e., all are consuming free energy in least time. This way evolutionary processes can be understood as a series of changes from one state to another, so that flows of energy themselves naturally select those ways and means, such as species and societies or gadgets and galaxies to consume free energy in the least time in quest of attaining therm…
Christian Krijnen (ed.): Metaphysics of Freedom: Kant’s Concept of Cosmological Freedom in Historical and Systematic Perspective (Critical Studies in…
2019
En un conocido pasaje de Los Progresos de la Metafísica, Kant advierte que la realidad de la libertad es, junto con la idealidad de las representaciones de espacio y tiempo, el pilar sobre el cual descansa la totalidad de la metafísica. Además de ocupar este rol arquitectónico, el concepto kantiano de libertad es complejo y polisémico, tal como lo muestra la coexistencia, en su teoría, de sus especificaciones como libertad transcendental - o cosmológica, libertad práctica, o arbitrio. Al estudio de la primera variante mencionada está dirigido el libro editado por Christian Krijnen. El libro ofrece al lector tanto reconstrucciones sistemáticas de la teoría kantiana como así también el desar…
Critical behavior of a supersymmetric extension of the Ginzburg-Landau model
2011
We make a connection between quantum phase transitions in condensed matter systems, and supersymmetric gauge theories that are of interest in the particle physics literature. In particular, we point out interesting effects of the supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics upon the critical behavior of the Ginzburg-Landau model. It is shown that supersymmetry fixes the critical exponents, as well as the Landau-Ginzburg parameter, and that the model resides in the type II regime of superconductivity.
The perceived time value importance for enrolment in online masters courses: an extension of the Technology Acceptance Model
2020
Purpose. The main objective of this research is to obtain a better understanding of the impact of perceived time value on the intention of pursuing an online Master’s degree for its applicants. For this reason, perceived time value is added to the Technology Acceptance Model. Design/methodology/approach. Data are collected from a purposive sample of 147 individuals, who were interested to continue their higher education. Both, online and personal surveys are used to collect data. Achieved data are analysed by structural equation modelling. Findings. The results show that the perceived time value is significantly related to the ease of use and perceived utility, which in turn, show a signifi…
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness.
2010
We argue that Kant’s views about consciousness, the mind—body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind—body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but of substances; and his views about the possibility of psychology as a science did not employ the requirement of a mechanistic explanation, but of a quantification of phenomena. This shows strikingly how deeply philosophical problems and conceptions c…
Astrophysik contra Astronomie
1981
[Astrophysics contra astronomy] means the displacement of astrometry and stellar astronomy as the main and solely conceded branches of astronomy by the new astrophysics. This displacement started with the introduction of spectroscopic and photometric methods of observation in astronomy founded by J. C. F. Zoellner and W. Huggins in the late 1850s. It was Zoellner, too, who gave the methodical and intrumental foundations of the new branch called consciously [Astrophysik] by him, because it gives insight into the [physical constitution] of the celestial bodies - whereas the traditional astronomy (or: astrophysics according to the older meaning) had been studying only the motions of the stars …
A metaphysical approach to holobiont individuality: Holobionts as emergent individuals
2019
Holobionts are symbiotic assemblages composed by a host plus its microbiome. The status of holobionts as individuals has recently been a subject of continuous controversy, which has given rise to two main positions: on the one hand, holobiont advocates argue that holobionts are biological individuals; on the other, holobiont detractors argue that they are just mere chimeras or ecological communities, but not individuals. Both parties in the dispute develop their argu-ments from the framework of the philosophy of biology, in terms of what it takes for a ?conglomerate? to be considered an interesting individual from a biological point of view. However, the debates about holobiont individualit…
Fichte und die Metaphysik des deutschen Idealismus
1996
Im November 1917, im Rahmen der von der Universiüit Freiburg organisierten Kurse füi· die Kriegsteilnehmer, hielt Edmund Husserl drei . Vortrage über das Thema ,Fichtes Menschheits Ideal'. ,Seit 1914', sagt er, ,ist der Tod ... kein Ausnahmeereignis mehr. Der Tod hat sich sein heiliges Urrecht wieder erstritten. Er ist wieder der groBe Mahner in der Zeit an die Ewigkeit.' 1 ,;Und so sind uns denn auch neue Sehorgane für den deutscheri Idealismus erwachsen . ; . für Fichte, den Philosophen der Befreiungskriege. Von ihm, von seiner Neugestaltung der Ideale echten Menschentums aus den tiefen Quellen seiner Philosophie will ich hier sprechen.' Neue Sehorgane, denrt w&s unsere Beziehung zum deut…
La Ilustración escocesa y la idea de progreso.
1992
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