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Another figure in the war novel as a novel of destiny is the Senegalese riflemen, often mentioned, but only fleetingly, and at greater length in La Randonnée de Samba Diouf (1922) by the Tharaud brothers. Their presence is conveyed through clichés such as …

Conference in English. Communication is of fundamental importance not only for the survival of a social group, but also for everyday sociality in social animals, especially humans. Some argue that communication, particularly through human language, …

With the sun and water being our planet's most abundant resources, it's important to know how best to exploit them in today's energy transition. One strategy is to store energy from the sun in chemical form to produce H2 and O2 , and then convert it into …

The aim of this talk is to clear space for a new account of the value of epistemic justification. I argue that there are two constraints on such an account: it must explain both the motivational force of justification-considerations and their normativity. …

Some philosophers argued that the concept of belief involves a truth-norm according to which a belief is correct if and only if true. The truth-norm has been the object of some criticisms. In particular, in my talk I consider three criticisms directed to …

Belief aims at the truth and so beliefs that do not fit the facts are defective. In what sense are they defective? The orthodox view seems to be that these beliefs are defective because they don't constitute knowledge. Those who accept this view tend to …

Four highly correlated theses I would like to defend: Everything but knowledge is a constitutive failure of belief. This is how the intuition that knowing that P has more epistemic value than merely truly believing that P should be explained But: When I …

According to robust virtue epistemology , knowledge is a cognitive achievement, where this means that the agent's cognitive success is because of her cognitive ability. It is argued that a fundamental problem which faces this view is its inability to …

My concern in this paper is with a certain, pervasive picture of epistemic justification. On this picture, acquiring justification for believing something is essentially a matter of minimising one's risk of error - so one is justified in believing …

Justification is often understood as a standard of appraisal that entails responsibility. But what grounds our responsibility for our beliefs? In this paper I argue that responsibility for belief is a matter of reasons-responsiveness, and essentially …

The complexity of the phenomenon stems from the fact that several climatic and biogeochemical system responses influence carbon sequestration in the ocean. A first climatic feedback is linked to the effect of temperature on CO2 solubility and acid-base …

" Hadrian's career before his accession to the Empire in the bilingual inscription from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens " (Dessau, Inscr. Lat. Sel., 308 = IG II2 …

"I went down this morning to my physician Hermogenes". The figure of the emperor in Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951) put to the test by a continuous increase in documentation. Marguerite Yourcenar's use of ancient sources and her survey of …