BEING-IN-THE-COVID-19-WORLD: EXISTENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND EMBODIMENT by A.H. Verhoef, J. du Toit, P. du Preez

“…We postulate that the pandemic has forced us to think about our existence more authentically, away from the “fallenness” of the ontological structure of Dasein in its everydayness. …”
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The "Other" Geographies in Latin America: Alternatives from the Landscapes of the Chatino People by Geronimo Barrera de la Torre

“…Our critical and theoretical analysis draws on this understanding of landscape and points to the need to rethink and decolonize modernist constructions and make way for new epistemic and ontological understandings of human and other-than-human relations. …”
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On derivative consequence argument by D. N. Razeev

“…The first critical remark concerns the ontological status of the laws of nature, the second remark deals with the term «physicalism». …”
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Strategic Policy Overreaction as a Risky Policy Investment by Moshe Maor

“…Policy scholars tend to view this duality as a problematic ontological issue and to categorize such policies as errors of commission or omission. …”
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C. McGinn. Why Is It Good to Be Alive? / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev by R. L. Kochnev

“…It seems that the necessary grounds for such an attitude must be in the ontological structure of life itself. But an impartial analysis shows that the value of life is something external to life itself.…”
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‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…Through an analysis of the recorded and recollected interactions between the Queen and her Indian ward, this essay charts out the emergence of a maternal politics—care and conquest—that wielded a specific epistemological, ontological power and an insidious psychic conquest of personhood.…”
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Cultural and creative networks as enabling contexts for artistic research by Gemma Grau Pérez

“…Leveraging grounded theory principles, the research delves into the ways in which these networks can provide fertile ground for exploring novel artistic research pathways across ontological, epistemological, and methodological dimensions. …”
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La nocturnité au quotidien chez les Indiens tseltal du Chiapas (Mexique) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Marie Chosson

“…However, certain traits that define this night extend beyond the nocturnal part of the nychthemeron in order to emerge on its diurnal side, what we call manifestations of nocturnity. The ontological displacement characteristic of nocturnity makes it possible to place a permanent fear in the unconscious that it will irrupt in people’s lives; this fertile subsoil is perceptible in everyday conversation, in repeated tales, in gestures, and in the avoidance behaviours that reveal it. …”
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Éléments pour une théorie biologique du sujet by Lionel Simonneau

“…The first approach is about the ontological nature of the body-subject. Materially impermanent, a slow self-incarnation but thinking and saying always “I”, the body-subject in the course of time is fulfilling himself through the individuation. …”
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Epistemological effects of the political on relativistic political geography by ehsan Lashgari Tafreshi

“…In the classical view, the political dimension study of space has always been considered as the political geography ontological basic. Gradually from the 1980s with the development of post-positivist perspectives on human geography; Politics affected all social spheres from government and political parties to gender and considered the smallest power relations associated with the political concept. …”
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"The World is too much with us:" The Character of Literary Studies Today by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu

“…There is a change of attention from the relativist epistemology of poststructuralism to realist ontology in the new fields of study such as posthumanism and new materialism. …”
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Urban Atmospheres by Niels Albertsen

“…To start with, I present various ontological and epistemological aspects of the concept and specify some atmospheric dimensions of art and architecture. …”
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Environments (out) of Control by Lorinc Vass, Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Contingent Collective

“…By probing the salient characteristics of these approaches, their problematic proximity to the logic of cybernetic capitalism is contextualised in relation to the broader ontological and ontopolitical questions of the Anthropocene era. …”
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The presence of absence. Towards and anthropology of the posthumous life of the disappeared in Peru by Dorothée Delacroix.

“…In order to understand the ontological ambivalence of the figure of the disappeared, who is neither dead or alive, and the consequences of its liminality, this article exposes the religious traditional representations created and the repertory of rites maintained in Peru. …”
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FILOSOFINĖS POETIKOS PARADIGMA by Tomas Kačerauskas

“…The metaphor as a vehicle of poetical language has not only poetical but also the ethical and ontological aspects, that are his „seeing as“, i. e. his extralinguistical level. …”
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Notions of personhood, the political and relationalities: Paradigms of the anthropology of nature by Geviller Marín, Francisco Neira, María Elena Ramírez, Diana Soto, Javier Vásconez, Ivette Vallejo

“…In the conclusions the article highlights the relevance that the emphasis on the anthropology of nature has had by focusing on the subjectivity and agency of non-human beings, and in reframing the philosophical category of person from multinaturalism, causing an ontological twist. This has allowed for the enrichment of the debate about what is considered a subject agent in the world and therefore subject of law, with ethical approaches to deal with the problems of the anthropocene.…”
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Kracauer and Tarkovsky’s Cinema of Redemptive Estrangement by Daniel Sullivan

“…I contend with other interpreters that Kracauer’s philosophy of film is best understood as a form of revelationism, with strong sociological and ontological theses about the nature of modern psychological life and the medium specificity of film. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…This knowledge has then become a tool of social control, aiming to protect reproduction (social, cosmic, and ontological), through its effective language combining a somatopsychological aspect (disgust reaction) and social rejection.…”
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THE ANTHROPOLOGIZATION OF DASEIN-PSYCHE’S BEING BY METHODS OF NEUROPHILOSOPHY by O. A. Bazaluk

“…Theoretical basis of the study is built on Heidegger’s fundamental ontology and methods of neurophilosophy. Originality lies in exploring Dasein-psyche through the neurophilosophical approach. …”
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A Study on Multiattribute Aggregation Approaches to Product Recommendation by Jing-Zhong Jin, Yoshiteru Nakamori, Andrzej P. Wierzbicki

“…This paper aims at the improvement of a consumer-oriented approach in recommending products, and proposing a recommendation system for Japanese traditional crafts based on target-oriented fuzzy method and ontological engineering. Specifically, a target-oriented fuzzy method is used for measuring the fitness of a selected attribute to a certain object. …”
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