We conducted extensive fieldwork in the Tafea Province of Vanuatu from 2014 to 2021 as part of a long-term floristic study of plants and fungi, as well as analyses of changes in forest structure and plant diversity in ...

Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and ...

Machines, instruments and tools offer many benefits, but according to the classical Daoists-Laozi and Zhuangzi they can also interfere with living a life in harmony with nature. Despite this, the Zhuangzi offers numerous ...

Objects appear to causally interact with one another in virtual worlds, such as video games, virtual reality, and training simulations. Is this causation real or is it illusory? In this paper, I argue that virtual causation ...

Philosophers are paying increasing attention to the implications of technology. While technologies have always transformed the way we live, the speed of technological change in recent decades has made this more acute than ...

Informational Structural Realism (ISR) presents an innovative framework for understanding the "structure" that structural realists assert our scientific theories accurately depict about the world. Luciano Floridi's detailed ...

Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and ...

Machines, instruments and tools offer many benefits, but according to the classical Daoists—Laozi and Zhuangzi—they can also interfere with living a life in harmony with nature. Despite this, the Zhuangzi offers numerous ...