Journal articles: 'Blank slate'

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Hansen, Silas. "Blank Slate." Colorado Review 40, no. 1 (2013): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/col.2013.0030.

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Reardon, Sara. "Psychology: No blank slate." Nature 531, no. 7593 (March 2016): 171–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/531171a.

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Moorman, Nathaniel J., and Eain A. Murphy. "Roseomics: a blank slate." Current Opinion in Virology 9 (December 2014): 188–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coviro.2014.09.021.

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Lazarus, Gerald S., and Jonathan M. Zenilman. "Wound microbiology: Tabula rosa, a blank slate." Wound Repair and Regeneration 19, no. 5 (September 2011): 531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-475x.2011.00727.x.

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Hocutt, Max. "Review of Pinker (2002): The blank slate." Consciousness & Emotion 4, no. 1 (November 4, 2003): 135–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ce.4.1.12hoc.

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Smith, Brian. "Editorial: Sometimes we need ‘a blank slate’." Journal of Medical Marketing 3, no. 2 (April 1, 2003): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jmm.5040108.

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Nifadkar, Sushil S. "Filling in the “Blank Slate”: Examining Newcomers’ Schemas of Supervisors During Organizational Socialization." Journal of Management 46, no. 5 (October 18, 2018): 666–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206318807288.

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Newcomers have little knowledge of the behavioral tendencies of their future supervisors before they join the company; thus, they enter the organization with a “blank slate” regarding their assessments of their supervisors. We know little about how newcomers’ blank slates about their supervisors are gradually filled with mental images—or schemas—of their supervisors and how these schemas influence their adjustment to the organization. Thus, the primary purpose of this study is to examine how newcomers’ schemas of supervisors develop, shape their information seeking from supervisors, and influence their adjustment. Further, previous socialization research has not distinguished between different forms of supportive supervisor behaviors or focused on unique outcomes of newcomers’ personal experience and indirect observation of supervisors’ behaviors. The findings of this study suggest that supervisors’ individualized consideration and intellectual stimulation, both forms of supervisors’ supportive behaviors, have distinct effects on newcomers’ warmth and competence schemas of supervisors; newcomers’ personal experience and indirect observation of supervisors’ behaviors have a unique influence on newcomers’ schemas of supervisors; and warmth and competence schemas of supervisors influence newcomers’ social and task-related information seeking to different extents. The primary contribution of the study lies in explaining how newcomers’ blank slate about their supervisors is filled with warmth and competence schemas of supervisors and how these schemas influence their information seeking and adjustment during socialization.

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Mehan, Asma. "BLANK SLATE: SQUARES AND POLITICAL ORDER OF CITY." Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 40, no. 4 (December 14, 2016): 311–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2016.1246987.

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This paper aims to analyze the square beyond an architectural element in the city, but weaves this blank slate, with its contemporary socio political atmosphere as a new paradigm. As a result, this research investigates the historical, social and political concept of Meydan – a term which has mostly applied for the Iranian and Islamic public squares. This interpretation, suggested the idea of Meydan as the core of the projects in the city, which historically exposed in formalization of power relations and religious ideologies. In this sense, studying the spatial transformation of Iranian public squares introduces the framework, which is adaptable to contemporary urban context.

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McHugh, Douglas, Richard Feinn, Jeff McIlvenna, and Matt Trevithick. "A Random Controlled Trial to Examine the Efficacy of Blank Slate: A Novel Spaced Retrieval Tool with Real-Time Learning Analytics." Education Sciences 11, no. 3 (February 25, 2021): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11030090.

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Learner-centered coaching and feedback are relevant to various educational contexts. Spaced retrieval enhances long-term knowledge retention. We examined the efficacy of Blank Slate, a novel spaced retrieval software application, to promote learning and prevent forgetting, while gathering and analyzing data in the background about learners’ performance. A total of 93 students from 6 universities in the United States were assigned randomly to control, sequential or algorithm conditions. Participants watched a video on the Republic of Georgia before taking a 60 multiple-choice-question assessment. Sequential (non-spaced retrieval) and algorithm (spaced retrieval) groups had access to Blank Slate and 60 digital cards. The algorithm group reviewed subsets of cards daily based on previous individual performance. The sequential group reviewed all 60 cards daily. All 93 participants were re-assessed 4 weeks later. Sequential and algorithm groups were significantly different from the control group but not from each other with regard to after and delta scores. Blank Slate prevented anticipated forgetting; authentic learning improvement and retention happened instead, with spaced retrieval incurring one-third of the time investment experienced by non-spaced retrieval. Embedded analytics allowed for real-time monitoring of learning progress that could form the basis of helpful feedback to learners for self-directed learning and educators for coaching.

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Author, Placeholder. "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature." Mankind Quarterly 43, no. 2 (2002): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.46469/mq.2002.43.2.5.

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Evans, Brandy. "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature." Gifted and Talented International 19, no. 1 (March 2004): 47–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15332276.2004.11673034.

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Ward, Neil. "Accessible Wayfinding: Empathy, Human-Centered Design, and a Blank Slate." Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding 1, no. 2 (June 22, 2017): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/ijsw.v1i2.11.

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Wayfinding and signage are important components of a building’s structure and interior space for visitors with and without a mobile/physical disability, especially on university and college campuses. This paper documents a semester-long project where students in an upper-level design elective course identified a building on campus that had an inconsistent and missing wayfinding system. Documenting their ethnographic research and empathetic experiences, students were able to develop a wayfinding system based on research that focused on individuals with a mobile or physical disability. They produced and installed the system in the fall semester of 2016.

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Keil, Frank C. "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (review)." Language 80, no. 4 (2004): 859–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2004.0207.

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Eoyang, Eugene Chen. "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (review)." Comparative Literature Studies 44, no. 3 (2007): 397–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cls.2007.0055.

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Wadsworth, Nick, and Adam Hargreaves. "“A Blank Slate”: Preparing for Tokyo 2021 During COVID-19." Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology 5, S1 (July 1, 2021): S1–1—S1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/cssep.2020-0027.

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This article presents a case study of an applied consultancy experience with WL, an Olympic athlete preparing for Tokyo 2021. WL sought psychological support after decreases in performance and well-being forced them to consider their future as an athlete. COVID-19 and the lockdown of the United Kingdom were highly influential to the consultancy process, providing WL with the opportunity to explore their identity in the absence of sport. WL framed their emergence from the lockdown as a “Blank Slate,” which was a critical moment allowing them to “find themselves on and off the mat.” The sport psychologist’s existential philosophy is presented and discussed in detail. Furthermore, reflections are provided by WL’s strength and conditioning coach about the referral process and by WL themself about the efficacy of the interventions. The importance of supporting both the person and the performer when working with aspiring Olympic athletes is also discussed.

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Latham, Kiersten F. "Blank slate: Using systems thinking to develop an integrated LAM curriculum." Education for Information 34, no. 2 (October 22, 2018): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/efi-180188.

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Hanson, Eric T., and Dan S. Kaufman. "From Blank Slate into Blood: Hematopoiesis and Human Embryonic Stem Cells." Directions in Science 1 (June 13, 2002): 92–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2002.825.

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Kagel, Martin. "A Blank Slate: Peregrination and Prejudice in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing." Publications of the English Goethe Society 79, no. 2 (July 2010): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/095936810x12735767339862.

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Schlinger, Henry D. "Not So Fast, Mr. Pinker: A Behaviorist Looks at The Blank Slate. A Review Of Steven Pinker’S The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial Of Human Nature." Behavior and Social Issues 12, no. 1 (May 2002): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/bsi.v12i1.81.

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Breed, M. D., S. Perry, and L. B. Bjostad. "Testing the blank slate hypothesis: why honey bee colonies accept young bees." Insectes Sociaux 51, no. 1 (February 1, 2004): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-003-0698-9.

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Kemp, Simon. "“Le vide de ces yeux”: Consciousness and the Blank Slate in Marie Darrieussecq." L'Esprit Créateur 60, no. 3 (2020): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2020.0036.

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Ceccarelli, Jacob, and Andrew J. Putnam. "Sculpting the blank slate: How fibrin’s support of vascularization can inspire biomaterial design." Acta Biomaterialia 10, no. 4 (April 2014): 1515–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2013.07.043.

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Hakim, Gregory J., Karin A. Bumbaco, Robert Tardif, and Jordan G. Powers. "Optimal Network Design Applied to Monitoring and Forecasting Surface Temperature in Antarctica." Monthly Weather Review 148, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 857–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-19-0103.1.

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Abstract As harsh weather conditions in Antarctica make it difficult to support a dense weather observing network there, it is critical to place new weather stations in locations that are optimal for a given monitoring goal. Here we demonstrate a network design algorithm that uses ensemble sensitivity to identify optimal locations for new automatic weather stations in Antarctica. We define the optimal location as one that maximizes the reduction in total variance of a given spatial field. Using WRF Model forecast output from the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS), we identify the best locations for observations across the continent by considering two spatial fields: (i) the daily 0000 UTC 2-m temperature analysis field and (ii) the daily 0000 UTC 2-m air temperature 24-h forecast field. We explore the impact of spatial localization on the results, finding that a covariance length scale of 3000 km is appropriate for these metrics. We find optimal locations assuming that no stations exist on the continent (blank slate) and conditional on existing stations (CD90). In the “blank slate” scenario, the Megadunes region emerges as the most important location to both monitor temperature and reduce temperature forecast errors, with the Ronne Coast and the Siple Coast following. Results for the monitoring and forecasting metrics are similar for the CD90 subset as well, indicating that additional stations could benefit multiple performance goals. Considering the CD90 subset, Wilkes Land–Adelie Coast, Ellsworth Land, and Queen Maud Land–Interior are identified as regions to consider installing new stations for optimizing network performance.

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Reis, Ricardo. "Central Bank Design." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 4 (November 1, 2013): 17–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.27.4.17.

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Starting with a blank slate, how could one design the institutions of a central bank for the United States? This paper explores the question of how to design a central bank, drawing on the relevant economic literature and historical experiences while staying free from concerns about how the Fed got to be what it is today or the short-term political constraints it has faced at various times. The goal is to provide an opinionated overview that puts forward the trade-offs associated with different choices and identifies areas where there are clear messages about optimal central bank design.

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Мохирев and Aleksandr Mokhirev. "The method of selection of forest machines under the climatic conditions." Forestry Engineering Journal 6, no. 4 (May 3, 2017): 208–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/23459.

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In this paper offered the technique of choice of harvesting machines under climatic conditions. The method was tested in the territory forestry of Eniseisk Krasnoyarsk region. According composed soil map of the territory it is clear that all soils, where it is necessary to operate the harvesting and transportation equipment is very diverse - from clay and heavy loam soil to slate. From these in the blank timber volumes and removal in the territory forestry of Eniseisk it can be seen that the maximum volume of logging occur in winter, in the summer the same time virtually no progress.

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Croll, Tristan I., Andrea J. O'Connor, Geoffrey W. Stevens, and Justin J. Cooper-White. "A Blank Slate? Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Hyaluronic Acid and Chitosan onto Various Surfaces." Biomacromolecules 7, no. 5 (May 2006): 1610–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm060044l.

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Faulds, P. Jonathan. "Writing on a Blank Slate: The Alberta Court of Appeal’s Early Charter Cases." Alberta Law Review 52, no. 1 (November 4, 2014): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr15.

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This article describes several cases heard by the Alberta Court of Appeal during the first five years after the Charter was proclaimed. In doing so, it highlights the key contributions made by the Court of Appeal to early Charter interpretations. It further explores how the Alberta Court of Appeal’s Charter judgments were received by the Supreme Court of Canada. It outlines the contributions that these judgments made to foundational principles of Charter interpretation and ultimately concludes that the Alberta Court of Appeal had a significant role in shaping how the Charter was understood and applied.

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Urquhart, Cathy, and Walter Fernández. "Using Grounded Theory Method in Information Systems: The Researcher as Blank Slate and Other Myths." Journal of Information Technology 28, no. 3 (September 2013): 224–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2012.34.

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The use of grounded theory method (GTM) as a research method in information systems (IS) has gradually increased over the years as qualitative research in general has become more prevalent. The method offers a systematic way to generate theory from data, but is rarely used to its full potential in IS as a number of myths and misunderstandings about GTM prevent researchers from getting the full potential out of the method. To address this problem, we advance the general level of knowledge of GTM. We clarify aspects of the method that are often misunderstood by novice users or casual observers and provide guidance to address common problems. Exemplars from the IS literature are used to illustrate the concepts and to promote the informed use of the methodology. By doing so, this paper will contribute to improving the use of the method and to the quality and dissemination of grounded theory research outcomes.

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Gao, Xiaoye, Shanshan Lyu, and Hongbin Li. "Decorating a Blank Slate Protein Hydrogel: A General and Robust Approach for Functionalizing Protein Hydrogels." Biomacromolecules 18, no. 11 (October 9, 2017): 3726–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01369.

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Ohta, Hiroshi, Kazuki Kurimoto, Ikuhiro Okamoto, Tomonori Nakamura, Yukihiro Yabuta, Hidetaka Miyauchi, Takuya Yamamoto, et al. "In vitro expansion of mouse primordial germ cell‐like cells recapitulates an epigenetic blank slate." EMBO Journal 36, no. 13 (May 30, 2017): 1888–907. http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embj.201695862.

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Velmet, Aro. "The Blank Slate E-State: Estonian Information Society and the Politics of Novelty in the 1990s." Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6 (March 14, 2020): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2020.284.

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This article looks at how the discourse of an emerging information society in 1990s Estonia both rejected and depended on expertise from the Soviet Period. It traces the influence 1960s-trained cyberneticians and sociologists had on expanding the concept of an information society in the 1990s, to encompass issues such as regional inequality, national culture, and poverty, instead of focusing solely on hardware purchasing and telecomms liberalization. This process was both enabled and occluded through "rupture-talk,” a rhetorical strategy emphasizing the novelty of digital infrastructure development compared to the Soviet past. The article argues that a shared belief in the power of information processing for both empowering and containing civil society enabled ideologically divergent actors to work together. The resulting vision diverged from neoliberal visions of information societies in hitherto unacknowledged ways.

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Horowitz, Mark, William Yaworsky, and Kenneth Kickham. "Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists." Sociological Spectrum 34, no. 6 (October 13, 2014): 489–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2014.947451.

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Rekret, Paul. "The posthumanist tabula rasa." Research in Education 101, no. 1 (August 2018): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034523718792162.

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This article offers an examination of posthumanist epistemology. Building on wider claims that `posthumanist' theorists risk disavowing the historicity of their concepts, the article asks why the posthumanist image of the researcher has proven attractive to humanities and social sciences scholarship in recent years. In examining this question the article suggests that posthumanist epistemology is premised upon a claim to the innocence of knowledge, a notion that the article traces back to the origins of modern philosophy in the work of John Locke and his view of the mind as a blank slate. Such an analysis will serve to underline the argument that claims to innocence are themselves strategically deployed epistemic tools that have political implications.

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Dooghan, Daniel. "Digital Conquerors: Minecraft and the Apologetics of Neoliberalism." Games and Culture 14, no. 1 (June 29, 2016): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412016655678.

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The widespread popularity of sandbox games, and Minecraft in particular, may be a recent phenomenon, but their appeal may be much older. Rather than representing a wholly new development in gaming, these games may participate in a larger media ecology that flatters a neoliberal worldview. This research calls for greater attention to the coercive economic assumptions encoded in game mechanics. Drawing on scholarship in ludology, postcolonial studies, and phenomenology, it suggests that sandbox games like Minecraft habituate players to myths of empire and capital that rationalize political and economic inequality. More than simply offering a blank slate for player creation, Minecraft rewards players for assuming their entitlement to the world’s resources and thus their superiority over other inhabitants of the game world.

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McGarry, Karen. "A WHITE PALETTE GATHERING." Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 1 (April 22, 2021): 103–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29555.

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Storytelling, a tenet of Critical Race Theory, offers a distinct approach for researchers engaging in narrative inquiry. This article models a fiction as research approach for creating a literature synthesis as a pedagogical strategy for teacher educators and pre-service teachers. The white palette refers to a painting palette, a blank slate or canvas, often considered neutral ground. Whiteness, however, is not neutral and this one-act conversation centers on examining whiteness as it impacts my role as a white teacher educator. The production, players, and script developed out of salient literature inclusive of Critical Race Theory, Art Education, and Critical Whiteness Studies. I am both author and a participant in this story. In this capacity, I disclose the impacts of the literature on my white teacher educator identity and reveal how I created arts-based data artifacts to evidence the overall story.

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GREGORY, SIOBHAN. "Detroit is a Blank Slate: Metaphors in the journalistic discourse of art and entrepreneurship in the City of Detroit." Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2012, no. 1 (October 2012): 217–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-8918.2012.00023.x.

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Paulin, Alois. "Through Liquid Democracy to Sustainable Non-Bureaucratic Government." JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government 6, no. 2 (November 17, 2014): 216–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v6i2.307.

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We summarize the concept of Self-Service Government (ss-Gov) as presented earlier and explore how the principles of Liquid Democracy (LD) can be applied in ss-Gov for collaborative decision making. We provide a thorough insight into the history of LD and summarize its recent developments. By combining ss-Gov and LD, we develop the concept of Sustainable, Non-Bureaucratic Government (SNBG) as a novel, blank-slate approach to government of eligibilities within- and towards governmental systems. We argue that such entanglement of LD with ss-Gov results in a closed-circuit system that can provide end-to-end self-management of jural relations. Thus, we argue, SNBG is a vision concept capable to enable morphable self-managed government which requires virtually no mediatory human agents for government. We discuss the feasibility of such approach based on a Gedankenexperiment featuring a modern parliamentary decision-making process.

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Barnett, Vincent. "KEYNES, ANIMAL SPIRITS, AND INSTINCT: REASON PLUS INTUITION IS BETTER THAN RATIONAL." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 39, no. 3 (June 19, 2017): 381–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1053837216000274.

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This article investigates John Maynard Keynes’s understanding and use of the concept of ‘animal spirits’ by tracing how he conceived of related ideas such as human nature, instinct, and intuition, and how they connect to the rational economic agent usually assumed by mainstream economic theory. It also considers the notion of Money-of-Account as proposed inA Treatise on Moneyin relation to the concept of reciprocal altruism as developed in the field of evolutionary biology, and documents Keynes’s knowledge of Charles Darwin on natural selection and sexual selection. It then uses these threads of analysis to evaluate how Keynes conceived of mental reasoning processes more widely, and deduces his own answer to the question of whether the human mind is formed as a ‘blank slate.’ It concludes by suggesting that Keynes should be regarded as one of the first contributors to the field of evolutionary economic psychology.

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Duschinsky, Robert. "Tabula Rasa and Human Nature." Philosophy 87, no. 4 (October 2012): 509–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819112000393.

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AbstractIt is widely believed that the philosophical concept of ‘tabula rasa’ originates with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and refers to a state in which a child is as formless as a blank slate. Given that both these beliefs are entirely false, this article will examine why they have endured from the eighteenth century to the present. Attending to the history of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and feminist scholarship it will be shown how the image of the tabula rasa has been used to signify an originary state of formlessness, against which discourses on the true nature of the human being can differentiate their position. The tabula rasa has operated less as a substantive position than as a whipping post. However, it will be noted that innovations in psychological theory over the past decade have begun to undermine such narratives by rendering unintelligible the idea of an ‘originary’ state of human nature.

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MEHAN, Asma. "“TABULA RASA” PLANNING: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AND BUILDING A NEW URBAN IDENTITY IN TEHRAN." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 41, no. 3 (September 19, 2017): 210–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2017.1355277.

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The concept of Tabula Rasa, as a desire for sweeping renewal and creating a potential site for the construction of utopian dreams is presupposition of Modern Architecture. Starting from the middle of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Iranian urban and architectural history has been integrated with modernization, and western-influenced modernity. The case of Tehran as the Middle Eastern political capital is the main scene for the manifestation of modernity within it’s urban projects that was associated with several changes to the social, political and spatial structure of the city. In this regard, the strategy of Tabula Rasa as a utopian blank slate upon which a new Iran could be conceived “over again” – was the dominant strategy of modernization during First Pahlavi era (1925–1941). This article explores the very concept of constructing a new image of Tehran through the processes of autocratic modernism and orientalist historicism that also influenced the discourse of national identity during First Pahlavi era.

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Pietikainen, Petteri. "Soul Man Meets the Blind Watchmaker: C. G. Jung and Neo-Darwinism." Psychoanalysis and History 5, no. 2 (July 2003): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2003.5.2.195.

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C. G. Jung's name has recently been connected with neo-Darwinian theories. One major reason for this connection is that Jungian psychology is based on the suggestion that there exists a universal structure of the mind that has its own evolutionary history. On this crucial point, Jungians and neo-Darwinian evolutionary psychologists agree. However, it will be argued in this paper that, although Jungian psychology opposes the tabula rasa doctrine (mind as a blank slate), Jung cannot be regarded as the founding father of evolutionary psychology. From the scientific perspective, Jung's biological assumptions are simply untenable and have been for many decades. In his attempt to fuse biology, spirit, and the unconscious, Jung ended in speculative flights of imagination that bear no resemblance to modern neo-Darwinian theories. The premise of the paper is that, when Jungian psychology is presented to us as a scientific psychology that has implications for the development of neo-Darwinian psychology, we should be on guard and examine the evidence.

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Guan, Kwa Chong. "Oral Histories in the Making of Our Memories and Heritage." Asian Journal of Social Science 36, no. 3-4 (2008): 612–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853108x327100.

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AbstractThe paper argues that our understanding and use of oral history interviewing for reconstruction of our past or life narratives will need to be reviewed as our concept of how our memories work changes. Our current practice of oral history interviewing assumes that the oral history interviewees are providing us an accurate recollection of their memories and which the interviewer attempts to verify with the interviewees through cross-checking with other historical evidence. This practice of oral history interviewing assumes that our mind is a blank slate upon which our memories are inscribed to be recalled. However, an alternative understanding of our memory assumes that our memories are not static, but filter from our past to our present, mix with other more recent memories, and are reconfigured according to current preoccupations. Thus what our oral history interviewees reveal are their memories configured to their present preoccupations and what they decide to reveal is often a moral choice of what they perceive to be the relevance of that memory to the interview.

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Wray, Jason, Tuzer Kalkan, and Austin G. Smith. "The ground state of pluripotency." Biochemical Society Transactions 38, no. 4 (July 26, 2010): 1027–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst0381027.

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Pluripotency is defined as the capacity of individual cells to initiate all lineages of the mature organism in response to signals from the embryo or cell culture environment. A pluripotent cell has no predetermined programme; it is a blank slate. This is the foundation of mammalian development and of ES (embryonic stem) cell biology. What are the design principles of this naïve cell state? How is pluripotency acquired and maintained? Suppressing activation of ERKs (extracellular-signal-regulated kinases) is critical to establishing and sustaining ES cells. Inhibition of GSK3 (glycogen synthase kinase 3) reinforces this effect. We review the effect of selective kinase inhibitors on pluripotent cells and consider how these effects are mediated. We propose that ES cells represent a ground state, meaning a basal proliferative state that is free of epigenetic restriction and has minimal requirements for extrinsic stimuli. The stability of this state is reflected in the homogeneity of ES cell populations cultured in the presence of small-molecule inhibitors of MEK (mitogen-activated protein kinase/ERK kinase) and GSK3.

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Gorodovich, Olga V. "“Blank Slate” or a Natural Predisposition: The Necessity of Clarifying the Term “Human Nature” in the Context of Modern Educational Practice Studies." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filosofiya, sotsiologiya, politologiya, no. 60 (April 1, 2021): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/1998863x/60/6.

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Weidman, Nadine. "Steven Pinker.The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking, 2002. 509 pp. $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-670-03151-8." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 39, no. 4 (2003): 383–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.10173.

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Sandel, Adam Adatto. "What is an open mind?" Philosophy & Social Criticism 44, no. 4 (February 12, 2018): 360–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453718755208.

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In this article, I suggest that an open mind wholly unburdened by preconceptions and prejudgments is a mistaken ideal. Not only is it unrealistic; it deprives us of context and background knowledge relevant to judging well. I begin with two cases that show how the ideal of the “prejudice-free” mind, though appealing, may end up thwarting good judgment: blind assessment and “blank-slate” jury selection (the ideal of empaneling jurors without prejudgments). I then trace the prejudice-free ideal to the Enlightenment, exposing its roots in the subject-object worldview. Drawing on Heidegger, I suggest that the subject-object worldview is misguided and that all judgment involves a prior understanding of the matter we judge. To have an open mind, paradoxically, is to have a stake in defending a prior understanding, to be possessed of an understanding of the good that one wishes (at least provisionally) to promote. I then draw out the implications of this view for how we might make sense of cultural differences, examining the difference between the practice of marriage based on a romantic conception of love, and that of arranged marriage. By thinking through these two practices, seemingly opposed, we can arrive at a conception of marriage and love that preserves both.

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Richards, Sarah. "“I’m More Than Just Adopted”: Stories of Genealogy in Intercountry Adoptive Families." Genealogy 2, no. 3 (August 6, 2018): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy2030025.

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In contrast to the historical ‘blank slate’ approach to adoption, current policy places significant emphasis on providing children with knowledge; family history; biological connections; stories, a genealogy upon which to establish an authentic identity. The imperative for this complex, and often incomplete, genealogy is also explicit within the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption established in 1993 to ensure that intercountry adopted children will be provided with a genealogical ‘heritage’. Yet, despite the recurring dominance of this approach, ‘heritage’ remains an ambiguous dictum which holds the expectation that adopted children should have access to any available birth/first family information and acquire cultural competence about an often distant and removed birth country. Providing such heritage becomes the responsibility of intercountry adoptive parents. It is therefore unsurprising that this role has become part of how intercountry adoptive parents perform and display their parenting and family practices before and after adoption (Richards 2014a; 2018). Such family work is explicit in the stories that parents and children coconstruct about birth family, abandonment, China, and the rights of adopted children to belong first and foremost to a birth country. Using qualitative data provided by a social worker, eleven girls aged between five and twelve, and their parents, this article explores the role and changing significance of narratives as familial strategies for delivering such heritage obligations. Outlined in this discussion is the compulsion to provide a genealogical heritage by adoptive parents which can ultimately be resisted by their daughters as they seek alternative and changing narratives through which to construct their belongings and identities.

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Warwick-Giles, Lynsey, Jonathan Hammond, Simon Bailey, and Kath Checkland. "Exploring commissioners’ understandings of early primary care network development: qualitative interview study." British Journal of General Practice 71, no. 710 (March 9, 2021): e711-e718. http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp.2020.0917.

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BackgroundPrimary care networks (PCNs) are financially incentivised groupings of general practices in the English NHS. Their purpose is to deliver a number of policy goals set out in The NHS Long Term Plan. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a role in their establishment, support, and oversight.AimTo explore commissioners’ perspectives on the early development of PCNs.Design and settingQualitative study of CCG staff using telephone interviews.MethodSemi-structured interviews were carried out with 37 CCG employees involved in PCN establishment. Interviewees were asked about local PCNs’ characteristics, factors shaping development and form, activities to date, challenges and benefits, and their CCGs’ relationship with PCNs. Interviewee responses were summarised within a matrix and analysed thematically.ResultsThree meta-themes were identified: the multifaceted role of the commissioner, tensions between PCN policy and locally commissioned services, and engaging the broader system. Interviewees reported that the policy potentially favours those PCNs working from a ‘blank slate’ and does not sufficiently account for the fact some GP practices and wider system organisations have been doing similar work already. The prescriptive, contractual nature of the policy has led to local challenges, trying to ensure that local good practices are not lost during implementation. Interviewees also considered an important part of their work to be protecting PCNs from the weight of expectations placed on them.ConclusionCCGs are well placed to understand the complexities of local systems and to facilitate PCNs and working practices between wider system partners. It is important that this local role is not lost as CCGs continue to merge and cover larger geographical populations.

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Lim, C. J. "Smartcities." Architectural Research Quarterly 15, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135511000820.

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What is a ‘Smartcity’? [1] The Smartcity differentiates itself from the ‘Eco-city’ by embracing new paradigms of programme, form and sociological interaction. It is neither a fixed place nor a singular approach but rather a manifesto for the production of a space relevant for the twenty-first century.The Smartcity is not a creation from a blank slate, but an evolution of long-standing sustainable principles that intertwine with contemporary desires for a healthier physical, mental and social existence in an increasingly alienating world. It aims to preserve and enhance natural and cultural resources, expand the range of eco-transportation, employment and housing choice, and values long-term regional sustainability over short-term focus. The currency of an ‘eco-’ prefix has become devalued through overuse and abuse, and ‘sustainability’ is a blanket expression – clearly, some aspects of our lifestyle are worth sustaining and others are not. Deciding and acting on which category they fall into, however, is not as straightforward as it appears. Conservation of energy and the environment are key priorities, but so too is the conservation of heritage, tradition and human interaction. Each generation is the proprietor of its own values, and the current zeitgeist has reacted against the mass-produced and anodyne, whether in the guise of housing, jobs and clothing or fruit and vegetables. Without ignoring technological advances, the Smartcity embraces leanness and the low-tech by adopting an operating system that filters out excess and reboots our social space. Smartcity living does not ask for ‘more’ but determines how to use less in the creation of a healthier mental and physical existence [2].

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Bull, Christian H. "Prophesying the Demise of Egyptian Religion in Late Antiquity: The Perfect Discourse and Antoninus in Canopus." Numen 68, no. 2-3 (March 15, 2021): 180–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341620.

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Abstract When the demise of traditional Egyptian religion took place is much debated. Some scholars have portrayed vibrant cults continuing well beyond the 4th century, embattled by Christianity, whereas others see a marked decline in the late 2nd and early 3rd century, leaving a blank slate for Christianity in the fourth century. The present contribution interprets the apocalyptic prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus in the Perfect Discourse to reflect a priestly insider’s perspective of the decline in temple-cult in the early 3rd century, and its projected catastrophic consequences for Egypt and indeed the cosmic order. Yet, despite the general neglect of temple-cult and literacy in the Egyptian priestly scripts, certain temples remained in use. The second part of the article is devoted to the survival and apparent rejuvenation of the temple of Osiris/Serapis in Canopus, in the second half of the 4th century. This case shows that at this late date there were still self-consciously traditionalist devotees of Egyptian gods, though our sources do not permit us to see to what degree their temple-cult corresponded to the old “standard model.” The temple’s alliance with the non-Egyptian Neoplatonist Antoninus suggests that the image of Egypt as the temple of the world is now championed in the language of Hellenism, and Antoninus updates the now nearly two-centuries-old prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus to predict the fall of the Serapis temples in Alexandria and Canopus after his death. Both the Perfect Discourse and Antoninus are testimonies of a literate elite that saw the great temples as the essence of Egyptian religion, and their demise as the end of Egypt and the world.

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