Parts, Forms, and Participation in the Parmenides and Sophist: A Comparison by Pauline Sabrier

“…This paper addresses the vexed question of the outcome of the second horn of the dilemma of participation in Plato’s Parmenides bringing in Sophist 257c7-d5 where the Eleatic Stranger accepts what he seems to reject in the Parmenides, namely that a Form can have parts and nevertheless remain one. …”
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Integrazioni Tecnologiche e Rilievo Archeologico - Il caso di Tindari by Dario Angelini, Michele Fasolo, Domenico Santarsiero, Marco Sfacteria

“…The features of these walls make it an interesting example of military architecture whose chronology is still a vexed question. The size and location of the structures, partly subject to superfetches that reach the modern age, together with the uneven condition of their conservation, have always made difficult to carry out an analytical survey of the monument in its entirety. …”
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Reading the News: Pitcairn Island at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Lisa Fletcher

“…It identifies and interrogates dominant patterns in descriptions of Pitcairn Island in the news in order to consider the vexed question of the relationship between the reality of islands and their representation.…”
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¿Existen las palabras? by del Barrio de la Rosa, Florencio

“…Only extralinguistic evidence might shed some light in the vexed question of the existence and nature of the basic unit of morphosyntax: the word. …”
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Parallel lines or divergent trajectories? A response to the other contributions by Keep, E

“…It addresses the importance of locating FE and skills policy within wider national policy contexts, national choices between markets and systems and the wider implications of these choices, and the vexed role of employers. Behind these lie three over-arching questions that are then interrogated – have we arrived at a moment when we can conceive of the UK as a policy learning laboratory, is this laboratory open for expansive policy learning, and who might be working in it?…”

Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game Theory by Richard Donovan

“…The current paper employs some of his conclusions in the context of Japanese-to-English literary translation, addressing in particular the vexed issue of disambiguation. It draws upon examples from Kawabata Yasunari’s novella Izu no odoriko, and its published English translations The Izu Dancer by Edward G. …”
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J.S. Mill’s ‘psychological theory’ of the mind by Mander, W

“…The matter is of intrinsic interest to anyone who sees value in trying to get the bottom of tricky texts about puzzling questions by great philosophers, but I argue also that the investigation may help us with another vexed interpretative issue relating to an even more famous philosopher, David Hume, and that it may hold lessons for the philosophy of mind today. …”

Women in unity: re-imaging the female body in art by Laurel McKenzie

“…The binary has been contested by feminists in their efforts to subvert objectifying conventions and present empowering visual imagery of women, and the results at times have been vexed. This paper will consider some of these works as well as recent theorizing about embodiment, and efforts to separate "woman" from "nature" (to avoid essentialising limitations). …”
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Thermodynamics as Control Theory by David Wallace

“…I then relax this assumption and use the framework to consider the vexed questions of Maxwell’s demon and Landauer’s principle. …”
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Women in unity: re-imaging the female body in art by Laurel McKenzie

“…The binary has been contested by feminists in their efforts to subvert objectifying conventions and present empowering visual imagery of women, and the results at times have been vexed. This paper will consider some of these works as well as recent theorizing about embodiment, and efforts to separate "woman" from "nature" (to avoid essentialising limitations). …”
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Research ethics, informed consent and the disempowerment of First Nation peoples by Juan M Tauri

“…Of particular concern for Indigenous commentators is that the work of REBs often results in the marginalisation of Indigenous approaches to knowledge construction and dissemination, especially in relation to the vexed issue of informed consent. Based on analysis of the results of research with Indigenous researchers and research participants, this paper argues that institutionalised REBs’ preference for ‘universal’ and ‘individualised’ approaches for determining ethical research conduct marginalises Indigenous approaches to ethical research conduct. …”
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Plant individuality: a solution to the demographer's dilemma by Clarke, E

“…The problem of plant individuality is something which has vexed botanists throughout the ages, with fashion swinging back and forth from treating plants as communities of individuals (Darwin 1800; Braun and Stone 1853; Münch 1938) to treating them as organisms in their own right, and although the latter view has dominated mainstream thought most recently (Harper 1977; Cook 1985; Ariew and Lewontin 2004), a lively debate conducted mostly in Scandinavian journals proves that the issues are far from being resolved (Tuomi and Vuorisalo 1989b; Fagerström 1992; Pan and Price 2001). …”

Climate Change Inaction and Optimism by Philip J. Wilson

“…This argument is immaterial without meaningful action in the first place, and to favour what amounts to the suppression of truth over intellectual openness is in any case disreputable. ‘Optimism’ is also vexed in this context, often having been opposed to the sombre mood of environmentalists by advocates of economic growth. …”
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Selected EU Judgments by CEE Constitutional Courts: Lessons on How (Not) to Amend Constitutions? by Anneli Albi

“…This paper highlights the importance of adequate amendments in light of selected recent judgments by the highest courts in Poland, Estonia and Latvia, where judges have found themselves in the rather vexed situation of having to find pragmatic solutions to ensure the constitutionality of legislation without jeopardising the supremacy of EC law. …”
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A Baseball (Anti-)Hero in the Waste Land: Exploring Mythical Uncertainties in Bernard Malamud’s 'The Natural' by Rebeca Gualberto

“…More recent discussions, however, have raised the issue of the novel’s symbolic ambiguity which for so long has vexed Malamud scholars. As a response to this debate, the aim of this study is to address such indeterminacy by revisiting and bringing up to date a myth-critical interpretation on the novel, exploring how the mythical artifacts in Malamud’s text construe mechanisms of uncertainty and ambivalence that express an unsettling vision of post-war American society, which in turn deserves renewed critical attention.…”
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John Hammond and the Explosion of Print in 1641: Commercial and Political Opportunities by Michael J. Braddick

“…As such, it addresses the vital but vexed issue of the relationship between profit and politics in the world of early modern publishing.…”
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The aporia of ἢ ἐϰ παντὸς in Posterior Analytics II.19 by ADAM CRAGER

“…But its primary goal is to recommend a novel solution to one particular interpretive aporia that’s especially vexed recent scholars working on Post. An. II.19. …”
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Spiritual Booze and Freedom: Lenin on Religion by Roland Boer

“…This study explores those tensions, beginning with the duality of religion as response to and cause of suffering, moving onto the multi-layered metaphors of booze and the human image, and then analysing the unresolved question of what happens after the revolution when religion persists. As for the vexed issue of ‘freedom of conscience’, Lenin both accepts the standard socialist position and yet seeks to stipulate that in the party religion is not a private affair. …”
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Conor McFeely: Partial Objects. A Conversation Between Artist Conor McFeely and Art Historian Gabriel Gee by Gabriel Gee

“…The notion of partiality – of incompleteness – is central to McFeely’s art: it implies at once a search for the lost or hidden or veiled part, and a vexed relationship to parts that can take the form of desire, for instance, or of fixation.…”
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Descartes, Entretien avec Burman by Cottingham, J, Descartes, R, Burman, F, John Cottingham

“…The main purpose of the Commentary is to show how the Conversation throws a fresh light on some of the most vexed and crucial issues in Descartes' philosophy. [...]…”