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Christian inspiration and the identity of the university as an institution
In this presentation, I argue that the history of universities is entirely germane to assessing what their role should be at the outset of the twenty-first century. Challenged as we are on all sides by cataclysmic changes in technology and economic demands that increasingly pressure us to become institutions aimed solely at variable utilitarian ends, we need to remember the ‘philosophical’ aspect of a university, as opposed to a technical education, and emphasize the importance of education in perfecting human intellects in our deliberations about the future of universities
L’abstraction, la connaissance sensible et la connaissance intellectuelle : l’évolution de l’épistémologie de Jean Duns Scot
En mai 2016, nous avons donné quatre conférences sur l’épistémologie de Jean Duns Scot. Plus exactement, ces conférences ont porté sur la relation entre le premier connu et l’objet de l’intellect. Après avoir dégagé une difficulté systématique qui surgit dans la théorie du développement de la connaissance humaine chez Scot, la conclusion tirée est que, si on la comprend dans sa totalité, la théorie de Scot est bien cohérente, à condition qu’on fasse la distinction entre connaissance actuelle et habituelle que Scot a formulée
L’abstraction, la connaissance sensible et la connaissance intellectuelle : l’évolution de l’épistémologie de Jean Duns Scot
En mai 2016, nous avons donné quatre conférences sur l’épistémologie de Jean Duns Scot. Plus exactement, ces conférences ont porté sur la relation entre le premier connu et l’objet de l’intellect. Après avoir dégagé une difficulté systématique qui surgit dans la théorie du développement de la connaissance humaine chez Scot, la conclusion tirée est que, si on la comprend dans sa totalité, la théorie de Scot est bien cohérente, à condition qu’on fasse la distinction entre connaissance actuelle et habituelle que Scot a formulée
Juan Iribarne e Uraburu on the voluntary, will, and nature
In this paper, the author examines the theory of will outlined in the Tractatus de actibus humanis of Juan Iribarne Uraburu. Juan’s discussion of will is situated in relation to various Thomistic thinkers of seventeenth-century Iberia and is shown both to be continuous with and innovative within the Scotistic tradition. The conclusion reached is that Juan’s theory highlights fundamental disagreements that distinguish Scotistic theories of the will from those of other Scholastic theories, whether Thomistic or Suarezian, and thus is extremely instructive for current philosophical reflection.En este artÃculo el autor examina qué teorÃa de la voluntad se delinea en el Tractatus de actibus humanis escrito por Juan Iribarne Uraburu. La discusión abierta por Juan Iribarne acerca de la voluntad se sitúa en el contexto de los planteamientos tomistas de la penÃnsula ibérica en el siglo XVII y manifiesta tanto continuidad como innovación dentro de la tradición escotista. La conclusión que se alcanza es que la teorÃa de Juan Iribarne muestra desacuerdos fundamentales que distinguen las teorÃas escotistas respecto de otras teorÃas escolásticas acerca de la voluntad, sean de corte tomista o suareciano, y, por tanto, es un ejemplo muy instructivo para el actual debate filosófico
Juan Iribarne e Uraburu sobre lo voluntario, la voluntad y la naturaleza
En este artÃculo el autor examina qué teorÃa de la voluntad se delinea en el Tractatus de actibus humanis escrito por Juan Iribarne Uraburu. La discusión abierta por Juan Iribarne acerca de la voluntad se sitúa en el contexto de los planteamientos tomistas de la penÃnsula ibérica en el siglo XVII y manifiesta tanto continuidad como innovación dentro de la tradición escotista. La conclusión que se alcanza es que la teorÃa de Juan Iribarne muestra desacuerdos fundamentales que distinguen las teorÃas escotistas respecto de otras teorÃas escolásticas acerca de la voluntad, sean de corte tomista o suareciano, y, por tanto, es un ejemplo muy instructivo para el actual debate filosófico.In this paper, the author examines the theory of will outlined in the Tractatus de actibus humanis of Juan Iribarne Uraburu. Juan’s discussion of will is situated in relation to various Thomistic thinkers of seventeenth- century Iberia and is shown both to be continuous with and innovative within the Scotistic tradition. The conclusion reached is that Juan’s theory highlights fundamental disagreements that distinguish Scotistic theories of the will from those of other Scholastic theories, whether Thomistic or Suarezian, and thus is extremely instructive for current philosophical refl ection
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Intercomparison of airborne and surface-based measurements during the CLARIFY, ORACLES and LASIC field experiments
This is the final version. Available on open access from the European Geosciences Union via the DOI in this recordCode availability:
Processing code for the FAAM core measurements suite is available from GitHub (Sproson et al., 2020).Data availability
Airborne data for the CLARIFY campaign are available from the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements et al., 2017) and for the ORACLES campaign from NASA Earth Science Project Office (ORACLES Science Team, 2020). The LASIC ground-based data sets are publicly available from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility (Zuidema et al., 2017) with specialist data sets available for the following:
SP2 – https://iop.archive.arm.gov/arm-iop/2016/ (last access: 25 October 2022, Sedlacek, 2017),
CO – https://doi.org/10.5439/1046183 (Springston, 2018b),
CAPS PMSSA – https://adc.arm.gov/discovery/#/results/s::caps-ssa (Onasch et al., 2015),
ACSM – https://doi.org/10.5439/1763029 (Zawadowicz and Howie, 2021).Data are presented from intercomparisons between two research aircraft, the FAAM BAe-146 and the NASA Lockheed P3, and between the BAe-146 and the surface-based DOE (Department of Energy) ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement) Mobile Facility at Ascension Island (8∘ S, 14.5∘ W; a remote island in the mid-Atlantic). These took place from 17 August to 5 September 2017, during the African biomass burning (BB) season. The primary motivation was to give confidence in the use of data from multiple platforms with which to evaluate numerical climate models. The three platforms were involved in the CLouds–Aerosol–Radiation Interaction and Forcing for Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017), ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS (ORACLES), and Layered Atlantic Smoke and Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) field experiments. Comparisons from flight segments on 6 d where the BAe-146 flew alongside the ARM facility on Ascension Island are presented, along with comparisons from the wing-tip-to-wing-tip flight of the P3 and BAe-146 on 18 August 2017. The intercomparison flight sampled a relatively clean atmosphere overlying a moderately polluted boundary layer, while the six fly-bys of the ARM site sampled both clean and polluted conditions 2–4 km upwind. We compare and validate characterisations of aerosol physical, chemical and optical properties as well as atmospheric radiation and cloud microphysics between platforms. We assess the performance of measurement instrumentation in the field, under conditions where sampling conditions are not as tightly controlled as in laboratory measurements where calibrations are performed. Solar radiation measurements compared well enough to permit radiative closure studies. Optical absorption coefficient measurements from all three platforms were within uncertainty limits, although absolute magnitudes were too low (<10 Mm−1) to fully support a comparison of the absorption Ångström exponents. Aerosol optical absorption measurements from airborne platforms were more comparable than aircraft-to-ground observations. Scattering coefficient observations compared adequately between airborne platforms, but agreement with ground-based measurements was worse, potentially caused by small differences in sampling conditions or actual aerosol population differences over land. Chemical composition measurements followed a similar pattern, with better comparisons between the airborne platforms. Thermodynamics, aerosol and cloud microphysical properties generally agreed given uncertainties.Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)NERC/Met Office Industrial Case studentshipResearch Council of NorwayUS Department of Energy, Office of ScienceNASAUS Department of Energy Atmospheric Systems Research (ASR) programm
Christian inspiration and the identity of the university as an institution
In this presentation, I argue that the history of universities is entirely germane to assessing what their role should be at the outset of the twenty-first century. Challenged as we are on all sides by cataclysmic changes in technology and economic demands that increasingly pressure us to become institutions aimed solely at variable utilitarian ends, we need to remember the ‘philosophical’ aspect of a university, as opposed to a technical education, and emphasize the importance of education in perfecting human intellects in our deliberations about the future of universities
Juan Iribarne e Uraburu on the voluntary, will, and nature
In this paper, the author examines the theory of will outlined in the Tractatus de actibus humanis of Juan Iribarne Uraburu. Juan’s discussion of will is situated in relation to various Thomistic thinkers of seventeenth-century Iberia and is shown both to be continuous with and innovative within the Scotistic tradition. The conclusion reached is that Juan’s theory highlights fundamental disagreements that distinguish Scotistic theories of the will from those of other Scholastic theories, whether Thomistic or Suarezian, and thus is extremely instructive for current philosophical reflection.En este artÃculo el autor examina qué teorÃa de la voluntad se delinea en el Tractatus de actibus humanis escrito por Juan Iribarne Uraburu. La discusión abierta por Juan Iribarne acerca de la voluntad se sitúa en el contexto de los planteamientos tomistas de la penÃnsula ibérica en el siglo XVII y manifiesta tanto continuidad como innovación dentro de la tradición escotista. La conclusión que se alcanza es que la teorÃa de Juan Iribarne muestra desacuerdos fundamentales que distinguen las teorÃas escotistas respecto de otras teorÃas escolásticas acerca de la voluntad, sean de corte tomista o suareciano, y, por tanto, es un ejemplo muy instructivo para el actual debate filosófico