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FUNG, ARCHON. "Democratic Theory and Political Science: A Pragmatic Method of Constructive Engagement." American Political Science Review 101, no. 3 (July 26, 2007): 443–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000305540707030x.
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This article develops two conceptual tools to synthesize democratic theory and the empirical study of institutions. The first is a standard to assess conceptions of democracy calledpragmatic equilibrium. A conception of democracy is in pragmatic equilibrium just in case the consequences of its institutional prescriptions realize its values well and better than any other feasible institutional arrangements across a wide range of problems and contexts. Pragmatic equilibrium is a kind of Rawlsian reflective equilibrium. The second is amethod of practical reasoningabout the consequences of alternative institutional choices that brings conceptions of democracy closer to pragmatic equilibrium. These two ideas are then applied to four conceptions of democracy—minimal, aggregative, deliberative, and participatory—and to two governance problems—deciding rules of political structure and minority tyranny—to show how each conception can improve through reflection on the empirical consequences of various institutional arrangements.
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Pechenkin, Alexander A. "Scientific Realism and Constructive Empiricism." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 57, no. 2 (2020): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202057229.
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Two conceptions of the contemporary philosophy of science are taken under consideration: scientific realism and constructive empiricism. Scientific realism presupposes 1) the conception of truth as the correspondence of knowledge to reality, 2) the real existence of entities postulated by a theory. The constructive empiricism puts forward the idea of empirical adequacy: science aims to give us the theories which are empirically adequate and acceptance of the theory involves as belief only that it is empirically adequate. To compare methodological resources of these two positions in the philosophy of science the problem of the interpretation of quantum mechanics is involved. As a methodological realization of scientific realism the ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics is taken under consideration. K.Popper’s version
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Kramm, Matthias. "Ein Analyseraster für Traditionskonzeptionen." Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 76, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 100–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3196/004433022835093969.
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Tradition is a complex phenomenon of which we can find a multiplicity of conceptualizations in the philosophical, sociological, anthropological, and economic literature. In this paper, I offer both a critical and a constructive contribution to answering the question of how tradition should be conceptualized. In the critical part, I argue against attempts to construct a unified conception of tradition. In the constructive part, I discuss three taxonomies proposed in the literature and then develop an analytical grid for conceptions of tradition as an alternative. This analytical grid is based on a sample of 28 accounts of tradition sourced from the contemporary scholarly literature, and makes use of seven dimensions to distinguish among these conceptions.
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Casas-Mas, Amalia, Juan Ignacio Pozo, and Ignacio Montero. "The influence of music learning cultures on the construction of teaching-learning conceptions." British Journal of Music Education 31, no. 3 (April 1, 2014): 319–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051714000096.
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Current research in music education tends to put the emphasis on learning processes outside formal academic contexts, both to rethink and to renew academic educational formats. Our aim is to observe and describe three music learning cultures simultaneously, including formal, non-formal and informal settings: Classical, Jazz and Flamenco, respectively. We observed the conceptions of learning, teaching and evaluation within the framework of implicit theories. We used multiple-choice questionnaires to infer the profiles of these conceptions in 30 guitarists who are starting out on their professional careers in the three cultures and analysed whether there are related profiles. The results show that: (a) the Flamenco culture differs significantly from the others in the conception of teaching; (b) the three cultures are most alike in the conception of evaluation, for which conceptions are more sophisticated; (c) the classical culture is closer to constructive conceptions and farther from direct positions, while the opposite is true of Flamenco.
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Rodriguez-Blanco, Veronica. "Action in Law’s Empire: Judging in the Deliberative Mode." Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 29, no. 2 (July 26, 2016): 431–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2016.19.
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Dworkin advances the view that judges decide legal cases according to constructive interpretation. The aim of constructive interpretation is to justify the coercion of the State. A trivial implication of this view is that officials and citizens will comply with the law because of the justification that has been advanced by judges in their exercise of constructive interpretation. Consequently, neither officials nor citizens comply with the law because they have been coerced or because they have been simply told to do so. But then, it seems that constructive interpretation cannot really provide any guidance since officials and citizens have been asked to accept the interpretation of the law that has been put forward by the judges since arguably, it is the best possible interpretation of what the law is in this particular case. However, why they ought to do so?I will argue that the mistake of the theory of constructive interpretation lies in a misleading and implausible conception of action that believes that action is raw behavioural data and that therefore we need to ‘impose meaning’, ‘value’ or ‘purpose’ on them. I will defend a more plausible conception of action along the classical tradition that understands practice as originating in agency and deliberation. The outcome is that constructive interpretation and its conception of ‘imposing meaning’ on practice is a theoretical perspective that neglects and misunderstands action and practical reason.
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Abd El-Latif, Yasser M. "A New Conception in Constructive Branching Structures and Leaves using L-system." Journal of Computing Science and Engineering 4, no. 3 (September 30, 2010): 240–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5626/jcse.2010.4.3.240.
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Larionov, Evgeny. "A long-term strength of constructive materials." MATEC Web of Conferences 251 (2018): 04068. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201825104068.
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A long-term strength materials under an axially loading of constructive elements is considered and the estimates of this strength are reduced. The proposed approach is connected with the notion so-called energy of entirety [1]. It is notable that this value can be used instead of known Reiner’s invariant [2]. A material (concrete, steel, graph) is considered as a union of its links with statistical disturbed strengths [3]. This conception allows to modify Boltzmann’s principle superposition of fraction creep deformations [4] and in addition, implies the identity of non-linear stresses function for the instantaneous and retarding deformations. The degeneration of long-term strength because of vibrational influence take into account and the strengthening of the materials in the course of their formation is considered.
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Wang, Greg G., D. Harold Doty, and Shengbin Yang. "Re-examining the History of Human Resource Development Policy in China: From Local Indigenous Phenomena to Global Human Resource Development Knowledge." Advances in Developing Human Resources 24, no. 1 (December 19, 2021): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15234223211054457.
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Problem The NHRD conception claimed to be based on multiple country-cases through a constructive/interpretive process. However, four of cases focusing on HRD policy in China presented incomplete history of China’s HRD policies, which may have misled the NHRD conception. Solution We re-examine China’s history of HRD policy as indigenous phenomena in comparison to the four China-cases. Adopting a similar historical method, we fail to identify the policy pattern reported by the previous cases, thus challenge the NHRD’s constructivist embeddedness. We question the credibility and trustworthiness of the country-based studies as well as the sense-making constructive base of the NHRD ideation. From China’s local phenomenon, we derived a set of HRD assumptions contrary to the existing western-centric assumptions to enrich the global HRD knowledge. Stakeholders Theory-minded HRD scholars intended for rigorous and relevant theory development inquiries; practice-oriented HRD practitioners, especially those from western context and working in a non-western HRD context.
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Rodríguez-Dorans, Edgar. "The Confluence of Us." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.103.
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This essay explores gay men's identities as processes of creative-relational construction of the self. I problematize the common sex-centered conception of being gay as “I am gay because I have sex with men.” Bringing together Paul Ricœur's work on identity as autobiography, Audre Lorde's concept of the erotic as a constructive force, and Derek Greenfield's understanding of relational orientation, in the light of an interview with Manoel, a young gay man from Malta, creative-relational inquiry affords a richer notion of gayness as “I am gay when I am with you” and “I am gay because I love you.”
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Crevani, Lucia. "Is there leadership in a fluid world? Exploring the ongoing production of direction in organizing." Leadership 14, no. 1 (December 24, 2015): 83–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742715015616667.
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Although the idea of leadership being a process is clearly stated in leadership definitions, most researchers focus on individuals rather than observing and studying processes. This contradiction has been highlighted by a number of scholars turning to leadership processes and practices, thereby drawing attention to the interactional and social aspects of the phenomenon. Such contributions mostly take process perspectives in which entities still play an important role. In this article, I therefore aim at contributing to leadership studies based on a process ontology by exploring one central aspect of leadership work, the production of direction, processually. I do so by building on geographer Massey’s conception of space, thus adding a spatial dimension that enables me to conceptualize direction as the development of an evolving relational configuration. In order to empirically explore such a conceptualization, two constructs are proposed: the construction of positions and the construction of issues. The reading of leadership work thus produced leads me to suggest ‘clearing for action’ as a means of conveying the spatio-temporal and constructive (reality constructing) character of leadership work.
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Perry, Michael J. "Neutral Politics?" Review of Politics 51, no. 4 (1989): 479–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500016521.
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What is the proper relation of religious moralities—and of moralities generally— to politics, especially to the politics of a society as religiously and morally pluralistic as our own. May a person rely on her religious-moral beliefs in making political choices? In deliberating about political choices with persons who do not share — who may even reject — her religious-moral beliefs? In defending her political choices to such persons? In this article, which is mainly critical rather than constructive, I indicate some basic respects in which the principal contemporary liberal responses to the question of the proper relation of morality to politics are deeply problematic.1 Elsewhere in the work of which this article is a part, my effort is mainly constructive: I elaborate and defend a postliberal conception of the proper relation of moral beliefs, especially religious-moral beliefs, to the politics of a pluralistic society like our own; in particular, I elaborate and defend a conception of the proper relation of religious communities to the religiously and morally pluralistic political community of which they are a part.2
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Vela, Ion, Daniel Gheorge Vela, Viorel Bizau, Calin Octavian Miclosina, and Daniel Amariei. "Design of a Driving Kinematical Joint Actuated with Intelligent Materials Used in Structure of Industrial Robots." Applied Mechanics and Materials 162 (March 2012): 106–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.162.106.
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The paper presents the design of a driving kinematical joint driven by a shape memory alloy actuator, which has the capacity to ensure a control of displacements and of forces in both directions. There are presented some aspects regarding the main designing elements of the driving kinematical joint and of the actuator. The constructive solution, an original conception, presents a series of advantages. Thus, the use of electric, hydraulic or pneumatic engines or machines was eliminated, decreasing the weight and size of the driving kinematical joint, decreasing the energetic consumption, having a simple and viable construction. In order to verify the presented device functionality the numerical simulation method of specialized SolidWorks software was used.
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Bourneuf, Éric. "Référence et dénotation des termes scientifiques." Articles 18, no. 2 (August 6, 2007): 27–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/027151ar.
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RÉSUMÉ Le point de départ de l'article est la théorie de la signification et de la référence des termes scientifiques présentée par Hilary Putnam dans son article « The Meaning of 'Meaning7 » et quelques autres essais de Mind, Language and Reality. Dans la partie critique du texte la thèse et les arguments de Putnam, ainsi que sa prétention d'éviter le problème de rincommensurabilité des théories rivales, sont évalués à la lumière de la distinction que nous introduisons entre référence et dénotation. Dans sa partie constructive le texte propose les grandes lignes d'un traitement de la référence (et de la dénotation) des termes scientifiques qui s'appuie sur notre conception de la structure de la théorie physique, le pragmatisme constructif.
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Abdellatif, Mahmoud, and Reham Abdellatif. "Successful thesis proposals in architecture and urban planning." Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 14, no. 3 (September 2, 2020): 503–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arch-12-2019-0281.
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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to improve the understanding of what constitutes a successful thesis proposal (TP) and as such enhance the quality of the TP writing in architecture, planning and related disciplines.Design/methodology/approachBased on extended personal experience and a review of relevant literature, the authors proposed a conception of a successful TP comprising 13 standard components. The conception provides specific definition/s, attributes and success rules for each component. The conception was applied for 15 years on several batches of Saudi graduate students. The implications of the conception were assessed by a students' opinion survey. An expert inquiry of experienced academics from architectural schools in nine countries was applied to validate and improve the conception.FindingsAssessment of the proposed conception demonstrated several positive implications on students' knowledge, performance and outputs which illustrates its applicability in real life. Experts' validation of the conception and constructive remarks have enabled further improvements on the definitions, attributes and success rules of the TP components.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed TP conception with its 13 components is limited to standard problem-solving research and will differ in the case of other types such as hypothesis-based research.Practical implicationsThe proposed conception is a useful directive and evaluative tool for writing and assessing thesis proposals for graduate students, academic advisors and examiners.Social implicationsThe research contributes to improving the quality of thesis production process among the academic community in the built environment fields.Originality/valueThe paper is meant to alleviate the confusion and hardship caused by the absence of a consensus on what constitutes a successful TP in the fields of architecture, urban planning and related disciplines.
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Suwa, Masaki. "Constructive perception: Coordinating perception and conception toward acts of problem-finding in a creative experience1." Japanese Psychological Research 45, no. 4 (September 15, 2003): 221–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5884.00227.
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Mitina, Larisa Maksimovna. "The psychology of teacher's professional activity: systemic approach of a personality's development (teacher's notes)." Moscow University Pedagogical Education Bulletin, no. 3 (September 30, 2012): 48–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.51314/2073-2635-2012-3-48-64.
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The theorethical-experimentary investigations leading within the framework of the systemic personality-professional approach let to create a generalizing conception of professional development of a teacher's personality, to work out an innovational psychological technology of constructive changing of specialist's behavior and to distinguish a complex of psychological conditions of personality-professional development of a teacher stipulating efficiency of his professional activity and improvement of teacher professional training.
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Tatsii, R., M. Stasiyk, O. Pazen, and L. Shypot. "CONCEPTION QUASIDERIVATIVES IN THE PROBLEMS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF HEAT TRANSFER." Bulletin of Lviv State University of Life Safety 21 (July 30, 2020): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.32447/20784643.21.2020.09.
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In this paper, in closed form, the problems of determining stationary temperature fields in multilayer (flat, cylindrical and spherical) structures in the presence of discrete-continuous internal and point heat sources are solved. The one-dimensional differential equation of thermal conductivity in different coordinate systems is given through one parametric family of quasi-differential equations. It is assumed that the coefficients of the differential equation of thermal conductivity are piecewise constant functions. A system of two linearly independent boundary conditions is added to the equation, which in the general case are nonlocal. The solutions of such problems are constructive and are expressed exclusively through their initial data. The basic provisions of the concept of quasi-derivatives, the provisions of the theory of heat transfer, the theory of generalized systems of linear differential equations, elements of the theory of generalized functions are used. For the mathematical model of stationary thermal conductivity, the practical use of the concept of quasi-derivatives is illustrated, for the efficient construction, in a closed form, of solutions of boundary value problems with the most general boundary conditions. As an example, the problem of finding the critical radii of thermal insulation of multilayer hollow cylinders and spheres, taking into account the internal heat sources in the layers. Boundary conditions of the first and third kind. It is established that the value of the critical radius does not depend on the number of layers and the intensity of internal heat sources, but only on the thermal conductivity of the outer layer of the structure and the heat transfer coefficient between the structure and the environment. The formula for determining the critical radius of thermal insulation for a multilayer cylindrical and spherical structure is derived. The methods developed in this work have the prospect of further development and can be used in engineering calculations.
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Ghionea, Gabriel Ionuţ, Adrian Lucian Ghionea, and Constantin Gheorghe Opran. "Researches on the Design and Operation of a Magnetic Drive Micropump for the Mixing of Compatible Fluids." Materials Science Forum 957 (June 2019): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.957.63.
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This paper presents the current state of the conception of a magnetic drive micropump, different necessary constructive-technological and functional considerations, 3D modeling using parametric design, main geometric elements of the gears with helical teeth, specific calculations needed to determine the forces loads on the gears and a printed prototype of its model. Researches conducted from an actual micropump version in use led us to the design of an innovative variant, represented by a constructive solution with a driving gear and two driven gears. This ensures the possibility of displacing a fluid mixed of two compatible fluids, but also balancing the loads that appear in the gear mesh during the micropump's operation. This constructive solution is conceived for the size reduction of the pumping installation, for a good homogenization of the two mixed fluids, for an increased reliability of the micropump by reducing wear of moving components in contact, for a reduced noise and vibration.
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Plotnikov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. "Architectural and engineering principles and innovations in the construction of glass-facade buildings." Vestnik MGSU, no. 11 (November 2015): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.22227/1997-0935.2015.11.7-15.
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Though the technologies are dynamically developing and there are a lot of research projects, there is still no general opinion on a glass-facade building among the European scientific community, architects and construction engineers. The increasing requirements to heat-protective qualities of translucent structures make us think of the necessity of a quantum leap both in technologies and in principal approaches to the development of architectural and constructive solutions of translucent shells. Together with economical features, the dynamics of heat-protective indicators’ increase show the tendencies to reaching the possibilities limits of mass glass units. The European construction practice usually solve this problem by developing sealed insulating glass units and by different conceptual solutions of the systems of translucent double facades. In the given article the basic theoretical principles and innovative engineering ideas are formulated dealing with the modern glass-facade building construction. “Green Building” conception is analyzed as a European new building philosophy.
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Munafò, P., F. Stazi, C. Tassi, and F. Davì. "Experimentation on historic timber trusses to identify repair techniques compliant with the original structural–constructive conception." Construction and Building Materials 87 (July 2015): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.03.086.
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Campos, Inês D. D., and Luís F. A. Bernardo. "Architecture and Steel. Reflection and Analysis on the Use of Steel Structures (in Sight) as a Concept in the History of Architecture." Designs 4, no. 3 (August 5, 2020): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/designs4030030.
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This is the first of two companion articles which aim to address the research on Architecture and Steel. In this article, some architectural projects are analyzed to show the potentiality to conjugate architectural conception and steel structures, as well as to show the contribution and influence from architectural history. This article also aims to contribute to the reflection of the knowledge and legacy left to us by several architects throughout the history of architecture in using aesthetic, visual and structurally safe profiled steel structures in architectural conception. The presented analysis and reflection are based on the characteristics and influences of the Industrial Revolution and, mainly, the Modern Movement, where the first housing projects came up with this constructive system, combined with the “simplistic” ways of living in architecture, highlighting the relationship with the place, cultural, spatial and typological references, the structural systems and associated materiality. In view of the diversity of alternatives allowed by the use of steel “Skeletons”, modular and standardized, combined with a huge variety of existing materials and constructive complexity, well combined and interconnected, it is possible to obtain a final product whose characteristics seduce by their beauty and elegance. Moreover, the practical and functional comfort which allows the safeguarding of the architectural integration of such product, with the necessary serenity in space and nature, in full environmental integration, is also emphasized.
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Xi, Tian Lu, Yan Chen, and Jian Tang. "The Inspiration of Traditional Chinese Created Conception on the Eco-Design of Modern Architecture." Advanced Materials Research 479-481 (February 2012): 1699–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.479-481.1699.
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In today's world, the core of sustainable development is considered to be 3R, which is REDUCE, RECYCLE and REUSE. The implementation of the principle of sustainability is exactly the same with the ancient Chinese created conception and design. This thesis provides Chinese modern sustainable design with a feasible principle and method from traditional Chinese ecological concept of creation, and is a constructive inspiration to the modern architectural design. It encouraged the life of mankind to develop towards a scientific, civilized and healthy way, achieved the aesthetic concept of architectural design based on the harmonious coexistence of human and nature, and prevent modern architectural design from being over materialized as well as the further deterioration of the natural ecological environment.
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Mets, Ave, and Piret Kuusk. "The Constructive Realist Account of Science and Its Application to Ilya Prigogine’s Conception of Laws of Nature." Foundations of Science 14, no. 3 (December 10, 2008): 239–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10699-008-9157-4.
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Simmons, J. Aaron. "Militant Liturgies: Practicing Christianity with Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Weil." Religions 12, no. 5 (May 12, 2021): 340. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12050340.
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Traditional philosophy of religion has tended to focus on the doxastic dimension of religious life, which although a vitally important area of research, has often come at the cost of philosophical engagements with religious practice. Focusing particularly on Christian traditions, this essay offers a sustained reflection on one particular model of embodied Christian practice as presented in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. After a discussion of different notions of practice and perfection, the paper turns to Kierkegaard’s conception of the two churches: the Church Triumphant and the Church Militant. Then, in light of Kierkegaard’s defense of the latter and critique of the former, it is shown that Kierkegaard’s specific account gets appropriated and expanded in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s account of “costly grace” and “religionless Christianity,” and Simone Weil’s conception of “afflicted love.” Ultimately, it is suggested that these three thinkers jointly present a notion of “militant liturgies” that offers critical and constructive resources for contemporary philosophy of religion.
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Peter, Fabienne. "Pure Epistemic Proceduralism." Episteme 5, no. 1 (February 2008): 33–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1742360008000221.
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ABSTRACTIn this paper I defend a pure proceduralist conception of legitimacy that applies to epistemic democracy. This conception, which I call pure epistemic proceduralism, does not depend on procedure-independent standards for good outcomes and relies on a proceduralist epistemology. It identifies a democratic decision as legitimate if it is the outcome of a process that satisfies certain conditions of political and epistemic fairness. My argument starts with a rejection of instrumentalism–the view that political equality is only instrumentally valuable. I reject instrumentalism on two grounds: (i) because it fails to respect reasonable value pluralism and to recognize the constitutive role of democratic procedures for legitimacy in pluralist societies, and (ii) because it neglects the constructive function of democratic decision-making. I then consider two alternatives to pure epistemic proceduralism: David Estlund's version of epistemic proceduralism and a Deweyan account of epistemic democracy. I argue that only pure epistemic proceduralism can make good on both shortcomings of instrumentalism, whereas each of the other two approaches only makes good on one and neglects the other.
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Fueyo, Judith Macdonald. "Technical Literacy versus Critical Literacy in Adult Basic Education." Journal of Education 170, no. 1 (January 1988): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002205748817000109.
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The demands placed upon Adult Basic Education programs in the United States are more rigorous and involve more people than ever before in our history. Government-supported programs as well as private ones capture in microcosm the best and worst in American education. Literacy education is modeled along a continuum moving from a technical conception of literacy, wherein students mark progress by numbers of completed worksheets, to a conception of literacy as praxis, or critical literacy, wherein students construct meaning for themselves and effect change in their lives. These competing models are contrasted, and special emphasis is given to one adult basic literacy organization that is managing to humanize the process. In this program founded in 1973, the students' own words demonstrate the liberating nature of literacy learning that puts into practice the best of current understandings in the field. The challenge of the next decades demands a critical literacy that is consistent with participatory democracy. The convergence of social learning theories, process teaching, critical consciousness, and adult literacy offers constructive responses to the epidemic incidence of illiteracy in our society.
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Yusupov, P. R., T. A. Mardasova, and A. S. Kuzmina. "Aggressive Behavior of Juvenile Offenders in the Context of Character Accentuations and Personal Self-Conception." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 22, no. 2 (July 8, 2020): 471–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-2-471-480.
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The present research featured theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of aggression and aggressive behavior. The authors revealed a tendency to study aggressive forms of behavior from the standpoint of biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors, as well as mechanisms of formation, determinants of reward, and methods of diagnosis, control, and correction. The article focuses on the prospects of studying aggressive manifestations from the standpoint of analysis of personality formation and self-awareness. The structure of self-conception in aggressive individuals appeared to be deformed. Researchers explain the deformation by the gap between Me-real and Me-ideal, impaired behavioral regulation methods, and problems of self-conception. The authors also revealed the importance of factors that increase the level of aggressive behavior in adolescents, namely unfavorable styles of family relations, poor participation in the educational process, peer pressure, etc. Predisposition to aggressive behavior can be associated with a small repertoire of constructive coping strategies, poor cognitive abilities, and difficulties in controlling and regulating emotions. The empirical research featured the psychological characteristics of the aggressive behavior of juvenile offenders in the context of character accentuations and personal selfconception. The authors studied the differences between the aggressive behavior of juvenile delinquents and the control group. The analysis detected connection between character accentuations and forms of aggressive behavior. The article illustrates the kinds of self-esteem and self-conception typical of adolescents with delinquent behavior experience.
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Pană, Cristina, Cristian Vladu, Daniela Pătraşcu-Pană, Florina Besnea (Petcu), Çtefan Cismaru, Andrei Trăşculescu, Ionuţ Reşceanu, and Nicu Bîzdoacă. "Position control for hybrid infinite-continuous hyper-redundant robot." MATEC Web of Conferences 343 (2021): 08009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202134308009.
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This paper presents a new conception and analyzes a hyperredundant continuous robot (continuous style manipulator), drive system, and control strategy. The robot includes ten flexible segments and can be extended to several components as needed. The chosen hyper-redundant robot has a continuous infinite hybrid structure (HHRIC), based on hydraulic control with a rheological element. This system combines the advantage of a joint-level drive with a lightweight construction similar to the base-driven robots. It is suitable for tasks such as wiring in hard-toreach areas (caves, subaccounts, steep areas), transportation of fluids or food to areas affected by natural disasters (people buried under ruins), exploration in difficult areas (speleological research). Generally, the control algorithms for hyper-redundant robots are specific to the robots’ constructive particularities to which they have applied and the environment in which they operate. Experimental results validate the proposal robot design and control strategies in virtual reality. As a result, it is concluded that hyper-redundant robots and immersive technologies should play an essential role soon in automated and teleoperation applications.
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Nelson, William. "The Institutions of Deliberative Democracy." Social Philosophy and Policy 17, no. 1 (2000): 181–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500002582.
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A theory of democratic institutions should provide us with a coherent combination of definition and justification. It should explain how it defines democratic institutions and also how they will or should function; but it also should explain why democracy, so understood, is desirable. We are all familiar with stories about the fiscal excesses to which democracies are prone, stories about the ignorance of voters, and stories about the venality of legislators. Some of us may also be suspicious of concepts such as “consent” or “the will of the people” associated with traditional arguments for democracy. Against this background, the current interest in deliberative democracy seems promising. This conception of democracy does not rely, for example, on the idea of rational and knowledgeable voters satisfying preferences they have independent of the political process. Nor does it rely on any notion of an independent popular will. Instead, it offers a picture of the democratic process as one in which men and women engage in constructive discussion, seeking a principled resolution of their differences and developing, over time, a conception of the terms on which they will live with one another.
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Wilson, Alexander. "On Something Like an Operational Virtuality." Humanities 10, no. 1 (February 9, 2021): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10010029.
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We outline here a certain history of ideas concerning the relation between intuitions and their external verification and consider its potential for detrivializing the concept of virtuality. From Descartes and Leibniz onward to 19th-century geometry and the concept of “invariant” that it shares with 19th-century psychology, we follow the thread of what might be informally called an “operational” conception of the virtual, an intuition progressively developed in the 20th century from of group theoretical thinking into “functorial” thinking (in the context of category theory), and eventually intuitions for the concept of “univalence” (homotopy type theory) and its implications for the meaning of equality and identity. At each turn, skeptical arguments haunt this history’s modes of exteriorization, proof, and verification; we consider the later Wittgenstein’s worries concerning rule following and the apparent unbridgeable gap between formal theory and informal practice. We show how the development of mathematical intuitions and formalisms in the last century and the discovery of deep connection between intuitionistic logic and computation have begun to respond to some of these concerns and favour a conception of virtuality that is operational, constructive, pragmatic, and hospitible to scientific detrivialization.
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Štefko, Martin. "Czech understanding of social risks and their limitations." Przegląd Prawa i Administracji 123 (November 3, 2020): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1134.123.4.
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This paper analyses the conception of social risks in Czech social security law in the last three decades. The Czech Republic spends a large proportion of its revenue on welfare of its citizens, who rely on the state´s paternalistic care in return. Over time, benefits are increased and requirements are further softened. However, as we will see in chosen examples from healthcare, workers’ compensation, and additional savings schemes, Czech experts are reluctant to answer new challenges with reformed instruments. Rules are hardly adapted to current issues, because the government tends to rely on old solutions. The government is unable to find a constructive platform to negotiate crucial social reform laws with the opposition.
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FOLEY, DUNCAN K. "A NOTE ON THE CONCEPT OF APPROXIMATE EQUILIBRIUM IN ECONOMIC THEORY." New Mathematics and Natural Computation 08, no. 01 (March 2012): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793005712400054.
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The problem of the computability of Walrasian competitive equilibrium is considered from the point of view of concepts of approximate equilibrium. Neither the market-clearing nor Negishi approaches to the proof of existence of Walrasian competitive equilibrium give rise to adequately robust notions of approximate equilibrium. This explains the non-computability of Walrasian competitive equilibrium. The problem lies in the economic conception of markets, in particular the inconsistent treatment of information underlying the Walrasian definition. When trade takes place at disequilibrium prices decentralized market exchange redistributes income and economic welfare, and its equilibrium is path-dependent. The set of such equilibrium outcomes, however, in contrast to the Walrasian competitive equilibrium, is constructive and computable.
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Dubois, Marie-Josée, Marie-Ève Desrochers, and Isabelle Nizet. "Croisements d’expertises sur une expérience d’évaluation par les pairs au deuxième cycle de l’enseignement supérieur." Médiations et médiatisations, no. 9 (February 25, 2022): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.52358/mm.vi9.253.
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Dans le cadre d’un balado, une conseillère pédagogique et une chercheuse en évaluation posent des questions à une formatrice sur son expérience de conception d’une situation d’évaluation par les pairs effectuée lors d’un cours de deuxième cycle en éducation se déroulant à distance en mode asynchrone. Cette réflexion constructive à trois voix et cette triangulation des praxéologies de formation ont permis l’analyse de la pratique évaluative et de ses retombées sur l’expérience étudiante et les apprentissages acquis. Les constats tirés de cet échange sont présentés de manière à mettre en lumière les bénéfices et les limites de l’évaluation par les pairs à l’aide du numérique afin de favoriser sa mise en place dans d’autres contextes en enseignement supérieur.
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Martínez Valle, Carlos. "Using Quentin Skinner in history and philosophy of education." Encounters in Theory and History of Education 15 (November 10, 2014): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v15i0.5370.
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Quentin Skinner’s work is central to Intellectual History. This article reviews his methodological critiques and exegetical recommendations as they can be of interest for historians of education, educational comparatists, and analysts of educational policies. The article analyzes Skinner’s proposals against alternative methodologies. Firstly, it explores the criticisms he makes to traditional forms of the History of Ideas. These criticisms attack, in an original way, well known fallacies that are also common in History of Education. Secondly, the article explores his constructive proposals based in linguistic philosophy. The article introduces Skinner’s idea of “meaning,” which focuses on the intention of the author in issuing or writing the utterance or text. This intention can be worked out by considering the linguistic-rhetoric context of the work. The focus on intentions and contexts, which puts at the center of the exegesis what was considered a fallacy among positivist historians, implies a change in the conception of History of Education and in its relation to Philosophy of Education. The article sketches, as a way of conclusion, some implications of these constructive proposals for the work of comparatists, historians and philosophers of education.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15572/ENCO2014.05
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Yangicher, Elena. "Development of constructive response to frustration in adolescence using arts-based approaches." Revue internationale du CRIRES : innover dans la tradition de Vygotsky 4, no. 1 (September 21, 2017): 240–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.51657/ric.v4i1.41008.
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The article focuses on the problem of the emotional development constructive response in adolescence, which is of increasing relevance within the context of the rise in negative social manifestations, changes in social situation of development. The aim of this research is to formulate a constructive response model’s development to adolescent frustration from socially advantaged and disadvantaged groups using art-based approaches (specifically art therapy) combined with traditional psychological tests and modeling experiments. The study draws on the concepts of L. S. Vygotsky about the peculiarities of adolescents’ mental development and the role of this period in the formation of personality, as well as various aspects of a˙ect and needs development in childhood (L. I. Bozhovich). The study considers the position of mental states as a particular psychological category and their (states) integrating function, conception of the regulation of mental states (N. D. Levitov), theoretical and experimental development for the diagnosis, management, and directed formation of the mental states (Yu. B. Nekrasova) as well as the concept of experiencing (“perezhivanie”) as described by F. E. Vasilyuk. A range of methods, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in the study: video observation (outlined in the protocols); mathematical statistics; tests and modeling experiments. Experimental studies were carried out over a duration of five years within three di˙erent types of schools in the region of Moscow (n= 203, aged 13-15). One conclusion of the experimental studies, the author‘s program was implemented in a number of educational institutions in Moscow and other regions in Russia.
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Muradian, A. O., and S. S. Rusanova. "OPTIMIZATION OF CARGO TRANSFER PROCESS IN TRANSPORT HUBS AT RISK." Transport development, no. 2(3) (October 31, 2018): 62–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33082/td.2018.2-3.07.
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In article the problem definition of optimization of cargo transfer process in transport hub, based on logistic conception «just in time» is offered for the first time, the constructive approach to modeling of a task is defined and are provided its original economic-mathematical models with the indication of methods of realization.
The necessity is also proved for setting the task of cargo transfer process optimization at the stage of operational management of information quality factor of t regarding cargo flows and rolling stock entering the transport nodes. It is shown that this factor gives an idea of the degree of stability of the control parameters and allows us to consider the problem under the conditions of risk and in a determinate formulation.
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Fomin, Konstantin, and Nadezhda Savelyeva. "Radical Democratic Model of Politics as a Response to the Problem of Refugees Political Integration." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 18, no. 1 (March 2019): 140–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2019-1-140-157.
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This article is devoted to the analysis of the origins of the unsatisfactory situation concerning refugees, and searching for a new model of emancipatory politics that will be useful to overcome this situation. The main thesis of the article is that the positions articulated by G. Agamben, J. Ranciere, and J. Butler can be combined in a radical democratic model of politic that is based on a revised concept of human rights. First, the authors turn to the basic categories used in the analysis of political theories: national state, sovereignty, refugees, stateless people, and human rights. Then, the authors examine the context of the emerging liberal conception of human rights and the critics of this conception. After presenting the main arguments against the liberal conception of human rights, the authors turn to the theory of sovereign power. One of the main conclusions of this theory is that emancipatory political theorists should refuse the concept of human rights. Agamben’s argumentation of such a refusal is based on the statement about the inevitable connection between human rights and state power. The authors point out both the positive and negative aspects of Agamben’s approach as well as showing its advantages and limitations. Next, the authors demonstrate an alternative approach to human rights as proposed by J. Ranciere. At the end of the article, the authors present a constructive model of emancipatory politics which incorporates the ideas of G. Agamben, J. Ranciere, and J. Butler. For the authors of this paper, this model is free of the main drawbacks of the approaches under consideration. The advantages of the model are an expansive view of power, and the reintroduction of the notion of solidarity into emancipatory theory.
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Dedi Mulawarman, Aji. "PENDIDIKAN AKUNTANSI BERBASIS CINTA:Lepas dari Hegemoni Korporasi Menuju Pendidikan yang Memberdayakan dan Konsepsi Pembelajaran Yang Melampaui." EKUITAS (Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan) 12, no. 2 (February 1, 2017): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.24034/j25485024.y2008.v12.i2.2066.
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The objective of this article is to enlighten and emancipate accounting education basic assumption and concept that match to the objective of national education. The objective of national education is based on balanced values of spirituality, mentality, morality, intellectuality and skill. Emancipation and enlightenments are conducted by utilizing purification (tazkiyah) methodology with fully love values.The result of tazkiyah accounting education is enlightenment and emancipation of accounting education based on self interest and secularism towards accounting education based on God interest with fully love. There are consequences of tazkiyah. First, is to free education from corporate hegemony towards education that is more corporate-responsible that extends its accountability (stakeholders, nature, and God) and empowering oriented. Second, it produces synergy of learning conception based on reproductive view learning and constructive view of learning, and beyond (hyper view of learning).
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Mulawarman, Aji Dedi. "PENDIDIKAN AKUNTANSI BERBASIS CINTA: LEPAS DARI HEGEMONI KORPORASI MENUJU PENDIDIKAN YANG MEMBERDAYAKAN DAN KONSEPSI PEMBELAJARAN YANG MELAMPAUI." EKUITAS (Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan) 12, no. 2 (September 17, 2018): 142–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24034/j25485024.y2008.v12.i2.300.
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The objective of this article is to enlighten and emancipate accounting education basic assumption and concept that match to the objective of national education. The objective of national education is based on balanced values of spirituality, mentality, morality, intellectuality and skill. Emancipation and enlightenments are conducted by utilizing purification (tazkiyah) methodology with fully love values.The result of tazkiyah accounting education is enlightenment and emancipation of accounting education based on self interest and secularism towards accounting education based on God interest with fully love. There are consequences of tazkiyah. First, is to free education from corporate hegemony towards education that is more corporate-responsible that extends its accountability (stakeholders, nature, and God) and empowering oriented. Second, it produces synergy of learning conception based on reproductive view learning and constructive view of learning, and beyond (hyper view of learning).
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Goffey, Andrew. "Guattari, Transversality and the Experimental Semiotics of Untranslatability." Paragraph 38, no. 2 (July 2015): 231–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2015.0160.
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Following the thread provided by his lifetime of engagement with psychosis, this article considers a number of aspects of the writings of Félix Guattari in relation to the problem of untranslatability. Contrasting Guattari's approach with the structuralist diagnostic conceptualization of psychosis in terms of foreclosure, it follows the early development of his concept of transversality and the critique of linguistics that it leads to. Turning then to a consideration of the specific privilege Guattari accords psychosis, it addresses his constructive experimenting with theory as a way to rethink enunciation in terms of a semiotic ‘energetics’ that permits an effective problematization of the theoretical and practical privileges of the ‘normal’ structures of language within analysis. Finally, Guattari's approach to the challenge psychosis poses to the limits of language is contrasted to Cassin's conception of logology in its relation to untranslatables.
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Pereira, Naiara Lima, Mirelly Tavares Feitosa Pereira, Gisele de Souza Costa, André Luiz Machado das Neves, Izaura Rodrigues Nascimento, and Zilmar Augusto de Souza Filho. "“Body and Soul Pain”." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 7, no. 12 (December 31, 2019): 644–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss12.2118.
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Violence is a problem to be understood in an interdisciplinary way. This qualitative study aimed to understand the conception of women who experienced marital violence and structurally analyze their social support networks. Five women who reported their spouses to the Women’s Police Station (DECCM) and were being monitored by the Technical Team of the Women’s Emergency Support Service (SAPEM) were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. A constructive-interpretive analysis was performed to identify the conceptions of experience of marital violence and through the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) it was possible to make an analysis and a graphic representation of the social support network for the women participating in this study. In general, it was observed that all women understand physical violence as actions that cause damage to the human anatomical and physiological structure. However, their conceptions are not limited to physical injury; they are also related to affective issues. For the participants, conjugal violence is not fragmented into “types of violence”, on the contrary, it occurs “agglutinated”, affecting the body and soul. Regarding the development of women’s social support network, they all have a family member as support – usually sons/daughters or mothers – and most of them count on the SAPEM technical team. The police station/police is also part of the network. Therefore, these tactics used in the social support network structure have different mechanisms by which the women reorganized their stories, electing some people and/or institutions, excluding others, highlighting this or that person and/or institution to make them agents for minimizing threatening behavior to themselves and their families. These people, when called in, seem to act either to curb violence and to strengthen the couple’s marital bonds or to break these bonds
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Schuiling, Floris. "Notation Cultures: Towards an Ethnomusicology of Notation." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 144, no. 2 (2019): 429–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2019.1651508.
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AbstractThe ubiquity and diversity of notational practices in music suggest that notation is a significant part of human beings' musicking behaviour. However, it is difficult to address its function since the usual conception of notation in music scholarship is at odds with studying performance in the first place. This article presents a methodological outline for an ethnomusicology of music notation by investigating the musicality of notation not in terms of its representation of musical structures, but in terms of its mediation of the social and creative agency of musicians. It is suggested that, rather than detracting from musical reality, notation composes musical cultures. This constructive work is simultaneously ontological and ethical. It is described in terms of three distinct processes, namely mobilization, entextualization and remediation. In doing so, this article presents an interdisciplinary approach to a topic that has traditionally defined the disciplinary centre of music scholarship.
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Verovšek, Peter J. "Memory, narrative, and rupture: The power of the past as a resource for political change." Memory Studies 13, no. 2 (August 17, 2017): 208–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017720256.
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In politics, “soft” ideational factors are often dismissed in favor of “hard” quantifiable data. Since the “memory boom,” however, collective memory has become an important variable for explaining persistent grievances and cycles of hatred. Building on the work of Hannah Arendt and the first generation of the Frankfurt School, I seek to counterbalance the literature’s predominantly negative conception of memory by developing a constructive understanding of remembrance as a resource for rethinking politics in the aftermath of breaks in the narrative thread of historical time. My basic thesis is that historical ruptures shared by an entire generation can activate collective memory as a resource for reimagining political life. I show how Arendt and the critical theorists of the early Frankfurt School used the caesura of 1945 to rethink the meaning of the past and endorse new forms of political life in the aftermath of Europe’s age of total war.
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Dai, Hua. "Pop the “maths anxiety” bubble : an approach to support nursing students to self-manage anxiety while studying drug calculations." ATLAANZ Journal 5, no. 1 (December 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.26473/atlaanz.2021/001.
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This is a report on an informal action research undertaken between 2013 to 2014 to find solutions to support tertiary nursing students experiencing anxiety while studying drug calculation. The literature identifies traditional “Maths Anxiety” and modern-day specific categorisations of “Dyslexia” and “Dyscalculia”, yet offers no clear solution on how to support students. Exploring the constructive-developmental perspective of human development, the conception of the triune brain and the Psychosynthesis conceptual map of body-feelings-mind enabled me to develop an approach to base on all this wisdom in order to help students navigate their daily experience on campus and consciously express their will to succeed. These techniques proved to be successful, evidenced in the overwhelmingly positive feedback from both students and maths tutors. This article invites colleagues within the broader ATLAANZ community to adapt and apply this approach in their practice to support students with anxiety to succeed while studying.
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Davis, Charles L. "Viollet-le-Duc and the body: the metaphorical integrations of race and style in structural rationalism." Architectural Research Quarterly 14, no. 4 (December 2010): 341–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135511000133.
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At first glance, it might seem counterintuitive to insist upon Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's (1814-79) critical interest in the human body as a metaphor for style in architecture. Not only did he oppose the anthropomorphic metaphors for style touted by Neo-Classical theorists at the École des Beaux-Arts, but he was most widely known in the nineteenth century for his preoccupation with the monumental and structural potential of modern materials such as iron. This reception of Viollet-le-Duc's thought persisted in the twentieth century with Sir John Summerson's estimation of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier's debt to the constructive principles of his architectural organicism. Such accounts have made it possible to interpret construction and/or structure as the main ‘body’ of Viollet-le-Duc's architecture theory. However, this reading confuses the eclipse of Neo-Classical anthropomorphic metaphors for style - which translated the proportional relationships between the human body's constituent parts into a compositional system of design - with the complete eclipse of critical references to the human body in the French style debates of the nineteenth century. As we trace the role of the human body in Viollet-le-Duc's style theory, it becomes clear that the principles of human variation in biology and ethnography enabled him to account for the cultural variations of national peoples in his conception of style.
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Buchely, Lina. "Peace, Land, and Bureaucracy in Colombia: An Analysis of the Implementation of the Victims and Land Restitution Law from a Multiscale Perspective of State Bureaucracies." Land 9, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9060181.
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This article presents an analysis of the complexities implied by the implementation of the Colombian land restitution policy, as an example of the way in which the state works in its day-to-day practice. The document highlights the role played by the bureaucracy of “land” in the management of the so-called post-conflict setting. It is constructive in showing the multiscale nature of the state, whose operation cannot be understood outside the various levels and scales that compose it. This conception is very well exemplified by the typology of the bureaucracies to which it resorts in order to explain the different meanings of notions, such as “conflict,” “land” or “victim,” for the public officials according to the position they fill in the institutional architecture of restitution. By analyzing the research findings, the author reveals that it is emotional, rather than material, benefits that condense the state’s role in the Colombian post-conflict period.
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Ames, Robert Landau. "The Technology of Happiness: Philosophy, the Body, and Ghaz?l?’s K?m?y?-yi sa??dat." Comparative Islamic Studies 9, no. 2 (September 27, 2016): 121–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cis.v9i2.27043.
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This article suggests a repositioning of philosophy’s disciplinary boundaries in terms of the analyses of ancient Greek philosophy carried out late in the career of Michel Foucault, which, under the influence of Pierre Hadot’s conception of philosophy as a way of life, set out to highlight "the care of the self" as the practical core of the Ancient philosophical enterprise. In light of this shift in disciplinary boundaries, the article seeks to deepen the ongoing reconsideration of Ab? H?mid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghaz?l?’s position vis-à-vis philosophy by highlighting the role of the body and self-care in his ethical writing. Though recent scholarship has come to reject the notion that Ghaz?l? simply did away with philosophy in Islam, even the studies of his constructive incorporation of Avicennan thought have stopped short of highlighting bodily discipline as a central feature of spiritual exercise across these categories.
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van den Heuvel, Steven C. "The Theocentric Perspective of Laudato Si’: A Critical Discussion." Philosophia Reformata 83, no. 1 (May 19, 2018): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23528230-08301004.
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In this article, I focus on Pope Francis’s “green” encyclical, Laudato Si’. After outlining some of its characteristics, I single out the pope’s engagement with anthropocentrism for critical discussion. The pope criticizes anthropocentrism (the view that human beings alone have intrinsic value), seeing it as a root cause of ecological destruction. Instead, he proposes what I would call a theocentric conception of nature. I criticize this view. First, I suggest that the pope is insufficiently critical in adopting a theocentric approach to the common creation story. Secondly, I argue from both a biblical-theological and a philosophical perspective against the pope’s resistance to the anthropocentrism of Genesis 1:26. Thirdly, I argue that because the pope opts for non-anthropocentrism, the encyclical falls short of offering a constructive way forward in relation to functioning in a technocratic society. Through these comments, I seek to strengthen the powerful and important message of this encyclical.
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Haig, Brian D. "Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology: A Critical Perspective." Australian Journal of Education 40, no. 2 (August 1996): 190–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419604000206.
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This paper offers a sympathetic, but critical, perspective on selected statistical methods relevant to both educational and psychological research. I argue that the classical statistical procedures used in these fields should, where appropriate, be deployed in the service of a more liberal realist conception of research. In this regard, it is claimed that the principal function of statistical methods is to help us detect robust empirical phenomena. With this in mind, I suggest that exploratory factor analysis is a quasi-statistical method that serves an important role in the generation of new theory. A sceptical attitude to the commonly used methods of statistical significance testing is encouraged, together with the suggestion that Bayesian methods can serve a legitimate role in scientific inference. In addition, the regular use of exploratory data analytic methods is urged in conjunction with computer intensive resampling methods. Critical, but constructive, suggestions are made about the recently developed meta-analytic and causal modelling methods.
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Glazebrook, Trish. "Heidegger and Ecophenomenology." Heidegger Circle Proceedings 43 (2009): 167–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/heideggercircle20094313.
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This paper is an application of Heidegger’s work to issues in sustainability and environmental justice that demonstrates the value and significance of his work beyond traditional contexts for analysis of his thinking. It argues that Heidegger prompts a constructive environmental phenomenology, which is developed around three themes: physics and teleology; dwelling in nature; and the social obligations of the sciences. Aristotle’s Physics is shown to provide Heidegger with a teleological conception of nature that promotes its intrinsic value. This analysis is used toward an environmental ethics of “dwelling,” in contrast to consumer culture’s reduction of nature to resource. Finally, Heidegger’s potential contribution to debates concerning the social obligations of the sciences is developed. Throughout these analyses, his work is connected with principles of deep ecology, social ecology and ecofeminism, and his applicability to environmental issues in international development is demonstrated. In conclusion, Heideggerian ecophenomenology is argued to promote sustainability and environmental justice insofar as it supports an alternative to the logic of domination currently overrunning the globe.