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Geerts, Evelien, and Delphi Carstens. "Ethico-onto-epistemology." Philosophy Today 63, no. 4 (2019): 915–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday202019301.
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This essay argues for a transversal posthumanities-based pedagogy, rooted in an attentive ethico-onto-epistemology, by reading the schizoanalytical praxes of Deleuzoguattarian theory alongside the work of various feminist new materialist scholars.
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Alfaro Vargas, Roy. "The Onto-epistemology of Big Data." Janeiro-Junho 2020 5, no. 2 (January 13, 2020): 286–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.37293/sapientiae52.03.
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This study puts forward the results of a comprehensive literature review that allows of the exploration of the big data phenomenon as in technical terms as well in socio-political and philosophical ones, through the reading of authors such as Rob Kitchin (2014), Dawn E. Holmes (2017), and so forth. It is here offered a new critical approach to Big Data as long as the analysis have permitted us to evaluate not only the components of this new data science, but also the onto-epistemological consequences derived from the development and implementation of Big Data as in the scientific field as well in the quotidian. Also, this paper permits us to understand the linkage between Big Data and set theory in the construction of an onto-epistemology related to a political conservatism so that we are able to have the complete panorama in order to elaborate, in the near future, strategies to sublate such a phenomenon.
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Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng. "Basotho ontology of disability: An afrocentric onto-epistemology." Heliyon 7, no. 3 (March 2021): e06540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06540.
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Duvernoy. "‘Concepts’ and Continuity: Onto-Epistemology in William James." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 51, no. 4 (2015): 508. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.51.4.08.
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Kaiser, Birgit Mara, and Kathrin Thiele. "Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities." Parallax 20, no. 3 (July 3, 2014): 165–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927621.
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Greasley, Kay, and Pete Thomas. "HR analytics: The onto‐epistemology and politics of metricised HRM." Human Resource Management Journal 30, no. 4 (February 3, 2020): 494–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12283.
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Pearce, Thomas. "Orchestrating the edge: Towards a noisy point cloud onto-epistemology." Design Ecologies 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 142–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/des.4.1-2.142_1.
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Matapo, Jacoba, and Dion Enari. "Re-imagining the dialogic spaces of talanoa through Samoan onto-epistemology." Waikato Journal of Education 26 (July 5, 2021): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/wje.v26i1.770.
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This article proposes a Samoan indigenous philosophical position to reconceptualise the dialogic spaces of talanoa; particularly how talanoa is applied methodologically to research practice. Talanoa within New Zealand Pacific research scholarship is problematised, raising particular tensions of the universal and humanistic ideologies that are entrenched within institutional ethics and research protocols. The dialogic relational space which is embedded throughout talanoa methodology is called into question, evoking alternative ways of knowing and being within the talanoa research assemblage[1] (including the material-world). Samoan epistemology reveals that nature is constituted within personhood (Vaai & Nabobo-Baba, 2017) and that nature is co-agentic with human in an ecology of knowing. We call for a shift in thinking material-ethics that opens talanoa to a materialist process ontology, where knowledge generation emerges through human and non-human encounters.
[1] The concept of assemblage developed by Deleuze and Guattari (1987) refers to a process of temporary arrangements or constellations of objects, expressions, bodies, qualities and territories that create new ways of functioning. The assemblage is a multiplicity shaped by a wide range of flows and emerges from the arranging process of heterogenous elements (Livesey, 2010).
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Weber, Michel. "Whitehead's onto-epistemology of perception and its significance for consciousness studies." New Ideas in Psychology 24, no. 2 (August 2006): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2006.06.006.
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Prodanovic, Srdjan. "Pragmatic epistemology and the community of engaged actors." Filozofija i drustvo 27, no. 2 (2016): 398–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1602398p.
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In this paper I will explore the relation between engagement and social science. I will try to argue that positivist epistemology found in the early days of social sciences still greatly influences our understanding of social engagement. In the first part of the paper, I will analyze the epistemology of social sciences advocated by Fourier and Saint-Simon and try to show that, for them, scientific method was primarily the means for taming social change, as well as projecting private desires and plans onto the public sphere. In the second part, I will offer an alternative account of social engagement using the epistemic role of the community found in pragmatism.
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Kornilaev, Leonid Yu. "“The Turn towards Ontology” in Russian Neo-Kantianism in the Late 1910s and Early 1920s (Lev Salagov and Nikolai Boldyrev)." Kantian journal 38, no. 4 (2019): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2019-4-4.
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The period between the late 1910s and early 1920s saw the emergence of onto-epistemological philosophical projects in Russia that was determined by criticism and attempts to overcome the domination of epistemology in philosophy which was the result of the intensive development of Neo-Kantianism and the influence of Husserl’s phenomenology. Attempts to turn towards ontology were made both by Russian religious philosophers and by Russian Neo-Kantians. I look at the little-studied philosophical projects of the Russian Neo-Kantians Lev Salagov and Nikolai Boldyrev. Their philosophical concepts share the tendency to transpose epistemological problems to ontology, and to identify and bring closer together epistemology and ontology. Russian philosophers ontologise the theory of cognition through the analysis of subjectivity, the complete elimination of psychological motives and the separation of transcendentalism from transcendentism. These principles enable Salagov to ground a three-part structure of cognition (consciousness, being, committing to consciousness) and to assert that the main task of genuine epistemology is exclusively the study of the cognitive relationship, committing to consciousness. They enable Boldyrev, proceeding from the separation of reflection and sensibility, to build a doctrine on the self-unfolding of being. Similar tendencies — a turn towards ontology — were observed in the same period in West European philosophy, including German Neo-Kantianism. However, the concepts of Russian Neo-Kantians, which imply a new orientation towards ontology, are fairly independent, and not only on account of the original interpretation of Kantian critical philosophy and Neo-Kantian epistemology, but also on account of internal discussion with the Russian philosophers belonging to other movements (for example, intuitivists). The analysis of the onto-epistemological projects of Russian Neo-Kantians makes important additions to the picture of the reception of Neo-Kantianism in Russia.
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Zimmermann, Rainer E. "An Integral Perspective of Social Action: Imagining, Assessing, Choosing (Onto-epistemology of Networks)." International Review of Information Ethics 18 (December 1, 2012): 226–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/irie320.
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Starting from a formal and abstract perspective, the concept of networks is introduced with a view to possible connections to other fields of the sciences and to practical applications. The structural hierarchy of forms is identified expressing the conceptual organization of our observable world. In the case of social networks, it can be shown that they exhibit a characteristic type of self-reference, a result of their special relationship to the conditions of the human modes of cognition and communication. As to a possible derivation of strategic attitudes, it can be shown that a re-vitalization of the ancient concept of kalokagathía could turn out to be helpful in tackling present everyday problems. Hence, choosing the perspective of an explicit network paradigm entails a new reconciliation of aesthetics and ethics, respectively, including multifarious implications for a suitable foundation of praxis within pertinent crisis management.
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Mamic, Ino. "Karen Barad's Onto-Ethico-Epistemology as an Apparatus of Empowerment in Contextual Theologies." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 30 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20415/rhiz/030.e14.
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Clark, Vanessa. "ART PRACTICE AS POSSIBLE WORLDS." International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 3, no. 2-3 (April 16, 2012): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs32-3201210866.
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This paper explores the possibilities of arts practice in early childhood education. Building on her master’s thesis, the author presents both a doing – her experimentation with arts practice in two early childhood centres – and an argument: that art may present an opening onto possible worlds. The author builds these worlds in relation to her theoretical framework: an immanent relational materialist onto-epistemology. Viewed through this lens, art’s possible worlds have the potential to traverse, mix, and disrupt binaries that maintain marginalized positions. Art practice from this intersection of rupture is both intensely creative and deeply political.
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Song, Ah-Young. "An Ethico-Onto-Epistemological Approach to Literacy Research." Journal of Literacy Research 52, no. 2 (June 2020): 231–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x20915473.
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Entanglements among humans, nonhuman objects, and spatial matter in a research site necessitate greater attention to the interwoven and sometimes invisible connections across relational bodies. This piece comments on how reevaluating approaches to participant observations in qualitative research can lead to better understandings of the dynamic interconnectedness among participants, researchers, and observational tools. Drawing from the theory of thinking without method, this research explores the complexity of documentation in an out-of-school literacy setting and argues that ethico-onto-epistemology can highlight intersections between literacy researchers and technological attachments.
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Gajdosova, Katerina. "Naming and Cosmology: The Role of Names in the Onto-Generative Process." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 48, no. 4 (November 19, 2021): 383–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15406253-12340037.
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Abstract The article takes the excavated cosmological texts as a basis for reinterpreting the relationship between cosmology, epistemology, and action in Warring States period thought, by focusing on the role of names in situatedness and self-actualization of being. It proposes to view the speculative and the practical concerns in terms of a dynamic union of the receptive and the creative within the onto-generative cycle. Building on Chung-ying Cheng’s onto-generative approach and Heidegger’s hermeneutics of Dasein in Sein und Zeit, the article identifies names as the centre (Gadamer’s Mitte) in which the receptive and the creative aspect of being come together.
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Frank, Hannah. "The Hitherto Unknown: Toward a Theory of Synthetic Sound." boundary 2 49, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 71–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9615403.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, filmmakers in Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States created synthetic sounds by printing photographic or drawn patterns directly onto a filmstrip's optical soundtrack. This essay examines these practices alongside the radical film theories of Dziga Vertov and Jean Epstein in order to test the limits of sonic epistemology—and, ultimately, to imagine what it might mean to conceive of synthetic sound as documentary sound.
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Perazzo Domm, Daniela. "Im/possible Choreographies: Diffractive Processes and Ethical Entanglements in Current British Dance Practices." Dance Research Journal 51, no. 3 (December 2019): 66–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767719000329.
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This article considers the ethico-aesthetic potential of British choreographic practices that respond to questions raised by the current sociopolitical moment by staging im/possibilities and dis/orientation and by envisioning alternative understandings of the present. It embraces Karen Barad's new materialist onto-epistemology as an inspiring framework to discuss the significance of choreography that troubles accepted patterns of relationality and engages in a creative-critical remapping of experience.
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Boveda, Mildred, and Kakali Bhattacharya. "Love as De/Colonial Onto-Epistemology: A Post-Oppositional Approach to Contextualized Research Ethics." Urban Review 51, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11256-018-00493-z.
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van der Tuin, Iris. "Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Onto-Epistemology: On Encountering Chantal Chawaf and Posthuman Interpellation." Parallax 20, no. 3 (July 3, 2014): 231–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927631.
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Ji, Junzhe, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Pavlos Dimitratos, and Shouming Chen. "The qualitative case research in international entrepreneurship: a state of the art and analysis." International Marketing Review 36, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 164–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imr-02-2017-0052.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how qualitative case research (QCR) has been conducted in the field of international entrepreneurship (IE) in terms of onto-epistemology and methodology. QCR can serve as an umbrella approach for contextualizing and capturing the complexity of IE opportunities, events, conditions and relationships, and to illuminate and enrich the understanding of related IE processes.Design/methodology/approachA thorough literature review was conducted of IE journal articles published between 1989 and mid-2017. This paper identified and analyzed 292 journal articles in terms of theoretical purpose and research design.FindingsThe findings suggest that the “positivistic” QCR is the customary convention of QCR in IE. “Exploratory” and “theory building” are the two most commonly pursued objectives. There have also been atypical practices and increased methodological rigor in recent years. Alternative paradigmatic QCRs that depart from positivistic assumptions are in an early stage of development in IE.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research examining QCR onto-epistemology and methodology approaches in IE, providing a useful state of the art that has been hitherto lacking in the literature. Based on this paper’s findings, the authors suggest that the IE field would benefit from greater methodological transparency in the reporting and writing of QCR. Also, the breadth of knowledge and legitimacy of the IE area would be enhanced through more studies involving unconventional (beyond positivistic) QCR.
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Brooks, Ann K. "Agential Realism in a Community-Based Organization in Mexico: An Ethico-Onto-Epistemology of Emancipatory Learning." Adult Education Quarterly 69, no. 1 (December 6, 2018): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713618815579.
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This article shares the findings of a qualitative study of a community-based organization in Mexico and the emancipatory pedagogy practiced there in a time characterized by a changing global economic order, conflict and war, corruption and geographic displacement. To make sense of the transnational philosophical fusion and the pedagogical practices in the organization, I draw on Karen Barad’s ideas to propose an ethico-onto-epistemology of emancipatory learning to uncover power in spaces of self/knowledge that are outside the binaries of critical-theoretical practice. It suggests an understanding of emancipatory learning that is relational, embodied, ethical, and emergent.
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Dill, LeConté J. "Alchemy." Health Promotion Practice 23, no. 6 (November 2022): 934. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15248399221127999.
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This poem follows the cues of the drumbeat. This poem leaves breadcrumbs. This poem decodes recipes for the writer and the reader. This poem introduces, or rather re-introduces, the onto-epistemology and theory of “conjure feminisms” to public health audiences—Black Feminist ways of being, knowing, and inquiring with attention to nature, memory, the body, one’s lineage, and magic making. This poem is an invitation to heal and a re-centering of healing within public health. To view the original version of this poem, see the supplemental material section of this article online.
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Stetsenko, Anna. "Research and activist projects of resistance: The ethical-political foundations for a transformative ethico-onto-epistemology." Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 26 (September 2020): 100222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2018.04.002.
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Berkmanas, Tomas. "Natural Law and Political Ontology: a Historico-Philosophical Outline of a Major Human Transformation." Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 119–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2015-0005.
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ABSTRACT The article explores the possibility of comprehending natural law, together with an alternative to the Schmittean political, through an inquiry into the layers of professional philosophy with a special focus on epistemology and analytic philosophy. The starting point of the research is the controversy surrounding the ideas of Carl Schmitt, in which it is unclear what lies at the origin of law and the political - sovereign decision or the situation (Part I)? The latter possibility directs the inquiry to the conceptual field related to natural law and epistemology. Proceeding via both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, the inquiry further analyses what has happened to natural law in modernity, and what its current status is, theorizing both streams of inquiry under the concept of political exile (Part II). The Schmittean political happens to be very much at home in this context, opening up the coherent ideological framework that may be called modern political ontology, which at first appears to camouflage Schmittean antagonistic political praxis (Part III). However, through inquiry into ideas mostly attributable to analytic philosophy (or philosophy of language), this ontology is also shown to function as an ‘anti-onto’-logy - that is, as a direct (i.e. open, not hidden) ideological basis for modern political praxis. The analysis here also discloses the rivalry inside professional philosophy in relation to ‘anti-onto’-logy, the latter finding its disciplinary origin(s) in language itself. It shows that at the level of professional philosophy there is a general trend that could be helpful in the attempt to revive natural law (Part IV).
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Prawat, Richard S. "The Debate Continues: Further Evidence of Discontinuity in Dewey's Philosophy." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 105, no. 5 (June 2003): 893–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810310500503.
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Stank and Russell (2002) present arguments that refute Prawat's two-part thesis that Dewey underwent a dramatic midcareer change in his philosophy and that this change drew heavily on Pence's metaphysics. In response to this critique, Prawat presents additional evidence to support his claim that a comparison of the 1910 and 1933 versions of How We Think reveals a major change in Dewey's views about inductionism. Prawat also presents new evidence to support the claim that this shift occurred at midcareer (i.e., 1915) and that the resulting change in philosophical outlook maps closely onto Pence's earlier, groundbreaking work on inquiry and epistemology.
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Gill, Nick, Deirdre Conlon, Dominique Moran, and Andrew Burridge. "Carceral circuitry." Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 2 (November 3, 2016): 183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132516671823.
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Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This article opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of ‘circuits’ to critically enquire into the carceral. Drawing inspiration from Harvey (1982; 1985), the article makes circuits do fresh work, teasing apart the emerging carceral landscape to provide a new critical epistemology for carceral geographies. In so doing, a meta-institutional agenda for critical carceral geography is derived, and possible ways to short-circuit carceral systems are revealed.
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Gendron-Blais, Hubert. "Music Thinking Process: Unfolding the creation of the piece Résonances manifestes." Organised Sound 25, no. 3 (November 30, 2020): 282–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771820000230.
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Beyond the social and even the human, sound opens onto the intertwining of movements animating the lived experience. A sonic epistemology considers not only that the acoustic ecologies are enunciative of social relations and power dynamics, but also that they tell about the way reality is lived, experienced, organised: they are expressive, in themselves. This means, for an epistemology of phonosophy, that every perception of a sound implies a conceptual movement, which carries a mental dimension that could become the material for another thinking practice, for a sophia. This article approaches music as thinking in itself: a thought of the sonic. This affirmation will be expanded through the contribution of process philosophy (Whitehead, Deleuze and Guattari, Manning, etc.), which allows a musical event to be considered as an ecology, produced by the encounter of a multiplicity of bodies (human, sonic, technological, etc.). The processes of capture of forces involved and the different techniques required to increase the expressive potentialities of the musical assemblage will be unfolded through the case of Résonances manifestes, a comprovised music piece based on a sound score composed of field recordings from autonomous demonstrations.
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Henderson, Susan, and Lindsay Dombrowski. "What can onto-epistemology reveal about Holocaust education? The case of audio-headsets at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum." Holocaust Studies 24, no. 3 (October 23, 2017): 305–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2017.1387846.
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Riddle, Stewart. "An Experiment in Educational Research-Creation Using Music as Diagram." Qualitative Inquiry 23, no. 9 (August 22, 2017): 732–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800417725352.
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In response to the call for this special issue to begin our inquiries with concepts rather than methods, the DeleuzeoGuattarian notion of the diagram is taken up in this article as part of a musical experiment with educational inquiry. In doing so, two musical sound creatures are created through the use of music as a molecular and imperceptible image of thought that is different from language and its semiotic modes of representation. This article asks how music might be plugged into the world and what a musical onto-epistemology could produce as a result. Perhaps educational inquiry would open up to new explorations and different configurations, discursive and non-semantic, through music as diagram.
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Shevchenko, Sergei Yu. "Ethics of Uncertainty As an Extension of Virtue Epistemology." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 58, no. 1 (2021): 161–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202158116.
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Uncertainty can’t be understood without taking into account both properties of the problem situation and agent’s knowledge about it. The correspondence of knowledge and situation of decision-making is crucial for understanding the onto-epistemological nature of uncertainty. At the same time, this correspondence is the key topic in virtue epistemology, especially in its ‘non-classical’, regulatory, branch, related to works of R. Roberts and W.J. Wood. In this article, genetic consultation is chosen as an example of such a problematic situation since a doctor and a patient explicitly deal with the uncertainty of genetic risks. The problems of communication and joint decision-making in the context of medical-genetic consultation are comprehensively described in bioethics. At the same time, its social dimension is limited to the direct interaction of two individual agents, that allows us to use it as a model for constructing the ethics of uncertainty. In this article, four forms of uncertainty are identified: descriptive, normative and radical uncertainties, and translation uncertainty. Referring to the approaches of virtue epistemology, the author brings each of these forms into conformity with the proposed regulatory principle. The regulations assume that generating or disseminating knowledge under conditions of uncertainty require taking into account the incompleteness of the presented model of reality in its four aspects. A modelled fragment of reality could change in a predictable (descriptive uncertainty) or unexpected (radical uncertainty) way. The goals and values of a model’s user can not be hierarchically ordered, and may also change in the future (normative uncertainty). User’s interpretations of the model may be diverse, and can never be strictly defined by the intentions of the model’s author (indeterminancy of translation, or uncertainty whether success of co-reference is achieved).
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García-González, Macarena, and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak. "New Materialist Openings to Children's Literature Studies." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0327.
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New materialist and posthuman thinking denote a range of approaches that have in common a focus on materialities as a turn against the persistence of Cartesian dualisms (mind/body, subject/object, nature/culture, for example). In this article, we explore how the feminist new materialism of Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Rosi Braidotti, among others, may provide openings to research in our field, especially when considering what is recurrently taken up as one of its central problems: the positioning of the child in a world ruled by adults. We first discuss recent approaches in children's literature studies that show interest in these theories and then use these to offer a toolbox of terms and notions – from ethico-onto-epistemology to diffraction – that may open possibilities for research in more-than-human environments.
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Vendramin, Valerija. "The Grammar of Knowledge: A Look at Feminism and Feminist Epistemologies." Šolsko polje XXXI, no. 5-6 (December 31, 2020): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.32320/1581-6044.31(5-6)139-146.
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The aim of the article is to reflect indirectly first on all the contributions in this volume, and second to help fix the present line of thought onto feminist epistemologies. Some postulates of feminist epistemologies are presented. The key question of feminist epistemology as a field of inquiry is defined according to Iris Van Der Tuin (2016) – it involves “the epistemic status of the knowledge produced by privileged and marginalized subjects”, and the reflection about the intersection of knowledge and power. There are ethical and moral implications here: the challenge and responsibility to recognise power relations. If a knowing subject is understood as epistemically inferior, this has a negative effect on how they are understood in non-epistemic contexts (Fricker, 2017). Feminism, in other words, is an epistemological project (Bahovec, 2002).
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Wilson, Alan T. "The Virtue of Aesthetic Courage." British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 4 (August 1, 2020): 455–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa022.
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Abstract Theorists have recently been exploring the prospects for a virtue-centred approach to aesthetics. Virtue aesthetics encourages a re-focusing of philosophical attention onto the aesthetic character traits of agents, in the same way that virtue ethics and virtue epistemology have encouraged us to focus on moral and intellectual traits. In this paper, I aim to contribute to the development of virtue aesthetics by discussing aesthetic courage, the aesthetic analogue of one of the most widely acknowledged moral virtues. In addition to proposing an account of the nature of this trait, I also argue that aesthetic courage is vital for any sort of aesthetically virtuous life. It is not possible to possess any aesthetic virtue without possessing aesthetic courage. It is important, therefore, for any future development of virtue aesthetics to acknowledge the central importance of aesthetic courage.
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Jokinen, Päivi, and Susan Nordstrom. "A Queer Cyborg Ethnographer in the Performative Friction of Dissenting Ontologies." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 6 (April 22, 2020): 639–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800420912796.
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The reader of this article is invited to join an encounter of methodological experimenting, productive tensions and a way of writing that seeks to challenge conventional human- and language-centered scholarly discourses. This article speculates with the possibility of two dissenting ontologies co-existing simultaneously and making each other visible. Troubling moments of the ontologies rubbing together are elaborated as friction and demonstrated in “queer reiterations” presented throughout the article. The moments of friction orient and reorient the research process. The article draws on Barad’s agential realist onto-epistemology in an interdisciplinary ethnographic research project embedded in psychometric capturing of data. The first part of the article scrutinizes theoretical frictions. The second part, “empirical frictions” takes the reader through encounters with so-called fieldwork and data. The final layer of research writing, “productive frictions” has been inspired by Haraway’s cyborg manifesto to foreground the emergence of the Queer Cyborg Ethnographer.
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Rahman, Fadhlu. "Solusi Filsafat Jiwa Sadra Pada Problem Paradoks dan Implikasi Onto-Epistemik Transhumanisme Nick Bostrom." Refleksi Jurnal Filsafat dan Pemikiran Islam 22, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ref.2022.2201-01.
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This study aims to examine and provide a solution to Nick Bostrom's onto-epistemic theoretical consistency problem of transhumanism which is considered to have a conceptual paradox and its implications for the basic concepts of transhumanism which consists of three pillars, namely: superintelligence, superlongevity, and super wellbeing. The testing and solutions that will be given are carried out through one of the major themes of the discourse on the relation of soul and body and the process of perfection in the tradition of Islamic philosophy. One form of mature philosophical discourse is in the Sadra’s philosophy of Soul. Therefore, the writer wants to describe the ontological and epistemological foundations of Bostrom's transhumanism as well as the Sadra’s philosophy of soul, and look at the paradoxes and onto-epistemic implications of the three pillars of transhumanism based on Sadra's view by descriptive and comparative analysis methods. In previous studies on the issue of transhumanism and the philosophy of the soul, Sadra still only focused on the description of each of these two issues. In addition, the study of this issue (transhumanism) focuses on the problem of its metaphysical basis by a western philosophical approach, so, this study wants to analyze it from the perspective of Islamic philosophy which is considered authoritative as the basis for studying metaphysical issues in the onto-epistemic context of transhumanism. I find that his onto-epistemic assumptions include; first, its dualism of epiphenomenalism as the basis of ontology necessitates the impossibility of matter having direct access to immaterial states of the self, while its limitations cannot create the perfection that Bostrom intended; and the second, his scientism as the basis of his epistemology require perfection that is not comprehensive and holistic, from the results of the analysis, I assesses that Bostrom's metaphysical assumptions are problematic both in terms of coherence and correspondence on the pillars of his transhumanism, and Sadra’s philosophical thought provides a solution in the form of the onto-epistemic basis for his soul philosophy and the process of perfecting in the problem of the fragility of Bostrom's Transhumanism ideas which can then provide the ideal form of the perfect human that Bostrom assumes.
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Kitossa, Tamari. "Authoritarian Criminology and Racist Statecraft: Rationalizations for Racial Profiling, Carding and Legibilizing the Herd." Decolonization of Criminology and Justice 2, no. 1 (June 29, 2020): 5–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/dcj.v2i1.10.
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This essay is a discrete survey of administrative-authoritarian criminologists’ neutralizing techniques for justifying and aiding and abetting racial profiling in policing and, by inference, racialized ‘carding’. Principally focused on Canada and the US, material for this survey arises from the effort of administrative-authoritarian criminologists who claim to refute commissioned reports, case law and obiter dicta, government reports and scholarly research affirming racial profiling in particular and racial discrimination in the criminal legal system generally.
Rooted in counter-colonial, anti-criminology and abolitionist epistemology my method of exposition is to turn the claims administrative-authoritarian criminologists hold to be true back onto criminology itself to see what account it provides for itself. Following the path worn by Hannah Arendt, I set out to demonstrate that in taking the effects of racial profiling and the legibilizing of ‘carding’ as objectively authoritarian-criminologists, administrative-authoritarian are irresponsible in the exercise of judgment to true ideas.
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Ream, Rebecca. "Composting Layers of Christchurch History." Genealogy 5, no. 3 (August 16, 2021): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5030074.
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This is a poetic compost story. It is a situated tale of how I gradually began to shred my fantasy of being a self-contained responsible individual so I could become a more fruitful response-able Pākehā (for the purposes of this paper, a descendant of colonial settlers or colonial settler) from Christchurch (the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand), Aotearoa (The Māori (the Indigenous people of New Zealand) name for New Zealand) New Zealand. Poetic compost storying is a way for me to turn over Donna Haraway’s composting ethico-onto-epistemology with critical family history and critical autoethnography methodologies. To this end, I, in this piece, trace how I foolishly believed that I could separate myself from my colonial family and history only to find that I was reinscribing Western fantasies of transcendence. I learnt by composting, rather than trying to escape my past, that I could become a more response-able Pākehā and family member.
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Golańska, Dorota. "Bodily collisions: Toward a new materialist account of memorial art." Memory Studies 13, no. 1 (November 23, 2017): 74–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017741928.
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The major objective of this article is to elaborate on the new materialist philosophical framework as a useful analytical perspective for approaching contemporary artistic memorials. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (designed by Eisenman, 2005) and The Garden of Exile (designed by Libeskind, 2001), both situated in Berlin, serve as illustrative examples for theoretical investigations developed in this contribution. Relying on Deleuze and Guattari’s definition of art, the article argues that these sites heighten our awareness of materials, compositional structures, or the process of encountering the work. By weaving together the representable (narrative/symbolic/semiotic) and the unrepresentable (traumatic/bodily/material), the sites deny a purely representational logic, producing instead intensive singular events that are never fixed or unwavering. The memorial character of these sites is therefore always emergent and contingent on the complex dynamic material-semiotic assemblages of different bodies. As such, it only exists in the encounter. Relation is its onto-epistemology.
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Kuby, Candace R., and Rebecca C. Christ. "Productive Aporias and Inten(t/s)ionalities of Paradigming: Spacetimematterings in an Introductory Qualitative Research Course." Qualitative Inquiry 24, no. 4 (February 5, 2017): 293–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800416684870.
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We seek to illustrate the inten(t/s)ional ways we tried to create spaces for thinking about paradigms as polyphonic and proliferating. We also share the joyful tensions of this work (hence, inten(t/s)ionalities) and specific pedagogical practices that we believe created a space for students to lean into and explore paradigms not only as a thing but also as a doing—paradigming. Our focus is to discuss (a) how some of Barad’s posthumanist theoretical concepts (e.g., ethico-onto-epistemology and intra-action) became pedagogical inspiration, and (b) through a diffractive reading of data with Barad’s concept of spacetimemattering, we were able to explore what was produced in the course. As we read posthumanist theory, the concepts not only shaped our methodology (i.e., diffractive analysis) but also became pedagogy. A posthumanist paradigm shaped our pedagogical practices as we believe that students are (becoming) qualitative inquirers through a knowing/being/doing in a material world of humans and nonhumans intra-acting.
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Rošker, Jana S. "Modernizing the Philosophy of Creative Creativity." Asian Studies 8, no. 3 (September 22, 2020): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2020.8.3.141-160.
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Fang Dongmei (1899–1977) is among the most influential Chinese philosophers who lived and worked in Taiwan during the second half of the 20th century. The present article aims to clarify his view on the basic nature of the human Self. This assessment is more multifaceted than it seems at a first glimpse, for Fang’s philosophy is also more complex than it seems. As a member of the so-called neo-conservative streams of thought, he criticized the Western-type modernization and aimed to revive the holistic onto-epistemology of classical Confucianism. On the other hand, he highlighted the importance of its basic paradigm which underlay the Confucian discourses from their very beginning, i.e. since the Book of Changes, namely the principle of creative creativity (shengshengbuxi 生生不息). The alleged contradiction between his advocating of holism and creativity, has been reflected in the apparent dichotomy between the social and relational essence of the Confucian Moral Self on the one side, and individual uniqueness on the other. The paper aims to show that both seeming contradictions are actually parts of the same theoretical principle defining the complementary interactions of binary oppositions.
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Norman, Jana. "An engraved invitation to consider human–earth relations: thinking non-dualism through the mining-based art practice of Lee Harrop." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 12, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 77–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2021.01.06.
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The scale and ubiquity of global industrialized mining and its proportionately negative impact on human rights and the environment is well documented. These costly externalities, taken in the context of increasing demand for mined materials in technical applications such as mobile phones and other devices seen as essential to contemporary commerce and communication, focalize a range of contentious issues and complexities. This article argues that mining, as an instance of instrumentalism in the human–earth relationship and in many human–human relations, exposes the reason/nature dualism underlying western ontological assumptions. Key features of dualism are described and implicated for their role in the oppression and exploitation of both human and non-human Others. A map drawn from critical ecological feminism outlining an escape route out of dualism is unfolded and brought together with the onto-ethico-epistemology of agential realism in an effort to discover possibilities for a new western social imaginary of non-dualism. The art of Lee Harrop featuring engraved core samples from mining exploration is deployed as a productive site for thinking through non-dualising implications arising from science and new materialisms.
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SPADAFORA, ANDREW. "GEORG JELLINEK ON VALUES AND OBJECTIVITY IN THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES." Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 3 (October 15, 2015): 747–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244315000426.
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Georg Jellinek was one of the legal theorists who brought a new level of methodological sophistication to German public law scholarship at the turn of the twentieth century. Where previous research has called attention to his theory of conceptual “types” and his application of contemporary neo-Kantian epistemology to the law, this article explores his thinking on the nature of values and value judgments, and the possibilities for objectivity in the legal and political sciences. Jellinek sought to open an increasingly calcified legal positivism to the findings of the social sciences and to an inherently pluralistic, changing world of subjective values, but without abandoning the positivist ideals of legal certainty and the exclusion of political and other value judgments. Analyzing his response to this challenge opens a window onto his broader work in public law and political science, illuminating doctrines like the “two-sided” theory of the state and the “normative power of the factual,” which have achieved a lasting place in German legal and political theory. It also shows why Jellinek put aside the traditional ideal of bias-free objectivity for a surprisingly modern vision of a process of intersubjective agreement, driven by the institutions of free and open scholarly debate.
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Mendoza, Julio. "Eneagrama, Educación e Investigación “Un pasaje epistemológico de una sabiduría universal Milenaria en tiempos postmodernos”." GACETA DE PEDAGOGÍA, no. 37 (December 1, 2018): 298–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.56219/rgp.vi37.735.
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El Objeto o Intencionalidad Generadora, consistió en sentar las bases onto-epistemológicas para erigir al Eneagrama como dispositivo pedagógico de autoconocimiento y desarrollo humano para la educación e investigación universitaria venezolana. Se buscó interpretar los fundamentos teóricos del objeto de estudio; develar la correspondencia entre enatipos de personalidad con los modelos epistémicos planteados por Barrera (2010), además, vincular el Eneagrama con los procesos de formación docente y de investigación de la UPEL-IPC. El apoyo teórico fue sustentado en filosofía, neurociencia, psicología transpersonal, genética y otros saberes. La orientación epistemológica estuvo fundamentada en la complejidad, con enfoque holístico-transcomplejo, paradigma complementario, método hermenéutico documental, análisis e interpretación del contenido de documentos y testimonios de 1 informante clave, respondiendo la entrevista de preguntas enfocadas para registrar la información. Hallazgos: Existen suficientes razones onto-epistemo-metodológicas para instituir el Eneagrama en la universidad venezolana, encontrándose correspondencia Epistemo-Eneagramática entre profesores, investigadores y los modelos epistémicos planteados.
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The object or purpose generator, consisted of the onto-epistemological foundations to erect to the Enneagram as a pedagogical device of self-knowledge and human development for the Venezuelan University research and education. We sought to reveal the correspondence between enatipos of personality and models epistemic posed by Barrera, M. (2010); the theoretical foundations of the object of study, linking the Enneagram with the processes of formation of teachers and researchers of the UPEL-IPC have been interpreted. The theoretical support was based on neuroscience, genetics, philosophy, transpersonal psychology and other knowledge. The epistemological orientation was based on the complexity, with holistic-transcomplejo approach, complementary paradigm, documentary hermeneutic method, analysis and interpretation of the content of documents and testimonies of 1 key informant, answering the interview of focused questions to record information. Findings: There are plenty of onto-epistemo-methodological reasons for instituting the Enneagram in the Venezuelan University, finding correspondence Epistemo-Eneagramatica between teachers, researchers and epistemic posed models.
Key words: Onto-epistemology, enneagram, epistemo-methodology, models epistemic.
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L'objet ou l'intentionnalité génératrice consistait à poser les bases sur-épistémologiques pour ériger l'Ennéagramme en tant que dispositif pédagogique de connaissance de soi et de développement humain pour l'enseignement et la recherche universitaires vénézuéliens. Le but était d'interpréter les fondements théoriques de l'objet d'étude; Révéler la correspondance entre les enatipipes de la personnalité et les modèles épistémiques de Barrera, M. (2010) et lier l’Ennéagramme aux processus de formation et de recherche des enseignants de l’UPEL-IPC. L’appui théorique reposait sur la philosophie, les neurosciences, la psychologie transpersonnelle, la génétique et d’autres connaissances. L’orientation épistémologique était fondamentale dans la complexité, approche holistique-transcomplexe, paradigme complémentaire, méthode herméneutique documentaire, analyse et interprétation du contenu de documents et témoignages de 1 code clé, répondant à l’interview de questions orientées pour enregistrer l’information. Constatations: L’épistémologie méthodologique a suffisamment de raisons pour instituer l’Ennéagramme dans l’université vénézuélienne, avec correspondance entre professeurs et chercheurs et modèles épistémiques proposés.
Mots-clés: Sur l'épistémologie, l'ennéagramme, la méthodologie épistémique, les modèles épistémiques.
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Olson, Rebecca E., and Ann Dadich. "How Can Video-Reflexive Ethnographers Anticipate Positive Impact on Healthcare Practice?" International Journal of Qualitative Methods 21 (January 2022): 160940692210833. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221083370.
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Evidence suggests that studies aiming to improve healthcare practice should be flexible and prioritise patient, family and clinician engagement. Video-reflexive ethnography (VRE), a form of qualitative research often employed in healthcare settings, is well-suited to these aims. VRE supplements ethnographic techniques with video-recordings of in situ practices, allowing practitioners to reflect on taken-for-granted practices. Its prioritisation of collaboration, affective entanglement, theory-driven analysis and flexibility – aligned with participatory and post-qualitative inquiry (PQI) – can facilitate reflexivity among researchers and participants for local practice improvement. Yet paradoxically, flexibility can hinder the predictability of impact, and demonstrating likely impact is crucial to securing research funding. This article offers practical advice to qualitative researchers facing this methodological challenge. Using three exemplars, we examine how differing onto-epistemological groundings, conceptualisations of participant engagement and researcher positionings affect the timing, predictability, scalability and transferability of each study’s impact. We show how prioritising affective engagement, flexible goals and collaboration can enable local healthcare practice improvement; prioritising theory generation via consultation can lead to traditional, more transferable, forms of impact. We share insights for researchers seeking to improve healthcare using methods inspired by PQI such as VRE. While predicting impact is fraught, optimising conditions for impactful VRE research can be accomplished by: foregrounding epistemology; prioritising affective engagement; aligning research and stakeholder goals; assessing timing and organisational readiness; and considering researcher and participant positioning.
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POLLONI, Nicola. "Gundissalinus and the Application of al-Fārābī’s Metaphysical Programme. A Case of Philosophical Transfer." Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v0i1.5174.
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This study deals with Dominicus Gundissalinus’s discussion on metaphysics as philosophical discipline. Gundissalinus’s translation and re-elaboration of al-Fārābī’s Iḥṣā’ al-ʿulūm furnish him, in the De scientiis, a specific and detailed procedure for metaphysical analysis articulated in two different stages, an ascending and a descending one. This very same procedure is presented by Gundissalinus also in his De divisione philosophiae, where the increased number of sources –in particular, Avicenna– does not prevent Gundissalinus to quote the entire passage on the methods of metaphysical science from the Iḥṣā’ al-ʿulūm, with some slight changes in his Latin translation. The analytical procedure herein proposed becomes an effective ‘metaphysical programme’ with regards to Gundissalinus’s onto-cosmological writing, the De processione mundi. The comparative analysis of this treatise with the procedure received by al-Fārābī shows Gundissalinus’s effort to follow and apply this metaphysical programme to his own reflection, in a whole different context from al-Fārābī’s and presenting doctrines quite opposed to the theoretical ground on which al-Fārābī’s epistemology is based, like ibn Gabirol’s universal hylomorphism. Nevertheless, thanks to the application of the ‘metaphysical programme’, one can effectively claim that Gundissalinus’s metaphysics is, at least in the author’s intentions, a well-defined metaphysical system. In appendix to this article the three Latin versions of al-Fārābī’s discussion on metaphysics are reported, e.g., Gundissalinus’s quotations in De scientiis and De divisione philosophiae, and Gerard of Cremona’s translation in his De scientiis.
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Gatt, Caroline. "Breathing beyond Embodiment: Exploring Emergence, Grieving and Song in Laboratory Theatre." Body & Society 26, no. 2 (April 27, 2020): 106–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x19900538.
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Due to the simultaneous linguistic and musical quality of voicing, voiced breath poses theoretical challenges to notions of ‘embodiment’, especially as they are used in theatre practice/studies. In this article, I make two intertwining arguments to address questions of the place of semantic meaning and conscious thought in performance practice/theories as they arose in my anthropological engagement with laboratory theatre. Firstly, theatre and performance practice/theories keen to embrace ‘embodiment’ often leave out things like explicit analysis, reflexivity, referential or semantic meaning and so on because, as my ethnography shows, they are judged as secondary, and thus belonging implicitly more closely to disembodied ‘mind’. I engage in anthropological comparison to show how other ways of being/knowing complicate any sense in which practices labelled ‘embodied’ can be seen as primary in contrast to conscious, linguistic or explicit knowing. Instead I outline an onto/epistemology of emergence that offers an alternative imaginary in which no binaries exist a priori. Rather all is a matter of ongoing mutual constitution. Secondly, while the discourses of embodiment in performance practice/theory that I critique may continue to reproduce dualist assumptions, theatre approaches influenced by Grotowski’s anti-method, focusing on continual revision of practice, offer insights for scholarship concerned with the ontological indistinguishability of social, psychological and physical phenomena. Laboratory theatre practices offer a prospective way of knowing, enabling an exploration of the ontological equality of breath, in this case in song, and the sorts of meaningfulness associated with language and analysis. In 2011, my Nanna (grandmother in Maltese) passed away in circumstances that remain traumatic to me. I turned with to my daily practices to find ways to scream, to grieve: to anthropology and to a particular practice of song in laboratory theatre, where encounter is actively sought. Arising from ethnographic and analytic engagement with such practices, in this article, I offer an anthropologically inflected critique of notions of embodiment in performance studies and performance philosophy. I present the alternative imaginary of emergence onto/epistemologies and the prospective investigative practices of laboratory theatre. I do this by weaving autobiographical, ethnographic and anthropological threads to explore my own practice relating to the work of my collaborator Gey Pin Ang, a Singaporean director, actor and pedagogue.
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Jackson, Zakiyyah. "Sense of Things." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2, no. 2 (October 10, 2016): 1–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v2i2.28801.
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An inquiry into onto-epistemology, this essay investigates the reciprocal production of aesthesis and empiricism, both the seemingly scientific and the perceptual knowledge that signifies otherwise under conditions of imperial Western humanism. In a reading of Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), I argue that as an enabling condition of imperial Western humanism, the black mater(nal) is foreclosed by the dialectics of hegemonic common sense and that the anxieties stimulated by related signifiers, such as the black(ened) maternal image, voice, and lifeworld, allude to the latent symbolic-material capacities of the black mater(nal), as mater, as matter, to destabilize or even rupture the reigning order of representation that grounds the thought-world relation. In other words, the specter of the black mater(nal)—that is, nonrepresentability—haunts the terms and operations tasked with adjudicating the thought-world correlate or the proper perception of “the world” such as hierarchical distinctions between reality and illusion, Reason and its absence, subject and object, science and fiction, and speculation and realism, which turn on attendant aporias pertaining to immanence and transcendence. Exploring the mind-body-social nexus in Hopkinson’s fiction, I contend that in Brown Girl vertigo is evoked as both a symptom and a metaphor of inhabiting a reality discredited (a blackened reality) that is at once the experience of the carceral and the apprehension of a radically redistributed sensorium. I argue the black mater(nal) holds the potential to transform the terms of reality and feeling, therefore rewriting the conditions of possibility of the empirical.
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Đerić, Gordana. "Food – The Story of Our Life: A Contribution to the Studies of Food and the Anthropology of Taste." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 8, no. 1 (February 27, 2016): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v8i1.2.
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By approaching the phenomenon of food (consumption) as an identity issue of the first order, as man’s alimentary, only true biography, and an authentic expression of self and experience, but also as a key phenomenon in the development of man and mankind, the author points toward the anthropologically relevant aspects of research pertaining to food (the mythological, cultural and historical, economic, aesthetic, linguistic, political). The development of the art and philosophy of food (consumption) is considered in the context of history of the ideas of Epicureanism, empiricism and lametrism, as well as in the context of the end of the cult of culture” in its traditional meaning. Moving between issues of art theory and epistemology, the author pays special attention to the causes of the theoretical neglect of the senses of taste and smell, historical reasons of the second-rate position of gastronomy among the other sciences and arts, as well as changes taking place at the end of the “short 20th century” which enabled a revolution in aesthetics and social values – the expansion of food studies and the art of cookery. Thus the aim of the paper is twofold: on the one hand it is an attempt to shed some light on the history of this revolution in the context of the theoretical and aesthetic relationship toward food and the art of its preparation, and on the other, it should be an argument incentive to have the basic issue of food (consumption) find its way onto our own academic menu.
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Wood, Elizabeth. "Learning, development and the early childhood curriculum: A critical discourse analysis of the Early Years Foundation Stage in England." Journal of Early Childhood Research 18, no. 3 (July 14, 2020): 321–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476718x20927726.
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This article focuses on the national policy framework for early childhood education (birth to 5 years) in England – the Early Years Foundation Stage, specifically the use of child development theories as the underpinning knowledge base for practice. The aim is to understand what constructions of learning and development are foregrounded in policy, and their implications for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Critical Discourse Analysis methods are used to expose learning and development as messy constructs, and to propose three arguments. First, the evidence base for the Early Years Foundation Stage relies on selective appropriation of child development theories, and findings from government-funded research. These sustain normative discourses, reflecting a Piagetian ontology of ‘development leads learning’, through which children become ‘knowable’ and ‘measurable’. Second, the Early Years Foundation Stage shifts from developmental processes to learning outcomes as the basis for constructing curriculum, assessment of children’s outcomes and school readiness. Third, the Early Years Foundation Stage constitutes a discursive regime, which influences how practitioners must fulfil performance criteria that serve multiple purposes of assessing outcomes, evaluating standards and defining ‘quality’. From a critical perspective, this analysis questions the efficacy of the Early Years Foundation Stage in addressing the problems of equity and inclusion in diverse societies. The Early Years Foundation Stage exemplifies the policy technologies that can be discerned in international contexts, through which specific forms of curriculum coherence and control are produced. An alternative ‘learning leading development’ onto-epistemology is proposed, which offers potential for challenging the (il)logic of the Early Years Foundation Stage.