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Taschetto, Diana. "Worlds and strings: ontology and epistemology in fundamental physics." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-12072018-142239/.

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This work is divided into two major topics: many-worlds (or multiverse) theories in cosmology and Richard Dawids string theory-based epistemology, or non-empirical confirmation theory, as he calls it. The former is discussed in part I and the latter in part II of this dissertation. These topics are not intertwined in this work, as are not the essays that compose each chapter: in part I, first chapter, probability arguments that are presented in the literature as indications a multiverse must exist are accessed, whereas the second chapter is concerned with analyzing the metaphysical view that m

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CARROLL, JOHN WILLIAM. "THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL LAWS (CAUSATION, NECESSITY, ONTOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183855.

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A program for advancing a new philosophical account of physical laws is presented. The program is non-reductive in that it maintains that any correct account of physical laws must recognize law sentences as irreducible--that is, as not admitting of an analysis which does not invoke any unanalyzed nomic facts (i.e. causal statements, law statements, subjunctive conditionals, etc.). The program has the unusual attraction of being consistent with Nominalism and epistemically in the spirit of Empiricism. Initially motivating my program is a two-stage attack in chapters two and three on all reducti

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Geraldino, Carlos Francisco Gerencsez. "O conceito de meio na geografia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-31052011-090251/.

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Esta dissertação investiga os sentidos relativos ao conceito de meio presentes no debate atual, na epistemologia da ciência geográfica e em seu estatuto ontológico. Três questões motes de capítulos alicerçaram a pesquisa: 1ª. Como se apresenta o conceito de meio na Geografia brasileira? 2ª. Como foi tratado, quando e como surgiu tal conceito no campo científico e, em específico, na história do pensamento geográfico? 3ª. O que é meio, e o que há de geográfico nele? Os resultados convergem para a necessária reflexão deste como um elemento conceitual chave no léxico da ciência geográfica.<br>This

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Spash, Clive L. "Ecological Economics and Philosophy of Science: Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology and Ideology." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3472/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2012_03.pdf.

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Ecological economics has been repeatedly described as transdisciplinary and open to including everything from positivism to relativism. I argue for a revision and rejection of this position in favour of realism and reasoned critique. Looking into the ontological presuppositions and considering an epistemology appropriate for ecological economics to meaningfully exist requires rejecting the form of methodological pluralism which has been advocated since the start of this journal. This means being clear about the differences in our worldview (or paradigm) from others and being aware of the

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Matthews, W. E. "The homological cosmos : ontology, epistemology, and ethics in Yi Jing prediction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1530839/.

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This thesis investigates cosmological theories among practitioners of Yi Jing-based prediction in Hangzhou, China. The principle focus is upon analogical reasoning as manifest in predictive practice, ontological assumptions, epistemology, and ethics, from the perspective of specialists. These aspects of cosmology are explored through a combination of ethnographic data and textual analysis, adopting a position informed by the anthropology of cosmology, ontology, and divination and related debates in the cognitive sciences and Sinology. From the perspective of predictors, Yi Jing prediction oper

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Nasser, Eduardo. "Epistemologia e ontologia em Nietzsche à luz do problema do tempo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-01072013-090413/.

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Procurar-se-á evidenciar no presente trabalho o caminho que leva Nietzsche à sua ontologia do vir-a-ser. Será trazida a lume a hipótese de que é através de uma crise epistemológica provocada pelo problema do tempo que surge a ontologia nietzschiana. Por volta de 1873, Nietzsche depara-se, devido a controvérsias em torno do problema do tempo, com insolúveis contradições que se abatem sobre o idealismo, que até então contava com a sua aceitação. Desse episódio se seguem sérias e definitivas transformações estruturais da sua filosofia. Convencido de que a realidade do tempo não pode ser refutada,

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Mommers, Laurens. "Applied legal epistemology : building a knowledge-based ontology of the legal domain /." Leiden : L. Mommers, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39245919w.

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Khatami, Mahmoud. "The unitary consciousness : toward a solution for the ontological crisis in modern theories of the self." Thesis, Durham University, 1996. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1128/.

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The overall aim of this research project that is done in the field of Phenomenology and Ontogenetic Epistemology, is to investigate the possibility of employing the Illuminative elements for solving the Ontological Crisis in Western epistemology of the self. Descartes, the father of modern western thought, gave through his Meditations a priority to Cogito over Sum, and this historically became a turning point for the movement that crystallised in Kant's Copernican Revolution by which metaphysics was identified with epistemology indicating that epistemology can thereafter be considered without

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Araujo, Junior Anastacio Borges de. "O não-ser na ontologia de Platão : um estudo da Republica, V(475 d1 - 480 a13) ao Timeu (47 e3 - 52 d4)." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280134.

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Orientador: Alcides Hector Rodriguez Benoit<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T10:22:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AraujoJunior_AnastacioBorgesde_D.pdf: 7995905 bytes, checksum: a9ad53c84d6a6ce4486337a449ef5cc1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005<br>Resumo: Este trabalho trata do problema do não-ser na ontologia de Platão, a partir dos diálogos 'República', V (475 dI - 480 a13) e 'Timeu' (47 e3 - 52 d4). Com relação ao trecho da 'República', apresenta um exame do seu sentido ético-político

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Skene, Allyson. "Psychiatric classification, medicine and madness an examination of Ontology and Epistemology in DSM-IV /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/NQ43452.pdf.

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Harrington, Jon. "A politicised epistemology and its effects upon universities and their management of societal ontology." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2009. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/3505/.

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In recent years the universities have changed from pre-enlightenment "protectors" of societal knowledge to typically modern "business" orientated bureaucracies. It is argued that as a consequence, their status has also changed from one of independent "observer" into that of "product producer"; driven particularly by their newly adopted managerialistic principles, aimed at making them more "business" orientated. This has been fuelled by the domination of a scientistic (Positivist) epistemology throughout the university sector, which emerged from an important philosophical debate, in the sixties

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Downs, Samuel David. "Levinas, Meaning, and Philosophy of Social Science: From Ethical Metaphysics to Ontology and Epistemology." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2569.

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The current approach to science for mainstream psychology relies on the philosophical foundation of positivism that cannot account for meaning as humans experience it. Phenomenology provides an alternative scientific approach in which meaning is constituted by acting toward objects in the world that is more consistent with how humans experience meaning. Immanuel Levinas argues that the phenomenological approach, while more consistent with human experience, does not provide a grounding for meaning. Rather, Levinas argues that meaning is grounded in the ethical encounter with the Other, or other

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Tansley, Carole. "Politics and exchange in the development of global human resource information systems." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314334.

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Gorsky, Samir 1981. "A semantica algebrica para as logicas modais e seu interesse filosofico." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279514.

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Orientador: Walter Alexandre Carnielli<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T08:51:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gorsky_Samir_M.pdf: 690814 bytes, checksum: 2435beecaa8f0656155bf7b65f58df5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008<br>Resumo: No século XX tivemos um considerável avanço sobre o entendimento formal do significado das modalidades. Os trabalhos de Jónsson, McKinsey e Tarski na década de quarenta permitiram a construção dos resultados de completude algébrica para os sistemas modai

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Lund, Brendan Kurt. "Connecting the Dots: The Ontology and Ethics of Intersubjectivity in Borges’s “The Writing of the God”." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8280.

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How do we establish objectivity when each person’s perspective is uniquely subjective? Borges’s “The Writing of the God” shows how an epistemically isolated subject is incapable of ever arriving at a robust sense of objectivity without reference to an Other. Donald Davidson’s theory of interpretive triangulation posits that the Other’s external perspective establishes objectivity by making the subject aware of the limits of his or her perception. Emmanuel Levinas suggests that the face of the Other establishes ethics as first philosophy through a primordial, affective discourse. The ethical re

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Wisniewski, Justin Brandt. "Time, Tense, and Ontology: Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Tense, the Phenomenology of Temporality, and the Ontology of Time." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7383.

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What does it mean to say that something is “temporal” or that something “exists” in time? What is time? And how should we interpret the “ontology” of time? One important strand in twentieth century thought and the philosophy of time has given these fundamental questions a neat and tidy set of influential answers—according to this view, time itself is understood to be a kind of series, and the basic ontology of time is taken to consist of events, together with either the tenses, which get interpreted as special sorts of second order properties known as “A properties” (i.e. the properties of bei

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Antonini, David Robert. "THE CONCEPTION OF THE PRODUCTIVE IMAGINATION IN THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON: KANT AND HEIDEGGER." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1254.

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The primary objective of this thesis is to provide an account of productive imagination in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason using Heidegger's interpretation in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Kant's account of productive imagination largely remains in the context of his own project to establish the conditions for the possibility of experience which can ground a theory of knowledge. Thus, Kant's project can largely be read as a work of epistemology leaving an account of experience that is limited to knowledge of empirical objects. Therefore, in turning to Heidegger, I seek to provide an a

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Ahlqvist, Andreas. "Ontologisk (o)medvetenhet : Militära diskurser om verklighet." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1201.

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Rupert Smith (2006) menar att det har skett ett paradigmskifte inom krigföringen. Från ett industriellt krig till ett krig "amongst the People". De moderna konflikterna vi ser idag i Irak och Afghanistan går i linje med hans resonemang. Motståndaren är inte längre en annan nationalstat, utan en icke-statlig aktör som inte uppträder på ett militärt traditionellt sätt. Numera är andra entiteter än plattformar viktiga, till exempel klanstrukturer eller kultur. Utifrån detta måste vi då ställa oss frågan om världen har förändrats, eller åtminstone om den militära verkligen har gjort det och hur mi

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Laurenti, Carolina. "Determinismo, Indeterminismo e Behaviorismo Radical." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2009. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/4760.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:12:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2374.pdf: 1948759 bytes, checksum: d042068510b4cc93c8066495ead75b48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-06<br>Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais<br>One of the objectives of this essay is to argue that determinism and indeterminism remain central themes of the science of psychology especially the Analysis of Behavior and its philosophy, Radical Behaviorism. At first blush, our attention seems to be misplaced, for Skinner declares himself to be a determinist. However, closer examination suggests that Skinner's writ

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OLIVEIRA, Ítalo José da Silva. "Contra o conceito do direito: ontologia e epistemologia no problema da definição do direito." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/19190.

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Silva, Régis Henrique dos Reis 1978. "Tendências teórico-filosóficas das teses em educação especial desenvolvidas nos cursos de doutorado em educação e educação física do Estado de São Paulo (1985-2009)." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/250799.

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Orientador: Sílvio Ancizár Sanchéz Gamboa<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T16:18:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_RegisHenriquedosReis_D.pdf: 5758810 bytes, checksum: c19e91262db6e4984ac8777d39e8e1cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013<br>Resumo: Este estudo caracterizou-se como uma pesquisa bibliográfico-documental, de caráter histórico-filosófico, sobre as teses em Educação Especial desenvolvidas nos cursos de doutorado em Educação e Educação Física do estado de São Paulo, no período de 1985 a 2009. Ma

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Davies, Shaun, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts. "Sound art and the annihilation of sound." THESIS_FVPA_XXX_Davies_S.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/402.

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This thesis describes the way in which sound is taken up and subsequently suppressed within the visual arts. The idealisation and development of sound as a plastic material is able to be traced within the modernist trajectory, which, reflecting a set of cultural practices and having developed its own specific terminologies, comes to regard any material, or anything conceived of as material, as appropriate and adequate to the expression of its distinctive and guiding concepts and metaphors. These concepts and metaphors are discussed as already having at their bases strongly visualist biases, th

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Blank, Ryan Alan. "Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5186.

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This thesis argues that the most prominent account of Protagoras in contemporary rhetorical scholarship, Edward Schiappa's Protagoras and Logos, loses critical historiographical objectivity in Platonic overdetermination of surviving historical artifacts. In the first chapter, I examine scholarship from the past thirty years to set a baseline for historiographical thought and argue that John Muckelbauer's conception of productive reading offers the best solution to the intellectual and discursive impasse in which contemporary Protagorean rhetorical theory currently resides. The second chapter e

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Piovano, Danielle Helene. "From epistemology to ontology : the hermeneutic circle of difference and identity in the thought of Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1986. http://digitool.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29596.

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This thesis has attempted to examine Paul Riceoeur's work as a whole. Its aim has been to enquire whether the dialectics of difference and identity played any essential part in his hermeneutic phenomenology. The introduction gave an overall view of Ricoeur's writings situated within the contemporary landscape of French philosophy. Part I set out to study Ricoeur's abstract phenomenology. The results obtained showed : 1. That Ricoeur's philosophical background, especially Husserl's phenomenology and Marcel's existentialism, had a deep influence on him; 2. That his structural phenomenology of th

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Hawk, Julie. "Storied Subjects: Posthuman Subjectivization Through Narrative in Post-1960 American Print and Televisual Narrative." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/82.

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This dissertation theorizes the ramifications of new media forms of narrative on subjectivization by tracing the evolution of the observer through its permutations as second-order observer, witness, director, and narrative agent and demonstrating the various interacting processes involved in the recursive feedback loops between and among, self, world, and story. In this project, I ex-plore novels by contemporary U.S. authors John Barth, Richard Powers, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, as well as two televisual texts, Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse. Drawing from several seemingly disp

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Winters, Andrew Michael. "A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5603.

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Recent literature concerning laws of nature highlight the close relationship between general metaphysics and philosophy of science. In particular, a person's theoretical commitments in either have direct implications for her stance on laws. In this dissertation, I argue that an ontic structural realist should be a realist about laws, but only within a non-Whiteheadean process framework. Without the adoption of a process framework, any account of laws the ontic structural realist offers will require metaphysical commitments that are at odds with ontic structural realism. In arguing towards this

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Fuenmayor, R. L. "The ontology and epistemology of a systems approach : A fundamental study and an application to the phenomenon development/underdevelopment." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374636.

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Nousala, Susu, and susnousala@econ-km com. "Tacit knowledge networks and their implementation in complex organisations." RMIT University. Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070209.095245.

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It is difficult for organizations to effectively manage personal knowledge so it can be mobilized, shared, and rewarded to benefit the organization. These difficulties occur particularly in large geographically dispersed, hierarchical organizations. The management of developing, identifying successful practices, building up and maintaining tacit knowledge, requires an understanding of how these ideas have emerged within the organization through a Tacit Knowledge Exchange (TKE) process. Identification and understanding of TKE characteristics is difficult as they are invisible (tacit). The TKE

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Balila, Douglas. "A construção do conhecimento em Espinosa e Piaget: da natureza à ética." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47134/tde-11122014-102739/.

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O propósito deste ensaio teórico é investigar a possibilidade da ampliação da compreensão do processo de embriogênese mental estudado pela Epistemologia Genética de Jean Piaget, como uma expressão determinada da noção do esforço de perseveração, conatus, da Philosophia de Baruch Espinosa, com o fim de investigar suas possíveis relações e desdobramentos para a compreensão da experiência ética espinosana. O resultado obtido até aqui indica o conceito de implicação significante da Epistemologia Genética como a noção vinculante entre o processo de embriogênese mental e o esforço de perseveração. A

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Creţu, Ana-Maria. "What good is realism about 'natural kinds'?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31423.

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Classifications are useful and efficient. We group things into kinds to facilitate the acquisition and transmission of important, often tacit, information about a particular entity qua member of some kind. Whilst it is universally acknowledged that classifications are useful, some scientific classifications (e.g. chemical elements) are held to higher epistemic standards than folk classifications (e.g. bugs). Scientific classifications in terms of 'natural kinds' are considered to be more reliable and successful because they are highly projectible and support law-like and inductive generalisati

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Simmonds, Shan Robyn. "Primary school learners' understanding of human rights teaching-and-learning in classroom practice / S.R. Simmonds." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6257.

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The National Curriculum Statement (2002), in line with the South African Constitution (1996), views human rights, inclusivity and social justice as priorities in all learning areas of the curriculum. However, a document such as the Manifesto on Values, Education and Democracy (2001) illustrates the complexities of addressing this in practice. One of the reasons is that there are misconceptions about how the concept of 'human rights' should be interpreted in the educational realm. This study sets out to explore how primary school learners understand human rights teaching-and-learning (from a m

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Glezer, Rubens Eduardo. "O positivismo de Joseph Raz: autoridade e razão prática sem prática social." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2139/tde-16102015-121052/.

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Esta é uma pesquisa sobre a identificação de divergências inconciliáveis. Joseph Raz é um dos principais expositores contemporâneos do positivismo jurídico, porém sua tese não apenas é controversa, como também mal compreendida. Nesta pesquisa, defendo o argumento de que a má compreensão deve-se ao fato de ser ignorada uma premissa ontológica adotada por Raz. O filósofo supõe que práticas sociais não se referem a nada mais do que fatos socialmente praticados e, portanto, não as reconhece como fonte de normatividade. Com base nesse pressuposto, a natureza do direito não poderia ser investigada d

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Spash, Clive L. "The Shallow or the Deep Ecological Economics Movement?" Elsevier, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.05.016.

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Ecological economics and its policy recommendations have become overwhelmed by economic valuation, shadow pricing, sustainability measures, and squeezing Nature into the commodity boxes of goods, services and capital in order to make it part of mainstream economic, financial and banking discourses. There are deeper concerns which touch upon the understanding of humanity in its various social, psychological, political and ethical facets. The relationship with Nature proposed by the ecological economics movement has the potential to be far reaching. However, this is not the picture portray

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Eyim, Ahmet. "A Reconsideration Of The Porblem Of Universals: A Contemporary Perspective." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614495/index.pdf.

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This study aims at investigating the problem of universals, which is one of the most venerable issues in the history of philosophy. The problem of universals emerges from the ontological status of properties and relations<br>i.e., the existence and nature of properties and relations. It can be defined as the problem of how two or more different objects can have the same property or how a property can be a part of different things. The problem of universals consists of not a single problem but rather a network of problems. The aim of this study is to reconsider the problem of universals which i

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Roberts, Spencer. "Deleuze, judgment and artistic research." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17224.

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The debate concerning the legitimacy of artistic research that has taken place over the last two decades is notable for the way in which it has drawn attention to rival 'representational' and 'performative' conceptions of thought. In the early stages of the debate, critics such as Durling, Friedman, Elkins and Biggs employed broadly representational arguments in a quasi-legal context of judgment to suggest that processes of artistic research were in some sense unrecognisable when attempts were made to see them through the conceptual lens of 'research'. In contrast to this, advocates of artisti

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Hale, Evan L. "Knowledge, Truth, and the Challenge of Revisability: A Critique of Actor-Network Theory." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333733604.

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Corfield, Wendy Lea. "Conceptualizing complex meaning systems : the case of management fads." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16535/1/Wendy_Corfield_Thesis.pdf.

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The thesis is an attempt to apply complex systems thinking to the problem of meaning. It is in two parts. Part 1, Chapter 1 introduces the research agenda and overviews the thesis. Chapter 2 establishes the value of adopting a systems approach to the problem of meaning. The next chapter introduces key concepts of complex systems theory as they apply to sociocultural phenomena, and the last chapter in Part 1 reviews three theories of complex meaning systems (Donald Campbell, Jay Lemke, and Paul Cilliers) from which a preliminary model and agenda for theorising complex meaning systems is propos

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Corfield, Wendy Lea. "Conceptualizing complex meaning systems : the case of management fads." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16535/.

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The thesis is an attempt to apply complex systems thinking to the problem of meaning. It is in two parts. Part 1, Chapter 1 introduces the research agenda and overviews the thesis. Chapter 2 establishes the value of adopting a systems approach to the problem of meaning. The next chapter introduces key concepts of complex systems theory as they apply to sociocultural phenomena, and the last chapter in Part 1 reviews three theories of complex meaning systems (Donald Campbell, Jay Lemke, and Paul Cilliers) from which a preliminary model and agenda for theorising complex meaning systems is propos

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Schor, Daniel. "Da onipotência ao universo dos possíveis: aspectos da travessia humana em Winnicott e Piaget." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47132/tde-17122009-110138/.

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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo alavancar uma discussão sobre as concepções de Donald W. Winnicott e Jean Piaget acerca do desenvolvimento humano. A despeito das inegáveis distinções relativas a seus propósitos investigativos, bem como às tradições teórico-epistemológicas sobre as quais se apóiam suas teorias, a presente pesquisa parte do pressuposto de uma ligação constitutiva entre os caminhos de objetivação e de subjetivação traçados pelo ser humano ao longo da vida. Desde o ponto de vista do sujeito em desenvolvimento, assume-se a existência de uma indiferenciação primordial entre as

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Charlton, James. "Catch | Bounce : towards a relational ontology of the digital in art practice." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10377.

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How might ‘the digital’ be conceived of in an ‘expanded field’ of art practice, where ontology is flattened such that it is not defined by a particular media? This text, together with an installation of art work at the Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (13-24 March), constitutes the thesis submission as a whole, such that in the practice of ‘reading’ the thesis, each element remains differentiated from the other and makes no attempt to ‘represent’ the other. In negating representation, such practices present a ‘radical’ rethinking of the digital as a differentiated in-i

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Ujeda, Louis. "Etude philosophique de la biologie de synthèse : pour une analyse de la complexité des biotechnologies en société." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC0040/document.

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La biologie de synthèse (BS) est une discipline scientifique qui se propose d'être à la biologie ce que la chimie synthétique est à la chimie analytique. La BS adopte des approches de l'ingénierie et vise à élaborer des systèmes biologiques fonctionnels réalisant des tâches techniques. Elle peut donc être qualifiée de technoscience, au sens où la technique est pour elle un débouché de ses recherches mais également une condition de ses découvertes. La BS ne se laisse cependant pas réduire à sa dimension intentionnelle. Elle est une discipline complexe, tant quant à son épistémologie qu'à son on

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Anay, Hakan. "Two Evolutionary Models For Reconceptualizing Architectural Ideas And The Architectural Design Process." Phd thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610023/index.pdf.

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This study puts forward two complementary evolutionary models and explores the potential of the proposed models and the related theses by employing two case studies. The theoretical/conceptual framework of the study refers to architectural theory, design research, and evolutionary epistemology. The study mainly involves application of some key ideas from evolutionary epistemology, Popper&amp<br>#8217<br>s three-world ontology, and the theory of evolution to the field of architecture. The first model is about the nature of the architectural ideas or thought contents and it introduces the idea

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Wood, Matthew Stephen. "Aristotle and the Question of Metaphor." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32476.

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This doctoral dissertation aims to give a comprehensive and contextual account of Aristotle’s theory of metaphor. The dissertation is organized around the central claim that Aristotle’s definition of metaphor in Chapter 22 of the Poetics, as well as his discussion of it in Book III of the Rhetoric, commit him to what I call a vertical theory of metaphor, rather than to a horizontal one. Horizontal theories of metaphor assert that ‘metaphor’ is a word that has been transferred from a literal to a figurative sense; vertical theories of metaphor, on the other hand, assert that ‘metaphor’ is the t

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Patrick, Tom. "The practice of sport psychology telling tales from the field : a dissertation /." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2005. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001482/.

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The professional practice of sport psychology has received a tremendous amount of attention over the past two decades. Among the various studies and discussions to date, the most desirable and undesirable sport psychology consultant characteristics have been reported (Orlick & Partington, 1987); boundaries for sport science and psychology trained practitioners in applied sport psychology have been suggested (Taylor, 1994); and various models of delivery have been examined (Hardy & Parfitt, 1994). Recently, Andersen (2000) and Tenenbaum (2001) have called for a further examination of the proces

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Paschoal, Amália Madureira. "A questão do método no ensino do serviço social: um estudo aproximativo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17488.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:15:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amalia Madureira Paschoal.pdf: 1109894 bytes, checksum: a3bcf3ce5a72d66edac0dc8bd210099b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-19<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>The theme of this thesis is the theoretical-methodological perspective of Marx treated like the question of the method due to its incorporation issue. This is to discover the reasons for the separation between theory and method, especially in the Social Service teaching, which denies the totality vision in Marxist social the

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Bäcklund, Jimmy Ulf Anti-Krister. "Reciprok egoism, skeptisk empirism och modern fysikalism : Titelförslag på några principer och diskurs kring dessas korrelation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kulturvetenskaper, KVA, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-96930.

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Denna essä är en ontologisk och epistemologisk undersökning av bland annat etiska och medvetandefilosofiska implikationer av en konsekvent fysikalistisk hållning. I detta kontrasteras mot en transcendentalistisk hållning, som den av T. M. Scanlon, den skeptiska empirismen av David Hume, reciprokt baserade moraliska system (e.g. J. L. Mackies självreferentiella altruism) samt en medvetandesyn i linje med Galen Strawsons kriterier för en realistisk fysikalism som i min mening löser alla så kallade psykofysiska problem.<br>This paper contains an ontological and epistemic analysis of the implicati

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Silva, Fábio Rodrigues Ribeiro da. "Realismo e redes: dilemas metodológicos na obra de Anthony Giddens." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-16022011-121240/.

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Esta obra aponta questões de ordem metodológica e epistemológica na teoria da estruturação de Anthony Giddens, problemas reconhecidos e debatidos por vários de seus comentadores. Seguindo pistas encontradas nos próprios textos de Giddens, ela analisa com maior detalhe alguns livros de Mary Hesse e Roy Bhaskar, em busca de elementos que ajudem numa reconstrução metodológica da teoria de Giddens. Finalmente, ela argumenta em favor de uma maior atenção ao modelo de redes de Hesse, como uma ferramenta muito mais fértil para a análise de Giddens do que o realismo crítico de Bhaskar, para tentarmos

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Eldridge, Jr Reginald. "Shifting Blackness: How the Arts Revolutionize Black Identity in the Postmodern West." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3087.

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The contemporary experiences of racially marginalized people in the West are affected deeply by the hegemonic capitalist Orthodox cultural codes, or episteme, in which blackness operates as the symbol of Chaos. As it relates to people of African descent, these affects are marked by a denial of the black person's full status as an unproblematic subject, by ontological voids arising from the practice of enslavement over the past centuries, and by problems of representation within the West, where examples and points of reference for black identity are always tied up with conflicting interests. U

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Spash, Clive L. "New Foundations for Ecological Economics." Elsevier, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3711/1/Spash_EE_New_Foundations.pdf.

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Ecological economics has been repeatedly described as transdisciplinary and open to including everything from positivism to relativism. I argue for a revision and rejection of this position in favour of realism and reasoned critique. Looking into the ontological presuppositions and considering an epistemology appropriate for ecological economics to meaningfully exist requires rejecting the form of methodological pluralism which has been advocated since the start of this journal. This means being clear about the differences in our worldview (or paradigm) from others and being aware of the

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Gräbner, Claudius [Verfasser], Wolfram [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Elsner, and Christian [Gutachter] Cordes. "A systemic framework for the computational analysis of complex economies: An evolutionary-institutional perspective on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of complexity economics / Claudius Gräbner. Betreuer: Wolfram Elsner. Gutachter: Wolfram Elsner ; Christian Cordes." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1102308889/34.

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