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Williams, Benjamin John. "Music Composition Pedagogy: A History, Philosophy and Guide." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274787048.

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Zoido, Oses Paula. "Between history and philosophy : Isaiah Berlin on political theory and hermeneutics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3644/.

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This thesis offers a positive reinterpretation of the relevance of Isaiah Berlin’s political thought. It re-examines his work hermeneutically with the double aim of claiming its intrinsic relevance as a work of political theory beyond what most critics have acknowledged, first; and second, with the intention of using it to draw conclusions that will address some of the most pressing discussions found in contemporary liberal political theory, such as the conflicting link between value pluralism and liberalism, or the recent confrontation between political moralism and political realism. This is

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Kelly, Ray. "The riddle of history : Marx's concept of socialism in the context of his epistemology and theory of history." Thesis, University of Kent, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387323.

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Within the organisation of all societies, there are basic contradictions which historically have given rise to certain undesirable structural features. These same contradictions also lie at the root of alienated, ideological forms of consciousness which act as a barrier to the solution of these problems. In chapter one, I will deal with each of these issues in turn, thus introducing Marx's problematic, i. e. the so-called "riddle of history". Chapters two and three contain a discussion of Marx's methodology, which was intended to avoid the pitfalls of ideological forms of consciousness and pro

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Karabela, Mehmet Kadri. "The development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96696.

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This dissertation is an analysis of the development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history. The central concerns of the thesis are; treatises on the theoretical understanding of the concept of dialectic and argumentation theory, and how, in practice, the concept of dialectic, as expressed in the Greek classical tradition, was received and used by five communities in the Islamic intellectual camp. It shows how dialectic as an argumentative discourse diffused into five communities (theologicians, poets, grammarians, philosophers and jurists) and ho

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Golden, Lauren. "An historical enquiry concerning the imagination in philosophy, art history and evolutionary theory." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249433.

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Harley, Kirsten. "What (else) is theory for? : a historical exploration of theory use in sociology." Phd thesis, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10529.

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Hall, Tim. "The philosophy of Praxis : a re-evaluation of Georg Lukacs' History and class consciousness." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390992.

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Figel, Jared T. "Contemporary Functionalism and Aristotle's Theory of Mind." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460400969.

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Guo, Yunlong. "The structure of a metaphysical interpretation of science of history." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/115891/.

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The aim of this research is to reconstruct a metaphysical interpretation of the philosophy of history with regard to the spirit of historical thinking. The spirit of historical thinking is to emphasize the relation between what happened in the past and historical thinking about the past in the present. However, current philosophies of history, which are largely epistemologically oriented, have not adequately explored this relation. In order to investigate the relation between past and present, I refer to an Aristotelian philosophy of practice and politics, and adapt it to the domain of the phi

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Ritson, Sophie. "The Many Dimensions of the String Theory Wars." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14968.

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String theory, over its near five decade history, has attracted a great deal of controversy, which continues to evolve to the present day. The string theory controversy has novel aspects which highlight how contemporary science continues to develop. Those novel aspects include: non-empirical scientific methodologies and theory appraisal; a negotiation of the boundary between science and non-science where the dominant group is forced to defend its authority; and a potentially new form of peer review. With the controversy yet to be settled, at stake is how science is understood within high energ

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Bower, Matthew S. "Catastrophe in Permanence: Benjamin's Natural History of Environmental Crisis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984263/.

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Walter Benjamin warned in 1940 of a certain inconspicuous threat to political thinking, not least of all to materialism, that takes progress as an historical norm. Implicit in this conception is what he describes as an empty continuum of time along which the prevailing tradition chronicles its own mythic development and drains everyday life of genuine historical experience. The myth of progressive history advances insidiously today in consumeristic and technocratic attempts at reconciling cultural imagery with organic nature. In this dissertation, I pursue the contradictions of such images as

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Mascaretti, Giovanni M. "Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the present." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19707/.

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What is the nature of our society? What kinds of power regimes shape our existence? What forms of emancipatory resistance might chart the way towards a better future that responds to the dangers, injustices, and pathologies marking the present? These are just some of the questions my dissertation aims to answer through the help of the conceptual resources that Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault provide us with. Accordingly, whereas the few attempts that have been made been to compare their works remain inadequate, partial, or simply out-dated, my thesis offers a detailed and comprehensive appr

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Wells, Michael. "Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/324.

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This study provides a new account of the evolution of the eighteenth-century British novel by reading it as a response to contemporary interest in, and self-consciousness about, print communication. During the eighteenth century, print went from being a marginal technology to being one with an increasingly wide circulation and a diverse range of applications. The pervasive adoption of print generated anxiety about its positive and negative effects, prompting a series of responses from writers. Examining the work of five British novelists from across the long eighteenth century, this dissertati

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Covington, Faries M. "Friedrich Blass on the rhetorical theory of Isocrates." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/932632.

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Nineteenth-century classical scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Blass wrote over 300 densely annotated pages on Isocrates, an ancient Athenian schoolmaster and political essayist. A lengthy section of Blass' Die attische Beredsamkeit (1898) has been excerpted here and translated into English for the first time. The excerpt involves Blass' inventory of the Isocratic canon, an argument for the existence of a lost Isocratic rhetoric (techne), and an illustration of what that lost rhetoric likely contained. A translator's prologue discusses the value of both Isocrates and Blass to the study of classical rh

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Addis, W. "Theory and design in civil and structural engineering : A study in the history and philosophy of engineering." Thesis, University of Reading, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.483030.

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Hendry, Robin Findlay. "Realism, history and the quantum theory : philosophical and historical arguments for realism as a methodological thesis." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1442/.

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Scientific realists and non-realists disagree over the reach of scientific knowledge: does it extend beyond the observational realm. Intuitions about abductive inferences are at the heart of many realist positions, but are brought into question by the non-realists' contention that theories are underdetermined by data, and the alleged circularity of realist attempts to show that such inferences are reliable. Some realists have tried to circumvent this problem by constructing methodological arguments for realism: if realism is embedded in scientific practice, the realist's picture of science mig

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Dowthwaite, James. "Ezra Pound's theory of language." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b7fdc3da-8442-478f-8dbf-4a401cf29e27.

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This thesis examines Ezra Pound's linguistic theory in relation to literary, philosophical and academic treatments of language in the modernist period. Pound is a central figure in the history of twentieth century literature, and his poetic career marks a sustained engagement with questions of how language can register thought, how it can transmit and communicate images, and, ultimately, how language is able to mediate between artists (or, indeed, language speakers as a whole) and the world. I read Pound's statements on language against the disciplinary history of linguistics, assessing the ex

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Berner, Ashley Rogers. "Metaphysics in educational theory : educational philosophy and teacher training in England (1839-1944)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f604b518-5ea3-4e29-98b9-cecbe3c78843.

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In 1839 the English Parliament first disbursed funds for the formal education of teachers. Between 1839 and the McNair Report in 1944 the institutional shape and the intellectual resources upon which teacher training rested changed profoundly. The centre of teacher training moved from theologically-based colleges to university departments of education; the primary source for understanding education shifted from theology to psychology. These changes altered the ways in which educators contemplated the nature of the child, the role of the teacher and the aim of education itself. This thesis prob

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Cai, Guanjun 1964. "A Chinese rhetorical tradition? Case studies in the history of Chinese rhetorical theory and practice." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288824.

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This dissertation investigates rhetorical theories and practices in Chinese cultural history. I examine the rhetorics that are explicit and implicit in Chinese philosophical, political, and academic theories and practices. Based on my case studies in Chinese history, I argue that rhetoric is a social, cultural, and historical construct, and rhetoric in the Chinese context is better understood as the study and practice of putting philosophy into social action for practical purposes. These case studies also illustrate that since assumptions about rhetoric are integrally related to particular cul

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Urquhart, Robert William Forsyth. "The celebration of difference? : a history of the popularisation of parallels between Mahȃyȃna Buddhist philosophy and quantum physics, 1969-1989." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1993. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26652.

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A contentious issue raised by the work of the physics—Eastem mysticism writers (the ‘popularisers’) is whether or not understanding is possible in the dialogue between science and Buddhism. This study is an investigation, from a critical hermeneutica] perspective, of the possibilities for understanding within an interdisciplinary dialogue. It examines the interpretation of Mahayana Buddhist philosophical and quantum physics texts by the popularisers during a twenty year period, 1969 to 1989. It locates the encounter of the popularisers with these texts in a longer-term historical context, by t

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Ibrahim, Bilal. "The evolution of the rule of law : the origins and function of legal theory." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98935.

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The thesis examines the origins and function of legal theory ( usul al-fiqh) within the context of the development of early Islamic law. I argue against the depiction of the development of law as a series of compromises between traditionalism and rationalism. Rather, by evading the demands of traditionalism, law evolved into a complex doctrinal entity rooted in the social structures of third-century Abbasid society. This revision of the development of law provides a context to evaluate early works of legal theory. Moreover, in context of my analysis of the development of law, I attempt to expl

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Holiday, C. A. D. "Moral powers : The importance of value preservation and moral forms of life in Wittgensteinian philosophical semantics and the Marxist theory of history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384678.

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Baker, Kevin T. "Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, and Philosophy in the German Democratic Republic." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/47.

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Cybernetics, despite being initially rejected in the Eastern Bloc throughout the 1950s for ideological reasons, rose to a high level of institutional prominence in the 1960s, profoundly influencing state philosophy and economic planning. This thesis is an examination of this transition, charting the development of cybernetics from the object of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’s (SED) opprobrium to one of the major philosophical currents within the party intelligentsia.

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Allsobrook, Christopher John. "Foucault, historicism and political philosophy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003073.

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This thesis defends an ontological and epistemological account of Michel Foucault's post-structuralist philosophy, to argue that political philosophy needs to take into account the historical and political contingency of subjectivity and discourse. I show that by addressing the historical and political contingency of knowledge, Foucault's work overcomes the flaw of foundational epistemology in political philosophy, which treats true discourse as universal and disinterested. In doing so I hope to have to refuted the mainly positivistic and humanist schools of thought that lay claim to universal

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Kuukkanen, Jouni-Matti. "Meaning change in the context of Thomas S. Kuhn's philosophy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1259.

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Thomas S. Kuhn claimed that the meanings of scientific terms change in theory changes or in scientific revolutions. In philosophy, meaning change has been taken as the source of a group of problems, such as untranslatability, incommensurability, and referential variance. For this reason, the majority of analytic philosophers have sought to deny that there can be meaning change by focusing on developing a theory of reference that would guarantee referential stability. A number of philosophers have also claimed that Kuhn’s view can be explained by the fact that he accepted and further developed

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Horrocks, C. W. "Techno-theory : critiques of culture and technological being." Thesis, Kingston University, 2011. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/22366/.

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The work comprises a critical commentary and a portfolio of ten published major texts by the author, presented in whole or part. It represents a set of related themes and approaches to the subject of culture, technology and being. The portfolio critiques and develops theories of technology in response to significant examples within cultural contexts, in order to address and interrogate contradictions and assumptions pertaining to technologically led readings of images, objects and environments. The publications range from critical approaches to major theorists of technology and culture, includ

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Ulmschneider, Jacob A. "Paul Piccone’s Providential Moment: Phenomenology, Subjectivity, and 20th Century Marxism in Telos." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5445.

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This thesis explores the intellectual history of editor, writer, and philosopher, Paul Piccone and Telos, an independent journal of contemporary critical theory, which he founded in 1968. Born in Italy, Piccone lived most of his life in the United States, earning his Ph.D. in philosophy at SUNY-Buffalo in 1970. Piccone served as Telos’ editor and a major contributor from 1968 to 2004. This thesis follows the trajectory of his thought by contextualizing his writing within the broader world of Marxist, and eventually post-Marxist, political philosophy. Telos also concerned itself with modern int

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Perinetti, Dario. "Hume, history and the science of human nature." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38509.

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This thesis sets out to show that a philosophical reflection on history is, in the strongest possible way, an essential feature of Hume's project of a science of human nature: a philosophical investigation of human nature, for Hume, cannot be successful independently of an understanding of the relation of human beings to their history. Hume intended to criticize traditional metaphysics by referring all knowledge to experience. But it is almost always assumed that Hume means by "experience" the result of an individual's past sense perception or personal observation. Accordingly, Hume's criticis

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Östman, Leif E. "A pragmatist theory of design : The impact of the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey on architecture and design." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Architecture, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-196.

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<p>This study is an inquiry into design-theoretical aspects of architectural design in Finland based mainly on the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey. The study comprises two case studies. The . rst case deals with a young family designing their future home – a detached house built from prefabricated components – in cooperation with an architect. The second case deals with the design process of a leading Finnish architect, Professor Ilmari Lahdelma, as he prepares his proposal for an architectural competition for a new city library in Lohja, a competition he eventually wins. The case describe

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Depew, Michael Lee. "The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1057.

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A perennial question in the philosophy of history is whether history is a science or an art. This thesis contests that this question constitutes a false dichotomy, limiting the discussion in such a way as to exclude other possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical task. The speculative philosophies of Augustine, Kant, and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined along side art to discuss not only the similarities but, the differences. Major simi

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Wiitala, Michael Oliver. "Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/3.

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This dissertation is a study of the ontological foundations of true and false speech in Plato’s Sophist. Unlike most contemporary scholarship on the Sophist, my dissertation offers a wholistic account of the dialogue, demonstrating that the ontological theory of the “communing” of forms and the theory of true and false speech later in the dialogue entail one another. As I interpret it, the account of true and false speech in the Sophist is primarily concerned with true and false speech about the forms. As Plato sees it, we can only make true statements about spatio-temporal beings if it is pos

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Yount, Lisa Michelle. "Remembrance, representation and feminism : toward a politics of memorial curation /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192184061&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-176). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Ibsen, Alexander Zlatanos. "Inventing Law: The Creation of Legal Philosophies in the American and European Patent Systems." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222841.

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Although the patent systems of the United States and Europe have become continuously more similar their underlying legal philosophy continues to be different. This study examines how the two patent philosophies emerged out of different social situations and why and how patent systems can develop similar formal arrangements without experiencing a similar harmonization of underlying philosophy. As patent laws are historically unique to western culture it provides a lens through which to observe its relative social appreciation of industry, technology, commerce, and the role of the law. This stud

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Dunkle, Ian Douglas. "Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique or Why is Sexuality So Dangerous?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/60.

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This thesis argues for a new understanding of criticism in Foucauldian genealogy based on the role played by the values of Michel Foucault’s audience in motivating suspicion. Secondary literature on Foucault has been concerned with understanding how Foucault’s works can be critical of cultural practices in the contemporary West when his accounts take the form of descriptive history. Commentaries offered heretofore have been insufficient for explaining the basis of Foucault’s criticism of cultural practices because they have failed to articulate the relation of the genealogist to her present no

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Leader, Jonathan W. "Being political and the reconstruction of public discourse : Hannah Arendt on experience, history and the spectator." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/169373/.

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This study analyses a number of Hannah Arendt’s books and essays written over four decades and suggests that a common thread can be detected that links together the different stages of her thought. The need to do this follows from having to treat with caution Arendt’s own judgement that in the mid-1930s her thinking changed when she became political. In relation to writings she produced throughout her life, what can be seen is that she was actually preoccupied by one and the same question, namely, what it means to be with other people, she just looked for answers in different places and used d

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Tighe, Alexander. "The Philosophy of Human Rights: Its Role in Global Justice. What can we learn from a clash between a philosopher and an historian?" Thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/19006.

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What is the role of philosophy in the human rights project?4 And what is the role of human rights in creating a better world? These are the questions at the core of a dispute between the philosopher John Tasioulas and the historian Samuel Moyn, although it takes considerable work to see past the cross-talk and arrive at this core. In this paper I will show that disentangling the arguments of Moyn and Tasioulas is a fruitful task that lights a path towards advancing both human rights and global justice. Specifically, I will show that while human rights play a crucial role in bettering the world

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Badillo, Noé. "Ocularium Lucis: Light and Optical Theory in Guarino Guarini's Church of San Lorenzo." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/242360.

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Ocularium Lucis: Light and Optical Theory in Guarino Guarini's Church of San Lorenzo is intended to provide theoretical advancement in the understanding of the work of the Baroque architect Guarino Guarini by employing his Church of San Lorenzo as an example. In Part One an historical account of Guarini's life and work is presented. In Part Two, Guarini's methods as an architect are analyzed according to their intersection with the philosophy of science, geometry and astronomy, presented within his many treatises on such subjects. A syllogistic correlation is demonstrated in Guarini's writings

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Insell, Maria Katherine. "Avant-garde film theory and praxis : an historical analysis of the narrative/anti-narrative debate." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28074.

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This analysis of the narrative/anti-narrative debate in avant-garde film theory and praxis is contextualized in terms of the developments in Modernism in the visual and plastic arts. The problems raised by the aesthetic strategies formal autonomy versus narrative appropriation are explored by examining several discrete historical paradigms rather than following a strict linear historical chronology of the development of Modernism and avant-garde practices. Therefore the late 1930's East/West debates between the four writers associated with the Frankfurt school were discussed because their disc

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Houghteling, James L. "Rabindranath Tagore, John Dewey, and the Unity of Mind and Culture." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/905.

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What role does education play in a democratic society? How can the right sort of education help foster a free, responsible, and caring citizenry? How can education begin to reconcile and incorporate intellectually complicated and seemingly opposite ideas and theories, such as idealism and pragmatism, localism and globalism, thought and action? In my thesis, I aim to reveal, and perhaps begin to answer, these larger ideas pertaining to the role of education in society. Moreover, I address these questions through the lens of Rabindranath Tagore and John Dewey, two thinkers and practitioners at t

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Cheng, Chun-wai, та 鄭振偉. "道家詩學". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B20933770.

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Vaughan, Michael Hunter. "From camera to code : Godard, Resnais and the problem of representation in film theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d8752498-1a8c-48ec-b774-b3e9f1e410ea.

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This thesis presents a theory of film representation as a process of organizing relations in order to connote the image's status as a type of representation. It is, thus, a study of film form, the form of its representations. Building from such theoretical sources as Merleau- Ponty and Deleuze, I hope here to use a phenomenological base to build a theory of film semiotics that focuses on the immanent field of film representation, which I will postulate as a structuring of the inter-dependent relationship between the content of representation and the signified source of representation. This rel

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Benson, Carolyn Jane. "Autonomy and purity in Kant's moral theory." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/937.

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Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will legislates. This thesis examines this claim and its broader implications for Kant’s moral theory. Many are drawn to Kantian ethics because of its emphasis on the dignity and legislative authority of the rational being. The attractiveness of this emphasis on the special standing and capacities of the self grounds a recent tendency to interpret Kantian autonomy as a doctrine according to which individual agents create binding moral norms. Where this line is taken, however, its advocates face deep questions concerning the compatibil

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Black, Candace Jasmine. "The life history narrative| How early events and psychological processes relate to biodemographic measures of life history." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10102782.

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<p>The aim of this project is to examine the relationships between two approaches to the measurement of life history strategies. The traditional method, termed here the biodemographic approach, measures developmental characteristics like birthweight, gestation length, inter-birth intervals, pubertal timing, and sexual debut. The alternative method under exploration, termed here the psychological approach, measures a suite of cognitive and behavioral traits such as altruism, sociosexual orientation, personality, mutualism, familial relationships, and religiosity. Although both approaches are su

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Boukra, Liess. "De la crise de la sociologie au problème de son objet." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212881.

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Barwich, Ann-Sophie. "Making sense of smell : classifications and model thinking in olfaction theory." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13869.

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This thesis addresses key issues of scientific realism in the philosophy of biology and chemistry through investigation of an underexplored research domain: olfaction theory, or the science of smell. It also provides the first systematic overview of the development of olfactory practices and research into the molecular basis of odours across the 19th and 20th century. Historical and contemporary explanations and modelling techniques for understanding the material basis of odours are analysed with a specific focus on the entrenchment of technological process, research tradition and the definiti

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Evans, Daniel Carson. "Disputing an Analytic Construct of Philosophical Conservatism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/539.

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This paper examines and ultimately objects to a version of political Conservatism as described in Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin’s paper “Analytic Conservatism.” Brennan and Hamlin’s argument makes several claims about economic forecasting and societal risk-aversion that ultimately uphold the status quo within society. This paper examines these claims and refutes them, while also considering counter-arguments Brennan and Hamlin could use to defend their theory. In conclusion, this paper supports the analytic dimension of Brennan and Hamlin’s theory while criticizing the trivial and arbitrary

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Pereira, Gustavo Freitas. "A Teoria da História de R. G. Collingwood: formação, recepção e principais argumentos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-05062013-094204/.

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R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) representa, para a cena intelectual inglesa da primeira metade do século XX, a retomada da reflexão sobre os problemas epistemológicos suscitados pela História. Collingwood enquanto estudante de graduação em Oxford absorveu elementos importantes do debate realismo-idealismo do século XIX. Figuras importantes como Cook Wilson, E. F. Carritt, T. H. Green e F. H. Bradley despertaram a consciência de Collingwood sobre a importância das questões em Teoria do Conhecimento e, sobretudo, sobre a importância da Teoria da História. Para Collingwood, a principal tarefa da Fi

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Gomes, Augusto Patrini Menna Barreto. "O conceito de História em Oswald Spengler." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-26052014-121002/.

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A dissertação que se segue trata de investigar as concepções teóricas de Oswald Spengler acerca da história, publicadas em seu livro A Decadência do Ocidente (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), pensando suas implicações para a questão da constituição do conhecimento histórico. Nessa investigação de cunho teórico são importantes, além do conceito de história, também os conceitos de cultura, civilização, vida, decadência e Estado, compreendidos por meio de seu principal texto teórico, assim como seus livros menos conhecidos, sobretudo Socialismo e Prussianismo (Preußentum und Sozialismus) (1920). A

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Pioletti, Giuseppe. "Stato ed economia nel pensiero di J.Ch.L. Simonde de Sismondi." Thesis, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/309.

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La ricerca ha come oggetto lo studio dei principi costitutivi del pensiero economico e politico-costituzionale di J.Ch.L Simonde de Sismondi al fine di coglierne i nessi interni e le corrispondenze. Sulla base di una sistematica analisi condotta innanzitutto sulle fonti e quindi a partire dal vaglio della vasta bibliografia critica esistente sul pensiero del Ginevrino, si prendono in esame il contesto in cui visse e opero', i contributi da lui apportati nel campo dell'analisi economica e di quella dei sistemi costituzionali. Viene proposta un'interpretazione che coglie il carattere "interdisci

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Vanatoru, Brigitte. "Le statut de la croyance à travers les représentations mythiques et scientifiques du monde." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210443.

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Etude du statut de la croyance à travers les représentations mythiques et scientifiques des origines de l'univers. seront étudiés les mythologies issues de textes anciens qui nous sont parvenus (Théogonie d'Hésiode, Rg veda, etc aisni que les théories scientifiques les plus récentes. L'apport des neurosciences est ici déterminante et permet de mieux cerner le statut de la croyance.<br>Doctorat en Philosophie<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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