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Pasek, Anne. "Carbon Vitalism." Environmental Humanities 13, no. 1 (2021): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8867175.

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Abstract This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels. Drawing on interconnections between CO2, plant life, and human breath, carbon vitalists argue that carbon dioxide is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and ecological standing. This philosophy contains a poetics of denial that is too often overlooked by studies of climate skepticism focusing narrowly on industry funding. Accordingly, this article develops a reparative theory of climate denial, asking
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Clarke, Tim. "Morbid Vitalism." Twentieth-Century Literature 67, no. 2 (2021): 163–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9084328.

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This essay frames Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood as an attempt to overcome an impasse between the discourses of hope and the discourses of despair in an interwar period in many ways preoccupied with questions of mortality. Synthesizing Decadent aesthetics and elements of Spinoza’s vitalist philosophy, Barnes produces a “morbid vitalism,” exemplified by Dr. Matthew O’Connor, by which life and death are conceived as variant expressions of a single force, and the subject is modeled as an assemblage of affects, impersonal but inherently social, that can be understood primarily through its pur
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Bognon-Küss, Cécilia, Bohang Chen, and Charles T. Wolfe. "Metaphysics, Function and the Engineering of Life: the Problem of Vitalism." Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 20, no. 1 (2018): 113–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2018-0006.

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Abstract Vitalism was long viewed as the most grotesque view in biological theory: appeals to a mysterious life-force, Romantic insistence on the autonomy of life, or worse, a metaphysics of an entirely living universe. In the early twentieth century, attempts were made to present a revised, lighter version that was not weighted down by revisionary metaphysics: “organicism”. And mainstream philosophers of science criticized Driesch and Bergson’s “neovitalism” as a too-strong ontological commitment to the existence of certain entities or “forces”, over and above the system of causal relations s
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Zhang, Xiaoxi. "The Formation of a Language of Science: Vitalism in 18th-century Scotland." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 76, no. 1 (2025): 170–75. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2024.20369.

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Vitalism was a scientific theory that prevailed in 18th-century Scotland. Due to the influence of Boerhaave and the teaching of native scholars, vitalism appeared in Scotland in the first half of the 18th century. Its prosperity was closely related to the personal activities of William Cullen and marked by the acceptance and use of vitalism by other new disciplines, especially chemistry. Due to the continuous progress of experiments and the update of experimental instruments, vitalism was gradually replaced by experimental conclusions. Analyzed by social network analysis, the influencing facto
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Carlyle, Donna. "Re-energising the role of vitalism theory in child development, nature orientation and research." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 19, no. 3 (2017): 246–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463949117715942.

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This article discusses the merits of vitalism theory in practice. It suggests a more creative and ecological approach to vitalism theory in the field of child health and development as a way of unlocking childhood potential and research innovation. By using an example from the author’s doctoral research concept (based on Deleuzian ideas) for children, viewing children socially, culturally and philosophically as ‘vectors of entanglements’, the author seeks to demonstrate and encourage the application of vitalism across health, education and participatory research.
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Cho, Hyun June. "The Livable and Gender: Judith Butler’s Political Ethics of Solidarity." Criticism and Theory Society of Korea 30, no. 2 (2025): 33–56. https://doi.org/10.19116/theory.2025.30.2.33.

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This paper examines Judith Butler’s recent reflections on “the livable” and “gender” through her latest works. In The Livable and the Unlivable (2023), Butler engages in a dialogue with French vitalist Frédéric Worms on the theme of “the livable and the unlivable”, from the perspectives of critical politics and critical vitalism respectively. In Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024), she discusses her recent thoughts on gender and anti-gender movements. Although gender was a central theme in her seminal work Gender Trouble (1990), it had relatively less focused since her “ethical turn” after 9/11. Wi
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Arsić, Branka. "Materialist Vitalism or Pathetic Fallacy." Representations 140, no. 1 (2017): 121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2017.140.1.121.

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My essay revises the inherited understanding of Ruskin’s theory of pathetic fallacy by positing that his ideas are close to theories that oppose any strict division of phenomena into persons and things. To elaborate this point, the essay investigates Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” where inanimate things are rendered animate, claiming that such instances are far from being pathetically fallacious and, also, that Poe’s ontology is in accord with that formulated by Ruskin.
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Kanamori, Osamu. "The Problem of Vitalism Revisited." Angelaki 10, no. 2 (2005): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09697250500417126.

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Breitman, M. Ya. "Bleuleg. Mechanicismus-vitalismus-mnemismus. Berlin. 1931 J. Springer. P. 148. Price Mr. 9.90." Kazan medical journal 29, no. 4 (2021): 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/kazmj88023.

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At the present time, when questions about the role of dialectical materialism in its struggle against mechanism on the one hand and vitalism on the other are extremely acute, it is extremely necessary to get acquainted with all those deviations that are currently emerging both in our country and abroad. Rejecting both mechanism and vitalism, Blair puts forward the theory of mnemism and engrams, first established by Goering and Semon.
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Bartczak, Kacper. "Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry." Er(r)go. Teoria - Literatura - Kultura, no. 45 (December 30, 2022): 127–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13127.

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Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry
 What is life in poetry? One concept that is trying to answer this questions is a psycho-theological, messianic and vitalist category of “more life,” elaborated by the Polish scholar Agata Bielik-Robson on the basis of Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic incarnation. Bloom’s writings constitute a link between the Jewish messianic vitalism and the vitalist line of American poetry, in which I place Glück. An antithetical position of subjectivityagainst the orders of experience governed by law and necessity (nature and death), “m
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Theory of vitalism"

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Gangas, Spiros. "Relativism, vitalism and modernity in Georg Simmel's social theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20518.

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Current sociological theory seems to be in a state of confusion due to the lack of a substantive paradigmatic framework of explanation. Debates in post-modern discourse seems to undermine the concept of epistemology and the idea of a progressive social science. My interest in Georg Simmel's social theory stems from what I saw as being problematic interpretations of his work, which discourage the view of Simmel as a substantive and methodologically rigorous social theorist. These interpretations, in light of their relevance to modern debates, contribute to the marginalisation of classical socia
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Farber, Ilya. "Domain integration : a theory of progress in the scientific understanding of life and mind /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9974109.

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Magnelli, André Ricardo do Passo. "As razões da vida: a justificação sociológica dos valores em E. Durkheim." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6364.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>A presente dissertação é uma análise da justificação sociológica dos valores de E.Durkheim. No primeiro capítulo é realizada uma exposição sistemática da teoria da argumentação de Chaïm Perelman e Olbrechts-Tyteca, com os objetivos, por um lado, de apresentar alguns elementos indispensáveis para a análise da argumentação da sociologia durkheimiana e, por outro lado, de formar um repertório que possibilite futuras prospecções com o fim de estabelecer uma lógica sistemática da justificação sociológica dos valores fundada numa teori
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Nicholson, Daniel James. "Organism and mechanism : a critique of mechanistic thinking in biology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/117787.

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In this thesis I present a critical examination of the role played by mechanistic ideas in shaping our understanding of living systems. I draw on a combination of historical, philosophical, and scientific resources to uncover a number of problems which I take to result from the adoption of mechanistic thinking in biology. I provide an analysis of the historical development of the conflict between mechanistic and vitalistic conceptions of life since the seventeenth century, and I argue that the basic terms of this conflict remain central to current disputes over the nature of the organism as we
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Eriksson, Jens. "The Eloquence of Speechlessness : Hybridity, Sexed Bodies, and Astonishment in Kant’s Theory of Epigenesis." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of History of Science and Ideas, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-113807.

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<p>Keywords: Immanuel Kant (</p><p>narratives in European naturalism and political anatomy. Yet the concept surfaces in gender historical research on the period in foot notes and cursory remarks. This paper interrogates why epigenesis has been eradicated from the historical consciousness of today’s scholarship on gender politics. By honing in on the weirdness, a term borrowed from Lorraine Daston, in and of Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) theory on animal generation I show how an alertness it requires a re-evaluation of views on "political anatomy" taken-for-granted in scholarship, but also of Kan
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Henríquez, Ruz Felipe. "Incidences du vitalisme dans les fondements épistémologiques de la pensée freudienne." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022UNIP7148.

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En 1998, dans son livre intitulé Canguilhem et les normes, le philosophe G. Le Blanc affirme que la création d'un problème ne consiste pas à « inventer de toutes pièces un nouveau problème mais plutôt [à] rouvrir un ancien problème résolu », opération intellectuelle qui revient à « déplacer le problème du questionné au non questionné, du pensé à l'impensé ». En nous laissant guider par ce précepte d'inspiration canguilhemienne, cette thèse doctorale examine de façon critique l'histoire de la formation intellectuelle de Freud et les fondements de l'épistémologie freudienne, problème déjà « clos
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Watts, Monique DeMarino. "How Do Organizations Create and Sustain Vitality in a Multigenerational Workforce." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10936989.

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<p> The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine and identify the best practices and strategies for human resource managers and organizational leaders to utilize to decrease the generational gaps amongst the four generations currently employed in the labor force, and to create and sustain a vital, multigenerational workforce. The four generations currently working side-by-side in the United States are the Traditionalists, the Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y, better known as the Millennials. Each generational cohort brings unique variables to the workplace such as b
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Killian, Mark P. "Everything in Common: The Strength and Vitality of Two Christian Intentional Communities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378109049.

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Kettner, Marvin [Verfasser], Frank [Akademischer Betreuer] Aurzada, and Vitali [Akademischer Betreuer] Wachtel. "Persistence exponents via perturbation theory : autoregressive and moving average processes / Marvin Kettner ; Frank Aurzada, Vitali Wachtel." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1228537518/34.

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Bär, Christian. "Some properties of solutions to weakly hypoelliptic equations." Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/6006/.

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A linear differential operator L is called weakly hypoelliptic if any local solution u of Lu = 0 is smooth. We allow for systems, i.e. the coefficients may be matrices, not necessarily of square size. This is a huge class of important operators which covers all elliptic, overdetermined elliptic, subelliptic and parabolic equations. We extend several classical theorems from complex analysis to solutions of any weakly hypoelliptic equation: the Montel theorem providing convergent subsequences, the Vitali theorem ensuring convergence of a given sequence, and Riemann's first removable singularity
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Books on the topic "Theory of vitalism"

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Pollmann, Inga. Cinematic Vitalism. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462983656.

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This book argues that there are constitutive links between early twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice, on the one hand, and vitalist conceptions of life in biology and philosophy, on the other. By considering classical film-theoretical texts and their filmic objects in the light of vitalist ideas percolating in scientific and philosophical texts of the time, Cinematic Vitalism reveals the formation of a modernist, experimental and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theater. The book focuses on the key concepts including rhythm, environment, mood, and d
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International Congress on the History of Sciences (19th 1993 Zaragoza, Spain). Vitalisms: From Haller to the Cell Theory : proceedings of the Zaragoza symposium, XIXth International Congress of History of Science, 22-29 August 1993. L.S. Olschki, 1997.

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Packham, Catherine. Eighteenth-century vitalism: Bodies, culture, politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Elaine, Kindell Gloria, and Lewis M. Paul, eds. Assessing ethnolinguistic vitality: Theory and practice : selected papers from the Third International Language Assessment Conference. SIL International, 2000.

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Evseev, Vadim. Business games for the formation of economic competencies. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2140130.

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Business games are an active form of acquiring socio-economic competence. The textbook discusses computer business games, as well as those disciplines that are an integral part of business games: theory and methodology of competence formation; theory of decision-making; theory and methodology of economic thinking formation; theory and methodology of building business games. The last chapter contains developed computer business games that contribute to the formation of socio-economic competence: "Economic foundations of youth vitality", "Development of business plans for youth projects", "Budge
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Grimaldi, Claudio, and Maria Teresa Zanola, eds. Terminologie e vocabolari. Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-364-2.

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The volume contains the works selected by the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association for Terminology (Ass.I.Term), presented at the 2019 Annual Conference, hosted at the Accademia della Crusca. Italian lexicography has long been influenced by the masterpieces of literature, especially the oldest, and it is therefore in this perspective that the volume, which shows the vitality of studies in terminology, is inscribed, proposing a reflection that touches on the comparison between terminology and lexicography, through which technology and science can show their positive function for the
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Grimaldi, Claudio, and Maria Teresa Zanola, eds. Terminologie e vocabolari. Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-364-2.

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The volume contains the works selected by the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association for Terminology (Ass.I.Term), presented at the 2019 Annual Conference, hosted at the Accademia della Crusca. Italian lexicography has long been influenced by the masterpieces of literature, especially the oldest, and it is therefore in this perspective that the volume, which shows the vitality of studies in terminology, is inscribed, proposing a reflection that touches on the comparison between terminology and lexicography, through which technology and science can show their positive function for the
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History & Theory of Vitalism. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.

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History and Theory of Vitalism. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Driesch, Hans. The History and Theory of Vitalism. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.

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Moir, Cat. "What Is Living and What Is Dead in Political Vitalism?" In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_13.

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AbstractDoes vitalism inherently imply a specific politics, and if so, what is it? In this chapter, I aim to offer at least some possible answers to this question by examining historical and contemporary discussions around the politics of vitalism. In so doing, I offer an account of what vitalism is as a set of scientific and philosophical ideas about the nature of life and its status as an object of study. It is precisely because vitalism is concerned with the question of life that it implies political considerations from the get-go. However, some of the more problematic political consequences of what has often been referred to (sometimes erroneously or confusedly) as vitalism stem, I argue, from the attribution of vital powers to the non-living. This infusion of vitality into everything may seem egalitarian in its apparent levelling out of differences between forests, objects, spirits, the dead, and whole societies. Yet if everything is living, then the specificity of the living, the living itself, disappears. Whatever equality may or may not be purchased from this perspective, then, I argue that it can no longer properly be called vitalist.
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Chen, Bohang. "Vitalism and Chemistry." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70690-5_6.

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Chen, Bohang. "Vitalism and Mind." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70690-5_4.

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Chen, Bohang. "Vitalism and Evolution." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70690-5_3.

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Holmes, Brooke. "Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism Between History and Philosophy." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_7.

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AbstractIn this essay, I examine the role of ancient Greek medicine and philosophy in Georges Canguilhem’s analysis of vitalism at the intersection of history and philosophy in his essay “Aspects of Vitalism” in light of larger questions about the historicity of “life” as a concept in the history and philosophy of science and contemporary biopolitical theory. Vitalism, for Canguilhem, is not a proper object of the history of science. But nor is it a philosophy that exists outside of historical time. I show how Canguilhem embeds vitalism both historically and trans-historically by threading each of its three “aspects” in the essay through ancient Greece. Canguilhem distinguishes his own understanding of both life and vitalism from that of the “classical” vitalists of the eighteenth century by refusing to read ancient Greece as romantically naïve or pre-technological and instead locating a dialectic between vitalism and mechanism already in antiquity. I argue for a critical re-reading of Canguilhem’s own conjunction of vitalism and Hellenism that resists its figuration of ancient Greece as the place where the human qua species first comes to take itself as an object of knowledge. I instead propose reading ancient Greek medical and philosophical texts that are read and reread in debates about the nature of human life and the life of Nature over millennia as part of a milieu that shapes how contemporary thinkers theorize life in the interest of human flourishing.
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Posteraro, Tano S. "Vitalism and the Problem of Individuation: Another Look at Bergson’s Élan Vital." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_2.

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AbstractMikhail Bakhtin’s 1926 essay, “Contemporary Vitalism,” includes Bergson alongside Driesch in a short list of “the most published representatives of vitalism in Western Europe,” and, indeed, Bakhtin’s critique of Driesch is intended to undermine what he calls the “conceptual framework” of “contemporary vitalism” as a whole (The crisis of modernism: Bergson and the vitalist controversy. Eds. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992, p 81). The conceptual framework that Driesch and Bergson are supposed to have shared in common consists at bottom, for Bakhtin, in the ontological commitment to the autonomy of life, “its independence, its disconnectedness from physical-chemical phenomena” (81). This has long been understood as the defining mark of vitalism, at least in the mind of its critics: the contention that matter and the mechanical models that track it are insufficient to the reality of biological forms, and that the explanation of life therefore requires the postulation of a non-mechanical, possibly immaterial, uniquely vital principle, force, substance, or property. Recent scholarship has made considerable headway in complicating these pictures by attending to earlier and subtler forms of materialism, and by distinguishing between different types of vitalism and drawing out the heuristic or scientific utility of some of them (Wolfe, Eidos 14: 212–235, 2011, Antropol Exp 17(13): 215–224, 2017; cf. Wolfe and Normandin, Vitalism and the scientific image in post-enlightenment life science, 1800–2010. Springer, Dordrecht, 2013). The focus of some of this work has been on the critical revaluation of Driesch himself (Bognon et al., Kairos J Philos Sci 20(1): 113–140, 2018). Yet the status of Bergson’s commitment to the existence of a vital principle remains underdeveloped. In the midst of what some are calling a “Bergson renaissance,” I think that it calls for the same kind of critical reappraisal (Ansell-Pearson, Bergson: thinking beyond the human condition. Bloomsbury, New York, 2018: 1; cf. Lundy, Deleuze’s Bergsonism. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, p 5, 2018). The aim of this paper is to attempt the outline of an answer to that call. I begin with a brief summary of Driesch’s vitalism, then I reconstruct Bergson’s underappreciated critique of internal finality, or what Kant called inner purposiveness, and locate in it a subterranean criticism of vital principles of the Drieschian variety as well. Two consequences follow: first, if Bergson is to be considered a vitalist, it cannot be in the Drieschian sense and we are therefore wrong to associate the two; and second, if Bergson is to be considered a vitalist, then his vitalism has to be understood—somewhat counterintuitively, and certainly contra Driesch—on the basis of a principle external to the ostensible individuality of biological forms.
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Chen, Bohang. "A Historico-Logical Re-assessment of Hans Driesch’s Vitalism." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_4.

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AbstractToday vitalism is widely dismissed as a metaphysical heresy. For instance, Brigandt and Love (Reductionism in biology. In: Zalta EN (ed) The stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, 2017) claimed that “the denial of physicalism by vitalism, the doctrine that biological systems are governed by forces that are not physico-chemical, is largely of historical interest” (p. 3). Perhaps the most “infamous” vitalist is the German biologist Hans Driesch. However, Driesch (In Rádl E (ed) Actes du Huitième Congrès International de Philosophie a Prague 2–7 septembre 1934. Comité d’Organisation du Congrès, Prague, pp 10–30, 1936) himself very explicitly stated that his vitalism is “neither ‘mysticism’[…]nor ‘metaphysics’” (p. 27). So, in order to address the mismatch between the present conception of vitalism and his own, I seek to offer a historico-logical re-assessment of Driesch’s vitalism. From the historical point of view, I show that Driesch had provided long ignored theoretical reflections on the nature of entelechy (the central concept in his vitalism), especially those in relation to evolution and physics. From the logical point of view, following logical empiricists (Phillipp Frank and Rudolf Carnap), I indicate that Driesch’s vitalism should be rejected due to its lack of vital laws, at least with respect to current biology; it is an unestablished theory rather than a metaphysical heresy. Ironically, some current theoretical biologists have proposed similar theories (or principles and laws) of life, even though they (incoherently) reject Driesch’s vitalism. In the end, I briefly conclude that the failure of vitalism actually alludes to the fact that even today we understand very little about the nature of life (I mean, the pure concept/phenomenon of life!) (While I cannot elaborate here, it is of extremely importance not to conflate knowledge about the pure concept/phenomenon of life and knowledge about objects predicatable of life (Ben-Naim, manuscript, p. 281). For instance, it is common among philosophers of biology today to cite elementary knowledge in a particular biological discipline as offering a better understanding of life. Yet their promise fails to be delivered. At best, they are merely relying on knowledge about objects predicatable of life (in most cases, merely knowledge about complex organizations of matter: about heredity, reproduction, development, metabolism, etc); but such knowledge has not been shown of any relevance to the pure concept/phenomenon of life).
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Peterson, Erik L. "A ‘Fourth Wave’ of Vitalism in the Mid-20th Century?" In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_10.

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AbstractIn his 1966 John Danz lectures, Francis H. C. Crick decried vitalism in the life sciences. Why did he do this three decades after most historians and philosophers of science regarded vitalism as dead? This essay argues that, by advocating the reduction of biology to physics and chemistry Crick was: (a) attempting to imbue the life sciences with greater prestige, (b) paving the way for bioengineering and the reduction of consciousness to molecules, and (c) trying to root out religious sentiment in the life sciences. In service of these goals, Crick deployed vitalism as a straw man enemy. His wave of so-called vitalists in the middle of the twentieth century in fact raised legitimate questions regarding the relationship of organisms to their DNA molecules that Crick was ill-equipped to answer. Moreover, most were not vitalists at all but advocates for what I term bioexceptionalism—an argument for the methodological utility of keeping biological pursuits within their own domains, distinct from physics and chemistry, regardless of the ontological status of living things. Nevertheless, Crick’s status as a “cross-worlds influencer” entrenched a philosophically-enervated reductionism in the life sciences for decades.
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Chen, Bohang. "Vitalism and Energy Physics." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70690-5_7.

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Chen, Bohang. "Vitalism and Quantum Mechanics." In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70690-5_9.

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Conference papers on the topic "Theory of vitalism"

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Srdić, Nataša. "Značaj proučavanja jezičke vitalnosti češke manjinske zajednice u Srbiji." In Současná česká a srbská slavistická bádání. Masaryk University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0684-2024-12.

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According to the original 1977 theory of ethnolinguistic vitality, the vitality of a specific ethnolinguistic community is what enables a group to assert itself as a distinctive and active entity within an intergroup context. This study seeks to investigate specific demographic factors, as proposed by the theory, in the context of the Czech national minority in the Republic of Serbia. These factors are analyzed in relation to institutional support mechanisms, with the goal of offering a comprehensive assessment of the demographic trends – both favorable and unfavorable – that influence the use
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Grigorova-Pesheva, Bilyana, Boyka Malcheva, and Biser Hristov. "SEASONAL DYNAMICS IN THE MICROBIOLOGICAL STATUS OF FOREST SOILS FROM THE TERRITORY OF VITOSHA NATURE PARK." In 24th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2024. STEF92 Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2024/3.1/s13.35.

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The health, richness, and variety of microbial life in soil represent basic indicators for the evaluation and surveillance of forest ecosystem vitality. The vital role these microorganisms occupy in forest ecosystems underscores the necessity to in-depth assess and monitor their populations within soil habitats. Aiming to deepen our comprehension of microbial communities across different soils and soils horizons, we conducted an investigation of 22 soil profiles situated within the territory of Vitosha Nature Park. The investigation was carried out in one year period. We took samples from each
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AHRABOUS, Mhamed, Khalil ALLALI, Aziz FADLAOUI, and Fatima ARIB. "RESILIENCE OF AGRICULTURAL FARMS IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CASE OF THE TODGHA OASIS, MOROCCO." In 24th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2024. STEF92 Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2024v/4.2/s19.45.

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This study investigates the adaptive strategies of farmers in the Todgha oasis, Morocco, as they respond to the pressing challenges of climate change. Through a mixed-methods approach, we assess the resilience mechanisms adopted to sustain agricultural production amidst increasing temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and shifting ecological conditions. Key findings reveal that farmers rely heavily on traditional water management systems, including khettaras and modern pump-assisted irrigation, to mitigate water scarcity. Additionally, the oasis�s date palm cultivation forms a microclimate tha
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LIU, Xiaoting. "BEYOND "ORGANIC" - PREFACE TO THE THEORY OF VITALISM." In ОСЕННЯЯ СЕССИЯ «ПРОБЛЕМЫ ИСКУССТВЕННОГО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТА И СМЕНЫ НАУЧНО-ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ УКЛАДОВ». ISOASPSH of N.D. Kondratieff, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.46865/978-5-901640-41-8-2024-565-565.

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Zhang, Hongjun, Baiqiao Huang, Peng Zhang, and Hongbin Ju. "A New SoS Engineering Philosophy - Vitality Theory." In 2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sysose.2019.8753870.

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Jupriyadi and Achmad Imam Kistijantoro. "Vitality based feature selection for intrusion detection." In 2014 International Conference of Advanced Informatics: Concept, Theory and Application (ICAICTA). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icaicta.2014.7005921.

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Zhang, Hualei, Zhiyi Wang, Yan Chang, and Xiaofeng Tian. "Research on Theory, Connotation and Evaluation System of State Owned Enterprises' Innovative Vitality." In 2018 4th International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2018). Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.63.

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Vasilyev, Aleksander. "Check bridges on vitality." In IABSE Workshop, Helsinki 2017: Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Human Errors in Structural Engineering. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/helsinki.2017.142.

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Taking place in different countries the collapses of buildings due to natural and man-made impacts or terrorist attacks have put the issue of survivability of buildings, that is, vitality – the safety of their total integrity in case of failure of individual bearing elements. The present report discusses the possible cases of failure of the individual bearing elements in the bridge constructions for various constructive systems and the considerations on the calculated checking on vitality.
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Zhang, Chen, and Lin Lin. "Research on the Strategy of Building Old Community Vitality Based on the Arousal Theory." In International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2023. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784485217.045.

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Skibski, Oskar. "Vitality Indices are Equivalent to Induced Game-Theoretic Centralities." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/56.

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Vitality indices form a class of centrality measures that assess the importance of a node based on the impact its removal has on the network. To date, theoretical analysis of this class is lacking. In this paper, we show that vitality indices can be characterized using the axiom of Balanced Contributions proposed by Myerson in the coalitional game theory literature. We explore the link between both fields and show an equivalence between vitality indices and induced game theoretic centralities based on the Shapley value. Our characterization allows us to easily determine which known centrality
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Reports on the topic "Theory of vitalism"

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Wagner, Peter. Vitality heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan theory of mortality. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/mpidr-wp-2011-012.

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Santos Sales, Déborah, Mariana Beiral Hammerle, Rayanne da Silva Souza, et al. Long Covid-19 Syndrome: the Prevalence of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patients with Olfactory Disorders. Progress in Neurobiology, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.60124/j.pneuro.2023.30.01.

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Background: Among the frequently reported symptoms in long-term COVID-19 syndrome, we can highlight olfactory disorders depression, anxiety, and fatigue. OD can affect people's physical and mental health and can lead to neuropsychiatric symptoms. Objective: Determine the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and fatigue in patients with olfactory disorders induced by long-term COVID-19; and investigate this impact on the quality of life. Methods: The study included 30 patients with confirmed long-term COVID-19, with persistent complaints of olfactory dysfunction. OD was evaluated by t
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Lerner, Josh, James Tighe, Steve Dew, et al. Excerpts from Impact of Early Stage Equity Funds in Latin America: Vox Capital. Inter-American Development Bank, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006471.

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In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some recent venture capital (VC) fund investments in Latin America. This report contains the research team's findings. This report focuses on three funds in which the MIF has invested. Using these funds as case studies, chosen to represent different investment approaches and company stages, the team explores two dimensions of impact: first, the direct impact of fund managers on portfolio companies is consi
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Lerner, Josh, James Tighe, Steve Dew, et al. Excerpts from Impact of Early Stage Equity Funds in Latin America: NXTP Labs. Inter-American Development Bank, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006470.

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In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some recent venture capital (VC) fund investments in Latin America. This report contains the research team's findings. This report focuses on three funds in which the MIF has invested. Using these funds as case studies, chosen to represent different investment approaches and company stages, the team explores two dimensions of impact: first, the direct impact of fund managers on portfolio companies is consi
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Lerner, Josh, James Tighe, Steve Dew, et al. Impact of Early Stage Equity Funds in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006474.

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In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some recent venture capital (VC) fund investments in Latin America. This report contains the research team's findings. This report focuses on three funds in which the MIF has invested. Using these funds as case studies, chosen to represent different investment approaches and company stages, the team explores two dimensions of impact: first, the direct impact of fund managers on portfolio companies is consi
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Lerner, Josh, James Tighe, Steve Dew, et al. Excerpts from Impact of Early Stage Equity Funds in Latin America: Progresa Capital. Inter-American Development Bank, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006472.

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In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some recent venture capital (VC) fund investments in Latin America. This report contains the research team's findings. This report focuses on three funds in which the MIF has invested. Using these funds as case studies, chosen to represent different investment approaches and company stages, the team explores two dimensions of impact: first, the direct impact of fund managers on portfolio companies is consi
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Poloboc, Alina. Fancy Fifi. Intellectual Archive, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.32370/iaj.2996.

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The painting is a fascinating work that captures the essence of extravagance and vibrant lifestyle of Miami through its main character, a confident and fun-loving woman. The artist has depicted a stylish and elegant figure walking through the city streets with a posture that reflects her confidence and determination. The choice of blue as the main color throughout the painting is a bold and impactful decision. Blue is typically associated with tranquility and calmness, but the artist has used it to create an atmosphere full of energy and vitality. Additionally, there are eye-catching details i
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Chandra, Shailesh, Timothy Thai, Vivek Mishra, and Princeton Wong. Evaluating Innovative Financing Mechanisms for the California High-Speed Rail Project. Mineta Transportation Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.2047.

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Millions of dollars are involved in high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure construction and maintenance. Large-scale projects like HSR require funding from a variety of avenues beyond those available through public monies. Although HSR serves the general public’s mobility needs, any funds (whether State or Federal) flowing from the public exchequer usually undergo strict review and scrutiny. Funds from public agencies are always limited, making such traditional financing mechanisms unsustainable for fulfilling HSR’s long-term operational and maintenance cost needs—on top of initial costs involve
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Mozumder, Mohammad Golam Nabi. Mobile Lives: The Quotidian Use Of Mobile Phone. Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2024. https://doi.org/10.57138/ezzy1360.

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Technologies that we habitually use in everyday life play a crucial role in making what we come to be or (en) act in social life (Doron, 2012). Marginalised groups of people appropriate technologies to combat the prevalent modes of domination (Eglash, 2004). This study focuses on a less studied issue, i.e., the quotidian use of mobile phones, particularly among the under-privileged segments of the populace in Bangladesh. This qualitative study investigates what makes mobile technology a popular tool in (re)constituting the users as social subjects. Do the users redefine the device itself, i.e.
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Lertchirakarn, Veera, and Prasit Pavasant. The effects of fluocinolone acetonide on human cultured dental pulp cell in vitro. Chulalongkorn University, 2008. https://doi.org/10.58837/chula.res.2008.15.

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The purpose of treatment of pulpal exposure is to preserve vitality, healthy and promote healing of exposed pulp tissue. Fluocinolone acetonide (FA) may have a potential to promote tissue healing. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the effects of FA on human cultured dental pulp cell in vitro. The MTT assay was performed to examine both cytotoxicity and prolifration of FA at 24, 48 and 72 hours. The results revealed that FA (0.1 to 50 [mu]M) had no cytotoxicity effect. In addition, these doses also stimulated cell proliferation. There was a significant increase of cell prolifer
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