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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"C.S. Peirce"”.
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Effective social system design : using the systems approach for organisational development
… method specifically as described by C.S. Peirce, the concept of learning cycles specifically as described by C. Handy, and the SCQATRE method that draws from the work of Minto and Ryan. This method maps over a learning cycle and presents a way of describing the problem by firstly …
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Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility
… classical American philosophy, particularly C.S. Peirce and John Dewey, as well as thinkers associated with the German Naturphilosophie movement, such as Goethe and Schopenhauer. There are deep, but often overlooked, resonances between these seemingly disparate traditions and contemporary biology …
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Utilizing Environmental Factors and Basic Principles of Pragmaticism to Establish a Theoretical Framework for Integrating Learning Object Based Instruction (LOBI) into K-12 Instructional Practice
… this study is pragmaticism as presented by C.S. Peirce and basic principles of that particular philosophy are utilized to present critiques of each of the twelve assumptions that are identified. There is a consistent emphasis upon environmental factors throughout the study. The findings are best …
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Through the looking glass: a semiotic analysis and experimental test of pace and angle effects in television advertising
… semiotic analysis built upon the work of C.S. Peirce, Christian Metz, Gerard Genette, and Herbert Zettl. Using our normal experience of time and space as a kind of deep structural baseline, it formally defined such montage variables as pace, angle, horizon, color, the camera cut and camera …
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The Sacred Depths of Nature: An Ontology of the Possible in the Philosophy of Peirce and Heidegger
… out a study of the American pragmaticist C.S. Peirce and constructively applies his thought to a religious understanding of nature called "ecstatic naturalism," a philosophy developed by Robert S. Corrington that conjoins American pragmatism and Continental phenomenology. In this project I …
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A gaze of one's own : feminist film theory, with application to Klute
… John Berger, and Peter Wollen's summary of C.S. Peirce. In the shift of theoretical interest to the process of viewing film, Munsterberg's account of the psychology of vision is noted. The psychoanalytic construction of visual meaning is traced through Lacan's elaboration of the mirror phase to …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… than the alternatives. The views of C.S. Peirce, John Dewey, and Edgar Sheffield Brightman are considered in this section. The second section details the extent and value of uniting pragmatism and nonviolence, the need for a distinctly pragmatic conception of nonviolence, prophetic …
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… in a manner very similar to what Charles Sanders Peirce will call pragmatism several decades later. Dupin's deductive methods and Peirce's abductive logic express the nature of objects in terms of social systems of preference and perception rather metaphysics. Peirce's classification of signs as …