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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Episteme"”.
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Technology and social space beyond the modern episteme
This dissertation concerns the relations between technology and social space. It traces, on the one hand, modernist approaches to these questions; but then, on the other hand, attempts to find alternative ways to approach these questions through the work of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, Felix …
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Searching for the Islamic Episteme: The Status of Historical Information in Medieval Middle-Eastern Anthological Writing
This is a study of two compilations that originated in western Iran before the Mongol conquest. The research contributes to the ongoing discussion of the organization and preservation of knowledge in literate societies. The Muḥāḍarāt al-udabā’ wa-muḥāwarāt al-shuʿarā' wa'l-bulaghā' (Conversations …
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Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data
… supports a critique of what I call "the data episteme." I use "episteme" in the sense developed by philosopher Michel Foucault, where the term describes an apparatus for determining the properties associated with the epistemic condition of scientificity. I write that the data episteme …
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Accountability in the context of civilization change in China
… in terms of the viability of the modern episteme and the possibility of episteme change to ecological civilization taking place in China. Also the actors in the sustainability accountability network have been identified along with the key contingencies that could lead to changes in …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
… with its central focus on the notion of episteme as aisthesis, provides the ideal context in which the sophistic approach to knowledge through the medium of logos can be exposed and renounced. My interpretation aims at the following goals: (i) it attempts to show that the sophistic …
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Inscrutability: An Epistemological Experiment
… of Things. Foucault argues that the Classical episteme, which Foucault defines as the discourse surrounding knowledge-making that lasted from the 17th century to the 19th century, was determined by the idea of dimensions of representations. Dimensions of representations states that during the …
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Discursos de la sombra tesis doctoral sobra la naturaleza del espacio arquitectónico
El episteme de la cultura occidental campo epistemológico en palabras de Foucault-, asigna a la sombra una valoración negativa. Son diversas las contradicciones que refleja la presencia de una idea nefasta de sombra, o desconsiderada, como en los textos sobre arquitectura en los que se ignora su …
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Re-imagining doctor-patient relationships in an African context: a transformative educational perspective
… of doctor-patient relationships emerged from an episteme rooted in a biomedical understanding of disease, having epistemic and pedagogical roots in Global North contexts. The thesis offers an analysis of clinician-patient relationships that includes medical ethics, communication skills, and the …
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
… terms of “mere reason,” rather than as an episteme rife with antireligious politics. Research undertaken for this thesis is guided by two foundational questions: 1) Do extant models for the study of queer sexualities presuppose secularism or enforce secularization as a benchmark for the …
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A Site of Conflict and Resistance: The Impact of the 2014 Curriculum Reforms on A’ Level Media Studies
… alternative conception of knowledge—the dynamic episteme—which offers a more fluid, agile, and responsive approach that acknowledges the collective ways in which knowledge is constructed by those vested in the subject’s development. This theoretical concept can also extend beyond media studies to …
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"Plato's ""Ion"": An Exegetical Commentary With Introduction"
… epic stems not from techne (""craft"") or episteme (""knowledge""), but rather is a ""gift from the gods"" (theia moira). In the introduction to the dissertation I argue that Plato's purpose in writing the dialogue is to attack indirectly, via the Homeric rhapsode Ion, the poets' twofold …
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The creation of 'a world after its own image': a genealogy of transparency
… arrival of transparency within an ocularcentric episteme of the Western Enlightenment which privileges ideas of visibility ‒ an episteme from which neoliberalism also arises. I continue to trace the proselytisation of transparency upon the Global South, and its de-legitimisation of other forms of …
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困厄中的自我修辞： 新中国时期的丰子恺研究 = EXPRESSIONS IN DILEMMA:STUDIES ON FENG ZIKAI IN THE P.R.C. (1949-1975)
… of a set of values that registered a social episteme.
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
… namely how a body of texts generated within the episteme of anti-apartheid can be meaningfully related to the literary paradigm that replaces it. I find that in the collective formal inventions, fractures and displacements demonstrated in this thesis, an emergent post-apartheid episteme becomes …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
… racial terror and sacred alterity in the modern episteme. Apartheid Orientalism clarifies the order of ‘liberal-secular aesthetics' as the aesthetic idealism of Western Self– and World–making (from Descartes through Kant and Hegel) that gives to the modern the judgment of what is beautiful, …
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Epistemic Responsibility in Echo Chambers
… chambers, which, while not unique to the online episteme, are proliferated in pervasive ways online. Specifically, echo chambers manipulate trust dynamics in such a way that makes finding people epistemically responsible difficult, as contrary evidence is systematically dismissed, leaving the …
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A reading of qi: being in a world of qi in contemporary Melbourne
… inquiry and as a critique of the Western episteme, Chinese medical ideas and the worldview it presents provided the base from which this thesis emerges. Guided by contemporary interpretations of naturalistic inquiry, the thesis sets out to explore how Australian born and trained …
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An investigation into a local education authority's inclusion strategy : the construction and management of change
… Foucault (1977), especially the concept of episteme/paradigms, provided the most useful theoretical framework for analysing data. It is argued that inclusion within the case study LEA was not a paradigm shift, but change around the edge of a paradigm with a stable core, which related to …
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She ain't no mammy: African American midwives' utilization of Ma'at in the preservation and continuation of African epistemology
… tradition grounded in an African matriarchal episteme. There is a long history of debasement of the African women’s body built on a false racial hierarchy where Black women were at the bottom, the lowest tier of society. She has had to endure unimaginable horrors within the confines of a …
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Gender, Sexuality, And LGBTQ+ Identities In General Education Literature Courses: Three Major Conceptual Frameworks
… gender critical paradigms, and the sexual episteme – are outlined, with major subfields, lenses, and authors detailed for further research. To demonstrate the veracity of utilizing these three major conceptual frameworks in the existing pedagogical praxis of instructors, a study was …
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