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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Intentional action"”.
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Thinking about Acting: The use of causal knowledge for the sake of intentional action in Heraclitus, Hippocratic On Regimen and Democritus
In my thesis, I explore the role of knowledge in intentional action within the scope of early Greek philosophy and medicine. I investigate how knowledge influences both the intention behind an action and its successful delivery. Specifically, I look at the works of authors who discuss a particular …
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Knowing and doing, well and good
My dissertation explores the relationship between intentional action and knowledge. I argue that understanding this relationship is not only of central importance to action theory; it is also a means to progress on questions about the nature of knowledge, the mechanisms of oppression, and the …
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Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action
… human cognition have entailed that notions like action, consciousness, and intersubjectivity have gained renewed scientific interest. On the other hand, these elements have always retained crucial importance in theatre practice, not least in the actor’s process from the written text to action on …
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Enhancing Leadership Capacity Through Systems Thinking: A Personal Journey of Transformation Through an Appreciative Inquiry Lens
This first-person, action-oriented inquiry investigated how activating and expanding my systems thinking capacities fostered transformative leadership praxis. Grounded in an appreciative inquiry framework and informed by arts-based methods, including iterative sketching and the design and …
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The treatment of the problem of privacy in Wittgenstein's later writings
… the problems of linguistic meaning, and intentional action will also be discussed. Secondly I shall try, in discussing Wittgenstein's treatment of this problem, to show that his technique is a satisfactory one, not only for "curing" this problem, but for handling all philosophic problems. …
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Making Leadership Development Accessible Through Reflexive, First-Person Practice: Increasing Awareness of Interconnection, Wise Action, and Conscious Living
… In support of collective wellness and equitable action, the study emphasizes Etuaptmumk, the Mi’kmaw concept of two-eyed seeing or the gift of multiple perspectives. With an emphasis on diverse viewpoints, interdisciplinary streams of thought are integrated throughout the research design. To …
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An Anscombean Approach to Animal Agency
… of this thesis is to explain how the theory of action found in Anscombe’s Intention can be modified to deliver a plausible account of non-human animal agency (henceforth, animal agency). More specifically, it is an attempt to develop her account in a way that respects the Aristotelian insight …
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Journeying Through a Pedagogy of Peace: Creating and Translating an Indigenous Critical Pedagogical Framework from Theory to Practice
… and theory. It moves beyond reflection to intentional action, challenging the outdated Western educational models still rooted in industrial modes of production, consumption, and exclusion. These structures must be reimagined if we are to survive and thrive as a global society. In this PhD, …
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Mechanism and rationality : the case for explanatory incompatibilism
… incompatibilism, the view that mechanistic and intentional explanations of behaviour are incompatible, against various sorts of objections which come in the form of rival compatibilist theories. In the first chapter the author outlines the prima facie case for explanatory incompatibilism. This …
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Invigorating the Church for Mission. Action Research with Local Parishes
By drawing together the insights of Action Researchers and a personal theological/spiritual conviction of the total and limitless Love of God I present a bridge between the discourse of faith, worship and spirituality on the one hand, and the discourse of management/organisation studies on the …
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Action, intention and knowledge
… knowledge’; the knowledge we have of our own intentional actions. Part One introduces the target notion by describing three philosophically interesting features it appears to have (Ch. 1) and dismisses two broad approaches to understanding it – a ‘consciousness-based’ and an ‘inferentialist’ …
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DEFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT OF NURSE WORKAROUNDS DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
… (b) inconsistent practice with policy; (c) staff actions that do not follow explicit or implicit rules, assumptions, workflow regulations, or intentions of system designers; (d) intentional action outside of the process; (e) nonstandard method for accomplishing work; (f) informal or temporary …
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A cybernetic model for the unified explanation of human behavior
… to semantic accounts of the unanalysability of intentionality.</p> <p>Despite the objections offered, mechanists have continued to press their position on the basis of its epistemological strengths. The chief virtue of the physico-mechanical mode of analysis is that it is lucid; even in those …
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Reasons and causes
… to consider the question whether the reasons for action in terms of the agent's wants, beliefs and motives constitute causally necessary and sufficient conditions for his intention to act, and subsequent action. I begin by outlining the contributions of various philosophers towards an analysis of …
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An Electrophysiological Examination of Visuomotor Activity Elicited by Visual Object Affordances
… Compatibility (SRC) have suggested that visual action information such as object affordance yields rapid and concurrent activation of visual and motor brain areas, but has rarely provided direct evidence for this proposition. This thesis examines some of the key claims from the affordance …