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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Langton"”.
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A Critique of Langton on Kantian Substance
Rae Langton's interpretation of the distinction between things in themselves and phenomena solves many traditional problems at the expense of Kant's discussion of the categories and time, which she thinks are irrelevant to explaining the problem of affection. Langton applies the concept "substance" …
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Peacemakers and Partisans Bishops and Political Reform in England 1213-1268
… with the return from exile in 1213 of Stephen Langton (archbishop of Canterbury 1207-26) and ending with the suspension in 1266 of five bishops for their involvement with the Montfortian revolution. Langton and his successor Edmund of Abingdon (archbishop of Canterbury 1233-40) created a model …
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Beyond slurs : communicating evaluative perspectives
… drawing on the work of Elisabeth Camp and Rae Langton, I argue that a wide variety of speech shares the interesting features normally imputed to slurs. In using a slur, Camp argues, a speaker signals allegiance to a derogating perspective. He does not indicate merely that he believes a certain …
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Information without power? Exploring the challenges and opportunities in the usage of the Promotion of Access to Information Act no 50 of 2000 (PAIA) as a potent tool for advancing socio-economic justice in South Africa Langton Miriyoga.
That there is power in information is not disputable. Information empowers marginalised and impoverished citizens to engage with the state thus ensuring their inclusion in the governance and policy processes culminating in the realisation of their socio economic rights. Conversely, in spite of the …
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Sexual Violence Victimization, Mental Health, and University-Based Health Service Use Among College Females
… to females in any other age group (Sinozich & Langton, 2014). Approximately one in five college women experience sexual violence victimization (SVV; Krebs, Lindquist, Berzofsky, Shook-Sa & Peterson, 2016) during the academic year. Among undergraduate female students, 23.1% are victims of sexual …
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Sancti Episcopi : a study of the canonization of bishops in England, 1170-1320.
… ‘model’ of sanctity. It also examines Stephen Langton, one of the bishops around whom a local cult developed, but who did not receive a process of canonization, in order to show how bishops changed how holiness could be perceived and exhibited. It asks why so many of these men attained holiness …
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Unsupervised Machine Learning Application for the Identification of Kimberlite Ore Facie using Convolutional Neural Networks and Deep Embedded Clustering
Mining is a key economic contributor to many regions globally - especially those in developing nations. The design and operation of the processing plants associated with each of these mines is highly dependant on the composition of the feed material. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the …
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The influence of management behaviour on work motivation within a financial services institution
… & Wysocki, 2007; Lepak & Hong, 2009; Ozcelik, Langton, & Aldrich, 2008). This study used the raw data from an ad hoc employee satisfaction survey conducted by a large financial services institution in South Africa. The data were not collected specifically for this study; therefore secondary …
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What lies beneath? : a defense of categorical humility
… grasp. In Chapter One, co-authored with Rae Langton, I sketch the landscape over which current interest in Humility theses has focused its attention. Specifically, Rae Langton's Kantian Humility and David Lewis's Ramseyan Humility are concisely presented, motivated, and defended against a …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
… in Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2017); the novel is a presentist text that is keenly aware of the absence of Black lesbian narratives in the archive; therefore, the novel is concerned with ideas around storytelling, memory, and trauma as a way of responding to or coping …
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On the edge : woman, nature, mother and father in the works of Kono Taeko
This thesis examines the works of the contemporary Japanese author, Kono Taeko. In particular, the themes of Nature, Mother and Father, and the manner in which the female protagonists of the works relate to each of these objects, is studied. Within these relationships, issues of fantasy, …
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Investigation of queueing parameters for evaluating Boston Housing Authority maintnenance [sic] operations
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Attitudes to sexting amongst post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland : a liberal feminist approach
… (1999) seven-stage model of objectification and Langton’s (2009) additional features to demonstrate what it means to treat a person as an object. The features of the model are: instrumentality; denial of autonomy; inertness; fungibility; violability; ownership; denial of subjectivity (Nussbaum, …
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Kant and the Nonspatiality of Things in Themselves
ABSTRACT Kant says that space has no independently real existence. What he means is that apart from the human mind, space is not real. Of course, it is real to us, he argues—in fact, space is the very condition that makes possible an experience of objects in space. However, space and time are mere …
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Pastoral care according to the bishops of England and Wales (c.1170 – 1228)
Church leaders have always been seen as shepherds, expected to feed their flock with teaching, to guide them to salvation, and to preserve them from threatening ‘wolves’. In the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, ideas about the specifics of these pastoral duties were developing rapidly, …