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Showing 1 to 20 of 324 for “"Materialism"”.
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Bodies, minds and materialism
It is common to describe subjective experience as a mental, and thus metaphysical, phenomenon. This core assumption is a central tenet of our intellectual history. How this bears on our ability to take seriously new theories of mind in light of progressive discovery is what is at issue in this …
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Materialism and Mental Attribution
This dissertation argues that contemporary materialism constitutes a viable position between dualism on the one hand and so-called analytical behaviorism on the other hand only if it can hold both that sentences containing mental terms are standardly used to talk about 'inner' processes, states, …
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Readings in historico-geographical materialism
… in David Harvey's 'historico-geographical materialism'. Harvey, perhaps the leading exponent of geographically inflected materialist analysis, has produced a considerable amount of work exploring how capital entails a particular mode of sociation that is consequential for our very …
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Meaningful materialism : collectors relationship to their objects
The shared language, attitudes, practices and patterns of those who participate in “collecting" in the lower mainland area of British Columbia are described. Recurring themes and patterns emerge in the analysis of data obtained through interviews with thirty collector-informants. The …
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Materialism, Perceived Financial Problems, and Marital Satisfaction
… designed to examine a conceptual model linking materialism, perceived financial problems, and relationship satisfaction among married couples. Data obtained from 600 married heterosexual couples who took the RELATE test fit the model well. Findings indicate that wives' materialism is negatively …
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Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism
… to the development of the concept of cultural materialism in Marxism and Literature in 1977.
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The crystal world: executing a new media materialism
This thesis presents practice-based research to establish new forms of social and artistic production through examinations of the materiality of the technical media, namely the computer, that underpins new media art. Contemporary new media art practice has tended to focus attention on software or …
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Consciousness and reductive explanation : has materialism been refuted?
… is not logically supervenient on the physical), materialism, which is committed to a priori conceptual analysis, must be false. In this thesis, an attempt will be made to discredit this viewpoint. While Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker argue that explicit micro-macro (physical) entailments can only …
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DUALISM VS. MATERIALISM; TWO INADEQUATE PICTURES OF HUMAN NATURE
… the two views vying for prominence (dualism vs. materialism) neither is indubitable, nevertheless their are faithful proponents on each side. In a debate of belief vs. theory we see these seemingly disparate realms come together in a resignation to faith that their option is an adequate …
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
… some crucial correctives to contemporary materialism
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Physical causes and rational belief: A problem for materialism?
This dissertation is an examination of the merits of an argument that naturalism is self-stultifying because it is incompatible with the possibility of rational inference. Since naturalists are committed not only to the view that nothing exists but nature, but are also to the truthfulness of the …
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Raymond Williams, cultural materialism and the break-up of Britain
… it explores Williams's concept of cultural materialism, which theorises the role played by cultural forms in the creation and contestation of a national political order. Secondly, it extrapolates Williams's implicit critique of the unitary British state, and his theory of how cultural forms …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… (and the gender binary) and using posthuman new materialism (agential realism) as a theoretical framework this study engages with the constitution of myriad binaries, including the male/female, man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual, sex/gender, human/nonhuman and mind/body binaries. Through a …
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Language in Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: A Reading of Anacoluthon
… speculation, serving to couch contemporary materialism in thoroughly un-prospective tendencies; and (2), a relative failure of contemporary speculative philosophy to reflect on language, a failure attributable to the long drawn-out dominance of post-structuralism’s linguistic form of …
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Encountering Agency with Decolonial Thought, New Materialism, and The Vegetarian
… frameworks -- decolonial thought and new materialism – with the South Korean novella The Vegetarian. I suggest that the novella, especially through its protagonist, performs a form of agency which calls for a reading that hinges not on the pursuit of definitive analysis but on the …
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The lives of film: heritage, restoration, and the materialism of cinema
… celluloid. I refer to this apparatus as the "new materialism" of cinema. The dissertation traces the development of this apparatus around film heritage and film restoration, and in the context of post-Fordism, that is, the post-industrialization of the global economy. I argue that this …
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MEASURING AND MANIPULATING MATERIALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF CONSUMERS' ADVERTISING RESPONSES
… study examined influence of money primes on materialism, consumer purchase intentions, and consumer attitudes. Materialism, was measured by the Richins and Dawson (1992) Material Values Scale (MVS), and was treated as both an independent variable. Consumer purchase intentions and behaviors …
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An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism
… interplay with matter within a phenomenon. New materialism is “fascinated by affect, force, and movement as it travels in all directions” (Dolphijn and Tuin, 2016, p. 113). It is within this context that I subscribe to what Barad describes as response-ability (2015), a form of engagement that …
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