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Normative practices and normative identities: A critical feminist investigation of pregnancy ultrasound
… to identify and illustrate the ways in which normative discourses are written on the body, both in privilege and in marginalization.</p><p> The analysis paved the way for two parallel examinations concerning how ultrasound is positioned as a normative technology and how certain subjectivities …
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Normative perspectives in manufacturing
This research proposes a normative approach in two infrastructural manufacturing decisions: quality and product development. Quality, as employed in the research, is defined as satisfying customer needs given a market segment. Product defects lead to customer dissatisfaction and have a negative …
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Imprecision in normative domains
Being rational and being moral can be difficult. However, some theories of rationality and morality make living up to these ideals too difficult by imposing requirements which are excessively rigid. In this dissertation, I defend and explore the implications of relaxing some of these requirements. …
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Intellectual Commons: The Normative Perspective
… potential. In the course of exploring their normative aspects, the thesis proceeds successively by analysing (i) the ontological characteristics of the intellectual commons, (ii) the relevant literature concerning their potential and interrelation with capital, (iii) the ways that they been …
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Normative Sentimentalism and Animal Ethics
… what I think is a particularly compelling normative version of sentimentalism. The moral principle which is the foundation of this ethic is: An act, or a failure to act, is morally wrong if and only if it is committed by, contributed to by, or allowed by a moral agent, and both the motive …
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Normative discourse and social negotiation
This dissertation lies at the intersection of philosophy of language, social and political, and feminist philosophy. The first half of the dissertation is primarily about the ways language can be used to stereotype, denigrate, oppress, or otherwise harm. The second half is about how language can be …
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Gender Terms and Normative Significance
In this paper I will address a puzzle about normative significance of gender terms. On the one hand, gender is tied to many normative judgments, and questions about gender make a difference in what one should do. On the other hand, everyday use of gender terms is in flux, and there is not a …
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A Normative Model For Strategic Planning
Abstract The thesis proposes a normative model for strategic planning using stakeholder theory as the primary theoretical framework. Development of the normative model is achieved by analysis of the literature and corroborative engagement with local government practitioners. Strategic planning …
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Unbuilding architecture: a non-normative exploration
On the following pages are images of an architecture which pushes the limits of design. Conceived as an amalgamation of semiautonomous fragments, the thesis project strives to decompose into complete disarray. At the verge of structural (compositional) collapse, the building asks the question …
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In the era of normative power Europe
… thus boost their standing in global politics as normative powers. In this context, focusing in on the European Union (EU), the second dimension of the two-tiered puzzle the dissertation unravels is whether through the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Caribbean, the EU seeks to …
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Toward a Funcational Apporach to Normative Reasons
A satisfactory analysis of normative reasons has evaded the field of metaethics for a long time. I argue that this is because of confusion at the conceptual level. Beginning with the debate between Reasons Internalists and Reasons Externalists, I develop an account of our concept of normative …
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Denying Queer Realities: Scripting the Normative Homo.
… these organizations participate in scripting the normative homo ideal while distancing themselves from problematic identities that challenge normative, natural frameworks for understanding identity. In doing so, they further marginalize bisexuals, transgender individuals, and other queers whose …
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Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication
Public architecture is intrinsically an issue of communication, and both are of keen importance to contemporary public life. Few communications scholars consider public buildings as communicative media, but doing so would begin dialogues on how to broaden the influence of both communication …
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Integration Setting and Normative Expectations in Childrearing
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Essays on taxation: positive and normative aspects
This dissertation consists of three essays on taxation. The first essay examines whether government policy, through the use of tax incentives, is able to encourage household savings. This essay analyzes the impact of the 1990 Education Savings Bond Program. This policy created an additional tax …
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
… The fundamentally social character of normative facts in the legal domain implies that a legal order is the consequence of a complex interaction of reciprocal forces between norms and human activities. This thesis argues against the prevailing view that characterizes law’s normative …
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Personality and attitude change through normative pressure
… in writing, or orally under pro- or anti-African normative pressure in an Asch-type situation. The confederates were successively replaced by naive Ss. Extreme attitude change was found, but the personality correlates of change were unclear. A laboratory analogue of the perpetuation of attitudinal …
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Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Normative Properties
Normative non-naturalists seem to be committed to a supervenience relation about the normative. This means that the normative necessarily varies with the non-normative, such that the normative features of a person or a thing cannot change if the non-normative features of that person or that thing …
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Anger and Punishment: Natural History and Normative Significance
… of anger has substantive implications for normative ethics, undercutting some of the evidence for retributive theories of punishment. In the process, I develop an evolutionary account of anger, its relation to psychological traits of other animals, and its influence on action. First, I …
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Is Ancient Eudaimonism a Defensible Normative Ethical Position?
… argued that Ancient eudaimonism is a defensible normative ethical position, though a Medieval Thomist version of eudaimonism will ultimately be defended due to the limitations of Hellenistic ethics.
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