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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"Normativity"”.
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Normativity and Experimental Philosophy
The normative conception of philosophical methodology take as a starting point the teleological prioritization of practical knowledge over theoretical knowledge I examine what a normative philosopher might make of the emergent practice of experimental philosophy. Generally speaking, experimental …
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Robust Normativity in Complexity Science
… a template for this argument: it explains how normativity emerges from the causal structure of the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin and argues that this emergent structure licenses the kinds of explanatory roles that normativity plays in the complexity sciences. Future work will modify this …
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Williams, Scanlon, and the Normativity of Morality
Most debates about the viability of a given moral theory are won and lost, or at least brought to an end, through resort to a familiar pattern of argument: if a theory calls for that course of action, can it really claim to offer a substantively correct account of morality? This debate operates on …
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Queer: discourses of gender, sexuality, and normativity
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Accepting Freedom: Legal Normativity Without Political Obligation
… and provides a unique understanding of legal normativity.
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
Democracies today are experiencing a crisis of exemplarity. The horizon of figures in our political imaginations is being turned over, revised, innovated, condensed, and expanded with such intensity that it can seem that any presumption of commonality with our peers can feel dangerously optimistic. …
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Korsgaard on Reason and the Normativity of Rationality
… are in fact normative. In her view the normativity of rational requirements is a function of their constitutive role in the deliberative activity of reason. After surveying the treatment of this question in the relevant literature, I explain Korsgaard's theory using pure constructivism …
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Normativity and Representation in Kant's Theory of Cognition
This dissertation examines various aspects of normativity and representation as they figure in Kant’s theory of cognition. In particular, I argue that Kant holds that certain forms of representational content constitutively depend on normative constraint. This applies to all of the kinds of content …
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Fictions of Authority: The Normativity of Representation after Shakespeare
<p>The core claims of this study are that dramatic and political practice mutually depend on rich concepts of mimesis––of exemplary images and formative imitation––for their coherence; that the seventeenth century bears witness to a gradual and intricate impoverishment of these concepts; and that …
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The Speech of the World: Art and Normativity in Modernity
… of traumatic losses - the loss of nature's normativity, of art's significance for cross-generational transmission of values, and of history's demand to carry forward the values of previous generations. He sees in art the opportunity to bring such traumatic loss to reflection, and calls for …
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Primary school children's self-construction of gender identity, including heterosexual normativity
… extent the link between gender and heterosexist normativity is present in a Year 3 Maltese mixed primary class. In this qualitative research, ethnographic conversations with the teacher and the pupils about gender-identity construction are undertaken. Additionally, curriculum material and other …
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On the political uses of creative darkness: Freedom, subjectivity, and normativity
… concepts like freedom, subjectivity, and normativity. In Chapters 1 and 2, I repurpose elements from the 19th-century German Idealist F. W. J. Schelling’s Naturphilosophie in order to lay the groundwork necessary to characterize nature in terms of an alternative process philosophy of …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
… doubts about expertise, objectivity, and normativity led many thinkers to shy away from blueprints, favoring flexible modes of threading together politics and ethics. This produced a distinct modality of political thinking undergirded by what I call fragile normativity, a vision of …
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Choices of non-normativity: On coming out as LGBTQA+ within higher education settings
… of LGBTQA+ identities, coming out, and non-normativity (theory development - research question two), and (3) provide policy and practice suggestions that empower LGBTQA+ individuals in the navigation of their intersecting identities within professional and non-professional university …
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A Theory of the Animate Form of Literary Art: Kind-normativity, Criticism, and Axiology
… And as such a whole, some key forms of inner normativity or “for its own sake” conditions bear necessarily on the activity of reader and literary work. Chapter 3 explores one version of this concept of literary art as an internally purposive whole, through the thought of Goethe and Hegel and …
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