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Showing 1 to 20 of 409 for “"Objectivity"”.
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Truth, objectivity and subjectivity in accounting
… defended here is that we can have truth and objectivity in accounting. We do not contend that this potential is presently realized: On the contrary, we argue that certain contradictions immanent to capitalism give rise in late modernity to crisis tendencies in financial accounting as a way of …
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Objectivity and Relevance in Accounting Evidence
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:10:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0004414.pdf: 19669729 bytes, checksum: a85344ac5612ba7edec408dd7f7be7ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 1952
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Issues in objectivity and mind-dependence
Reality and objectivity are often characterized in terms of independence from the mind: the first-pass idea is that what it takes for any particular subject matter to be real and objective is for facts about it to obtain independently of beliefs, linguistic practices, conceptual schemes, and so on. …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
The error statistical account provides a basic account of evidence and inference. Formally, the approach is a re-interpretation of standard frequentist (Fisherian, Neyman-Pearson) statistics. Informally, it gives an account of inductive inference based on arguing from error, an analog of …
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Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science
… of the treatment of the key concept of objectivity by such philosophical heavyweights as Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, followed by an analysis of the concept of objectivity with the work of such feminist philosophers of science as Donna Haraway, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Sandra Harding, …
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Universalizability as necessary for objectivity in morality
… Singer's generalization principle is best for objectivity among the different versions of the universalizability principle especially when taken within the context of Singer's complete moral theory. In chapter three I shall examine how it may be possible for Singer's generalizability principle …
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Objectivity and Autonomy in the Newsroom: A Field Approach
… examine the origins and meanings of journalistic objectivity as well as the professional autonomy that is specific to journalism. Journalists understand objectivity as a worldview, value, ideal, and impossibility. A central question that remains is why the term objectivity has become highly …
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Gestalt Biometrics and their Applications; Instrumentation, objectivity and poetics
… to a particular ontology, that of mechanical objectivity. Embarking from research into the artistic uses of physiological sensor technology in creative practices such as performance and installation art, this thesis asks whether it is possible to use instruments in a way that departs from …
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Situated Objectivity: Ethical Judgment, Critique and Justification After Wittgenstein
The documentary film Mr. Death raises questions about a man's agency in denying the Holocaust. Although Korsgaard's defense of ethics provides an invaluable corrective on any reduction of forms of life to unrelenting patterns of social power, her position fails to address power at all. On the other …
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Objectivity and Aesthetic Judgment in the Philosophy of Frank Sibley
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Performing Trans-disciplinarity: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Production
In this thesis, I make a case for challenging categorical thinking and draw upon non-human perspectives as a starting point to propose a pre-linguistic root to categorization by situating the concept of categorization into a sensory paradigm. Later I highlight a selection of 3 artistic projects …
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Beyond the Objectivity of Sexual Consent: Toward Rhetorical Expressions of Negotiation
<p>In this study, I inquire into the question: how do subjects negotiate sex, and find that the language of consent presupposes a capacity to speak about sex and a conception of intersubjectivity - the coming together of subjects - that is based on interpenetration (of both language and bodies). …
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The Influence of Social Control on The Concept of Accounting Objectivity
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Unburdened by Objectivity: Political Entertainment News in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
This study analyzes 2008 presidential election coverage on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to determine how they confront the tension between the genres of news and entertainment. To this point, much of the scholarly work on political entertainment news has focused on …
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The objectivity demand: experiences and behaviors of psychologists in capital case evaluations
… and opinions out of their work; however, whether objectivity is practiced is an empirical question. This series of studies was designed to examine the effect of human bias and error in clinical forensic evaluations. Four specific aims were achieved: 1) integrating quantitative and qualitative …
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Constructivism and the question of Objectivity: Fichte’s ethics as Critique of Kant’s
Central to Kant’s moral philosophy are the notions of autonomy and spontaneity, and their relation to reason and the understanding. Recent ‘constructivist’ readings of Kant’s ethics thus emphasise the role of the subject’s reflection in moral actions - reason is the only guarantor of the moral, and …
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The biometric imaginary: standardization and objectivity in the post-apartheid welfare state
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