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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Ordinary objects"”.
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Siding with Euthyphro : response-dependence, essentiality, and the individuation of ordinary objects
(cont.) essentiality. I start with our practices of engaging in thought experiments about the essences of things and show how my account vindicates those practices.
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"Real" lives and "ordinary" objects: Partisan strategies of art making with garment makers of the Western Cape
… and Doris Salcedo in Colombia. We all deploy ordinary objects to work against a range of hegemonic paradigms, expressing the plight of marginal communities in varying but connected ways. These "ordinary" objects, through the unique vision of the artist, become more than mere instruments of …
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Country Views
… I believe that we can find beauty in the most ordinary objects or places. My artwork is intended to help others find this beauty.
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The design of intelligent cookware
… computing, in which sensors are placed in ordinary objects, and to assess its impact in a domestic environment.
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Social networks for lonely objects
… relationship between humans and their electronic objects. As we move from vision to reality, there is an opportunity to rethink how we interact with our objects and networks of objects, and close the communication gap between man and machine. 'This thesis defines social and super-mechanical …
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The Sled, the Litter, and the Plot: Finding Connections Between Mundane Material Culture From World War II's USS North Carolina
… to the most innocuous papers. Many of the more ordinary objects can help tell stories of war and life to which the visitors can easily connect. This thesis focuses on part of North Carolina's story through the voices of the sailors using three "mundane" artifacts. The object biographies of …
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Seeing and Perceptual Content
… to low-level features, vision represents ordinary objects. I argue that there is just no fact of the matter. In chapter two, I defend a contextualist account of object-seeing: one that illuminates the inscrutability thesis defended in chapter 1. Finally, in chapter three, I address the …
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Thinking artfully with matter: A Posthuman enquiry into the pedagogical values of sketch-booking.
… find expression through the mundanities and ordinary occurrence of the everyday. By refusing to engage in the disabling constraints of formal pedagogical practices, prescribed by the systemic mechanism of institutional bodies, the process of sketchbooking offers engagement with education …
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Spatially resolved spectroscopy of faint star-forming galaxies & their environments in the high redshift universe
… faint such that their ux is dominated by ordinary star formation rather than galaxy-galaxy merging and/or strong nuclear activity. Such studies are normally untenable owing to the faintness of this type of galaxy. The approach used in this work is to select objects gravitationally-lensed …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
… that conventionalism about the modal features of objects and propositions leads to conventionalism about ordinary objects and non-modal truth. The first part of the thesis sets out the theoretical background for LMC by describing its empiricist and naturalistic motivations, its historical …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
… that conventionalism about the modal features of objects and propositions leads to conventionalism about ordinary objects and non-modal truth. The first part of the thesis sets out the theoretical background for LMC by describing its empiricist and naturalistic motivations, its historical …
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Impact of Incidental Aesthetics on Consumer Evaluations
… found in unexpected sources defined as ordinary objects, places, and people. Drawing on theories from aesthetics, psychology, and consumer behavior, this dissertation examines in two manuscripts how and why incidental aesthetics influence consumer evaluations. The first paper, 'Welded …
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Immaterialist solutions to puzzles in personal ontology
… by issues in the metaphysics of material objects. In the dissertation, I target two prominent materialist ontologies: animalism, the view that we are numerically identical to human organisms, and constitutionalism, the view that we are constituted by, but not identical to, human organisms. …
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The Appearance of the Other Ego in Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology
… which other egos appear to me as different from ordinary objects in the world. When one looks outside in a storm and sees a branch rapping on the window, it is not an alarming experience. However, were another person to be rapping at the window, the experience would be quite different. This is …