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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Philosophical Literature"”.
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An Examination of the Bio-Philosophical Literature on the Definition and Criteria of Death: When is Dead Dead and Why Some Donation After Cardiac Death Donors Are Not
… in mythology and legend as well as in art and literature throughout history. It has both horrified and captivated our collective conscience and has progressed, in a relatively short time period, from science fiction to a modern accomplishment that can improve longevity and enhance quality of …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… permissible, there seems to be a gap in the philosophical literature regarding the ethics of protest and intrastate- sanctioned violence, particularly in African philosophy. The first part of this project considers the historical philosophical literature on Just War, as advocated by Western …
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Protein Classification and Natural Kinds
… widely held in biochemistry but is absent from philosophical literature on biochemical kinds.
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Theoretical foundations of meta-aggregation: insights from Husserlian phenomenology and American pragmatism
… Husserlian phenomenology and American pragmatism philosophical literature and to clarify the validity of the claims that the Joanna Briggs Institute’s meta-aggregation is founded on Husserlian transcendental phenomenology and American pragmatism; 2) to develop an explicit coherent theoretical …
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The status of simulation theory in the interpretation debate
There is a debate going on in the contemporary philosophical literature concerned with our folk-psychological capacities, that is, how we explain, predict and interpret the behavior of others, and how we ascribe mental states such as beliefs and desires to each other. The purpose of this thesis is …
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The Substance of Ontological Disputes
There is a large philosophical literature focused on what sorts of things can be said to exist. This field is called ontology. Ontological disputes have sometimes been accused of being merely verbal disputes: that they are concerned only with language and not with facts. Some think that if this …
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An argument against the conjunction of direct realism and the standard causal picture
… chain of events, has not been answered in the philosophical literature. Moreover when the process of perception is fleshed out in terms of contemporary cognitive science, the difficulties are compounded. Neither representation-friendly mainstream cognitive science, nor representation-averse …
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The concept of autonomy
… although the number of near-synonyms in the philosophical literature means that I could, perhaps, have referred instead in my title to concepts such as freedom, responsibility, independence, authenticity, self-determination, self-identity, freedom of the will and similar concepts. But …
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Kolegijų studentų verslumo ugdymas taikant imitacinės verslo įmonės modelį /
… education concepts and theories, philosophical trends arising from different philosophical traditions and the phenomenological rules, an entrepreneurship education process research methodology is created. It allows evaluating efficiency of entrepreneurship education in the …
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Leaps of faith: Trainees' experiences of not knowing in psychotherapy
… taken up in the context of relevant clinical and philosophical literature and with reference to recent problems of professional knowing within the field of psychology.</p>
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(In)Justice in Nonideal Social Worlds
While there is an abundance of philosophical literature on justice, there is far less literature within political philosophy on the topic of injustice. I think one common assumption these approaches share is that injustice is simply the absence of justice; call this the absence thesis. This …
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Suggestions for Deontic Logicians
… has two motivations: First, to rid the philosophical literature of its puzzles and second, to give Hume\'s Law a proper formalization. Exploring the issues related to this project also points to the idea that maybe we should re-engineer (e.g., further generalize) our classical calculus, …
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The argument from divine hiddenness : an assessment.
… atheistic arguments in the contemporary philosophical literature. In this dissertation I offer an assessment of this argument. Specifically, I provide some needed conceptual clarity to the discussion of the argument from hiddenness and respond to various strands of the contemporary …
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Musica come Scienza dell'uomo. I caratteri del sapere musicale nel Settecento britannico
… In the first one we will take into account philosophical sources (from John Locke, Joseph Addison and Lord Shaftesbury, to Lord Kames and Adam Smith), and we will examine their thoughts on music. In the second one we will deal with musical sources (from the Treatise of Musick of Alexander …
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Computing moral hypotheticals
… with references to the cognitive science and philosophical literature, and I demonstrate the system’s explanatory breadth with diverse examples including escalating revenge, slap-on-the-wrist, preventive harm, self-defense, and counterfactual dilemma resolution. The key insight is that …
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Beaver Dams, Spider Webs, and the Sticky Wicket: An Investigation On What Counts as Technology and What Counts as Knowledge
… to sort out the inconsistencies between current philosophical literature on knowledge and on technology. In sorting out the inconsistencies we find, I recommend a spectrum approach with regard to technology based on the epistemological status of the artifact. Using observations from anthropology …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
… At the center of my work is the view that philosophical theorizing regarding implicit bias should be informed by careful attention to the nuances of relevant contemporary conceptual models of implicit bias. There are multiple models of implicit bias, each of which provides a unique …
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Reading Between The Lines: An Account Of The Cognitive Gain From Literary Fiction
… which I believe has been overlooked in the philosophical literature. I first outline an account of literary fiction in terms of the standard features of both literature and fiction. The diverse philosophical positions which hold that reading literary fiction ‘improves the mind’ attribute …
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” An African Centered Historical Study of the Selfethnic Liberatory Education Nature and Goals of the Poetry of Langston Hughes: the Impact on Adult Education
… addressed the problem that the historical and philosophical literature of the field does not to any significant degree include the intellectual and adult education contributions or activities of African Americans. Framed within an African Centered Historical Paradigm, this qualitative study …
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Beyond Able-Minded Citizenship: Embracing Intellectual Ability Differences in Democratic Education
<p>Within philosophical literature on democratic education, philosophers of education embrace the existence of cultural, religious, racial, gender, and other social differences as important to a thriving democracy. However, they frequently ignore or marginalize the potential significance of ability …
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