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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"Pluralism"”.
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Grounding pluralism
… consists of a series of papers on grounding pluralism, the broad view that there are multiple kinds of metaphysical grounding relations. Specifically, I argue that there are three species of grounding: why-grounding (which tells us why things are the case), how-grounding (which tells us how …
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Unity and pluralism
… central theme of this thesis is methodological pluralism in systems science: that is, how it might be possible to draw upon different systems methods that are traditionally thought to be based in incommensurable paradigms. The thesis is split into three sections. Section One begins by reviewing …
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Precisifying art pluralism
This dissertation explores the legitimacy of art pluralism-the thesis that there are multiple, valid accounts of art. In 2011 Mag Uidhir and Magnus introduced the idea of art pluralism to revive the debate over the definition of art. This discussion has been pushed aside over the past half a …
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Liberalism, Pluralism and Education
… In particular, I defend Rawls’ response to pluralism. Following this, I analyse the application of political liberalism to education. This reveals a serious problem with Rawls' account: while Rawls responds fairly to pluralism in the case of adults, his model fails to consider the …
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Educating for faithful pluralism
… of living and educating in the midst of deep pluralism. Yet many common responses to pluralism fall short of the ‘principled pluralism test,’ which states that an adequate response to pluralism must enable us both to hold true to our own principles and to make gracious space for others to hold …
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Epistemological implications of representational pluralism
… and so on. I call this claim representational pluralism. If some of these non-linguistic representations are constitutive of knowledge, as I argue that they are in later chapters, then this requires a substantial revision of the traditional epistemological framework. I proceed to introduce some …
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Towards explanatory pluralism in cognitive science
… scientific domains. I argue that the explanatory pluralism encountered within the daily practice of cognitive scientists has an essential normative dimension. The task of this thesis is to demonstrate that pluralism is an appropriate standard for the general explanatory project associated with …
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Surviving matters : pluralism and the self
The concept of personal identity or survival is intimately entwined with a whole host of our self- and other- directed beliefs, concerns, and practices. We naturally and habitually believe and judge certain people to be the same persons over time; identify and reidentify them; trust them; love …
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Surviving matters : pluralism and the self
The concept of personal identity or survival is intimately entwined with a whole host of our self- and other- directed beliefs, concerns, and practices. We naturally and habitually believe and judge certain people to be the same persons over time; identify and reidentify them; trust them; love …
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
… that economics as a discipline lacks sufficient pluralism. That is, it fails to enable, encourage, and respect the use of different ontologies, methodologies, theories, and/or schools of thought to study economic reality. Has this been a productive critique? Does talk about pluralism help …
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Dissolute pluralism: An ethics of queer thought
<p>Every practice has a theory, but multiracial queer social movements have centered theory in their praxis. In consciousness-raising and affinity groups, listservs and electronic forums, zines and community action research projects, participants frame the task of thought itself as collective and …
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Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion
… to address the challenge of reasonable pluralism. Whereas public reason approaches to democratic justification require citizens privatize their worldviews, an epistemic approach to democracy allows citizens the freedom to express their personal reasons while harnessing the epistemic …
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The Republican Dilemma: Liberating Republicanism, Sacrificing Pluralism
… therefore face a dilemma: either allow for pluralism and promote pure negative freedom or maintain a distinctly republican freedom ideal that undermines pluralism and seems unappealing under current circumstances. Although this illiberal freedom ideal appears unsuited for guiding actual …
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The Republican Dilemma: Liberating Republicanism, Sacrificing Pluralism
… therefore face a dilemma: either allow for pluralism and promote pure negative freedom or maintain a distinctly republican freedom ideal that undermines pluralism and seems unappealing under current circumstances. Although this illiberal freedom ideal appears unsuited for guiding actual …
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Pluralism in religion education : a feminist perspective
… Traditional Religion is denied. The challenge of pluralism in religion education is underlined, in this work, by a feminist analysis which derives from a personal experience. Any black woman of faith experiences a triple oppression it is held. To this end, the effects of racism, sexism and …
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Political liberalism, social pluralism and group conflict
This dissertation develops a political liberal approach to multiculturalism as an alternative to its dismissal by some egalitarian liberals and its celebration by some multicultural liberals. Some egalitarian liberals overstate the liberal tension with group-specific claims, disregard the role of …
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Problems With Truth: Scope, Mixing, and Truth Pluralism
… would not be adequate theories of truth. Truth pluralism is motivated to avoid the scope problem. The pluralist sees that there are as many truth properties as there are domains of discourse. A true proposition about objects in the physical world will be true because of a truth property …
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Critical systems thinking and pluralism : a new constellation
… the relationship between critical thinking and pluralism. The enriched version of critical appreciation is shown to require an a prior commitment to a new, discordant pluralism, which it also suggests in its modus operandii. In particular, the 'either/or' problematique presented by many writers …
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The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
… of these men developed philosophies of cultural pluralism in the context of larger projects, all three philosophies were rooted in colonialism, relied on the idea of race as a biological reality, focused on European groups, and excluded (and often denigrated) those racialized as non-white. These …
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Literature and cultural pluralism : East Indians in the Caribbean
This study explores the position, of imaginative literature in the ethnically plural societies of Trinidad and Guyana in the Caribbean. It examines the extent to which the production of imaginative literature has been marked by the same ethnic divisions which have bedevilled the political, social …
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