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Gauthier, Stevenson, and Practical Reasoning
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Some Aspects of Practical Reasoning in Epicurean Ethics
… questions it addresses about Epicurean ethical reasoning: the method for making correct decisions and the education required to be able to do so. The first chapter discusses Epicurus’ version of the hedonic calculus. My view is that he had a formal procedure for making decisions based on …
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Acting in Light of One's Acting: Practical Reasoning and the Excellences
… and reasons to illuminate our conceptions of practical reasoning, fallibility, expertise, virtues, advising, and practical intelligence. My thesis is that, in the course of her ongoing acting, an agent can respond to evaluative features by deliberately adjusting her acting, and that this …
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Aristotle on Practical Reasoning: Perception, Reason and Action in Aristotle’s Thought
<p>This study aims to clarify Aristotle’s practical reason and how his flexible but, nonetheless nonarbitrary ethical teaching works. By doing so, I hope to provide an alternative way of understanding practical reason in contradistinction to a modern view of practical reason and its assumptions …
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An Aristotelian ethic for the professional naval officer
… In Chapter Two I will look at Aristotle's practical reasoning and what it takes to attain excellence. Chapter Three will explore the U.S. government's broken covenant with members of the armed forces. The law and morality pertaining to warriors will be addressed in Chapter Four. Chapter …
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An Examination Of Wanting In Anscombe's Intention
… desirability characterization and utilization of practical reasoning, the conclusion appears to be that her view is neither thoroughly developed nor adequately supported.
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Rethinking hegemony as an educative-formative problem: Gramsci, post-Marxism, and radical democracy revisited
… Marx's historical materialist method and the practical reasoning ('praxis') that this methodology simultaneously engendered. Explaining this method, and the problem of education that this perspective further implies, is therefore the aim of this thesis. As I argue here, his entire written …
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The 'Gift' of the Disaster: Singaporeans' generous responses to the Indian Ocean Tsunami
… unknown strangers, they fail to exemplify practical reasoning to account for such generous practices. I seek to show that such failure stems from faulty assumptions about the sorts of influences people are liable to act upon (one that privileges causal knowledge as the primary motivating …
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory
… My study links the Aristotelian notion of practical reasoning to aesthetic cognition, and brings to surface the scientific, moral, and ethical arguments, which have been ignored by contemporary architectural criticism. The theoretical foundation of my argument lies in the work of analytic …
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
… the population crisis as a complex field of practical reasoning occupied by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary theoretical concern of this project is to describe how the population crisis emerged as a particular …
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Voluntarism and Reflection
… attitudes, at the center of an explanation of practical reasons and practical normativity. Voluntarism explains reasons or normativity by reference to the content of an agent's will. Constitutivism does so by reference to the nature or structure of the will, understood in a certain demanding …
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The role of probability in indicative and deontic conditionals
… research, played a role in mediating deontic reasoning. This research added to a growing feeling of links between decision-making and reasoning. In order to further these links an additional construct from decision-making research was applied to reasoning: probability. Initial experiments …
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Moral competence and the psychopath.
… evidence to suggest that conscious deliberative reasoning can influence those emotional and intuitive processes and thus determine the content of moral judgment. Whilst empirical research helps to identify important capacities that underpin moral judgment, it is uncertain which of those …
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Visual perception and motor function of children with birth-weights under 1250grams and their full term normal birth weight peers at five to six years of age : a Cape Town study
… were in scores for the subscales performance and practical reasoning of the Griffith's. Visual perception, visual motor integration, fine motor skill and gross motor function were all significantly poorer in the VLBW children. There was no correlation within the VLBW group between the test results …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
… But his approach, the structure of his practical reasoning, I argue, is in some ways different from those of his Aristotelian opponents because he stands in the Kantian tradition of ethical thought.</p><p>Rawls argues that moral virtues, especially the political virtues, are derived …
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Professional education and personal epistemology: a post qualifying social work case study.
… reflective models with the development of a Practical Reasoning Framework. The Framework acknowledges the types of knowledge and ways of knowing associated with professional reasoning and judgment, and helps establish the validity, justification and authority of a professional perspective …
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“No decision about me without me.” Do people with an acquired communication disability think that they can influence strategic healthcare decision-making?
… explore the ‘ethno-methods’ or taken-for-granted practical reasoning which each participant used to situate their views. This analytical approach is one which has been little used to investigate participatory constructs and one which I found merits further development. My research findings …
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Foundations and conditions of copyright in Islamic law
… periods, with a discrepancy in theoretical and practical reasoning but the view of perpetual copyright appears to be more evident according to Shari 'a. The range of arguments dealt with in the study ought to dispel any doubt about the acceptance of copyright in Islamic law. The introduction of …
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Help-Seeking Decisions and Child Welfare. An exploration of situated decision making
… of MCA (1997) it has been possible to explore practical reasoning in and through the local, sequential and categorical organisation of talk. Analysis of situated decision-making, in relation to the topic `help-seeking', finds decision-making a highly organised practical activity such that any …
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Persuasion as a social heuristic: A rhetorical analysis of the making of the constitution of Namibia
… on argument and many of them were solved through practical reasoning. This can be explained in part by the attitude of the members and in part by the constraint of the process. The study also revealed that the informative role of deliberation helped the framers of the Namibian constitution to form …
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