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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Rationalism"”.
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Modality, rationalism, and conditionals
… about the three philosophical debates. In "Modal Rationalism, Two Dimensionalism, and our Counteractual Sisters", I consider the prospects for modal rationalism in the wake of Kripke's Naming and Necessity. Recently there has been a modal rationalist revival, thanks in part to the development of …
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Critical rationalism: a critical essay
… aim of this essay is to establish that critical rationalism currently exists in an incoherent state. This is demonstrated through an analysis of the discourse's key fields (its metaphysics, metascience and politics), their constituents and conditions of co-existence. Looking at each field, the …
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Romanticism and Rationalism: Two Philosophical Traditions in Reporting
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Law, Rights and Reproduction: Reproductive Autonomy in Ethical Rationalism
… investigate how the Gewirthian theory of ethical rationalism can be used to understanding the intersection between law, rights, and autonomy. As such, I assert that it is because of agents’ ability to engage in practical reason that the concept of legal enterprise should be grounded in …
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Rationalism and the organic analogy in fin-de-siècle Paris : Auguste Perret and the building at 25b rue Franklin
… of the study discusses the theoretical issue of rationalism. It first distinguishes the different brands of rationalist theories in France at the end of the nineteenth century. An examination of the 25b shows the mark left by the writings of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc on Perret's rationalist …
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Evolution And Ethics
… (descriptively) as impossible; descriptive rationalism asserts that moral deliberation is necessarily a matter of reasoning, which (descriptively) must control instinct; prescriptive instinctivism asserts that moral deliberation can involve both rationality and instinct but prescribes …
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Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion
… is opposed to the prevalent view, dubbed 'Rationalism,' that emotions are subject to assessment because of their propositional content. Rationalism is unable to account for certain kinds of irrational emotion, where one forms an unwarranted emotion to avoid anxiety and secure pleasure. It …
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The Flower of Human Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn's Defense of Rationalist Aesthetics
… Moses Mendelssohn's contributions to aesthetic rationalism, a tradition that arose in 18-century Germany. Rationalists held that aesthetic experience is primarily explained by the perfection of the object being considered, where perfection is a fundamental, rational (law-governed) property. As …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… on his account both of the rise of instrumental rationalism in the West and of the differentiation of modem culture. Second, it exan-dnes the forms of resistance to rationalisation which are advanced by Weber in his lectures 'Science as a Vocation' and 'Politics as a Vocation', focusing on his …
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Work intensification and professionalism : A study of teachers' perceptions in the state school system in Western Australia
… world of what has become known as economic rationalism, and for some commentators, as economic liberalism. Grounded in neoclassical economic theory, and with close kinship to the Taylorist and Fordist principles of the early decades of the twentieth century, the vision of economic …
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The Concept of Learning and Education
… classical philosophical theories of knowledge - rationalism and empiricism - bring with them not only different conceptions of knowledge, but also different understandings of the acquisition of knowledge. They also involve different conceptions of mind, at any rate to the extent that for …
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Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren's Rationalist Writings and the Chinese Enlightenment
… is a consistent philosophical foundation that is rationalism. Inspired by the European Enlightenment, Zhou developed his rationalism that consists of a humanistic understanding of the world; a critical attitude towards established social and moral doctrines; the reliance on one's understanding …
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The professional knowledge base for teaching : a philosophical justification for a plurality of ways of knowing
… that, three 20th century versions of scientific rationalism are examined to show how each successive tradition weakened the certainty of scientific knowledge. Next, insurmountable impediments to certain knowledge are discussed to demonstrate how rationalism has recently been challenged by a more …
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Maimon's Post-Kantian Skepticism
… is related to Maimon’s so-called dogmatic rationalism. The central aim of this project is to present Maimon’s as a distinct form of post-Kantian skepticism: one which poses significant problems for Kant’s theoretical project and which motivates a reformulation of the critical framework. In …
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Public administration in a time of fractured meaning: beyond the legacy of Herbert Simon
… of the progressive era which emphasized both rationalism (the objective control of administration) and embodied the ideal of public interest (administration as dialogue and the need for a community of meaning). It is argued that Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior appropriates the …
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Critical Post-Humanism as Problematic: Epistemological, Ethical, and Teleological Gestures for the Future of Post-Humanity
… more thorough—critiques of Kantian-Hegelian rationalism and teleology. The critique of rationalism is explored through the development of a post-humanist ‘ethics’ that would be both non-universal and non-rational. To do this, I highlight work focused on bodies and embodiment, asking what a …
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George Whitefield's Preaching: An Evangelical Response to the Enlightenment
… of the Enlightenment period. Specifically, rationalism as a means to discerning and living by truth. Philosophical influences such as Locke, Newton, Hume, Descartes, and Kant are overviewed. The First Great Awakening was the result of many cultural and theological ideas boiling over …
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The role of management in the movement towards sustainability: Perceived responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities
… business conduct, and the dominance of economic rationalism within business science. This research provided an analytical review of ESD related literature, concentrating on the history and rise of the ESD paradigm, its ethical underpinnings, and economic implications to management practice. The …
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