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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Voluntarism."”.
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Voluntarism and Reflection
… 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 way. I argue that while these two explanatory …
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Voluntarism, values and community : an intersubjective reading of Bas C. van Fraassen's The empirical stance
… appreciate better his position (comprising his voluntarism and voluntarist epistemology, permissive rationality, and stance philosophy) and, as I hope to show, to respond to subjectivist and relativist concerns. In developing this community-based account, I first consider Brandom's model of …
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OVERLY-GREAT EXPECTATIONS: WHY POLITICAL VOLUNTARISM IS IMPOSSIBLE, WHY PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHISM IS UNNECESSARY, AND WHY THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM
John Locke argued that legitimate state authority is created when free individuals lend their personal power via consent to the state's governors. Modern Lockean A. John Simmons extends Locke's argument to conclude that, since this does not happen in the real world, philosophical anarchism must be …
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Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion
… 'concerns.' This view, dubbed 'Attentional Voluntarism,' 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 …
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Speed and Scope of Strategic Response to an Environmental Change: The Case of the United States Trucking Industry's Deregulation
… between the two extremes of determinism and voluntarism views, accepting the influence of the external environment on organizations and yet believing in organizations' freedom and ability to cope with the changing environment.
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Just Exchanges, Just Markets: Effective Consent Driven Proceduralism
… the global free market system values mere voluntarism as the gold standard of maintaining justice in market interactions. However, I posit that, while voluntarism is necessary, it remains insufficient for meeting the strict demands of justice. Instead, I forward that that it is consent …
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Volunteer Firefighting
… volunteer firefighting, an embattled form of voluntarism that remains essential in America's smaller communities. The firefighters provided insights about their work, the organization and social structure of their department, and how they manage these along with other demands in their lives. …
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Congregational growth, closure, identity, and diversity.
… Donahue 1996), and are the greatest outlet of voluntarism in the United States (Putnam 2000). This dissertation explores four central issues pertaining to congregations: growth, closure, identity, and diversity. Heterogeneity by age is related to growth in American congregations, while …
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A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value
… following Ruth Chang, a form of <em>hierarchical voluntarism</em>. On the first stage of the theory, there are objective aesthetic reasons in the world. Objects have features that give reasons for their aesthetic value or disvalue. But these reasons are not sufficient for value. Aesthetic value, I …
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The Wolverhampton Express and Star and the depiction of the volunteer soldier in the First World War, 1914-1916
… provincial evening press during the era of voluntarism in the First World War. It uses as its example, the Express and Star, the evening newspaper in the Black Country industrial town of Wolverhampton. The newspaper harnessed the home front’s fascination with the volunteer soldier for its …
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An Examination of Bullying in Different Institutional Contexts: undergraduate student notions of bullying in the school, the workplace and university.
… value of the learner to the institution, and voluntarism, were shown to hold important implications for understanding bullying in organisations or institutions; they develop and extend existing models found in adjacent fields of study.
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The Influence of Structural and Perceived Privilege on Political Participation in the United Kingdom
… it adopts the causal propositions of the Civic Voluntarism Model as its starting point and adds Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of economic, social, and cultural capital, which are argued to encompass structural privilege. Perception of privilege is posited to be constituted by self-perceived status, …
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Synthesising Synergies between Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Human Rights for Corporate Accountability: Microfoundations for an Integrated Approach
… considers CSR as obligatory, the effect of voluntarism has dominated the scholarship and policymaking related to CSR leading to a significant corporate accountability gap. Almost parallel to this literature, the field of Law has conceived and advanced the concept of Business and Human Rights …
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
… which coheres around themes of individualism, voluntarism, state neutrality, and intercultural toleration. Following a three-part scheme, I extract core elements of a theory of scientism from Feyerabend’s political thought based on the social- democratic tendency. After presenting a schematic …
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The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions
… that early community engagement – acts of voluntarism, advocacy or activism – served to prime women to think of themselves as potential political candidates. Recruitment, training and support, especially from those who were already elected, catalyzed their decisions to run for office. Once …
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Financing the Faith: Scottish Catholicism 1772- c.1890
… decades of the nineteenth century, financial voluntarism was well embedded in the Catholic community and ordinary Catholics had assumed responsibility for financing many of the Church’s activities. As the century progressed, and as the Church responded to new pressures caused by famine …
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The impact of multidisciplinary mobilities on the effectiveness of global health and international development projects
… international aid and professional and student voluntarism. For this reason, each publication is directed at key stakeholders and policy makers, providing clear conclusions and recommendations based on in-depth experience and concrete research findings.
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… Republic as vehicles for evangelization and voluntarism in the contexts of postcolonial tourism and the production of sugar for the global market. In doing so, it also examines STMs as important sites of religious socialization for American participants, particularly, socialization of moral …
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