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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"causal power"”.
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Agency, Causal Power, and Social Responsiveness in Participatory Performance: a Practice-Based Investigation
… position is inadequate for understanding the powers that audiences may wield over a performance’s content or outcome, and that doing so requires considering agency as regards causal power, collectives, and social relationships. Asking how audience members may wield causal power over a …
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Do you need to trust to co-create? an exploration of the influence of interpersonal Trust on value co-creation in customer-salesperson interaction in transactional and relational service exchange
… trust enables the customer to exercise their causal power to disclose their value-generating processes and the specialist to understand and participate in these. Furthermore, there was strong evidence that the nature of the value sought by customers can be distinguished into episode and …
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Relations and Folds in Leibniz: Monadological Intimacy
… among ‘windowless’ substances that exert no causal power over one another seems like a pipe dream that should be abandoned. However, I demonstrate that each substance expresses its relations only through the unique representation of all other substances. That is, any relation a substance …
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The Power of Agency
… it is attributed directly to agents; it is a causal power that each agent alone possesses and employs; it enables agents causally to activate, sustain, and control their capacities during the performance of an action; and its presence comes in varying degrees of strength. After defending an …
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Violence, Causality, and the Emergence of Mexico's General Law on Forced Disappearance
… the State to finally act. But was there a causal relationship between Ayotzinapa and the Law's passage? This thesis explores the historical and institutional contexts that led to disappearance as a phenomenon, the privatization of violence and discourses of collateral damage that …
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The Embodied Causal Learner
… 2008). For this specific study, the area of causal learning was examined.</p> <p>The primary goal of this specific study was to investigate whether elements of embodiment, and any mechanisms therein, would be found in the area of causal learning. That is, would motor actions irrelevant to …
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Memory, Phantasia, and the Perception of Time: A Commentary on Aristotle’s De Memoria Et Reminiscentia
… of the present proxy gives the proxy the causal power to represent the remembering subject’s absent past anew. Because the remembering subject is aware of a present proxy, I argue that Aristotle is committed to a form of indirect perception in the case of memory, but one that preserves …
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Social structures, epistemology and personal identity
… social phenomena, will constrain the explanatory power of any social scientific theory (or even ofa common system of beliefs) In which the interpretation is embedded. If one accepts a social scientific theory (or any common system of beliefs) which subsumes a concept of a person which does not see …
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Louis de la Forge on Mind-Body Interaction and the Case Against Occasionalism
… all the while keeping to some form of the causal likeness principle. Each of these positions are ones that Descartes maintained throughout his writings. Yet, successors and scholars alike have noted the inconsistencies that arise from defending these views conjointly and have argued that …