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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"empiricism"”.
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Content and Concept: An Examination of Transcendental Empiricism
… examine the philosophy of transcendental empiricism. Transcendental empiricism is, among other things, a philosophy of mental content. It attempts to dissolve an epistemological dilemma of mental content by splitting the difference between two diametrically opposed accounts of content. …
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The Art of Cognition: British Empiricism and Victorian Aesthetics
… are credited—or charged—with establishing empiricism, the view that all knowledge is embedded in sense experience. My project argues for and describes an undercurrent of idealism within British empiricism: the writers of my study investigated modes of thinking that transform sensory …
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Stephen Pepper's Ethical Empiricism and Recent Critics of Naturalism
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… which displays a significant level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an empirical access (via visual processes of the gaze) to a …
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The crucial role of proof--a classical defense against mathematical empiricism
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993.
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and intuition speaks to larger cultural tensions about the possibility of reconciling fact and feeling in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. I argue that intuitive and imaginative modes of cognition are continually privileged in novels …
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Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
… This theory—tentatively termed “Abductive Empiricism”—would work best as a companion piece to other philosophical and literary theories, where the philosophical claims of the latter can be construed based on the metaphysical connection of the former. A theory of abductive empiricism …
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The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume
… among the “unit-ideas” of New Science and empiricism are explored as they relate to explanations of aspects of mind in the Modern period. Some constellations of ideas are mutually supporting, and provide fruitful discussion on how mind can fit into the natural world. This project aims to …
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Empiricism versus apriorism in macroeconomic research : is the current research paradigm of economics inherently incapable of predicting recessions
The sudden financial crash of 2008 and the failure of economists to adequately predict the crisis has raised the question of whether economics, as it is practiced today is capable of fulfilling its objectives of providing economic stability and growth. The basic premises of economic science, as …
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From faith to faith : empiricism, stability, and spiritual renewal in Frederick Buechner's The Book of Bebb.
This thesis examines the frustrated search for stability as outlined in Buechner's Book of Bebb. That search is illustrated in the search for an objective truth which the narrator examines as a potential source of stability. In four volumes, The Book of Bebb delineates a journey which Buechner had …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… role in the development of European cultures of empiricism. Historians, art historians, and scholars of orientalism have emphasised the imperialist and commercial inflections of Dutch representations of the world. My thesis, by contrast, shows how Dutch chorographical writings about Asia were …
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Modelling and prediction of flashing flow in short tubes
… relations; because of the high degree of empiricism they are only valid for the refrigerant used in the experiment. Eliminating material constraints and high degrees of empiricism from the prediction model was considered as a matter of utmost importance. A critical flow model was developed …
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Soul, World, God: Hegel’s Vorbegriff to the ‘Science of Logic’ in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
… discussion of the innovations produced by Humean Empiricism (§§37-39) and especially on the new conception of freedom that Empiricism brings to philosophy. Hegel aims to argue that it was not a historical accident that Humean Empiricism had such a disproportionate influence on Kant; rather, there …
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Scientific change and the meanings of terms : an examination of P.K. Feyerabend's incommensurability theses
… Feyerabend's criticisms of the traditional empiricism of the twentieth century and its reductionist account of scientific development, his objections to any attempt to rationalize science, his claim that there are fundamental conceptual and ontological changes in science, and his adoption of …
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The Concept of Learning and Education
… 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 empiricism the mind is, …
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Casuistical Connections from Dunton to Defoe
… philosophical amalgam that I call casuistic-empiricism. Such philosophies encouraged the Renaissance trend that devalued letter-of-the-law thinking, which led ultimately to a significant epistemological transformation in seventeenth-century England.</p> <p>Recognizing the immensity of this …
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Who Speaks Truth to Fiction? Scientific Authority and Social Difference in Speculative Fiction
… rigorous, backed up by evidence (which I call empiricism), and free of any obvious bias (which I call objectivity). There are areas, though, where these rules break down. Some of these areas are tied to genre, centered on works that may or may not be science fiction or the larger umbrella genre …
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Experience and practice : gendered knowledge as a challenge to our epistemological paradigm
… epistemology, but with influences of feminist empiricism and postmodernism.
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