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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"functionalism"”.
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Functionalism and Strange Minds
This Paper details arguements surrounding the functionalism thesis in philosophy of mind, seeking to expand, critique, and clarify sections of the arguement with a special attention made to the physical constraints on what constitutes a sufficient realizer, the difficulties in multiple …
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Functionalism, qualia, and content
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1980.
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Functionalism, Lexical Contrast And Sound Change
One of the most discussed questions in the literature on sound change is whether functional factors play a role in shaping the lexicon over time, for instance by blocking the occurrence of a sound change (Gilliéron 1918), or whether sound change is entirely mechanical and phonetically determined …
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Making Up Reasons: constructivism, functionalism, and reasons
This dissertation expounds and defends a theory of what it is for some fact to be a reason. The goal of the dissertation is to combine the role of reasons in justifying behavior with the role of reasons in motivating behavior, to give a more robust, practically viable account of reasons that can be …
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Beyond Functionalism: A Quantitative Survey and Semiotic Reading of Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian’s Wall is perhaps one of the best studied, but east understood,Roman monuments in Britain. Traditional interpretations have sought to identify one underlying principle to the Wall’s function. Similarly, the Wall’s purpose has often been interpreted as solely functional, with either military …
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Mental Imagery in the Use of Knowledge (Visual, Mediation, Introspection, Functionalism)
Inconsistency in the occurrence of mental imagery has been a traditional source of debate in psychology. This dissertation examines causal relationships between mental imagery and knowledge in order to predict use of imagery. It is suggested that mental images are a type of conscious mediation. …
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An Inquiry Into a Plausible Source of the Differences Between Functionalism and Reproduction Theory in Education (Ideal Society)
The theories of educational functionalism and educational reproduction theory provide us contrasting explanations or descriptions of contemporary formal education. The main purpose of the paper is to explain the plausible sources of the differences between these two theories. To achieve the purpose …
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Not Function but Function Conquered: Against a Functionalist Theory of Directives
… of something else. This thesis is concerned with functionalism, a nonattitudinal theory of speech acts. According to functionalism, performing a directive is making an utterance with the etiological function of causing hearers to act in response to one’s utterance. I argue that functionalism is …
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"The Missing Ideological Link: Functionalist Ideology and the ""Scientific"" Construction of Race in the 19th Century"
… This study argues that Cuvier's theory of functionalism, based upon the teleological principle that form follows function, was the ideological framework that informed Morton and Agassiz's anthropometric research. Cuvier's theories, then, are the intellectual foundation for scientific racism …
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Meziválečná architektura činžovních domů Jana Gillara
… and authors of Czech science - based functionalism - Jan Gillar. The tenement houses were built in the 1930s in Prague, in a time and space in which a great building boom of this type of housing in the intentions of functionalist architecture can be recorded. Gillar's tenement houses …
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Questioning Horatio Greenough's thought on architecture
… written during the 1940s and 1950s when functionalism was a strong discourse, regard him as a protomodernist who influenced the course of 20th century functionalism and modem architecture. However, his sculpture is surprisingly neo-classicist for those who refer to him as a pioneer of …
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Wilhelm Reich e a bússola do pensamento funcional
… and permeates the functioning field. Orgonomic functionalism constitutes a method wich implies in the functional unity of the living. Without crossing over the concepts between the fields, orgone energy, life and thinking, the orgonomic functionalism seeks to think the simplicity of the …
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The Teleological Theory of Representation
… than its main competitor, non-teleological functionalism. Grounds for evaluating competing models of explanation are presented and several recent accounts of psychological explanation are analyzed and evaluated. An inclusive model, which incorporates both teleological and non-teleological …
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The East African Community (EAC) achievements and challenges since 2001
… since its revival. The study while focusing on functionalism as the theoretical concept, examines the progress that the EAC has made towards achieving its goals and objectives, and highlights EAC’s integration challenges. Despite being in its formative stages and facing integration challenges, …
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How the ideology and political structures of Nazi Germany enabled the Holocaust : a study in ideology and political structures
… approaches to the Holocaust, intentionalism and functionalism, will be synthesized and reconciled with the political-scientific approaches of interpretivism and structuralism. I argue that intentionalism is essentially synonymous with interpretivism, as an approach that looks at ideas as a …
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Participatory resources and African American voter turnout: A comparative analysis of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
… assumptions of pluralism and structural functionalism, the thesis conceptualizes that voter turnout can be evaluated by comparing socioeconomic, socioreligious, and political variables. In analyzing data from the 1992 and 1996 National Election Studies, the thesis reveals that Whites …
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Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
… competing theory groups, namely Talcott Parsons (functionalism), George Homans (exchange theory), Erving Goffman (the dramaturgical wing of symbolic interactionism), and Harold Garfinkel (ethnomethodology). The findings provide illuminations of both the past and current state of sociological …
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The recognition and treatment of title retention in the legal systems of the United Kingdom, Vietnam and related jurisdictions : a comparative study
… includes the title retention arrangement. The functionalism, unitary approach and the notice filing system under the Article 9 offer a comprehensive treatment of a purchase-money security interest as the exception of the general security interest. The findings suggest that even though Article 9 …
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European integration reassessed: a grounded theory approach.
… the mechanics and predominant theories (neo-functionalism and intergovernmentalism) at work in the process of European integration. Indeed, it provides an illustration of the difficulties in achieving the harmonisation of Member State legislation and identifies the intricacies and …
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Constructing social reality in conversation : a generic and transitivity analysis of life history texts
… (1995), Eggins and Slade (1997), and systemic functionalism, is used to examine the story types that speakers may draw upon to structure their experiences. Given structural and functional constraints within story types, I look at the transitivity choices that speakers make to represent their …
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