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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"instrumental rationality"”.
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Doing your best (while making do with less) : the actual value conception of instrumental rationality
… thesis, I sketch a decision-theoretic picture of instrumental rationality, which I call the Actual Value Conception: roughly, that you should align your preferences over your options to your best estimates of how the actual values of those options compare. Less roughly: for any options, q and 0, …
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
… because the Frankfurt School\'s criticism of instrumental rationality and understanding of domination functions to elucidate the societal conditions that allow for agricultural (over)production to be swept up in problematic methods in the name of efficiency. Part I starts by analyzing academic …
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Peter Railton's moral realism
… I will also critically discuss his arguments for instrumental rationality, ideal observer theory, internalism, justification of morality and his objections to non-cognitivism.
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Experiences of Playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games: A Phenomenological Exploration
… modernist ideologies, such as capitalism and instrumental rationality. However, my participants also invested in ways that exceeded modernist values, such as forming relationships with other players and engaging with the narrative and thematic dimensions of their games.
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Making Sense of Unexpected Preferences
… in office, will in the long run diverge from instrumental rationality as ordinarily assumed in game theory. The first sets out a general principle for producing models of preference evolution in games as political models, namely, that the information about opponent preferences necessary for …
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On economic bicameralism
… assembles the investors in capital, who value an instrumental rationality while seeking profit as their foremost objective; and the Chamber of Labor assembles the investors in person, who display a political rationality and are best understood as seeking democratic justice as their primary goal. …
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Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote
… a form of epistemic reductionism that elevates instrumental rationality to the exclusion of practical reason and probabilistic ways of knowing. Bureaucratic modernity signifies a decrease in choices that can be legitimized in public on some basis other than calculative-methodological-procedural …
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EFFECTIVE HISTORY: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN RATIONALITY
… the nature and meaning of the historicity of rationality. It elaborates this issue in dialogue with the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer and the poststructuralist genealogy of Michel Foucault. For the Adomo and Horkheimer of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, the historicity of …
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The theory of communicative action and the aesthetic moment: Habermas and the (neo)Nietzschean challenge
… of the pathological hubris of modern, instrumental forms of rationality, Habermas argues that a careful consideration of rationality's full breadth suggests the social potential to reach understandings about our moral-practical problems and our aesthetic-expressive disagreements that …
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Globalization and ideology: ethics committees and global clinical trials in South Africa and Brazil
… and frame the social context as an instrument (instrumental rationality), or take other actors into account and search for intercomprehension (communicational rationality). Even though the presence of these two rationalities was detected in my study, it was seen that rationalities are composed …
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Die Zähmung der Zweckrationalität in der deutschen Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts : die Rationalisierungsproblematik bei Weber, Horkheimer/Adrono, Habermas und Beck
Inhalt <br> <br>Kapitel 1 Einleitung <br>1.1 Fragestellung <br>1.2 Die Rationalisierungsproblematik als Forschungsgebiet in der deutschen Soziologie <br>1.3 Gliederung der vorliegenden Arbeit <br> <br>Kapitel 2 Entzauberung und Sinnverlust: Max Weber und seine Protestantische Ethik <br>2.1 …
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Elastic design. Tools for alternative understandings
… concepts associated with scientific objectivity, instrumental rationality, and economic efficiency. Both notions are prevalent tropes in art and design practice, pointing out the discrepancy between the rigid order of classical science versus unruly reality. This ideological tension is …
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Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
… More specifically, it problematises the instrumental rationality that is often associated with radical subjects like back-to-the-land farmers, and it reveals the importance of intimate and radical connections and affective (dis)attachments in their becoming. Moreover, it rethinks the …
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Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State. Mass Higher Education, Public Professionalism and State Effects in Chile.
… political meaning to state work beyond the instrumental rationality typically attributed to the bureaucracy. While the massification of professional work is incorporated within the enlargement of the public administration, the universities as ideological apparatuses are articulated with the …
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The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno
… would at last assuage the hostility between rationality and mimesis, concept and intuition. Mimesis is thus, on the one hand, capable of sensing the material trace or hearing the musical echo stored up in the unreconciled state of language. But if, on the other hand, it becomes dislodged from …
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Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee
Links between instrumental rationality and problematic sporting subjectivities are well established (e.g., Beamish & Ritchie, 2006; Donnelly, 1996; Hughes & Coakley, 1991). In recent years, however, critical scholars have taken an increasing interest in how athletes and coaches might find ways of …