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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"philosophical theory"”.
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Purpose and Design in Organisms and Artifacts: The Search for a Unified Philosophical Theory of Function
… major approaches to function theory in contemporary analytic philosophy are examined in turn: etiological, systemic effects, and contributions. In addition a novel properties approach is proposed. It is seen that while the etiological approach promises to preserve an account of …
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Henry Miller and The Philosophy of The Inhuman Artist
… that it is possible to reconstruct a coherent philosophical theory from the works of the American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980) and I develop an original and well-integrated version of that theory. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed …
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PTSD And Emotionally Augmented Perception: An Argument For Direct Realism
… on perception generally accept an indirect theory of perception like representationalism. Yet, an indirect theory does not seem to be adequate to account for the immediacy and phenomenology of PTSD. Therefore, a theory that can better account for these is needed. I suggest a form of direct …
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Voltaire: From Sacrificial to Judicial System in the Play The Orphan of China
… that critics have not examined the essential philosophical theory in The Orphan of China because they have overlooked the significance of sacrificial and judicial systems (in Europe and, more importantly, in China) in the play. In the first chapter, I will demonstrate Voltaire's theory of …
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Moral Dilemmas in Military Medicine: A historico-ethical analysis of the problem of dual loyalties and medical civilian assistance programs in the U.S. Army
… the dual-loyalties debate by grounding it in the philosophical theory of an internal professional morality and exploring an Army program that serves to highlight the problem of dual loyalties at an institutional level. This dissertation examines the embedded case of medical civilian assistance …
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Identity in Flux: A Theoretical and Choreographic Enquiry into the Identity of The Open Dance Work
… work. The debate takes the form of a symbiotic philosophical and choreographic enquiry into the identity of the open dance work. The philosophical enquiry examines the adequacy to the open work of theories of identity derived from two distinctive strands of philosophical theory, the first from …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
… of sentimentalism. I consider how David Hume's philosophical theory of morality inspired the Gothic experience of feeling, and how 'gothic' dramatists juggled sentimental scenes with aims of edification. I then explore how the sentimental form was combined with the voguish interest in topography …
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
<p>The literary and philosophical theory of semiotics considers signs and symbols. Pragmatics is the branch of semiotics that explicates the practical effects of a given interpretation according to its context. Through analyzing the pragmatic context of <em>Crime and Punishment</em>, one can begin …
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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
… a subterranean system of roots, the rhizome is a philosophical theory pertaining to multiplicities. Turning to Spanish Civil War history, D.W. Winnicott’s studies of true self and false self, Lois Parkinson Zamora’s work on Magical Realism, and Marsha Kinder’s Blood Cinema: the reconstruction of …
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Sir John Finch’s (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel’s (1638–1722) Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1660-1690
… of self-presentation. Finch developed a natural philosophical theory of perception grounded in anatomical materialism and empirical epistemology, arguing that all knowledge derived from the senses. His treatise on sensory experience proposed that perceptual habits, not innate biology, explained …
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Ethics, X-Phi, and the Expanded Methodological Toolbox: How the Think Aloud Method and Interview Reveal People’s Judgments on Issues in Ethics and Beyond
… judgments and analyzing them in light of philosophical theory. They have done so almost exclusively by using face valid quantitative surveys about philosophically interesting thought experiments. Based on high participant support for this or that response, researchers conclude that a given …
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Die Psychobiologie des Hans Lungwitz (1881 - 1967) im Spiegel der Rezensionen
Der Arzt und Philosoph Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967) schuf nach Jahren der Tätigkeit als Sozialreformer und praktischer Arzt und nach intensiver Auseinandersetzung mit der Psychoanalyse eine eigene Weltanschauungslehre, die Psychobiologie, deren Kernstück die Lösung des Leib-Seele-Problems bildet. Die …
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Go With the Flow: A Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Structures of Gender and Gendered Authority in Shakespearean Stage Literature as a Scholarly Alternative to Conventional Generic Categories
… the Introduction, I familiarize the reader with philosophical theory that underpins my argument, and statistical methods used in the dissertation by myself and relevant scholars in the field, such as basic frequency and proximity approaches to quantitative language measurement, and topic …