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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"sensibility"”.
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… and that when we act from duty we must exclude sensibility from the determining grounds of choice. In what way, then, is respect for the law a feeling? And what place does this feeling have—if any—in Kant’s ethics? The aim of my dissertation is to answer these questions, in part through a close …
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Sensibility of Architecture: A Drawn Inquiry
This project has been about delving into forms of drawn architectural discovery and inquiry. The cathedral became a vehicle for approaching this from different angles. It tries to understand how a design achieves that distinctive quality which subconsciously divulges the type of environment you …
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Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility
This dissertation is centered on problems within the history and philosophy of biology. The project identifies the philosophical roots of the current ecological movement and shows how a version of philosophical naturalism might be put to use within contemporary ethical issues in biology, and aid in …
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PASS: protocols for alternative sexuality and sensibility
It is often said that we live in a network society. Increased familiarity with technical networks has brought the concept to the forefront of public imagination making the network a dominant trope. Whether inherent or ascribed, topologies seem to appear in social theories, transportation systems, …
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Sensibility in Frances Burney's novels / Kathleen M. Twidale.
Bibliography: leaves 320-338.
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The city's pleasures : architectural sensibility in eighteenth-century Istanbul
… examines the parameters of Ottoman architectural sensibility in the eighteenth century, starting at this pivotal moment and ending with the first European commissions in the 1790s. It draws principally on contemporary court poetry, and a wide array of Ottoman and European literary and visual …
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Sense, Sensibility, Sympathy, Social Class Upheaval in Jane Austen’s Novels
… as they evolved from her writing of Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion. By identifying and researching the philosophical concepts of sense, sensibility, and sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, I examine how Austen shifted her beliefs to reflect the changes in social class …
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Sensibility of a VMT-Based Incremental Analysis for Bridge Cost Allocation
… cons will be presented. Finally, results of the sensibility studies will be examined as supplemental information to ensure the accuracy of the recommended approach.
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Insuline resistance and insuline sensibility in patients with obstructive sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), also referred to as obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea (OSAH), is a sleep disorder that involves cessation or significant decrease in airflow in the presence of breathing effort. It is the most common type of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and is characterized by …
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Interconnections among self-awareness constructs in schizotypy: The importance of interoceptive sensibility
… examined the relationships between interoceptive sensibility and other measures of self-awareness, including cognitive insight, alexithymia, and introspective accuracy, in those with and without high schizotypy. Participants from two online recruitment sources (n = 728) completed measures of …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sensibility in eighteenth-century Britain is often described by critics as a rejection of Augustan classicism in favour of a modern, proto-Romantic focus on individual emotion and mutual sympathy. My thesis argues, by contrast, that the classicism of the early eighteenth century was inextricably …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… engagements are what I term “maritime sensibility,” a potentially insurgent countercurrent to the dominant discourse of financial speculation. In chapters three and four I track the half-life of maritime sensibility throughout the late-nineteenth century. In chapter three, I consider …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… in this study to mid-century discourses of sensibility. I examine the work of Damaris Masham and Mary Collyer, two writers who frame the central issues of this study. In Chapter One I explore the anti-clerical writings of seventeenth-century Quaker Margaret Fell, whose arguments for women’s …
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A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s–Present
A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s to the Present examines Ghanaians’ enduring attentiveness to fashion and proposes a critical rethinking of fashion photography by considering the genre through African aesthetics within a global context. …
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The Integrated Soundtrack in Practice: an Electroacoustic Sensibility to Composition in Film Sound Design
This practice-led doctoral research investigates integrated approaches to filmmaking through the lens of sound design and electroacoustic composition, advancing a relational understanding of film practice in which creative processes emerge through dynamic interrelations between filmmakers, …
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The Pleasure of the Senses: The Art of Sensation in Shelley’s Poetics of Sensibility
… Shelley’s art of sensuous imagery, or poetics of sensibility. To elucidate Shelley’s concept of sensibility which links his poetry to its ethical and aesthetic concerns, I combine close textual readings of Shelley’s imagery of the senses with his intellectual and cultural inheritance from the ‘Age …
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