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Political Agency of Science as a Theme of Philosophy of Science

Voprosy Filosofii, 2023
Is the science capable to act as the subject of political action? This question is considered as one of themes of the modern philosophy of science. It could not be posed within the framework of the philosophy of science concentrated only on the analysis of logical structures of scientific knowledge or on problems of its dynamics defined by procedures ...
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Low Vision Services in an Agency: Structure and Philosophy

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1975
The development and present structure of the comprehensive Low Vision Service of the New York Association for the Blind are used as the basis for a full discussion of the operation of such a clinical service, including its positive and negative features.
Eleanor E. Faye, Clare M. Hood
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In Defence of Ballet: Women, Agency and the Philosophy of Pleasure

Dance Research, 2012
This article offers a novel approach to conceptualising ballet practice as a leisurely activity that exudes pleasure. It argues that the notion of pleasure in ballet has been neglected in scholarly research which criticises ballet for its negative impact on the physical and mental health of dancers, its authoritarian teaching methods and its trivial ...
Alexandra Kolb, Sophia Kalogeropoulou
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Reasoning from the Uterus: Casanova, Women's Agency, and the Philosophy of Birth

Hypatia, 2021
AbstractThe emerging area of philosophy of birth is invaluable, first, to diagnose fallacious assumptions about the relation between the womb and reason, and, ultimately, to challenge potentially damaging narratives with major impact on birth care. With its analysis of eighteenth-century epistemic and medical discussions about the role of the uterus in
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Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Metaphysics of Agency

2017
Rather than understanding history as a process guided by an entity (Geist) that is aiming at the goal of coming to a full self-consciousness, this chapter argues that Hegel’s philosophy should be understood against the background of his Aristotelian- and Kantian-inspired metaphysics.
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Fichte, the Standpoint of Philosophy, and the Assumptions of Agency

Fichte Studien
Abstract This contribution develops and defends an account of Fichte’s metaphilosophical distinction between the first-order, pre-philosophical standpoint of ordinary life and the higher-order (reflective, transcendental) standpoint of idealistic speculation, with particular attention to the question what we ought
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Causality and Agency in the Philosophy of Thomas Reid

1989
I shall be concerned here with two doctrines which are essential to Reid’s account of agency and of causation. The first, expounded at some length in AP I, v, is that, so far as we can tell, only beings with will and understanding can exercise active power.
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The Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency

Henrique Schneider argues that understanding the three Early Confucian thinkers—Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi—as virtue-ethicists, political philosophers, or social conservatives proves too narrow. Championing a broader and more philosophical reading, The Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency: Virtuous Conduct sheds new light on a well-established topic.
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Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy

2006
The ‘quarrel’ between philosophy and poetry over truth was already an ‘ancient enmity’ in Plato’s time (Plato, Republic, line 607b). In considering the idea of Justice, Plato’s Socrates insists that literature has no power to ‘teach the truth adequately to others’, nor ‘to educate men and make them better’ (Plato, Republic, line 599d).
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Crisis and dissent : literary agency in philosophy and fiction

1996
Hjort, Mette (Supervisor)
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