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Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

Monist, 2010
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Advertising Agency Philosophies and Employee Risk Taking

Journal of Advertising, 2001
On the basis of an exploratory survey of executives from a cross-section of U.S. advertising agencies, this article examines the relationship between agency creative philosophies and agent creative...
Douglas West, John Ford
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Mentorship in Method: Philosophy and Experienced Agency

Hypatia, 2014
Against the background of the exclusion of many feminist methodologies from mainstream philosophy, and in light of the methodological challenges of providing accounts of experience responsive to the lives of agents, in this paper I return to early feminist philosophers of emotion to highlight how they anticipate and respond to methodological criticisms.
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Political Philosophy and the Primacy of Agency

2020
In his political philosophy, Peter Winch was pursuing two themes, one of which is more explicit and more conventional than the other. His first theme was the critique of classical social contract theory. His second theme is best characterised as the primacy of agency over spectatorship.
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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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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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EVALUATING AGENCY: A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Metaphilosophy, 2011
Abstract:Many of the things we do in social and political philosophy, whether normative or critical, presuppose some understanding and evaluation of agency. To have a clear idea of our normative or critical enterprise, the underlying account of agency needs spelling out. This article begins with a descriptive account: human agency consists in power (or
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Refining moral agency: Insights from moral psychology and moral philosophy

Nursing Philosophy, 2017
AbstractResearch in moral psychology has recently raised questions about the impact of context and the environment on the way the human mind works. In a 2012 call to action, Paley wrote: “If some of the conclusions arrived at by moral psychologists are true, they are directly relevant to the way nurses think about moral problems, and present serious ...
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Aesthetic Agency: Why Art Might Matter to Philosophy

2019
I hate the fact that I have to call for phenomenological description when I turn to philosophical topics. I am the principle object of my anger since I have insufficient skill at philosophical argument, but some capacity to describe states of mind. Yet there seems to me an intellectual justification for thinking such description may play a useful role ...
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Creative Personalities, Processes, and Agency Philosophies: Implications for Global Advertisers

Creativity Research Journal, 2001
This article examines the management of creativity facing international advertisers and agencies. There has been a substantial amount of research comparing advertisements in different cultures but relatively little work on the nature of the creative personalities, processes, and philosophies used in developing such advertising.
Michael T. Ewing, Julie Napoli, Douglas C. West   +2 more
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