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Action and Agency in The Red Shoes

Film-Philosophy, 2018
In this paper, I argue that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ballet musical The Red Shoes (1948) is concerned with topics surrounding phenomenology, action, and embodied agency, and that it exploits resources that are uniquely cinematic in order ...
Paul Schofield
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Hegel and the Philosophy of Food [PDF]

, 2010
In this review of Robert Pippin?s recent book [Hegel?s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)], elements of Hegel?s Practical Philosophy are assessed both against opposed philosophical ...
Martin, W
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Post-Modernism, Agency, and Democracy

Philosophies, 2018
This essay presents a general summary of post-modern philosophy’s conception of agency. It argues that while post-modern philosophers offer formidable intellectual tools for criticizing contemporary restrictions on agency, their conception falters ...
Matthew McManus
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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from interdisciplinary angles in ...
Tracey Chirara, Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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The Contemporary Significance of Marxist Ecological Philosophy [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
Marxist ecological philosophy carries profound implications and serves as the guiding principle for constructing an ecologically advanced society. The essence and fundamental principle of Marxist philosophy is to demand individuals to fully utilize their
Nguyen Phuoc Tai, Tran Mong Nghi
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Reasoning from the Uterus: Casanova, Women's Agency, and the Philosophy of Birth [PDF]

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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Collective Action, Constituent Power, and Democracy: On Representation in Lindahl’s Philosophy of Law [PDF]

, 2019
This contribution develops two objections to Hans Lindahl’s legal philosophy, as exhibited in his Authority and the Globalization of Inclusion and Exclusion.
Fossen, Thomas
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Agentivité ou autonomie ? Pour une théorie critique de la vulnérabilité

Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2021
Academic studies on vulnerability have first focused on the absence of “vulnerability” in contemporary political theory. Then, they focused on its conceptual design and normative implications.
Marie Garrau
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Abduction at the interface of Logic and Philosophy of Science

Theoria, 2009
Despite their growing separation over the years, logic and philosophy of science should still be allies pursuing an agenda of rational agency ranging from specific mechanisms like abduction to the broader study of reasoning, belief revision, learning ...
Johan Van Benthem
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Trust, Agency and Discrimination

Rivista di Estetica, 2017
This paper attempts to clarify the relations between trust, agency and latent forms of discrimination. Its main argument is in social philosophy, and it articulates considerations from moral psychology and the philosophy of language.
Jacopo Domenicucci
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