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Action and Agency in The Red Shoes

open access: yesFilm-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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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods

open access: yesHTS 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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Post-Modernism, Agency, and Democracy

open access: yesPhilosophies, 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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Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities: An exploratory qualitative study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 880-897, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are ...
Mandy Truong   +5 more
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Survival, safety and belonging: An ethnographic study of experiences and perceptions of people who inject drugs accessing a supervised injecting Centre

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 829-846, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Introduction The inclusion of people who use drugs in the design and evaluation of their health services remains a relatively new phenomenon. The aim of the research was to explore the experiences and perceptions of people accessing the Medical Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), and Clinic 180, Sydney Australia, and the factors facilitating ...
Greg Rickard, Bethne Hart
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The Contemporary Significance of Marxist Ecological Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesSHS 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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Agentivité ou autonomie ? Pour une théorie critique de la vulnérabilité

open access: yesGenre, 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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The Ontology of Intentional Agency in Light of Neurobiological Determinism: Philosophy Meets Folk Psychology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The moot point of the Western philosophical rhetoric about free will consists in examining whether the claim of authorship to intentional, deliberative actions fits into or is undermined by a one-way causal framework of determinism.
A Mele   +27 more
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DUAL-PROCESS APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PERCEPTION [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofia i Nauka, 2022
Thanks to advances in machine learning in recent years the ability of AI agents to act independently of human oversight,respond to their environment, and interact with other machines has significantly increased, and is one step closer to human-like ...
Marcin Rabiza
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Collective Action, Constituent Power, and Democracy: On Representation in Lindahl’s Philosophy of Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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