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Bioethics: Reincarnation of Natural Philosophy in Modern Science [PDF]
The theory of evolution of complex and comprising of human systems and algorithm for its constructing are the synthesis of evolutionary epistemology, philosophical anthropology and concrete scientific empirical basis in ...
Cheshko, Valentin Teodorovich +2 more
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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions
Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
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The justification of legal punishment in Kant’s philosophy [PDF]
The subject matter of the article is the problem of justification of punishment within Kant’s practical philosophy. Modern interpretations tend to reduce this problem to the issue of “retributivism”: To what extent is Kant’s theory of punishment to be ...
Aronson D.
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Polanyian meditations on economy and society: a review of ‘Market Society: The Great Transformation Today’ [PDF]
When one considers anthropology’s recent encounter with ‘globalisation’ -- whether understood as a “totalizing” discourse (Tsing 2000), as the dialectical antinomy of localization, as expanding constellations of diasporas and transnational social spaces”
Dale, G
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Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work
Abstract This paper explores how meaningful work is conceptualised by recent graduates. Whilst the imperative to maximise economic returns from higher education (HE) endures in HE policy, less attention is given to how meaningful work is and its relationship to values and identities.
Michael Tomlinson, Manuel Souto‐Otero
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The paper proposes the notions of "antinomies" and of "balance of the opposite" (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon), then of "analogies" (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Ricœur and Jean-Claude Passeron), as transverse instruments of sociology in dialogue with philosophy ...
Philippe Corcuff
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
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The Problem of the Relationships of Love, Hate and Indifference [PDF]
In Franceschi (2002), I presented a theory based on the matrices of concepts aiming at providing an alternative to the classification proposed by Greimas, in the field of paradigmatic analysis.
Franceschi, Dr Paul
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Abstract Under‐explored in socio‐legal discussions of the legal and regulatory structures focused on harm reduction in gambling, alcohol consumption, and other liberalized consumer activities are the specific ways in which these are interpreted and deployed by front‐line staff in the context of their existing forms of labour and employment pressures ...
SAMUEL KIRWAN +2 more
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Qua‐Talk and Other Forms of Quackery: Part One
ABSTRACT The Latin term “qua” is used occasionally in ordinary discourse but more often as a philosophical term of art. Its purpose is sometimes to avoid what would otherwise be contradictions, as in “necessarily two‐legged qua cyclist, contingently two‐legged qua mathematician.” In this paper, I identify and clarify several of the philosophical uses ...
James Van Cleve
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