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The Form of Agency

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
wiley   +1 more source

Behaviorism

open access: yes, 2018
Behaviorism is an area of psychological study that focuses on observing and analyzing how controlled environmental changes affect behavior. The goal of behavioristic teaching methods is to manipulate the environment of a subject — a human or an animal ...
Fox, Nathan   +2 more
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Radical Behaviorism and the Social Order

open access: yes, 1991
Attempts by radical behaviorists to create a better society are marked by serious analytical and philosophical shortcomings. It is argued that the allegiance of behaviorism to the ideology of technocracy serves primarily to reinforce existing societal ...
Prilleltensky, ISAAC   +1 more
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Reopening the Dutch Book

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTProbabilism is the thesis that the degrees of belief of rational agents behave like Kolmogorovian probabilities. There are quite different lines of argument for probabilism in the literature, including Dutch book arguments, arguments based on representation theorems, and epistemic utility arguments. This paper focusses on the Dutch book line of
Nicholas J. J. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Notas sobre el "Behaviorism" [PDF]

open access: yes, 1938
Notas sobre el "Behaviorism"
Ennis, A.
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Deixando o preconceito de lado e entendendo o Behaviorismo Radical

open access: yesPsicologia: Ciência e Profissão
O Behaviorismo Radical de Skinner é muitas vezes criticado de forma indevida e até preconceituosa. Muitas destas críticas, na verdade, são críticas da psicologia de Watson e não do Behaviorismo Radical.
Rodrigo Pinto Guimarães
doaj   +1 more source

Academic and professional knowledge of primary school teachers about learning theories: Evidence from primary school teachers of Hamedan [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی, 2009
This research was conducted in order to investigate the primary school teachers’ knowledge about learning theories and applying it in teaching process.The sample consisted of 310 teacher (226 women and 84 men) who were selected randomly from among ...
Mahbubeh Arefi   +2 more
doaj  

“Dogs make people human:” Toward a tender interspecies understanding in Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The critical and popular appeal of Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018), which centers on the bond between an unnamed female writer and a Great Dane, Apollo, suggests that readers are drawn to thoughtful explorations of human–animal encounters in literature.
Martyna Bryla
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

LINGKUNGAN ARTIFISIAL DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA ARAB

open access: yesArabiyat, 2016
This research was aimed at proving whether artificial language environment affect Arabic language skills and analyzing how the artificial language environment impact the skills.
Nur Habibah
doaj   +1 more source

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