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Neopragmatism and speculative realism [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020 The article deals with neopragmatist themes of contingency, irony and solidarity in the context of the contemporary movement in continental philosophy, speculative realism.
A. V. Morozov
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Ardeth, 2020 This “visual essay” was written in response to an invitation to write a thousand word essay accompanied by one image. It addresses the definition, by the author, of architecture as an act of contingent excess. Without disagreeing with George Bataille’s understanding of excess as waste, I argue that, in the case of architecture, the excess displayed in ...
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Les instabilités institutionnelles d’une discipline émergente
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2015 This text contributes to the history of the sociology by a local monograph. It investigates the conditions of institutionalization of the first university educations of social science in Montpellier at the end of the 19th century.
Jean-Paul Laurens
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Contingency and Necessity [PDF]
, 2014 This paper argues that the problem of how to act in the face of radical contingency is of central importance in Musil’s novel and intimately connected to what Musil calls the sense of possibility.
Sattler, Barbara
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Éléments pour une théorie biologique du sujet
Éducation et Socialisation, 2014 Several approaches are proposed in the attempt of understanding the human subject in its intrinsic biological nature. A character shared by many aspects with a lot of other living organisms which will be analysed here through the peculiarity of the human
Lionel Simonneau
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Outcome contingency selectively affects the neural coding of outcomes but not of tasks [PDF]
, 2019 Value-based decision-making is ubiquitous in every-day life, and critically depends on the contingency between choices and their outcomes. Only if outcomes are contingent on our choices can we make meaningful value-based decisions.
Brass, Marcel +2 more
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Causality inference of nominal variables: A statistical simulation method [PDF]
Computational Ecology and Software, 2021 In present study I proposed a statistical simulation method for causality inference of nominal variables (i.e., categorical variables). A new correlation measure for nominal variables, association coefficient, is firstly proposed also.
WenJun Zhang
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Contingency, Irony and Morality: A Critical Review of Rorty's. Notion of the Liberal Utopia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper introduces Richard Rorty’s notion of the liberal ironist and his vision of a liberal utopia and explores the implications of these for philosophical questions concerning morality, as well as morality in general.
Coombs, Wehan Murray
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Trådløse netværk og sociale normer under forandring
Norsk Medietidsskrift, 2010 A combination of educational research, sociological theory and media theory is used to discuss the formation of new social norms in the wake of the introduction of wireless networks in Danish upper secondary schools.
Michael Paulsen, Jesper Tække
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To Greener Pastures: An Action Research Study on the Environmental Sustainability of Humanitarian Supply Chains [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: While humanitarian supply chains (HSCs) inherently contribute to social sustainability by alleviating the suffering of afflicted communities, their unintended adverse environmental impact has been overlooked hitherto.
Carrasco-Gallego, Ruth +2 more
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