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The European Form of Family Life: The Case of EU Citizenship

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2020
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 3-40 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Family life as a European legal form. - I.1. Family life and social life: the impotence of European Union law? - I.2.
Edouard Dubout
doaj   +1 more source

Formulating Consciousness: A Comparative Analysis of Searle’s and Dennett’s Theory of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This research will argue about which theory of mind between Searle’s and Dennett’s can better explain human consciousness. Initially, distinctions between dualism and materialism will be discussed ranging from substance ...
Chua, John Moses
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Bloodlines: A Review of Succession Planning and Generational Continuity in African Family Businesses

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
wiley   +1 more source

How to Make a Functionalist Argument

open access: yesSociological Science
Sociologists have an awkward relationship with functionalist explanations. Despite having declared “functionalism” to be obsolete, some form of functionalist argument still remains cryptically present in much substantive research.
Andrés Castro Araújo   +1 more
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Tales of function and form: the discursive legitimation of international technocracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It has become commonplace to say that, in the past, international governance has been legitimated mainly, if not exclusively, by its welfare-enhancing ‘output’.
Steffek, Jens
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Phonology in axiomatic functionalism

open access: yesLinguistica Brunensia, 2013
In a paper published in this journal (Bican 2006) I introduced readers to a linguistic approach developed by Jan W. F. Mulder and Sandor G. J. Hervey and known as Axiomatic Functionalism (henceforth: AF); I made a presentation of one of its components ...
Aleš Bičan
doaj  

Hilary Putnam (1926-2016): A Lifetime Quest to Understand the Relationship between Mind, Language, and Reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is an extended intellectual obituary for Hilary ...
Anderson, David Leech
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