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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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"Defensive instrumentalism" and the legacy of New Labour's cultural policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper identifies “defensive instrumentalism” as a main feature that has characterised New Labour's cultural policies, and which constitutes an important aspect of its legacy.
Belfiore, Eleonora
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Variation in occupational exposure associated with musculoskeletal complaints: a cross-sectional study among professional bassists. [PDF]

open access: yesInt Arch Occup Environ Health, 2018
Variation in occupational exposure is assumed to have a protective effect against the development of musculoskeletal complaints (MSC), but this common assumption is not strongly supported by the literature.
Woldendorp KH   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

“Taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste”: aesthetic instrumentalism and the British body politic in the neoclassical age

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2013
The eighteenth century witnessed the historical change from aesthetic instrumentalism to aesthetic autonomy. Aesthetic research has often attempted to capture this change in teleological terms, wherein British aesthetic instrumentalism appears to contain
Karl Axelsson
doaj   +1 more source

Musical Instrumental Culture in the System of Musical Ethos

open access: yesВісник Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв. Серія: Музичне мистецтво, 2018
The ancient concept of music as a phenomenon beyond the scope of art with the function of the organizer of cosmic spheres’ harmony, capable of connecting and balancing opposite principles in the “unity of much”, allowed ancient Greek thinkers to relate ...
Alla Chernoivanenko
doaj   +1 more source

Fiction May Confront Theories. Locating Determinism of the Newspeak in G. Orwell’s 1984

open access: yesMetacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021
The paper focuses on the relationships between theory and practice and the consequences of dislocating theory from practice as they are illustrated through fiction. The case study carried out here concerns an exemplary novel, Ninety Eighty-Four by George
Cătălin Constantinescu
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Friedman’s 'On the methodology of positive economics' ('F53') [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In this paper, I shall defend two main claims. First, Friedman’s famous paper “On the methodology of positive economics” (“F53”) cannot be properly understood without taking into account the influence of three authors who are neither cited nor mentioned ...
Hoyningen-Huene, Paul
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Critiques of Axiological Realism and Surrealism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Lyons’s (2003, 2018) axiological realism holds that science pursues true theories. I object that despite its name, it is a variant of scientific antirealism, and is susceptible to all the problems with scientific antirealism.
Park, Seungbae
core   +1 more source

Instrumental [PDF]

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2018
Incorporating classmates' unique one-word reflections on human anatomy and the experience of engaging with the bodies of our anatomical donors, this series captures a diverse spectrum of human emotions surrounding anatomical dissection. Grappling with the humanity of our varied reactions, we related ourselves-ethically and clinically, individually and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Reciprocal Instrumentalism:Scotland, WHO Europe, and Mental Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper explores the relationship between the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe) and Scotland in the context of mental health.
Freeman, Richard   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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