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The Philosophy of Technology: a survey in essentialist and instrumentalist approach to technology of media [PDF]
As a result of going behind tradition and criticizing its foundations and based upon objective and subjective elements established through centuries, modern rationality has determined a special kind of life-style, an important feature of it is the ...
hoseyn hushangi, mohammad reza ruhani
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Theses on Translation: An Organon for the Current Moment
The theses offer a general theory of translation that encompasses the relation between theory and practice and the different models of translation that generate theoretical concepts like equivalence and ethics.
Lawrence Venuti
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The views and ideas of thinkers and actors representing the direction of legal pragmatism and economic analysis of law, whose ideas had the greatest influence on the world philosophical and legal thought and the formation of the philosophical and legal ...
Hanna Kovalenko
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Pragma-Dialetics Epistemologized: Reply to Lumer
I would like to thank Christoph Lumer for his illuminating comments on my paper “The question of truth” published in this journal (Botting 2010) and would like to exercise my right of reply on a few of the issues that he raises.
David Botting
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Conventionalism and Theory of Meaning
What is conventionalism in philosophy of science? Basically, it is a thesis about empirical underdetermination. According to Conventionalists, there is “a slack” between our theories and experience that is to be “lined” with conventions.
Jindřich Černý
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The Computer as Instrument [PDF]
A distinction is drawn and discussed between two modes of computer use: as a tool and as an instrument. The former is typical for the use of a conventional software product, the latter is more appropriate in volatile environments or where close integration of human and computer processes is desirable.
Meurig Beynon +9 more
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The ‘Wazirganj Terror Attack’: Sectarian Conflict and the Middle Classes
On 16 January 2013, a Sunni real estate developer opened fire at a Shi’a religious assembly in Wazirganj, a mixed neighbourhood in old Lucknow, India, killing one and injuring two. At its core, this was a business rivalry gone awry, but was soon labelled
Raphael Susewind
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ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye +33 more
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The Necessity of Practical Wisdom
I defend a generalized developmentalist reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by arguing that it allows for a promising solution to the problem of instrumentalism of practical wisdom regarding theoretical wisdom.
Jorge Ignacio Fuentes
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We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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