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Commentary on the Decision of the Supreme Court of January 11, 2017 (III KK 196/16, OSNKW 2017, No. 5, Item 25)

open access: yesStudia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2018
The paper contains a critical commentary on the Supreme Court’s decision of January 11, 2017 (III KK 196/16). The author states that the meaning of statutory feature “many people”, according to the Criminal Code, should be interpreted in the same way in ...
Marcin Klonowski
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms of teleological change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Teleology is used as fundamental principle in describing and explaining actions. The basic concept of teleology is the assumption of an actor engaging in intentional, goaloriented behavior. This article describes how teleological mechanisms work and show
Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn   +1 more
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

İmam Shaṭibi in the dilemma of literal and teleological interpretation in understanding divine texts

open access: yes, 2019
Modern dönemde genelde İslam düşüncesi, özelde ise İslam hukuk düşüncesinin donuklaşma sürecine girdiği şeklinde yaygın bir kanaat bulunmaktadır. Bu vakıa büyük ölçüde İslam dininin temel naslarının teleolojik olmaktan ziyade literal bir yoruma tabi ...

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Causal and Teleological Beliefs

open access: yes, 2021
Previous research suggests that causality may be necessary for teleological beliefs (Liquin & Lombrozo, 2018; Lombrozo & Carey, 2006). In an earlier study, we found that teleological explanations about biological and nonbiological natural ...
Vince Polito, Andrew Roberts
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

The Issue Of Teleology In Spinoza: A Defence Of The Standard Interpretation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Current scholarship offers two competing accounts of Spinoza’s views on the issue of teleology, which I label Standard Interpretation and Modest Interpretation respectively. Several texts, including Ethics 1 Appendix, support the Standard Interpretation:
Carvalho, João
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Final models: A finalistic interpretation of statistical correlation

open access: yes, 2023
This paper aims to extend the framework of causal modelling to teleological explanations. It conceives final models as second-order models produced by interventions on first-order causal models.
Compagno, Dario
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