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Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas, Verneri Valasmo, Varpu Mehto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zasady wariacyjne a ich teleologiczna interpretacja

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2008
In this paper the problem of philosophical interpretation of variational principles is under investigation. The difference between differential and integral principles is presented and the history of various formulations of integral principles is ...
Dominika Domaciuk
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Modals with a taste of the deontic

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
The aim of this paper is to present an explanation for the impact of normative considerations on people's assessment of certain seemingly purely descriptive matters concerning freedom, causation, and intentionality.
Joshua Knobe, Zoltán Gendler Szabó
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Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

Teleological explanation and action

, 1977
Teleological explanation has a structure in terms of means and end, as conceived by the agent. Any other notion of means and end which does not allow the description of means and end to be essentially the agent's, does not generate teleological ...
Cotter, Richard
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Teleological Behaviorism And The Intentional Scheme

, 1995
Teleological behaviorism, unlike Skinnerian behaviorism, recognizes that \u27\u27mental terms\u27\u27 are needed to account adequately for human behavior, but it rejects the essential role in behavioral explanations of the subjective perspective of the ...
Lacey, Hugh, Hugh Lacey
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

A Natural Interpretation of Aristotelian Teleology

Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College
Aristotle famously claimed that all substances are affected by final causes, but what exactly he meant by this is contested. Some maintain that Aristotle held final causes could be wholly explained in terms of other types of causes, whether they be material, formal, or efficient.
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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY [PDF]

Adam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of ...
Alvey, James E.
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