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Everyday Ethical Problems in Dementia Care: A teleological Model

Nursing Ethics, 2006
In this article, a teleological model for analysis of everyday ethical situations in dementia care is used to analyse and clarify perennial ethical problems in nursing home care for persons with dementia. This is done with the aim of describing how such a model could be useful in a concrete care context. The model was developed by Sandman and is based
Ingrid Agren, Bolmsjö, Anna-Karin, Edberg, Lars, Sandman   +2 more
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EXPLAINING ACTIONS: THE MODEL OF TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION AND ITS DIFFICULTIES

Revista Română de Filosofie Analitică
The classical model for explaining an action (i.e. for answering the question why someone has done something) usually puts an agent’s desires at the center of the explanation: it is because the agent desired something that the action took place. Collins argues that an appeal to purposes could be a more appropriate explanation, that is, he offers a ...
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Modeling teleological interpretation

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2013
<p>The paper presents a model of teleological interpretation of statutory legal rules as well as an example of the genuine law case, which has been modeled with use of established methodology. Copyright 2013 ACM.</p>
Tomasz Zurek, Michal Araszkiewicz
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ENTERPRISE MODELLING AND THE TELEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 1995
A critical factor in successful requirements analysis appears to be the understanding not only of what the system under consideration should do, but also why. To capture the purpose of an information system, one needs a mechanism to describe the behaviour of the organization in which the system will operate.
Loucopoulos, P, Kavakli, E
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The Epistemic-Teleologic Model of Deliberate Self-Persuasion

Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007
Although past theory and research point to the importance of understanding deliberate self-persuasion (i.e., deliberate self-induced attitude change), there have been no empirical and theoretical efforts to model this process. This article proposes a new model to help understand the process, while comparing the process of deliberate self-persuasion ...
Gregory R, Maio, Geoff, Thomas
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Teleology on Television?: Implicit Models of Evolution in Broadcast Wildlife and Nature Programmes

European Journal of Communication, 2003
Wildlife and nature programmes are a popular and profitable genre. To test an impression that these programmes’ references to evolution tend to be teleological, the authors collected a sample of UK radio and television (both terrestrial and cable/satellite) output over a two-month period.
Meryl Aldridge, Robert Dingwall
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On the Epistemological, Ontological, Teleological and Methodological Currents in Modeling and Simulation

International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, 2013
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) has been used to solve problems, make decisions, and understand complex phenomena. Scholars have tried to understand and formulate the epistemic value of gained insights through models and simulations. Questions such as how insights are considered knowledge, what the tradeoff between perspectives and objectivity is ...
Ipek Bozkurt, Jose J. Padilla
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Glucoregulatory Hormones in Health and Disease: A Teleologic Model

Diabetes, 1966
A teleologic model, based upon currently available knowledge of the glucoregulatory hormones, insulin, glucagon and growth hormone, has been presented in an effort to simplify understanding of their physiologic importance. The approach employed in this conceptual “repackaging” stresses in evolutionary terms the contribution of these hormones to the ...
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Modelling and maintenance software systems at the teleological level

Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 1990
AbstractSoftware maintenance is necessitated to a large extent by changing user requirements. However, the relationship between the user requirements and the implemented software system is not made explicit in current development approaches, making the mapping of changing requirements to corresponding maintenance activities difficult.
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Representation and use of teleological knowledge in the multi-modeling approach

1991
Artifacts are intentionally designed to serve some purpose. These purposes provide important information for understanding and reasoning about their behavior. The teleological analysis of an artifact is aimed at identifying the purposes associated to it by the designer and at explicitly representing their organization.
BRAJNIK G, CHITTARO L, GUIDA G, TASSO, Carlo, TOPPANO, Elio   +4 more
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