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Entre el Dios de Paley y el Dios de Bonnet: El Parco Evolucionismo Teísta de Richard Owen

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2013
Firstly, in this article it is examined the nature of the putative remarks concerning evolution of species that are found in the works that Richard Owen published before 1858; and then it is made the same thing with the few and vague evolutionist ...
Gustavo Caponi
doaj  

Autopoiesis, adaptivity, teleology, agency

open access: yes, 2005
. A proposal for the biological grounding of intrinsic teleology and sense-making through the theory of autopoiesis is critically evaluated. Autopoiesis provides a systemic language for speaking about intrinsic teleology but its original formulation ...
Ezequiel Di Paolo (4736196)   +1 more
core  

Aristotle on Teleology

open access: yesAestimatio, 2015
Monte Ransome Johnson (book author)   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organizational Adaptability: Synthesizing Emergent and Deliberate Innovation Processes Into an Evolutionary Model

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops an evolutionary model that synthesizes emergent and deliberate innovation processes to explain how organizational adaptability is constituted. Existing research on “emergent” innovation processes tends to view these as diametrically opposed to “deliberate” action, applying each attribute with little nuance and relying on ...
Jochen Koch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caring as a Generative Principle: Reconfiguring the Metaparadigm and Operative Mechanisms in Nursing Theory. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Adv Nurs
ABSTRACT Aim(s) To develop a comparative meta‐theory of nine caring theories by explicating their assumptions, operative mechanisms and consequences for nursing. Design Qualitative meta‐theoretical document analysis. Methods Canonical texts were analysed using an intra‐source strategy.
Muñoz Devesa A, Rico Becerra JI.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Teleological language or teleological thinking?

open access: yesCognition
Taru Tiililä   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)Belief in God Among Younger and Older Poles: Analytic Thinking and Cultural Learning Between Generations and Over Time

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capabilities, Human Nature, and Liberalism

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reconstructs and addresses three major critiques of Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach (CA): (1) the claim that an exclusive focus on capabilities (rather than functioning) is ineffective in protecting people's well‐being; (2) the critique of paternalism; and (3) the objection according to which the CA relies on a vague notion ...
Giulio Sacco
wiley   +1 more source

Hume and Kantian Teleology

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2015
Mercer Ronald
doaj   +1 more source

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