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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Explaining scientific phenomena by unpacking their underlying mechanisms poses many challenges for high‐school students. One central challenge is synthesizing the different parts of a mechanism into a coherent whole and identifying what information is still missing, or whether further learning is required.
Ruth Molad, Michal Haskel‐Ittah
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L'immanence de la puissance infinie. Le νοῦς d’Anaxagore à la lumière d’Homère
Methodos, 2016 The present paper deals with the nature of perception and cognition in the case of Anaxagoras' νοῦς, especially with the difficulties of assessing the respective role of mechanical, cognitive and teleological dimensions in the activities of the cosmic ...
Anne-Laure Therme, Arnaud Macé
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, 2021 Teleology has a complicated history in the biological sciences. Some have argued that Darwin’s theory has allowed biology to purge itself of teleological explanations.
Babcock, Gunnar, McShea, Daniel W.
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Carving teleology at its joints [PDF]
This paper addresses the conceptualisation and measurement of goal-directedness. Drawing inspiration from Ernst Mayr’s demarcation between multiple meanings of teleology, we propose a refined approach that delineates different kinds of teleology ...
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‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
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Journal of Social Ontology, 2022 Teleological thinking about money reasons from what money is for to both how it ought to be used and what forms it should take. One type, found in Aristotle’s argument against usury, takes teleological considerations alone to decisively settle normative
David G. Dick
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2013 Husserl’s phenomenology can be apprehended on the whole as a teleology of reason which consists of the aspiration to the greatest possible rationality in the cognitive, practical-individual and practical-communitarian or historic field.
Francisco Conde
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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