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Undergraduate Biology Students’ Teleological and Essentialist Misconceptions
Education Sciences, 2018 Research in developmental psychology has shown that deeply-rooted, intuitive ways of thinking, such as design teleology and psychological essentialism, impact children’s scientific explanations about natural phenomena.
Florian Stern +4 more
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Perceptual teleology: expectations of action efficiency bias social perception
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Primates interpret conspecific behaviour as goal-directed and expect others to achieve goals by the most efficient means possible. While this teleological stance is prominent in evolutionary and developmental theories of social cognition, little is known
M. Hudson +3 more
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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007 The FOUCAULTian governmentality approach, in relying on a teleology—the ultimate purpose of human endeavour is the quest for ever-growing human reason, a reason that is the universal basis of moral judgements, especially moral judgements about political ...
Gary Wickham, Gavin Kendall
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2008 A extensa obra fantástica de Jorge Luis Borges tem sido lida como uma crítica contra a ciência tradicional e a lógica, como tendo repudiado a importância do indivíduo, a pressuposição da própria realidade e conseqüentemente, as formas de conhecimento que
Ricardo Waizbort, Lucia de la Rocque
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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Sentido y responsabilidad. Invitación a la fenomenología de Husserl [PDF]
Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2015 The recovery of the problem of meaning and intellectual life in terms of responsibility are, as I try to argue, two questions from which the proposal of the Husserl’s phenomenology can be reconstructed.
José Manuel Chillón
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THE RATIONALITY OF BEAUTY: AESTHETICS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF TELEOLOGY
Zygon, 2022 As is well‐known, the mechanistic ontology associated with the work of Descartes and Newton also challenged the irreducibility of final causes. This challenge undercut objective justifications of goodness and beauty.
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