This document provides a brief overview of Aristotle and his philosophy:
1) Aristotle died in 322 BC at the age of 62, having made immense contributions to learning through his wide-ranging scientific explorations and profound philosophical speculations.
2) As a teacher, Aristotle enchanted and inspired the brightest Greek youth, and as a public figure he lived a turbulent life in turbulent times.
3) Throughout his life, Aristotle was driven by a desire for knowledge above all else, seeking to promote truth and increase human knowledge through his career activities and writings.
The document discusses ontologies in geography and their classification. It covers:
- The growing use of ontologies in geography due to GIS, applications, semantic web, and need for systematization.
- Ontologies aim to be accessible, informative, complete, and encourage reuse. They reflect community perspectives.
- In information science, ontologies provide shared terminology and taxonomies across domains for data integration.
- Geography ontologies analyze what geographic entities exist, how they are defined and classified, and how scientific and common sense views can be combined.
- Geographic ontologies are classified into geomatics/topological/geometrical ontologies, physical/natural ontologies, and human ontologies.
This document proposes an "ecology of meanings" model to explain communication processes. It integrates Jean Piaget's model of exchange values, Jean-Blaise Grize's communication model of schematization, and Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action. The model views communication science as interdisciplinary, accounting for both universal/necessary and particular/contingent knowledge. It adopts a critical constructivist approach, seeing knowledge as constructed between subject and object through processes of assimilation and accommodation, achieving momentary equilibriums. The model aims to understand communication as connecting social systems and lifeworlds, and as political action.
【chinese】 the division of analysis philosophy and mainland philosophy [精品]分析...Getchway Hoo
The document discusses the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy. It explores the distinction from both a historical and systematic perspective. Historically, the terms referred more to geography, but analytic philosophy emerged in the early 20th century among philosophers like Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein who emphasized the analysis of language. Continental philosophy encompassed diverse movements across Europe. The document analyzes how the two approaches differ in their relationship to natural science and history. Ultimately, it concludes the analytic-continental distinction is problematic and not a clear-cut categorization.
The document provides an overview of the key differences between analytic and continental philosophy. It traces the origins of the split back to Kant's distinction between the noumenal and phenomenal realms. In response, Hegel rejected this distinction by arguing for an overarching Idea that unites all of reality. Meanwhile, the Vienna Circle rejected Kant's notion of synthetic a priori cognition and aimed to eliminate metaphysics, focusing instead on problems that could be solved through logic and empirical verification. These divergent responses to Kant helped establish the distinct methodologies of continental and analytic philosophy that continue today.
The document discusses the concepts of locative media arts and net locality. It describes how location-based services and social networks have integrated location data, spatializing search and social interactions. Key aspects of locative media arts include experiential/emotional mapping, performative aspects like mobile narratives and games, and goals of documentation, expression, and collaboration. The document also examines issues of how locative media can be situated within broader social and political contexts.
This document provides a brief overview of Aristotle and his philosophy:
1) Aristotle died in 322 BC at the age of 62, having made immense contributions to learning through his wide-ranging scientific explorations and profound philosophical speculations.
2) As a teacher, Aristotle enchanted and inspired the brightest Greek youth, and as a public figure he lived a turbulent life in turbulent times.
3) Throughout his life, Aristotle was driven by a desire for knowledge above all else, seeking to promote truth and increase human knowledge through his career activities and writings.
The document discusses ontologies in geography and their classification. It covers:
- The growing use of ontologies in geography due to GIS, applications, semantic web, and need for systematization.
- Ontologies aim to be accessible, informative, complete, and encourage reuse. They reflect community perspectives.
- In information science, ontologies provide shared terminology and taxonomies across domains for data integration.
- Geography ontologies analyze what geographic entities exist, how they are defined and classified, and how scientific and common sense views can be combined.
- Geographic ontologies are classified into geomatics/topological/geometrical ontologies, physical/natural ontologies, and human ontologies.
This document proposes an "ecology of meanings" model to explain communication processes. It integrates Jean Piaget's model of exchange values, Jean-Blaise Grize's communication model of schematization, and Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action. The model views communication science as interdisciplinary, accounting for both universal/necessary and particular/contingent knowledge. It adopts a critical constructivist approach, seeing knowledge as constructed between subject and object through processes of assimilation and accommodation, achieving momentary equilibriums. The model aims to understand communication as connecting social systems and lifeworlds, and as political action.
【chinese】 the division of analysis philosophy and mainland philosophy [精品]分析...Getchway Hoo
The document discusses the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy. It explores the distinction from both a historical and systematic perspective. Historically, the terms referred more to geography, but analytic philosophy emerged in the early 20th century among philosophers like Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein who emphasized the analysis of language. Continental philosophy encompassed diverse movements across Europe. The document analyzes how the two approaches differ in their relationship to natural science and history. Ultimately, it concludes the analytic-continental distinction is problematic and not a clear-cut categorization.
The document provides an overview of the key differences between analytic and continental philosophy. It traces the origins of the split back to Kant's distinction between the noumenal and phenomenal realms. In response, Hegel rejected this distinction by arguing for an overarching Idea that unites all of reality. Meanwhile, the Vienna Circle rejected Kant's notion of synthetic a priori cognition and aimed to eliminate metaphysics, focusing instead on problems that could be solved through logic and empirical verification. These divergent responses to Kant helped establish the distinct methodologies of continental and analytic philosophy that continue today.
The document discusses the concepts of locative media arts and net locality. It describes how location-based services and social networks have integrated location data, spatializing search and social interactions. Key aspects of locative media arts include experiential/emotional mapping, performative aspects like mobile narratives and games, and goals of documentation, expression, and collaboration. The document also examines issues of how locative media can be situated within broader social and political contexts.
Ontology as a Hidden Driver of Politics: Commoning and Relational Approaches ...Zack Walsh
This report offers a synthesis of findings from 18 experts who, at a three-day workshop, discussed how shifting the ontological premises of political and economic thought toward process-relational ontology could transform society. The workshop, called “Onto-seeding Societal Transformation,” was co-hosted by the Commons Strategies Group and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, in Neudenau, Germany, between September 9-12, 2019. It consisted of three successive sessions focused on process-relational approaches to ontology, design patterns, and politics. A final, fourth session focused on the integration of ontology, patterns, and politics in concrete case studies. This report concludes with new questions and next steps for strategically advancing relational approaches to governance and the commons.
A Blank Sheet Of Paper The Phenomenological Foundation Of Comparative Media ...Lisa Riley
This document discusses comparative media theory, which focuses on how media themselves shape society rather than just their content or effects. It makes three key points:
1) Comparative media theory examines how different media form perceptions, institutions, and thought by comparing media across contexts, as the influence of any single medium is invisible from within it.
2) Figures like Innis and Havelock exemplify how studies of communication oscillate between presenting it as a specialized topic and implying it is a foundational factor integrating all human sciences.
3) The theory aims to be both philosophical and political by critically questioning what we attend to and the limits of attention, in order to link particular issues to broader historical transformations.
Review of Raymond Geuss, Reality and Its DreamsJohn Rapko
This document provides a review of Raymond Geuss's latest collection of essays titled "Reality and Its Dreams". The review discusses how the essays in this collection expand on Geuss's typical focus to include analysis of contemporary political and artistic phenomena. A key theme discussed across the essays is Geuss's criticism of "normativism", a philosophical orientation that aims to present abstract criteria for evaluating social and political practices. The review provides details on Geuss's definition of normativism and his argument that there has been a "normative turn" in political philosophy analogous to the "linguistic turn" diagnosed by Richard Rorty.
Essay 2IR
International Relations Theory.
Professor:
International relations theory’s relationship to actual policy
The hypothesis has a novel connection with international policy. To comprehend the International Relations hypothesis??, you should take a glance at the memorable and logical ideas that establishedthe framework for strategy. These ideas are the political ways of thinking and social sciences. This paired methodology in taking a gander at the worldwide relations hypothesis gives a more prominent comprehension of what hypothesis means for strategy. The two ideas give understanding into humankind's affiliation with government alongside examples of reasoning that clarify history through the viewpoint of prescient conduct. As indicated by the remarkable author Hans J. Morgenthau, the International Relations hypothesis depends on the political way of thinking (Cox, 1962). The political way of thinking includes both old-style and modern logical ideas. Our advanced type of government takes a weighty impact from Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Paine. These people established the framework for what is known as a political way of thinking. The way of thinking of worldwide relations accepts issues about profound quality, discretion, war, monetary government assistance, and common freedoms (Beitz, 1998). At an advanced look, allegiances among residents and ideas of patriotism and energy are better perceived. This idea thus impacts the real approach. The theory addresses male's jobs and relationships with the state and overseeing specialists. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): What hypothesis is this AM? Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): What kind of strategy AM? Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): Strictly speaking AM, political ways of thinking and social science are not ideas, even if they contain ideas. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): These terms are also not methodologies, though they may surely contain them. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): This sentence is not clear in meaning Abdi Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): I still do not know AM what the IR hypothesis is. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): HI AM, what do these thinkers have to do with the questions being asked for this midterm? These are political theorists who wrote about the construction of government, not really IR at all. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): These three sentences AM are also not clearly related to the questions asked about how state’s provide security.
The auxiliary angle that can be useful to the international relations hypothesis is the science of behavior. Focused on the characteristic connection between science and human conduct, behaviorism created logical, quantitative strategies for examining political cycles (Hamati-Ataya, 2018) Behaviorism stretched how Internati ...
Essay 2 ir international relations theory.professoronak56
The document discusses the relationship between international relations theory and policymaking. It explains that IR theory is based on both historical and rational ideas from political philosophy and social sciences. These ideas have influenced the formation of modern governments and provide frameworks for understanding human behavior and its relationship to the state. However, the document also notes that IR theories are fluid and should be considered holistically rather than as absolute frameworks, given the complexity of political issues and human behavior.
The New Socrates. Some notes on methodology in Pierre Bourdieu's «The Weight ...Lorenza Boninu
My presentation for the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, Prague 25-28.8. The general title of the ESA's Conference was «Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination».
This is a presentation of the research proposal in 2011, presented for the research dissertation Principles of Liberty by Tabea Hirzel in 2015.
It does not show the final methodology, but it illustrates the path of thoughts and the controversies which led to the final solution later on.
Here are a few key points about object relations theory:
- It focuses on how our early relationships and interactions with caregivers shape our personality and ability to form relationships later in life. Our "objects" are the people we form emotional attachments to as children.
- Internalized representations or mental images of our early objects, both positive and negative, form our internal object relations and influence how we perceive ourselves and others.
- Psychic structures like the ego and superego develop through object relations. Our relationships help form our sense of identity.
- Defense mechanisms like splitting and projection allow infants to cope with ambivalent feelings toward caregivers. These remain influential in relationships.
- Object relations theorists study how problems in
This document provides a summary and review by Elinor Ostrom of several books that examine the relationship between rational choice theory and institutional analysis in political science. Ostrom summarizes that the books aim to push the boundaries of rational choice theory to better explain empirical phenomena while incorporating an understanding of institutions and cultural traditions. However, she also notes there are productive disputes when scholars let disciplinary lenses bound their vision. Overall, Ostrom argues the field is moving toward complementarity between rational choice theory and other analytical tools in political science.
This document contains summaries of Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory by several professors and academics. The summaries praise the book for rigorously developing a novel framework for social science research from a poststructuralist perspective, using the concept of "logics" to construct critical explanations. They say the book avoids problems with positivism and subjectivism, engages important debates, and will influence the work of social scientists.
This document provides an overview of positivism and logical positivism. It discusses the key figures behind each approach, such as Auguste Comte for positivism and members of the Vienna Circle like Carnap, Hahn, and Neurath for logical positivism. The document also outlines some of the main ideas associated with each, such as positivism's emphasis on empirical facts and logical positivism's principle of verifiability. Finally, it notes that while positivism and logical positivism aimed to eliminate non-empirical philosophy, they have both faced criticism for being too reductionist in their views.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF A POLITICS OF NATALITY FOR THE PRAXIS OF PEACEBUILDING IN...Nanci Hogan
This chapter introduces key concepts and argues that current approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution do not adequately account for the importance of religion. It defines religion as shaping moral imaginaries and identities rather than just private beliefs. It contends that a politics of natality based on the work of Grace Jantzen provides an alternative framework that considers how religion intersects with identity formation and fluidity. This framework privileges becoming over static identities and opens space for religious voices. The thesis will apply this framework to the Israel/Palestine conflict to locate insights into peaceful transformations that have been ignored.
Action Research For As Mindful Of Social JusticeLisa Garcia
This document discusses the relationship between action research and social justice. It argues that action research and aims for social justice can be coherent in several ways. Both are concerned with action and view knowledge as provisional and revisable based on context. Key features of action research like collaboration, addressing multiple perspectives, and commitment to change can align with conceptions of social justice that emphasize redistribution, recognition of diverse groups, and ongoing efforts towards fairness. However, putting these ideals into practice through action research can be challenging, as it requires negotiating differences and agreeing on joint actions.
This document describes a study that used poetry as part of a critically reflexive action research co-inquiry with nurses. The researcher conducted a multi-stranded inquiry with three components: 1) a relational co-inquiry with 10 nurses over 8 months where they shared reflections and generated inquiry cycles, 2) an organizational co-inquiry presenting poems to senior nurses, and 3) a personal inquiry exploring how poetry has been used in social science and healthcare research. During the relational co-inquiry, the researcher unexpectedly began writing poems inspired by reflections on the nurses' experiences. These poems were later used to facilitate reflexive conversations and challenge assumptions about nursing practice. The study found that practice-based poems can elicit embodied
Public opinion is defined as the aggregate views of a significant proportion of the community on a particular topic. It is interactive and multidimensional in nature. There are two perspectives on public opinion - that individual opinions matter most, or that elite groups control public opinion. Public opinion serves to provide information to leaders on public matters. It is characterized as involving verbalization of collectively held attitudes or readiness for action regarding important issues, and frequently involves conflict between opposing sides of an issue.
Theory is defined as a set of principle based on which some activity is based. Theory can be normative or prescriptive. They can account for the action and enable the person to look beyond the regular conformities of society. In some cases theory can be used as a tool to explain many claims and help look beyond the obvious. Theory is a tool that can be used to extract details and decipher a situation. They are used in every aspect of human endeavor . This is also used in the field of architecture to look beyond the obvious physical structure and layering of the building. This notion of theory can be used to understand the concepts behind spatial arrangement of buildings and its hidden connotations . This aspect of why there is a need for theory is probed in this analysis. For this the works of Derrida and Eisenman are used to divulge more details along with other analysis. Reflective analysis for the concepts of theory is also probed in the analysis below.
This document provides an introduction to critical realism as a philosophical and methodological approach for doctoral researchers. It begins by discussing the need for researchers to adopt an explicit methodology. It then introduces critical realism as a philosophy of science that sits between objectivist and subjectivist approaches, combining an objectivist ontology with a soft social constructionist epistemology. The document outlines some of critical realism's key theoretical tools such as depth ontology, retroduction, and morphogenetic social change. It provides examples of critical realism's application across various fields and concludes with some limitations and resources for further information.
Ontology as a Hidden Driver of Politics: Commoning and Relational Approaches ...Zack Walsh
This report offers a synthesis of findings from 18 experts who, at a three-day workshop, discussed how shifting the ontological premises of political and economic thought toward process-relational ontology could transform society. The workshop, called “Onto-seeding Societal Transformation,” was co-hosted by the Commons Strategies Group and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, in Neudenau, Germany, between September 9-12, 2019. It consisted of three successive sessions focused on process-relational approaches to ontology, design patterns, and politics. A final, fourth session focused on the integration of ontology, patterns, and politics in concrete case studies. This report concludes with new questions and next steps for strategically advancing relational approaches to governance and the commons.
A Blank Sheet Of Paper The Phenomenological Foundation Of Comparative Media ...Lisa Riley
This document discusses comparative media theory, which focuses on how media themselves shape society rather than just their content or effects. It makes three key points:
1) Comparative media theory examines how different media form perceptions, institutions, and thought by comparing media across contexts, as the influence of any single medium is invisible from within it.
2) Figures like Innis and Havelock exemplify how studies of communication oscillate between presenting it as a specialized topic and implying it is a foundational factor integrating all human sciences.
3) The theory aims to be both philosophical and political by critically questioning what we attend to and the limits of attention, in order to link particular issues to broader historical transformations.
Review of Raymond Geuss, Reality and Its DreamsJohn Rapko
This document provides a review of Raymond Geuss's latest collection of essays titled "Reality and Its Dreams". The review discusses how the essays in this collection expand on Geuss's typical focus to include analysis of contemporary political and artistic phenomena. A key theme discussed across the essays is Geuss's criticism of "normativism", a philosophical orientation that aims to present abstract criteria for evaluating social and political practices. The review provides details on Geuss's definition of normativism and his argument that there has been a "normative turn" in political philosophy analogous to the "linguistic turn" diagnosed by Richard Rorty.
Essay 2IR
International Relations Theory.
Professor:
International relations theory’s relationship to actual policy
The hypothesis has a novel connection with international policy. To comprehend the International Relations hypothesis??, you should take a glance at the memorable and logical ideas that establishedthe framework for strategy. These ideas are the political ways of thinking and social sciences. This paired methodology in taking a gander at the worldwide relations hypothesis gives a more prominent comprehension of what hypothesis means for strategy. The two ideas give understanding into humankind's affiliation with government alongside examples of reasoning that clarify history through the viewpoint of prescient conduct. As indicated by the remarkable author Hans J. Morgenthau, the International Relations hypothesis depends on the political way of thinking (Cox, 1962). The political way of thinking includes both old-style and modern logical ideas. Our advanced type of government takes a weighty impact from Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Paine. These people established the framework for what is known as a political way of thinking. The way of thinking of worldwide relations accepts issues about profound quality, discretion, war, monetary government assistance, and common freedoms (Beitz, 1998). At an advanced look, allegiances among residents and ideas of patriotism and energy are better perceived. This idea thus impacts the real approach. The theory addresses male's jobs and relationships with the state and overseeing specialists. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): What hypothesis is this AM? Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): What kind of strategy AM? Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): Strictly speaking AM, political ways of thinking and social science are not ideas, even if they contain ideas. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): These terms are also not methodologies, though they may surely contain them. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): This sentence is not clear in meaning Abdi Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): I still do not know AM what the IR hypothesis is. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): HI AM, what do these thinkers have to do with the questions being asked for this midterm? These are political theorists who wrote about the construction of government, not really IR at all. Comment by Holt, David P (Helms School of Government): These three sentences AM are also not clearly related to the questions asked about how state’s provide security.
The auxiliary angle that can be useful to the international relations hypothesis is the science of behavior. Focused on the characteristic connection between science and human conduct, behaviorism created logical, quantitative strategies for examining political cycles (Hamati-Ataya, 2018) Behaviorism stretched how Internati ...
Essay 2 ir international relations theory.professoronak56
The document discusses the relationship between international relations theory and policymaking. It explains that IR theory is based on both historical and rational ideas from political philosophy and social sciences. These ideas have influenced the formation of modern governments and provide frameworks for understanding human behavior and its relationship to the state. However, the document also notes that IR theories are fluid and should be considered holistically rather than as absolute frameworks, given the complexity of political issues and human behavior.
The New Socrates. Some notes on methodology in Pierre Bourdieu's «The Weight ...Lorenza Boninu
My presentation for the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, Prague 25-28.8. The general title of the ESA's Conference was «Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination».
This is a presentation of the research proposal in 2011, presented for the research dissertation Principles of Liberty by Tabea Hirzel in 2015.
It does not show the final methodology, but it illustrates the path of thoughts and the controversies which led to the final solution later on.
Here are a few key points about object relations theory:
- It focuses on how our early relationships and interactions with caregivers shape our personality and ability to form relationships later in life. Our "objects" are the people we form emotional attachments to as children.
- Internalized representations or mental images of our early objects, both positive and negative, form our internal object relations and influence how we perceive ourselves and others.
- Psychic structures like the ego and superego develop through object relations. Our relationships help form our sense of identity.
- Defense mechanisms like splitting and projection allow infants to cope with ambivalent feelings toward caregivers. These remain influential in relationships.
- Object relations theorists study how problems in
This document provides a summary and review by Elinor Ostrom of several books that examine the relationship between rational choice theory and institutional analysis in political science. Ostrom summarizes that the books aim to push the boundaries of rational choice theory to better explain empirical phenomena while incorporating an understanding of institutions and cultural traditions. However, she also notes there are productive disputes when scholars let disciplinary lenses bound their vision. Overall, Ostrom argues the field is moving toward complementarity between rational choice theory and other analytical tools in political science.
This document contains summaries of Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory by several professors and academics. The summaries praise the book for rigorously developing a novel framework for social science research from a poststructuralist perspective, using the concept of "logics" to construct critical explanations. They say the book avoids problems with positivism and subjectivism, engages important debates, and will influence the work of social scientists.
This document provides an overview of positivism and logical positivism. It discusses the key figures behind each approach, such as Auguste Comte for positivism and members of the Vienna Circle like Carnap, Hahn, and Neurath for logical positivism. The document also outlines some of the main ideas associated with each, such as positivism's emphasis on empirical facts and logical positivism's principle of verifiability. Finally, it notes that while positivism and logical positivism aimed to eliminate non-empirical philosophy, they have both faced criticism for being too reductionist in their views.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF A POLITICS OF NATALITY FOR THE PRAXIS OF PEACEBUILDING IN...Nanci Hogan
This chapter introduces key concepts and argues that current approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution do not adequately account for the importance of religion. It defines religion as shaping moral imaginaries and identities rather than just private beliefs. It contends that a politics of natality based on the work of Grace Jantzen provides an alternative framework that considers how religion intersects with identity formation and fluidity. This framework privileges becoming over static identities and opens space for religious voices. The thesis will apply this framework to the Israel/Palestine conflict to locate insights into peaceful transformations that have been ignored.
Action Research For As Mindful Of Social JusticeLisa Garcia
This document discusses the relationship between action research and social justice. It argues that action research and aims for social justice can be coherent in several ways. Both are concerned with action and view knowledge as provisional and revisable based on context. Key features of action research like collaboration, addressing multiple perspectives, and commitment to change can align with conceptions of social justice that emphasize redistribution, recognition of diverse groups, and ongoing efforts towards fairness. However, putting these ideals into practice through action research can be challenging, as it requires negotiating differences and agreeing on joint actions.
This document describes a study that used poetry as part of a critically reflexive action research co-inquiry with nurses. The researcher conducted a multi-stranded inquiry with three components: 1) a relational co-inquiry with 10 nurses over 8 months where they shared reflections and generated inquiry cycles, 2) an organizational co-inquiry presenting poems to senior nurses, and 3) a personal inquiry exploring how poetry has been used in social science and healthcare research. During the relational co-inquiry, the researcher unexpectedly began writing poems inspired by reflections on the nurses' experiences. These poems were later used to facilitate reflexive conversations and challenge assumptions about nursing practice. The study found that practice-based poems can elicit embodied
Public opinion is defined as the aggregate views of a significant proportion of the community on a particular topic. It is interactive and multidimensional in nature. There are two perspectives on public opinion - that individual opinions matter most, or that elite groups control public opinion. Public opinion serves to provide information to leaders on public matters. It is characterized as involving verbalization of collectively held attitudes or readiness for action regarding important issues, and frequently involves conflict between opposing sides of an issue.
Theory is defined as a set of principle based on which some activity is based. Theory can be normative or prescriptive. They can account for the action and enable the person to look beyond the regular conformities of society. In some cases theory can be used as a tool to explain many claims and help look beyond the obvious. Theory is a tool that can be used to extract details and decipher a situation. They are used in every aspect of human endeavor . This is also used in the field of architecture to look beyond the obvious physical structure and layering of the building. This notion of theory can be used to understand the concepts behind spatial arrangement of buildings and its hidden connotations . This aspect of why there is a need for theory is probed in this analysis. For this the works of Derrida and Eisenman are used to divulge more details along with other analysis. Reflective analysis for the concepts of theory is also probed in the analysis below.
This document provides an introduction to critical realism as a philosophical and methodological approach for doctoral researchers. It begins by discussing the need for researchers to adopt an explicit methodology. It then introduces critical realism as a philosophy of science that sits between objectivist and subjectivist approaches, combining an objectivist ontology with a soft social constructionist epistemology. The document outlines some of critical realism's key theoretical tools such as depth ontology, retroduction, and morphogenetic social change. It provides examples of critical realism's application across various fields and concludes with some limitations and resources for further information.
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How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
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This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Articulating representation
1. Articulating representation: Haraway’s semiotics and the politics of diffraction Federica Timeto, Universityof Plymouth, UK, PlanetaryCollegium, Milan Node/ Università di Urbino Carlo Bo 1 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
2. ObjectivityasSituatedKnowledge Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 2 StandpointEpistemology: An epistemology, A methodology, A politicalstrategy. Knowledgeisalwayssituated. A standpointisdifferentfrom a viewpointbecauseitisanachievement. Neitheruniversalism Norrelativism How a regime oftruthworksratherthanwhatTruthis The usefulnotionof “less false” claims See: Harding, S. (Ed.) (2004) The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies, S. Harding (ed.), New York: Routledge.
3. ConstrainedConstructivism[Hayles, , N. K. (1991) Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Inquiry in the Theater of Representation. New Orleans Review, 18, 76-85. ] Realism Simmetrybtw. signs and things Affirmation/negation The importanceofconstraints * Asymmetricalcoimplication Assertion/denial 3 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin CONGRUENCE CONSISTENCY * Note that I am not saying constraints tell us what reality is. This they cannot do. But they can tell us which representations are consistent with reality, and which are not. (Hayles, 1991/1997)
4. SituatedKnowledges Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 4 So science becomes the paradigmatic model not of closure, but of that which is contestable and contested. Science becomes the myth not of what escapes human agency and responsibility in a realm above the fray, but rather of accountability and responsibility for translations and solidarities […]. We do not seek partiality for its own sake, but for the sake of the connections and unexpected openings situated knowledges make possible. The only way to find a larger vision is to be somewhere in particular. (Haraway, 1988/1991, p. 196) Partiality Responsibility Accountability
5. it’s anontoepistemologicalframework (non relativistbutrealist) Are non relativistantirealistpositions 5 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Agentialrealism Mostfeminist science studies Accordingto Karen Barad…
6. Baradrefusesmediationbecause: Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 6 Questioning the basisof the Newtoniantradition, Bohrrefusesto take forgranted the delineationof the “object” and the “agenciesofobservation” and makes the constitutionof the inside boundary a centerpieceofhisanalysis. […] In particularheemphasizesthatthe cutdelineating the objectfrom the agenciesofobservationisenactedratherthaninherent. (Barad, 2007, p. 142) Itrelies on a “geometryofabsoluteexteriority” Itpresupposes a dichotomybetweennoumena and phenomena (representationalmodel) Itdoesnot account for the performativityofmatter(ing)
7. The brittlestars challenge notonlydisembodiedepistemologiesbutalsotraditional, and indeednontraditional, notionsofembodiment. Bodies are notsituated in the world; they are part of the world (Barad, 2007, p. 376) The brittlestarsaretheirvisualapparatus 7 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
8. … discursivepractices are specific material (re)configuringsof the world throughwhich the determinationofboundaries, properties and meaningsisdifferentiallyenacted. Thatis, discursivepractices are ongoingagentialintra-actionsof the world throughwhichspecificdeterminacies (alongwithcomplementaryindeterminacies) are enactedwithin the phenomenaproduced. (Barad, 2007, pp. 148-9) Intra-actionmeansthat: 8 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
9. Harawayvaluesmediationas: Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 9 anactiveoperationoftrasformationthatstandsinside the practiceitactivates (< Latour) the specificityofsituatedknowledges, embodiments and visions the connectionsof the semiotic and the material the articulationofrepresentation
10. Non-RepresentationalTheory(Thrift, 2008) Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 10 Radicalempiricism Anti-subjectivism Generativityofpractices Performativityofevents Posthumanist stress on affect Situationalapproach
11. RepresentationsasFigurationsaccordingtoHaraway Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 11 Figurations attempt to draw a cartography of the power relations that define these respective positions. They don’t embellish or metaphorize: they just express different socio-economic and symbolic locations. They draw a cartographic map of power relations and thus can also help identify possible sites and strategies of resistance. (Braidotti, 2003, p. 54) Strong link with location Living and trasformative accounts Situatedcartographies Matter + meaning (the material + the semiotic)
12. First and foremost, as Haraway suggests, a diffractive methodology is a critical practice for making a difference in the world. It is a commitment to understanding which differences matter, how they matter, and for whom. It is a critical practice of engagement, not a distance-learning practice of reflecting from afar. (Barad, 2007, p. 90) Diffraction 12 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
13. HowDiffractionworks Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 13 Opticalmetaphor + physicalphenomenon Itmapswhere the effectsofdifferenceappear Itdisplaces the sameelsewhere
14. SeeBarad, 2007, chapter 2 for a detaileddiscussionof the two-slitexperiment. The two-slitexperiment 14 Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
15. The politicsofdiffraction, or enactingthe cut Contested Truths. Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge. June 16-18, 2011, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 15 Dealingwithheterogeneityratherthanwithoriginality Historicity Unpredictability and emergenceofevents Possibilityofinterveningto produce “consequentialmeanings” The diffractionfringescreatedby the diffractionofwavesaround the edgesof a razorblade