The Four-Field Model
... in addition to their institutions; things people made were part of the learned experience of living in society, which was culture. That concept of culture, and cultural evolution in the 19th century, appears to have fit better with natural history than other academic consolidations. The anthropology ...
... in addition to their institutions; things people made were part of the learned experience of living in society, which was culture. That concept of culture, and cultural evolution in the 19th century, appears to have fit better with natural history than other academic consolidations. The anthropology ...
Anthropology in the middle - Anthropology Emory
... so years; the many and increasing contributions of world anthropology from other nations and world areas are beyond my scope (see Ribeiro and Escobar, 2006). In this sense, the present view is of and about what some may take, quite critically, to be a presumptive or unmarked central position in anth ...
... so years; the many and increasing contributions of world anthropology from other nations and world areas are beyond my scope (see Ribeiro and Escobar, 2006). In this sense, the present view is of and about what some may take, quite critically, to be a presumptive or unmarked central position in anth ...
Introduction. - philosophica
... increase in vocabulary, but explains why this is no sign of increasing complexity. Nor can one consider the development of dialects to be a practicable standard to measure complexity. If one analyses grammar and syntax, there are even reasons to believe English evolved towards simplicity. In sum, on ...
... increase in vocabulary, but explains why this is no sign of increasing complexity. Nor can one consider the development of dialects to be a practicable standard to measure complexity. If one analyses grammar and syntax, there are even reasons to believe English evolved towards simplicity. In sum, on ...
Bob`s Lecture Notes for Week 1
... (A) senses, conceptual in a non-psychological sense, articulated by material incompatibility, and H’s non-psychological sense of “conceptual articulation”: Hegel wants us to start with a notion of content, as something that can be common to its subjective form in thought and its objective form in fa ...
... (A) senses, conceptual in a non-psychological sense, articulated by material incompatibility, and H’s non-psychological sense of “conceptual articulation”: Hegel wants us to start with a notion of content, as something that can be common to its subjective form in thought and its objective form in fa ...
1 what is anthropology? - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... (Benedict 1940, Ch 2). (Note that a unified fourfield anthropology did not develop in Europe, where the subdisciplines tend to exist separately.) There are also logical reasons for the unity of American anthropology. Each subfield considers variation in time and space (that is, in different geograph ...
... (Benedict 1940, Ch 2). (Note that a unified fourfield anthropology did not develop in Europe, where the subdisciplines tend to exist separately.) There are also logical reasons for the unity of American anthropology. Each subfield considers variation in time and space (that is, in different geograph ...
- Philsci
... developmental biology (Hall 1992; Arthur 1997; Raff 1996). My (1994) treatment does not take account of these new development, which I did not address until my (1999). However, neither Neander’s criticisms of my (1994) account nor her own positive proposals are grounded in this recent literature on ...
... developmental biology (Hall 1992; Arthur 1997; Raff 1996). My (1994) treatment does not take account of these new development, which I did not address until my (1999). However, neither Neander’s criticisms of my (1994) account nor her own positive proposals are grounded in this recent literature on ...
The Asymmetric Magnets Problem
... That conjunction is the first of our (hitherto) uncontroversial theses. The second needs a bit more work to state formally. It is fairly intuitive that whether two objects are duplicates is not an emergent feature of reality. In some sense, whether two complex are duplicates just depends on the prop ...
... That conjunction is the first of our (hitherto) uncontroversial theses. The second needs a bit more work to state formally. It is fairly intuitive that whether two objects are duplicates is not an emergent feature of reality. In some sense, whether two complex are duplicates just depends on the prop ...
Reasons and Moral Principles
... doing pirouettes during the full moon, and so on). It doesn’t follow from this that a consideration which slots into a reason relation upon one instantiation would have done so if the circumstances had been different. Particularists can therefore happily allow that reasons must be general in this se ...
... doing pirouettes during the full moon, and so on). It doesn’t follow from this that a consideration which slots into a reason relation upon one instantiation would have done so if the circumstances had been different. Particularists can therefore happily allow that reasons must be general in this se ...
Carlo Penco Dipartimento di Filosofia Università di Genova via Balbi
... use of the same types of words; therefore, (DP) cannot be considered, without careful scrutiny, as generally applicable to any utterance. As we have seen, Kripke has given restriction (R) to the general applicability of (DP). The problem is this: why, after having established (R), does Kripke apply ...
... use of the same types of words; therefore, (DP) cannot be considered, without careful scrutiny, as generally applicable to any utterance. As we have seen, Kripke has given restriction (R) to the general applicability of (DP). The problem is this: why, after having established (R), does Kripke apply ...
Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine`s Holism
... independent course of observable nature, we can judge the morality of an act only by our moral standards themselves; adding that science \"thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".15 However, ...
... independent course of observable nature, we can judge the morality of an act only by our moral standards themselves; adding that science \"thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".15 However, ...
On the Indispensable Premises of the Indispensability - Hal-SHS
... naturalism and holism”6. Naturalism would be required in order to justify the onlydirection of the implication, which, as Colyvan himself acknowledge 7, is, in fact, redundant for drawing the conclusion, and confirmational holism to justify the alldirection. Whether this is so hinges on how the noti ...
... naturalism and holism”6. Naturalism would be required in order to justify the onlydirection of the implication, which, as Colyvan himself acknowledge 7, is, in fact, redundant for drawing the conclusion, and confirmational holism to justify the alldirection. Whether this is so hinges on how the noti ...
Hegel`s Theory of History
... abridgment of freedom by any actual state was unacceptable. In connection with politics and ‘The State’ Hegel has also been misunderstood. His historical consciousness originated with the formation of states, for he saw them as a source of meaning in history and the subjects of the philosophy of his ...
... abridgment of freedom by any actual state was unacceptable. In connection with politics and ‘The State’ Hegel has also been misunderstood. His historical consciousness originated with the formation of states, for he saw them as a source of meaning in history and the subjects of the philosophy of his ...
Notes on Hegel`s Conception of Reconciliation
... Second, reconciliation is in a manner comprehensive in that it orients human beings to an end to which potentially every action can be related, at least when taken from a certain point-of-view. Third, reconciliation for a modern individual will necessarily involve an insight into how her selfish nee ...
... Second, reconciliation is in a manner comprehensive in that it orients human beings to an end to which potentially every action can be related, at least when taken from a certain point-of-view. Third, reconciliation for a modern individual will necessarily involve an insight into how her selfish nee ...
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... systems on the planet are not sustainable, as increasingly seems to be the case, then the rise of the global ecovillage movement is of urgent practical consequence. As a living expression of a worldview fundamentally different from that of secular modernity, the ecovillage movement is also of theore ...
... systems on the planet are not sustainable, as increasingly seems to be the case, then the rise of the global ecovillage movement is of urgent practical consequence. As a living expression of a worldview fundamentally different from that of secular modernity, the ecovillage movement is also of theore ...
From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the
... society and culture due to computer information, and biological technologies: “As a new domain of anthropological practice, the study of cyberculture is particularly concerned with the cultural construction and reconstruction on which the new technologies are based and which they in turn help to sha ...
... society and culture due to computer information, and biological technologies: “As a new domain of anthropological practice, the study of cyberculture is particularly concerned with the cultural construction and reconstruction on which the new technologies are based and which they in turn help to sha ...
The systems model and political science
... springs in this way from a methodological holism which, according to Easton, stands between pure individualistic reductionism and philosophical ho lism - i e a holism which asserts both the need to take account of the special properties found when individuals interact as an organized group and the ...
... springs in this way from a methodological holism which, according to Easton, stands between pure individualistic reductionism and philosophical ho lism - i e a holism which asserts both the need to take account of the special properties found when individuals interact as an organized group and the ...
Spencerism and the Causal Theory of Reference
... internal structures would have to be invoked in defending an externalism as underlying the ECT, since otherwise even the strongest internalist, such as Chomsky (2000), need not disagree. A structured environment of a certain kind is clearly necessary for the language faculty to evolve, both phylogen ...
... internal structures would have to be invoked in defending an externalism as underlying the ECT, since otherwise even the strongest internalist, such as Chomsky (2000), need not disagree. A structured environment of a certain kind is clearly necessary for the language faculty to evolve, both phylogen ...
A Divine Ecology Natural Life: Thoreau`s Worldly Transcendentalism
... In the concluding chapter, John P. Miller highlights four themes that run through the book. The first is a critical perspective that Miller feels is important to the future of holistic education. Through this perspective holistic educators join their voices with those of antiracist educators, femini ...
... In the concluding chapter, John P. Miller highlights four themes that run through the book. The first is a critical perspective that Miller feels is important to the future of holistic education. Through this perspective holistic educators join their voices with those of antiracist educators, femini ...
john mingers - Kent Academic Repository
... Systems thinking or the systems approach1 developed in its modern form with a burst of new ideas in a range of disciplines during the 1920s and 1930s although some of the underlying principles can be traced back to the Greeks, especially Aristotle2. Traditional disciplines that were involved include ...
... Systems thinking or the systems approach1 developed in its modern form with a burst of new ideas in a range of disciplines during the 1920s and 1930s although some of the underlying principles can be traced back to the Greeks, especially Aristotle2. Traditional disciplines that were involved include ...
Is evolution fundamental when it comes to defining biological
... I’ve used a numbering system to indicate where there is repetition or where different definitions constitute rivals for a single concept. The two concepts with the greatest number of alternative definitions are 1 and 2, which we may think of roughly as ‘evolutionary’ and ‘organisational’ concepts r ...
... I’ve used a numbering system to indicate where there is repetition or where different definitions constitute rivals for a single concept. The two concepts with the greatest number of alternative definitions are 1 and 2, which we may think of roughly as ‘evolutionary’ and ‘organisational’ concepts r ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... A well-known holist about scientific theory, Duhem claimed that no particular scientific hypothesis can be tested by an experiment, since experiments test only whole bodies of theory, or sets of hypotheses, at a time. Explicitly rejecting the idea that science is a set of models that yield predictio ...
... A well-known holist about scientific theory, Duhem claimed that no particular scientific hypothesis can be tested by an experiment, since experiments test only whole bodies of theory, or sets of hypotheses, at a time. Explicitly rejecting the idea that science is a set of models that yield predictio ...
The Case for Methodological Individualism in Agency Autonomy
... discourse. With methodological collectivism, the idea is that social structures govern society and its institutions, independent of the actions and behaviour of individuals. Social structures include public discourse, fashions, social expectations, etc. Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim were ...
... discourse. With methodological collectivism, the idea is that social structures govern society and its institutions, independent of the actions and behaviour of individuals. Social structures include public discourse, fashions, social expectations, etc. Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim were ...
Journal of Economic Issues New Perspectives on Institutionalist
... high priority was given to understanding the relation between different ontological levels of the economy. A similar emphasis can also be found in Bunge, who argues that “social sciences study social systems and their subsystems and supersystems” (1996, 273). He recognizes that any system carries em ...
... high priority was given to understanding the relation between different ontological levels of the economy. A similar emphasis can also be found in Bunge, who argues that “social sciences study social systems and their subsystems and supersystems” (1996, 273). He recognizes that any system carries em ...
Bunge :Ten Modes of Individualism—None of Which Works—And
... meaningless even though its constituents make sense. Another example is that the sentence “That will do” gets its meaning from its context. A third one is that the proverbial propositions “Dog bit man” and “Man bit dog” are not the same although they have the same constituents. As a last example, th ...
... meaningless even though its constituents make sense. Another example is that the sentence “That will do” gets its meaning from its context. A third one is that the proverbial propositions “Dog bit man” and “Man bit dog” are not the same although they have the same constituents. As a last example, th ...