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Repair, Consumption, and Sustainability: Fixing Fragile Objects and Maintaining Consumer Practices
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D Matthew Godfrey and others
Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 49, Issue 2, August 2022, Pages 229–251, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucab067
Published: 24 November 2021
... consumers repair the objects they use. The article explains these challenges and concludes by discussing their implications for studies of repair, consumer practices, and sustainable consumption. repair material objects practice theory sustainable consumption services marketing Death often...
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The Haecceitic Euthyphro problem
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Jason Bowers and Meg Wallace
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Analysis, Volume 78, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 13–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx117
Published: 10 August 2017
.... 8 On this proposal, a material object such as a table, t, may have a table leg, l, as a part; and since l and t are distinct, each will have a distinct haecceity. The leg l has a haecceity, hl, and t has a haecceity...
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A BUNDLE OF UNIVERSALS THEORY OF MATERIAL OBJECTS
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J. D. Lafrance
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 259, April 2015, Pages 202–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqu078
Published: 13 November 2014
...J. D. Lafrance Abstract I offer a mereological bundle of universals theory of material objects. The theory says that objects are identical to fusions of immanent universals at regions of space. Immanent universals are in the objects that instantiate them, and they can be wholly located at many...
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A Tour of the Ephemeral
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Thomas Crowther and Clare Mac Cumhaill
Published: 14 June 2018
... material object odours pictures properties perceptible rainbows Richardson L sense datum theory of perception shadow sky Sorensen R Soteriou M sound space Varzi A ephemera def of insubstantial solar eclipse substance the substantial Aristotle bounded unbounded things three...
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The Individuation of Events
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Donald Davidson
Published: 27 September 2001
... identity and individuation conditions for entities whose existence we are committed to, Davidson asks how well that need is met in the case of material objects, and provides such conditions for events in terms of their causes and effects (see also Appendix B). excuses Kim J logical form Quine W V O...
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Published: 15 May 2018
... or acquired during the war in order to show how a particular violent subjectivity was made possible by key material objects such as identity booklets and weapons, and embodied in the form of others such as medals and trophies. Crimea Damcheev Bato distance Guards Soviet elite units Odessa Order of Bogdan...
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Things
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Matej Blazek
Published: 09 December 2015
... of capital as a framework that emphasises the complex role of things in how children develop their agency. face paint material objects paint things Woodward I Kraftl P chalk Anderson B drawing Tolia Kelly D Horton J money ‘mundane’ phenomena personal belongings lack of thrown away objects...
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The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects
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JaHyun Kim Haboush
Published: 06 October 2008
... these women into focus and recovers their identities as historical subjects. It first looks at the material objects that they produced, locating those objects in their cultural and historical context in order to decode their meanings through a system of signification. It then considers two categories...
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The Materiality of Virtual Technologies: A New Approach to Thinking about the Impact of Multimedia in Museums
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Andrea Witcomb
Published: 16 March 2007
... the virtual and the material world, and thus interpret the virtual either as a threat or as a radical process of democratization. The chapter offers a different perspective on the materiality of virtual technologies by viewing digital media as material objects in their own right. In support...
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Communities of Memory, Narratives of Experience
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Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten
Published: 28 November 2011
...This chapter analyzes the life-history narratives of refugee children and explores the construction of their memories. It focuses on four themes that recur in their life histories: departure, material objects, powerlessness, and empowerment. anticommunism in Great Britain Cold War and evacuation...
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Trophies of War: Red Army Soldiers Confront an Alien World of Goods
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Brandon M. Schechter
Published: 15 October 2019
... was puzzling. They not only reckoned with material objects and institutions that the Soviet Union had purged but were also left to wonder why people who lived materially so much better than they did had waged a genocidal war against them, marked by systematic rape, pillaging, and wanton destruction...
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Logical Constructions (i): Matter
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David Bostock
Published: 19 April 2012
...Russell’s so-called ‘logical constructions’ aim to replace an ordinary concept that is in some way puzzling by a more economical substitute. He offers a construction of material objects from sensibilia, which are supposedly just like sense-data except that they also exist unsensed...
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Published: 14 December 2023
... methods for making identifications without continuous observation. It would be questionable to deny that we do have such methods but his argument contains some steps which may be deniable. In the final stage of his argument Strawson claims it follows that material objects are the basic objects...
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Published: 01 February 2016
... is pleasant for the pluralist, but what else can she say? To respond to the grounding problem, the pluralist should first tell a story about what material objects are. If that story explains how the modal and sortal properties of objects are grounded, in a way that allows for differences between coincident...
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1 Introduction
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Michael C. Rea
Published: 01 August 2002
...Introduces several of the concepts and assumptions that will occupy center stage in the book's main argument. In particular, introduces the notion of a research programme , and provides characterizations of realism about material objects and its rival...
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Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects
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Jeffrey E. Brower
Published online: 23 October 2014
Published in print: 26 June 2014
... that material objects are best understood as “hylomorphic compounds”—that is, objects composed of both matter (hyle ) and form (morphe ). The project of this book is to present and explain the hylomorphic conception of the material world developed by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274...
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Visual Objects
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Mohan Matthen
Published: 10 February 2005
... that these subjects are regions of space: it is argued here that they are material objects capable of motion, not mere regions of space. Thus, vision presents the world in material object-feature terms. Other modalities employ different structures: audition, for example, attributes features to sounds, not material...
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Aesthetic Resources for Orientation and Reassurance
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Kathleen Marie Higgins
Published: 06 March 2024
... with recognition of skills that one has already developed, helps restore some sense of agency and self-assurance going forward. aesthetic experience aesthetic practices artworks music absence aesthetic reassurance bereavement material objects Attig Thomas beauty Being in Time Heidegger Kant Immanuel...
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The Theory of Appearing Defended
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Harold Langsam
Published: 19 December 2008
... between material objects and minds. The tempting nature of the theory lies in the fact that it can reconcile what we might call the Manifest and Scientific Images of experience, as presented by Wilfrid Sellars. The following sections defend the theory against a variety of popular objections, and in so...
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Published: 15 May 2018
... Goethe Johann Wolfgang houses Schiller Friedrich family memory fashion cosmopolitanism interior decoration Holocaust Lisa Oettinger German-Jewish traditions reformist Islam Muslim traditions migration material objects family traditions In the summer of 2013 I flew to London to meet two...
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