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Published: 20 January 1994
... physical physicalist metatheses scope actualism empiricism obstacles to success philosophy realism significance of physicalism integration of facts and values physicalism unified system of knowledge existence physicalist This is a book concerning physicalism—a programme for metaphysical...
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Published: 20 January 1994
... are employed in later chapters for assessing the book's own and other formulations of physicalist doctrine. growth of knowledge physicalist programme physicalist reductionism physics structure of knowledge system of knowledge unification branch of science eliminative physicalism methodological roles...
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Published: 20 January 1994
... doctrine unified system of knowledge reductionist approaches no-reductionist approaches Any robust materialist position should affirm…that what is material determines all there is in the world. Jaegwon Kim (1984: 162) Determination principles are global…This saves us from worrying about just how much...
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Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 20 January 1994
...Physicalism is a programme for building a unified system of knowledge based on the view that everything is a manifestation of the physical aspects of existence. This book presents an exploration of the philosophical foundations of this programme. It investigates the core ideas, motivating values...
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Published: 30 September 2021
... competing system goals as cultural scripts: in this case, the safe, orderly, and expeditious delivery of air traffic. The practical accomplishment is a highly developed cultural system of knowledge. In becoming experts, mind, body, technologies, and institutionalized cultural beliefs merge, becoming tacit...
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Published: 27 February 2009
...This chapter examines localism as a system of knowledge and as a critique of the research field of economic development studies. It analyzes the contribution of import substitution to economic development in less developed countries and the reasons behind the skepticism of the more and less wealthy...
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Published: 30 September 2004
.... classificatory system of knowledge knowledge cycle ontology organizational knowledge background to case studies Blau P M blueprints common sense knowledge experiential organizations ontology of Parsons T functionalism routines organizational Selznick P action cognition and becoming being Cooper R...
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Published: 24 April 2008
... that embedded within every system of power is a system of knowledge that both organizes and makes meaningful the formation and use of that power. The chapter examines how the introduction of a system of knowledge—in this case Chinese historical and divinatory classics—produced a host of unforeseen cultic...