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    Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms

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    Mintzberg’s Strategy Continuum: Philosophic and Theoretical Underpinnings Naveed Yazdani Chair Department of Business Administration School of Business & Economics University of Management & Technology Yazdani@umt.edu.pk & naveedyazdani@hotmail.co.uk Abstract This theoretical paper views Henry Mintzberg’s ‘Strategy Safari’ as representing a strategy continuum along which different styles/modes of strategy making and implementing are spread‚ with Prescriptive/Planning style of strategizing at

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    More on the problem of the external world In his paper about the problem of the external world Stroud’s conclusion is that we can’t prove we are not dreaming. He takes as he calls it‚ a ‘sceptical’ standpoint by saying that there is not solution to the problem of the external world. There are two main objections to Stroud’s position towards the skeptics like Descartes. First‚ saying there is not solution to the problem of the external world is just as skeptic and it does not take us anywhere. Second

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    Descartes & Hume

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    that reason alone‚ not sensation or experience‚ was the source to attaining knowledge about the eternal truths of the universe‚ such as mathematics‚ epistemology‚ metaphysics and the existence of God. He excluded physics from this list‚ admitting that knowledge of physics only comes through experience (Descartes). Regardless‚ his rationalistic epistemology made it so that Descartes could only accept the truth about something if it was based upon a principle that was clearly and distinctly certain.

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    Dr. C. George Boeree‚ a retired professor from Shippensburg University and a fan of Piaget defines genetic epistemology as “the study of the development of knowledge”. Piaget’s theories mainly revolved around children and how they learn throughout the different stages or their lives. He believed that the young did not need any inspiration from adults to learn‚ but

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    GENERAL INTRODUCTION Ours is an anthropocentric world where each individual is went upon attaining self realisation in himself or herself. He or she has scant respect for others. Pragmatism has become the order of the day. In short man has become inordinately selfish‚ considering society a mere means to gratify himself/ herself. This malady of the modern society has been denounced by eminent philosophers like Kant‚ F. H. Bradley etc. Their sole intention was to lay a foundation for ethics. But

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    Piaget identified himself as a genetic epistemologist. "What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge‚ since its elementary forms‚ following to the next levels‚ including also the scientific knowledge‚" he explained in his book Genetic Epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the origin‚ nature‚ extent‚ and limits of human knowledge. He was interested not only in the nature of thought‚ but in how it develops

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    Management Context Matthias Gräuler and Frank Teuteberg University of Osnabrück‚ Accounting and Information Systems‚ Osnabrück‚ Germany {matthias.graeuler‚frank.teuteberg}@uos.de Abstract. Using a combination of metamodels‚ ontologies‚ green performanceindicators and metrics‚ we apply a novel approach in Semantic Business Pro-cess Benchmarking to the area of Green Business Process Management (GreenBPM). Up to now‚ process benchmarking has mainly been a manual process;the approach

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    Word count 5227 excluding reference list MA in Education – Research Methods (EDC010-6) Engaging with Research to Inform Practice: The experience of final year social work students Jacqueline White University of Bedfordshire 1. Introduction This proposed study seeks to build upon current knowledge of the student experience of using research in practice by engaging participants who are final year social work students (MSc and BSc) in a HEI in the UK. The hypothesis

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    Schema Mapping in P2P Systems: We discussed the importance of and the techniques for‚ designing database integration systems in Chapter 4. Similar issues arise in data sharing P2P systems. Due to specific characteristics of P2P systems‚ e.g.‚ the dynamic and autonomous nature of peers‚ the approaches that rely on centralized global schemas no longer apply. The main problem is to support decentralized schema mapping so that a query expressed on one peer’s schema can be reformulated to a query

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