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    Maughn Rollins Gregory (USA).Dialogue Type Purpose Standard - 2009 - In Eva Marsal, Takara Dobashi & Barbara Weber, Children Philosophize Worldwide: Theoretical and Practical Concepts. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang GmbH. pp. 337.
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    Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Aquinas's Transformation of the Virtue of Courage.I. Christian Purposes—Christian Content - 2003 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 11:147-180.
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  3. Actual Causation and the Challenge of Purpose.Enno Fischer - 2024 - Erkenntnis 89 (7):2925-2945.
    This paper explores the prospects of employing a functional approach in order to improve our concept of actual causation. Claims of actual causation play an important role for a variety of purposes. In particular, they are relevant for identifying suitable targets for intervention, and they are relevant for our practices of ascribing responsibility. I argue that this gives rise to the _challenge of purpose_. The challenge of purpose arises when different goals demand adjustments of the concept that pull in (...)
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  4. Mechanism and purpose: A case for natural teleology.Denis Walsh - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (1):173-181.
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    (1 other version)Function without Purpose: The Uses of Causal Role Function in Evolutionary Biology.Ron Amundson & George V. Lauder - 1998 - In David L. Hull & Michael Ruse, The philosophy of biology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 227--57.
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  6. II—Wendy S. Parker: Confirmation and adequacy-for-Purpose in Climate Modelling.Wendy S. Parker - 2009 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 83 (1):233-249.
    Lloyd (2009) contends that climate models are confirmed by various instances of fit between their output and observational data. The present paper argues that what these instances of fit might confirm are not climate models themselves, but rather hypotheses about the adequacy of climate models for particular purposes. This required shift in thinking—from confirming climate models to confirming their adequacy-for-purpose—may sound trivial, but it is shown to complicate the evaluation of climate models considerably, both in principle and in practice.
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    Hegel on Purpose.Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis - 2019 - Hegel Bulletin 40 (3):444-463.
    In this paper we propose a new interpretation of Hegel's views on action and responsibility, defending it against its most plausible exegetical competitors.1Any exposition of Hegel will face both terminological and substantive challenges, and so we place, from the outset, some interpretative constraints. The paper divides into two parts. In part one, we point out that Hegel makes a number of distinctions which any sensible account of responsibility should indeed make. Our aim here is to show that Hegel at least (...)
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    Freedom and purpose in biology.Daniel W. McShea - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 58:64–72.
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    The Apnea Test: Requiring Consent for a Test That is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Not Fit for Purpose, and Always Confounded?Ari R. Joffe - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (6):42-44.
    Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2020, Page 42-44.
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  10. Causation in the social sciences: Evidence, inference, and purpose.Julian Reiss - 2009 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (1):20-40.
    All univocal analyses of causation face counterexamples. An attractive response to this situation is to become a pluralist about causal relationships. "Causal pluralism" is itself, however, a pluralistic notion. In this article, I argue in favor of pluralism about concepts of cause in the social sciences. The article will show that evidence for, inference from, and the purpose of causal claims are very closely linked. Key Words: causation • pluralism • evidence • methodology.
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  11. Sanctification, Satisfaction, and the Purpose of Purgatory.Neal Judisch - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (2):167-185.
    Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the doctrine of purgatory among Christian philosophers. Some of these philosophers argue for the existence of purgatory from principles consistent with historic Protestant theology and then attempt, on the basis of those principles, to formulate a distinctively Protestant view of purgatory—i.e., one that differs essentially from the Catholic doctrine as regards purgatory’s raison d’etre. Here I aim to show that Protestant models of purgatory which are grounded in the necessity of becoming (...)
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  12. The fall of “augustinian adam”: Original fragility and supralapsarian purpose.John Schneider - 2012 - Zygon 47 (4):949-969.
    The essay is framed by conflict between Christianity and Darwinian science over the history of the world and the nature of human personhood. Evolutionary science narrates a long prehuman geological and biological history filled with vast amounts, kinds, and distributions of apparently random brutal and pointless suffering. It also strongly suggests that the first modern humans were morally primitive. This science seems to discredit Christianity's common meta-narrative of the Fall, understood as a story of Paradise Lost. The author contends that (...)
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    Sir David Ross on duty and purpose in Kant.Lewis White Beck - 1955 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 16 (1):98-107.
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    Informing evidence-based policy for sport-related concussion: are the consensus statements of the concussion in sport group fit for this purpose?Mike Weed - 2024 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 18 (3):433-448.
    This essay explores how evidence-based policy can be developed for sport-related concussion (SRC), focusing particularly on the role and influence of the Consensus Statements of the Concussion in Sport Group (CiSG). Three credible policy purposes are suggested: (i) to mitigate acute health impacts of concussion events in sport; (ii) to reduce or eliminate the identified causes of SRC (direct blows to the head, neck, or body); and (iii) to improve long-term brain health outcomes for athletes. Eight of ten systematic reviews (...)
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  15. What should be the nature/purpose of a Catholic secondary school in the 1990s.W. Brennan - 1990 - The Australasian Catholic Record 67:458-471.
     
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  16. Otherwise than god and man : subverting purpose and knowledge in Zhuangzi's perspectival mirror.Brook Ziporyn - 2020 - In Hans-Georg Moeller & Andrew K. Whitehead, Critique, subversion, and Chinese philosophy: socio-political, conceptual, and methodological challenges. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
     
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  17. The Content and Purpose of a Theory of Constitutional Rights.Robert Alexy - 2002 - In Julian Rivers, A Theory of Constitutional Rights. Oxford University Press.
     
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  18. Who Am I? Searching for Purpose and Meaning from Indian Perspectives to Modern Generation.Kuruvilla Pandikattu - 2019 - Vidyankur: Journal of Philosophical and Theological Studies 21 (2).
    Review article on the inspiring book, Shubhrangshu.. Zara's Witness: A soul journey into the nature of being, highlights the philosophical quest for meaning and fulfilment from Indian traditions. It is a never ending novel where a teenage girl is the heroin, who searches for truth, permanence and values.
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  19. Why The Idea Of Purpose Won't Go Away.Mary Midgley - 2011 - Philosophy 86 (4):545-561.
    Biologists' current habit of explaining each feature of human life separately through its evolutionary function — its assumed tendency to enhance each individual's reproductive prospects — is unworkable. It also sits oddly with these scientists' official rejection of teleology, since it treats all life as a process which does have an aim, namely, to perpetuate itself. But that aim is empty because it is circular. If we want to understand the behaviour of living things (including humans) we have to treat (...)
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  20. Habit, Competence, and Purpose: How to Make the Grades of Clarity Clearer.Vincent Colapietro - 2009 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (3):348-377.
    Habit plays a central role in Peirce's pragmatic account of human signification. What he means by meaning is, hence, fully intelligible only in reference to the role he accords to habit in this account. While the main focus of Peirce's critical attention is, especially in the mature articulation of his thoroughgoing pragmatism, upon deliberately acquired habits, it is reasonable to suggest that often his concern is actually with something broader in one sense and narrower in another than individual or isolated (...)
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  21. Kant’s concept of natural purpose and the reflecting power of judgement.Joan Steigerwald - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (4):712-734.
    This paper examines how in the ‘Critique of teleological judgment’ Kant characterized the concept of natural purpose in relation to and in distinction from the concepts of nature and the concept of purpose he had developed in his other critical writings. Kant maintained that neither the principles of mechanical science nor the pure concepts of the understanding through which we determine experience in general provide adequate conceptualizations of the unique capacities of organisms. He also held that although the (...)
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    The Common Good and the Purpose of the Firm: A Critique of the Shareholder and Stakeholder Models from the Catholic Social Tradition1.Michael J. Naughton, Helen Alford & Bernard Brady - 1995 - Journal of Human Values 1 (2):221-237.
    This paper is an insighful critique of the shareholder and stakeholder models of organizational purpose. The authors emphasize that both these models fail to serve as an adequate basis for explaining the purpose of an organization and are unable to capture a fuller meaning of living in an organizational community. The paper thus endeavours to introduce into the mainstream of discussion a third model, based on the idea of the common good which draws inspiration from the communitarian Catholic (...)
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    Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate Over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918-1941.Mark C. Smith - 1994
    The 1920s and 30s were key decades for the history of American social science. The success of such quantitative disciplines as economics and psychology during World War I forced social scientists to reexamine their methods and practices and to consider recasting their field as a more objective science separated from its historical foundation in social reform. The debate that ensued, fiercely conducted in books, articles, correspondence, and even presidential addresses, made its way into every aspect of social science thought of (...)
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    Behaviorism and purpose.Edward Chace Tolman - 1925 - Journal of Philosophy 22 (2):36-41.
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    Building Institutions for the Common Good. The Practice and Purpose of Business in an Inclusive Economy.Martin Schlag & Domènec Melé - 2020 - Humanistic Management Journal 5 (1):1-6.
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    The challenge of why: a secular search for human purpose.Doris Hamill - 2007 - Poquoson, VA: Earlynn Books.
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    Cardinal John Henry Newman and ‘the ideal state and purpose of a university’: nurse education, research and practice development for the twenty‐first century.Gary Rolfe - 2012 - Nursing Inquiry 19 (2):98-106.
    ROLFE G. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 98–106 [Epub ahead of print]Cardinal John Henry Newman and ‘the ideal state and purpose of a university’: nurse education, research and practice development for the twenty‐first centuryCardinal John Henry Newman’s book, The Idea of a University, first published in the mid nineteenth century, is often invoked as the epitome of the liberal Enlightenment University in discussions and debates about the role and purpose of nurse education. In this article I will examine Newman’s (...)
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    Some legal foundations of society: understanding, purpose and conciliation as means and ends of positive law and representative government.Ruby Ross Vale - 1941 - San Francisco,: C.W. Taylor, Jr..
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    You Get What You Need: An Examination of Purpose‐Based Inheritance Reasoning in Undergraduates, Preschoolers, and Biological Experts.Elizabeth A. Ware & Susan A. Gelman - 2014 - Cognitive Science 38 (2):197-243.
    This set of seven experiments examines reasoning about the inheritance and acquisition of physical properties in preschoolers, undergraduates, and biology experts. Participants (N = 390) received adoption vignettes in which a baby animal was born to one parent but raised by a biologically unrelated parent, and they judged whether the offspring would have the same property as the birth or rearing parent. For each vignette, the animal parents had contrasting values on a physical property dimension (e.g., the birth parent had (...)
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  30. (1 other version)Divine Immanence and the Christian Purpose.A. C. Mcgiffert - 1906 - Hibbert Journal 5:768.
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  31. DS Clarke, Jr., Rational Acceptance and Purpose: An Outline of a Pragmatist Epistemology Reviewed by.Cheryl Misak - 1990 - Philosophy in Review 10 (2):52-54.
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    Kafka on the Loss of Purpose and the Illusion of Freedom.Markus Kohl - 2019 - Polish Journal of Aesthetics 53 (2/2019: The Philosopher Franz K):69-60.
    I argue that Kafka's writings express the idea that our sense of freedom is deceptive. It is deceptive because we cannot discern any proper purpose or destination that would allow us to make truly meaningful choices. Kafka's thought here relates to the existentialist view of Kierkegaard, but it radicalizes that view by depriving it of its teleological dimension.
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    The Social Contract Model of Corporate Purpose and Responsibility.Nien-hê Hsieh - 2015 - Business Ethics Quarterly 25 (4):433-460.
    ABSTRACT:Of the many developments in business ethics that Thomas Donaldson has helped pioneer, one is the application of social contract theory to address questions about the responsibilities of business actors. InCorporations and Morality, Donaldson develops one of the most sustained and comprehensive accounts that aims to justify the existence of for-profit corporations and to specify and ground their responsibilities. In order to further our understanding about the purpose and responsibilities of productive organizations, and as a contribution to the scholarship (...)
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    Aesthetics in Kitsch art: the aesthetic ideology and teleological purpose behind the charged sentimentality.Yasmine Gamal Abdrabbo & Cherine Gamal Abdrabbo - 2025 - Espes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 13 (2):13-23.
    This article addresses the problem of perceiving Kitsch art and elaborates on the philosophical approaches taken to better understand all intellectual contexts surrounding the term, aiming to endorse its aesthetic aspect and assert its rightness to be subsumed under the notion of high art, the researchers sought to argue that besides the claim that the main issue of reading Kitsch was laid on miss-perceiving it, by means it was a problem of perception, we add to this assertion that it was (...)
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    Evolutionary perspectives on purpose and man.Solomon H. Katz - 1973 - Zygon 8 (3-4):325-340.
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    Meaning and purpose in the intact brain: a philosophical, psychological, and biological account of conscious processes.Robert Miller - 1981 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    "There is no issue in science of greater importance than the perplexity concerning the relation between the activity of discrete miscroscopic neurons and the molar psychological processes of which we are all individually aware. Even to consider this issue is to wrestle with one of the greatest intellectual challenges of huyman history. Robert Miller has done just that.... Furthermore, he has undertaken the task of integration, synthesis, and interpretation with a fervor that can only be admired and a style that (...)
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  37. Bartholomew. DJ, God, Chance and Purpose. Can God Have It Both Ways?Javier Sánchez Cañizares - 2008 - Anuario Filosófico 41 (93):693-695.
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    Private Governance, Public Purpose? Assessing Transparency and Accountability in Self-Regulation of Food Advertising to Children.Belinda Reeve - 2013 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 10 (2):149-163.
    Reducing non-core food advertising to children is an important priority in strategies to address childhood obesity. Public health researchers argue for government intervention on the basis that food industry self-regulation is ineffective; however, the industry contends that the existing voluntary scheme adequately addresses community concerns. This paper examines the operation of two self-regulatory initiatives governing food advertising to children in Australia, in order to determine whether these regulatory processes foster transparent and accountable self-regulation. The paper concludes that while both codes (...)
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    (1 other version)A behavioristic view of purpose.Ralph Barton Perry - 1921 - Journal of Philosophy 18 (4):85-105.
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    Choice of Optimum Size of Installations for Dual-Purpose Production of Desalted Water and Electricity, Using Nuclear Power.J. Gaussens - 1965 - In Karl W. Linsenmann, Proceedings. St. Louis, Lutheran Academy for Scholarship. pp. 3--407.
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  41. Stepped-wedge trials should be classified as research for the purpose of ethical review.Karla Hemming, Monica Taljaard, Tom Marshall, Cory E. Goldstein & Charles Weijer - 2019 - Clinical Trials 16 (6):580-588.
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  42. The Institutional Review Board: Its Origins, Purpose, Function, and Future.C. R. McCarthy - 1998 - In David N. Weisstub, Research on human subjects: ethics, law, and social policy. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press. pp. 301--317.
     
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    The date and purpose of the pseudo-Xenophon constitution of Athens.Harold B. Mattingly - 1997 - Classical Quarterly 47 (02):352-.
    This short political pamphlet has survived to our day through the lucky chance of being included in the minor works of Xenophon, and for over 150 years it has been the subject of lively scholarly debate. The unknown author was a confirmed oligarch, but with an insider's insight into Athenian democracy. Though he cannot approve of this form of government, he is astute enough to see that the system works well on its own terms and that it is therefore popular; (...)
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  44. The Nature and Purpose of Numbers.G. Aldo Antonelli - 2010 - Journal of Philosophy 107 (4):191-212.
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  45. The origins of purpose: The first metasystem transitions.William T. Powers - 1995 - World Futures 45 (1):125-137.
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  46. The Moral Purpose of the Human Body A Reading of Timaeus 69-72.Carlos Steel - 2001 - Phronesis 46 (2):105-128.
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    Contested Guideline Development in Australia’s Cervical Screening Program: Values Drive Different Views of the Purpose and Implementation of Organized Screening.Jane Williams, Stacy Carter & Lucie Rychetnik - 2017 - Public Health Ethics 10 (1).
    This article draws on an empirical investigation of how Australia’s cervical screening program came to be the way it is. The study was carried out using grounded theory methodology and primarily uses interviews with experts involved in establishing, updating or administering the program. We found strong differences in experts’ normative evaluations of the program and beliefs about optimal ways of achieving the same basic outcome: a reduction in morbidity and mortality caused by invasive cervical cancer. Our analysis demonstrates how variations (...)
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  48. On the nature and purpose of measurement.Ernest W. Adams - 1966 - Synthese 16 (2):125 - 169.
  49. Research with a Purpose: A Reply to My Critics.Patrick Baert - 2009 - Human Studies 32 (3):391-400.
    In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in their social and political contexts, helping to make their ideas meaningful to students. Shows how these authors’ views have practical uses in empirical research. Lively approach that makes complex ideas understandable to upper-level students, as well as having scholarly appeal.
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    The inner meaning of human history, the one increasing purpose that runs through the ages.Es Makarājan̲ - 1974 - Madurai: Madurai University.
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