The Question of Ability

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 227-240
Author(s):  
Joel Michael Reynolds ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Distinct Area ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability

While Heidegger decried ethics as a distinct area of philosophical inquiry, a steady stream of secondary literature over the last three decades has mined his corpus for ethical insights. This literature tends to draw on his early or middle work and contrast his views with canonical normative theories. I bring Heidegger into conversation with philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy by focusing on the role of relationality and ability expectations. In section one, I provide a schematic of the dominant concept of ability in modernity: ability as personal power. Through the Bremen lectures, I then develop a Heideggerian concept of ability: ability as access. I conclude by discussing the stakes—ethical, philosophical, and political—of interpreting the question of the meaning of being as a question of ability as access to meaning.

Feminism and Disability Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licia Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Disability Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability

This chapter maps out connections between feminist and disability theories to bring into relief the multiple ways that feminist philosophers are partaking in these conversations. It begins with a discussion of what is distinctive about feminist approaches to disability, while recognizing that there is not a single, univocal “feminist philosophy of disability.” It then turns to specific areas of philosophical inquiry in which feminist philosophers address disability, including ontological, epistemological, political, ethical, and bioethical considerations. The final section highlights a number of themes central to work in feminist philosophy and disability: embodiment, identity, intersectionality, and the generative and positive dimensions of disability. The chapter concludes by pointing to more recent directions in feminist philosophy of disability. These include disability aesthetics, explorations of disability in the context of technoscience and ecofeminism, and the problem of ableism in philosophy and the academy more broadly.

scholarly journals Smartphones and Learning: An Extension of M-Learning or a Distinct Area of Inquiry

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Kendall Hartley ◽  
Alberto Andújar
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Distinct Area ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Author Keywords ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Research In Education

The smartphone has become an integral part of the education landscape. While there has been significant smartphone research in education under the guise of m-learning, the unique role of the device suggests that m-learning may not be an appropriate characterization. The purpose of this paper is to review the use of m-learning as a primary descriptor for smartphone- and learning-related research. In support of this goal, the paper reviews the definitions associated with m-learning, smartphones, and related technologies from the perspective of educational research. In addition, a review of author keywords of research on smartphones in education is used to provide context to the classification of the research. Finally, three theoretically guided smartphone programs are presented as evidence of the unique nature of smartphone and learning research. This review concludes with recommendations for the characterization of future research.

scholarly journals Kontribusi Pendidikan Entrepreneurship: Suatu Upaya Konstruktif Menumbuhkan Jiwa Wirausaha Pada Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Dainuri Dainuri
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Keywords Education

Abstact In a developing country, the role of entrepreneurs cannot be ignored especially in carrying out development. A nation will develop faster if it has entrepreneurs who can create and innovate optimally, which is to realize new ideas into real activities in each of their businesses. Indonesia as a developing country is working hard to improve the lives of its people. One important role in improving the standard of living of its people is through education. Entrepreneurship education is one form of application of the world's care for education to the progress of the nation. In entrepreneurship education it is shown, among others, the value and form of work to achieve success. Entrepreneurship education is a help to teach Indonesian people so that they have a dynamic and creative personal power in accordance with the personality of the Indonesian people based on Pancasila. fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship is one of the important things to be job opportunities, income and welfare for everyone/individual. Keywords: Education, Entrepreneurship Education, Student

By Executive Order

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rudalevige
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Presidential Power ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Executive Orders

The president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders. In fact, the vast majority of such orders are proposed by federal agencies and shaped by negotiations that span the executive branch. This book provides the first comprehensive look at how presidential directives are written — and by whom. The book examines more than five hundred executive orders from the 1930s to today — as well as more than two hundred others negotiated but never issued — shedding vital new light on the multilateral process of drafting supposedly unilateral directives. The book draws on a wealth of archival evidence from the Office of Management and Budget and presidential libraries as well as original interviews to show how the crafting of orders requires widespread consultation and compromise with a formidable bureaucracy. It explains the key role of management in the presidential skill set, detailing how bureaucratic resistance can stall and even prevent actions the chief executive desires, and how presidents must bargain with the bureaucracy even when they seek to act unilaterally. Challenging popular conceptions about the scope of presidential power, the book reveals how the executive branch holds the power to both enact and constrain the president's will.

Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia

Islamisation ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 336-352
Author(s):  
Devin DeWeese
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Iconic Status

The figure of Ahmad Yasavi has taken on iconic status as a saint particularly associated with the Turks, and with their Islamisation; the notion that he was somehow instrumental in the spread of Islam among the nomadic Turks of Central Asia is one of the standard assumptions about his historical and religious role to be found in most of the longer or shorter accounts of him in the secondary literature. The notion of Yasavi as an Islamising saint rests on several foundations. In the first place, that reputation is now entrenched ‘on-site’, so to speak, namely at his shrine in southern Kazakhstan. To some extent this reflects a standard ‘latter-day’ motif in hagiological traditions, particularly in the post-Soviet world, where virtually any and every shrine may be linked with a saint who tends to be identifi ed as a bringer of Islam, in part as a result of the loss of any awareness of the historical role or legacy of the saint in question. ‘Who was such-and-such a saint, buried here?’ ‘He brought Islam here’ is now the default answer.

Language and the Subject

Joseph Conrad ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Yael Levin
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Experimental Narrative

The chapter focuses on Conrad’s scenes of suspension as sites for an investigation of language and its role in the creation of the modernist subject. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Victory are read as the serial restaging of an unsolicited encounter with the language of the other. These unwarranted interruptions contribute to an exploration of a particularly passive and fragmented subjectivity that relinquishes the agency and cohesion afforded the Cartesian cogito. The insistence on the oral tradition is thus read not as an attempt to resurrect speech within an essentially silent medium but as a dramatization of the role of language in the evolution of the modernist subject and the narrative that houses him. Those same experimental narrative techniques that are often associated with Conrad’s commitment to an inherently epistemological philosophical inquiry are attributed here to the author’s effort to chart the ontological coordinates of character and narration.

Intuition and Inquiry

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-296
Author(s):  
Anand Vaidya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry

Recent work in philosophical methodology by experimental philosophers has brought to light a certain kind of skepticism about the role of intuitions in a priori philosophical inquiry. In this paper I turn attention away from a priori philosophical inquiry and on to the role of intuition in experimental design. I argue that even if we have reason to be skeptical about the role of intuition in a priori philosophical inquiry, we cannot remove intuition from inquiry altogether, because appeals to intuition are essential for experimental design.

Apriority, Metaphysics, and Empirical Content in Kant's Theory of Matter

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Rand
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Empirical Concept ◽  
The Real ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Pure Intuition ◽  
Real Essence

AbstractThis paper addresses problems associated with the role of the empirical concept of matter in Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, offering an interpretation emphasizing two points consistently neglected in the secondary literature: the distinction between logical and real essence, and Kant's claim that motion must be represented in pure intuition by static geometrical figures. I conclude that special metaphysics cannot achieve its stated and systematically justified goal of discovering the real essence of matter, but that Kant requires this failure for his larger philosophical presentation of the dialectic that ‘irremediably attaches to human reason’ (A298/B354).

Reflective Equilibrium

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Cath
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Standard Assumption ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), most closely associated with John Rawls, and its role in philosophical inquiry. It begins with an overview of RE before discussing some of the subtleties involved in its interpretation, including challenges to the standard assumption that RE is committed to a coherentist rather than foundationalist view of justification. It then evaluates some of the main objections to RE, including objections that this method is too conservative, objections that appeal to the possibility of disagreements between people that employ this method, and objections that this method generates unreasonable beliefs. It concludes by considering how RE relates to recent debates about the role of intuitions in philosophy, suggesting the relationship is more complex and interesting than it is usually assumed to be.

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