Thesis--Munich. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-310).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 243 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-243). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, Vancouver, B.C., 1997. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-141).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-151).

Esta dissertação abordará alguns dos conceitos necessários para uma pré-compreensão sobre o contrato no direito brasileiro após a recepção da função social do contrato na cláusula geral do art. 421 do Código Civil. Serão confrontadas as idéias de tipicidade e individualidade no contrato, a partir do que se questionará a teoria empregada como base para a redação do artigo referido e a idéia de unidade do direito contratual brasileiro. / This paper aims at presenting some of the concepts necessary for a pre-comprehension regarding the contract in Brazilian law after the reception of the social function of the contract in general clause of 421 Article from the civil code. Vagueness doctrine and individuality will be confronted, from what will be questioned in the theory employed as basis for the writing of the 421 article from the civil code as well as the unity in Contract Law.

Esta dissertação abordará alguns dos conceitos necessários para uma pré-compreensão sobre o contrato no direito brasileiro após a recepção da função social do contrato na cláusula geral do art. 421 do Código Civil. Serão confrontadas as idéias de tipicidade e individualidade no contrato, a partir do que se questionará a teoria empregada como base para a redação do artigo referido e a idéia de unidade do direito contratual brasileiro. / This paper aims at presenting some of the concepts necessary for a pre-comprehension regarding the contract in Brazilian law after the reception of the social function of the contract in general clause of 421 Article from the civil code. Vagueness doctrine and individuality will be confronted, from what will be questioned in the theory employed as basis for the writing of the 421 article from the civil code as well as the unity in Contract Law.

Salientando asserções principais da Fenomenologia do Espírito sobre a categoria da individualidade, este estudo pretende avaliar o papel da literatura na compreensão da assim chamada efetivação da consciência-de-si racional através de si mesma. Na primeira parte, a grande obra de Hegel é apresentada como uma tentativa de destituir o estatuto transcendental da subjetividade na filosofia moderna. Na segunda, mostra-se como Hegel concebe, contra outras disciplinas em voga, a auto-criação humana da individualidade, baseado na experiência de três famosas personagens literárias: Fausto, Karl von Moor e Dom Quixote. / By highlighting major statements from the Phenomenology of Spirit on the individuality category, this inquiry intends to appreciate the role of literature in understanding the so-called realization of racional self-consciousness through itself. In the first part, Hegels great work is presented as an attempt to depose the transcendental status of subjectivity in modern philosophy. In the second one, its shown how, against other current disciplines, Hegel conceives the human self-creation of individuality, based on the experience of three famous literary characters: Faust, Karl von Moor and Don Quixote.

Esta dissertação abordará alguns dos conceitos necessários para uma pré-compreensão sobre o contrato no direito brasileiro após a recepção da função social do contrato na cláusula geral do art. 421 do Código Civil. Serão confrontadas as idéias de tipicidade e individualidade no contrato, a partir do que se questionará a teoria empregada como base para a redação do artigo referido e a idéia de unidade do direito contratual brasileiro. / This paper aims at presenting some of the concepts necessary for a pre-comprehension regarding the contract in Brazilian law after the reception of the social function of the contract in general clause of 421 Article from the civil code. Vagueness doctrine and individuality will be confronted, from what will be questioned in the theory employed as basis for the writing of the 421 article from the civil code as well as the unity in Contract Law.

Psychiatric diagnosis is used to categorise and treat mental health problems in the UK yet is widely criticised for struggling to convincingly categorise the experience of distress and that it is socially constructed from the culmination of historical and cultural interactions. Service-user accounts are varied and there is a paucity of qualitative research that considers the positive and negative effects of labelling. To understand identity construction in the context of a psychiatric diagnosis, the present study recruited 16 participants from a service-user research group and five focus groups were conducted. Transcripts were studied using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Two major identities were detected ‘illness identity’ and ‘recovery identity’. Participants drew on multiple and competing discourses and which placed them in the position of patient and/or survivor. Medical discourses were dominant throughout the focus groups and were used in a way to convey the fluidity of the identity and how they related to their diagnosis. The study’s limitations are discussed, together with implications for clinical practice and future research.

This dissertation is ordered into three Parts. Part I is an investigation into identity, indiscernibility and individuality in logic and metaphysics. In Chapter 2, I investigate identity and discernibility in classical first-order logic. My aim will will be to define four different ways in which objects can be discerned from one another, and to relate these definitions: (i) to the idea of symmetry; and (ii) to the idea of individuality. In Chapter 3, the four kinds of discernibility are put to use in defining four rival metaphysical theses about indiscernibility and individuality. Part II sets up a philosophical framework for the work of Part III. In Chapter 4, I give an account of the rational reconstruction of concepts, inspired chiefly by Carnap and Haslanger. I also offer an account of the interpretation of physical theories. In Chapter 5, I turn to the specific problem of finding candidate concepts of particle. I present five desiderata that any putative explication ought to satisfy, in order that the proposed concept is a concept of particle at all. Part III surveys three rival proposals for the concept of particle in quantum mechanics. In Chapter 6, I define factorism and distinguish it from haecceitism. I then propose an amendment to recent work by Saunders, Muller and Seevinck, which seeks to show that factorist particles are all at least weakly discernible. I then present reasons for rejecting factorism. In Chapter 7, I investigate and build on recent heterodox proposals by Ghirardi, Marinatto and Weber about the most natural concept of entanglement, and by Zanardi about the idea of a natural decomposition of an assembly. In Chapter 8, I appraise the first of my two heterodox proposals for the concept of particle, varietism. I define varietism, and then compare its performance against the desiderata laid out in Chapter 5. I argue that, despite its many merits, varietism suffers a fatal ambiguity problem. In Chapter 9, I present the second heterodox proposal: emergentism. I argue that emergentism provides the best concept of particle, but that it is does so imperfectly; so there may be no concept of particle to be had in quantum mechanics. If emergentism is true, then particles are (higher-order) properties of the assembly, itself treated as the basic bearer of properties.