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121	The Mechanics and Fixed Operations of Human Experience Di Netta, James Dominick 01 January 2016 (has links) This paper will use the natural laws of the universe and amassed evidence to support a dynamic systems theory approach to explain the mechanics and fixed operations of the human experience taking place inside a causally determined universe without the possibility of free will. By reductionary methods, the universe and all its’ contents, including human agents, will be exemplified as complex dynamic systems. In so doing, the human experience is reduced to being comprised of information acting and reacting with other information existing in the universe, specifically ideas. Allowing ideas to take on a physical manifestation shows how the feedback of information directly results in the rise of human consciousness and the sensation of control and volition over actions. Thus, the methods and philosophies used in this paper will set out to rebut metaphysical libertarian views asserting alternative possibilities by way of Rollback Arguments and two other libertarian arguments raised by Alfred R. Mele. This paper aims to provide a description and deeper appreciation for the mechanics and fixed operations of the human experience in a universe where free will is nonexistent. Thesis University of North Florida UNF Dissertations Dissertations Dynamic Systems Theory Libertarian Rollback Argument Free will Philosophy Metaphysics Determinism Chaos Fractal Geometry Dynamic Systems Theory Fixed Universe Alternative Possibilities Ideas Digital Information Cause and Effect Reduction Metaphysics Other Philosophy Philosophy
122	Concepts of God in the traditional faith of the Meru people of Kenya Gitari, Marete Dedan 30 November 2006 (has links) This thesis covers the concepts of God in the traditional faith of Meru people but the background goes back to African traditional religion in general. Meru is located at the eastern part of Mount Kenya. The work begins with a literature review and field based on oral tradition, which indicates that Meru people came from northern Africa, moved to Canaan, Meroe, (south of Egypt) Meru-Arusha, Mombasa, and finally through Tana River to their present land. The Meru people also claim that they came along with all Bantus speaking communities in Eastern, Southern, and Central Africa. The thesis has seven chapters. The first one covers introduction and background, followed by the research plan and methodology (chapter two) Literature review (chapter three). The fourth chapter outlines the geography, migration and the various stages of becoming a human being. That fifth chapter consists of Meru traditional government and specialists. The sixth one describes the concepts of the Supreme Being in Meru traditional religion. The seventh chapter discusses the interaction of Meru traditional religion with Christianity and its implications. / Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics / M.Th. (Systematic Theology) Interfaith Relations Moral Theology Applied Theology Applied Ethics The Meru people of Kenya Christian Mission in Africa Traditional African Education Moral Education in Africa Traditional African Religion Concepts of God in Africa 299.69762 Meru (African people) -- Religion Kenya -- Religion Kenya -- Religious life and customs God (African religion) -- Attribute
123	On Human Migration and the Moral Obligations of Business Harris, Linda H. 01 January 2008 (has links) This work addresses to what extent businesses in the United States and the European Union have a moral obligation to participate in social integration processes in areas where they operate with the use of migrant laborers. It begins with the presupposition that a common framework as to what constitutes ethical behavior in business is needed and beneficial. It argues that the very industry that creates a need for migrant labor ought to also be involved in merging this labor successfully into the existing community and specifies that a discourse on business ethics and migration is gravely needed. This must be one that considers how businesses can become more engaged in resolving the social issues that arise both for the migrants and for the local community in which the businesses operate. The purpose would be to fill a social and humanitarian need that government alone cannot. More importantly, it will be to exercise beneficence and display responsible and sincere corporate citizenship. It is claimed that businesses that fail to encourage and participate in integration processes display a moral flaw. Cosmopolitan business ethics are proposed as a way to look at ethical business conduct and it is claimed that businesses that act as cosmopolitan citizens are morally praiseworthy. University of North Florida UNF Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics College of Arts and Sciences Foreign workers in the United States Philosophy UNF University of North Florida Arts and Humanities Business Labor Relations Philosophy
124	La rémunération des hauts dirigeants en droit des sociétés par actions : le rôle et les limites du droit Grotino, Frédéric 04 1900 (has links) No description available. Aléa moral Devoirs des administrateurs Droit des sociétés par actions Éthique appliquée Éthique de la coopération Gouvernance d’entreprise Normes de conduite Normes sociales Participation actionnariale Pratiques exemplaires Régime de rémunération Théories de l’entreprise Applied ethics Best practices Corporate law Directors’ fiduciary duties Ethics of cooperation Executive compensation Corporate governance Moral hazard Norms of exemplary behaviour Shareholders engagement Social norms Theories of the firm
125	UX-designers i förhållande till organisation, etik och ansvar : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om UX-designers etiska ställningstaganden i förhållande till dark patterns Skoglund, Ingrid, Pettersson Nordqvist, Julia January 2022 (has links) Dark patterns have the ability to influence unconscious decision-making of users and manipulate them to make decisions that go against their own interests. While dark patterns have led to an increase in sales and optimization of advertisement within companies, the users are affected negatively since they don’t reach their goal with the interface interaction and may be forced to navigate in complicated interfaces or be lured into doing impulsive purchases. Despite numerous negative consequences for the users, dark patterns are frequently found in interfaces. This study investigates this problem by focusing on the UX designer’s role in this, and thereby aims to answer the following questions: What ethical responsibility does UX designers consider themselves to have, in terms of the use of dark patterns? How do UX designers experience that individual practice, organizational practice and applied ethics, according to the framework by Gray and Chivukula (2019), affect the use of dark patterns? The study also investigates if the framework completely covers the design complexity of UX designers in relation to dark patterns. These questions are answered by conducting five semi-structured interviews with professional UX designers. The results showed that organizational practice have the biggest influence on the use of dark patterns by UX designers. Individual practice may inhibit the use of dark patterns and applied ethics can affect the work style of UX designers. During the analysis of the research result, yet another factor was identified. This finding considered the structure of society as a factor greatly affecting a UX designer and also the use of dark patterns. This study therefore aims to further develop the framework by Gray and Chivukula and take the structure of society in to consideration. / Dark patterns har en förmåga att påverka användares undermedvetna beslutstaganden och manipulera användaren till att fatta beslut som går emot dennes egenintresse. Samtidigt som dark patterns har lett till ökad försäljning samt optimerade reklaminsatser hos företagen, drabbas användarna negativt då de inte uppnår målet med interaktionen och bland annat tvingas navigera i komplicerade gränssnitt eller lockas till impulsköp. Trots flertalet negativa konsekvenser för användarna är dark patterns vanligt förekommande. Den här studien undersöker denna problematik genom att fokusera på UX-designerns roll och därmed syftar studien till att besvara följande frågor. Vilket etiskt ansvar anser sig UX-designers ha kring användningen av dark patterns? Hur upplever UX-designers att individens praxis, organisationens praxis och tillämpad etik, enligt Gray och Chivukulas relationsmodell (2019), påverkar användningen av dark patterns? Studien undersöker även om relationsmodellen är heltäckande och fångar UX-designers designkomplexitet i förhållande till dark patterns. Studien besvarar dessa frågor genom fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med yrkesverksamma UX-designers. Resultatet visade att organisationens praxis (B) har störst påverkan på att UX-designers använder dark patterns. Individens praxis (A), kan istället hämma användningen av dark patterns medan inhämtad kunskap om etik (C) har påverkan på UX-designers arbetssätt. Under analysen identifierades ytterligare en huvudfaktor, samhällsstruktur, som också har stor påverkan på en UX-designer och därmed även på användningen av dark patterns. Studiens forskningsbidrag är därigenom en vidareutveckling av Gray och Chivukulas relationsmodell som tar samhällsstrukturerna i beaktande. dark patterns UX designer ethics design complexity organizational practice individual practice applied ethics knowledge gap structures of society dark patterns UX-designer etik designkomplexitet organisationens praxis individens praxis tillämpad etik kunskapsgap samhällsstrukturer Information Systems, Social aspects
126	Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990 Solbrig, Jacob H., Solbrig, Jacob Hagen 20 December 2017 (has links) This thesis examines the methods used by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), more commonly known as the Stasi, or East German secret police, for extraction of information from citizens of the German Democratic Republic for the purpose of espionage and covert operations inside East Germany, as it pertains to the deliberate brainwashing of East German citizens. As one of the most efficient intelligence agencies to ever exist, the Stasi’s main purpose was to monitor the population, gather intelligence, and collect or turn informants. They used brainwashing techniques to control the people of the GDR, keeping the populace paralyzed with fear and paranoia. By surrounding themselves with a network of informants they prevented actions against the dictatorial communist regime. Using the video testimonies of former prisoners, and former confidential informants who worked closely with and collaborated with Stasi agents, in combination with periodicals and previous historical studies, this work argues that the East German Police State’s brainwashing techniques had long and lasting consequences both for German citizens, and for the psychiatric health of former GDR citizens. The scope and breadth of the techniques and data compiled for use by the Stasi were exhaustive, and the repercussions of their use are still being felt and discovered twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This study aims to show the lasting effects brainwashing had on former informants and the Stasi’s victims. Stasi brainwashing cold war spy kgb psychological Applied Ethics Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Bioethics and Medical Ethics Continental Philosophy Cultural History Eastern European Studies Ethics and Political Philosophy European History European Languages and Societies Experimental Analysis of Behavior Intellectual History Modern Literature Multicultural Psychology Oral History Other German Language and Literature Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Political Science Philosophy of Mind Political History Politics and Social Change Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Psychological Phenomena and Processes Social and Cultural Anthropology Social History Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Theory and Criticism Theory and Philosophy
127	professional ethics for professional nursing Kalaitzidis, Evdokia January 2006 (has links) The thesis proposes and defends a maxim which can serve as a foundation and guideline for professional ethics in nursing, the maxim that nurses should act so far as possible to promote patient's self-determination. The thesis is informed by philosophical ethics and by knowledge of professional nursing practice. 321214 Health and Community Services 321215 Health Care Administration 350201 Human Resources Management 350203 Industrial Relations 360201 Public Policy 390204 Professional Ethics 390303 Human Rights 440103 Ethical Theory 440110 Social Philosophy 321199 Nursing not elsewhere classified 321213 Human Bioethics
128	Overeating, Obesity, and Weakness of the Will Sommers, Jennifer Heidrun 28 August 2015 (has links) The philosophical literature on akrasia and/or weakness of the will tends to focus on individual actions, removed from their wider socio-political context. This is problematic because actions, when removed from their wider context, can seem absurd or irrational when they may, in fact, be completely rational or, at least, coherent. Much of akrasia's apparent mystery or absurdity is eliminated when people's behaviours are considered within their cultural and political context. I apply theories from the social and behavioural sciences to a particular behaviour in order to show where the philosophical literature on akrasia and/or weakness of the will is insightful and where it is lacking. The problem used as the basis for my analysis is obesity caused by overeating. On the whole, I conclude that our intuitions about agency are unreliable, that we may have good reasons to overeat and/or neglect our health, and that willpower is, to some degree, a matter of luck. / Graduate / 0630 / 0573 / 0422 / felshereeno@aol.com akrasia action theory addiction agency Alison McIntyre applied ethics Bernard Williams body studies Bourdieu Cartesian dualism Christine Korsgaard compulsion continence deviance diet Distinction Donald Davidson dualism externalism incontinence inequality internalism intuition Irving K. Zola Marx medicalization morality Nichomachean Ethics Nomy Arpaly obesity epidemic orthorexia overeating overweight personal identity Petr Skrabanek Philip Kitcher philosophical intuition picoeconomics Pierre Bourdieu fat free will Gary Watson George Ainslie habitus healthism rat park rational choice rationality Richard Holton Robert Crawford social class stigma taste for luxury temperance utility maximization virtue weakness of the will willpower
129	K-5 Elementary Alternative Program: A Case Study Scheuer, William E, IV 01 December 2022 (has links) The purpose of this case study was to examine how the K-5 elementary alternative program All Students Can Thrive (ASCT) used student-centered learning practices to influence the whole child. There is a lack of research on K-5 elementary alternative programs, such as ASCT, and specifically those that integrate student-centered learning practices to influence the whole child. Literature does not contain universally accepted interventions that are effective in the elementary alternative setting to help students return to the mainstream classroom setting better prepared to display appropriate behaviors when a student is removed from a mainstream classroom setting due to disruptive behaviors. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has determined five major tenets that measure how educators influence the whole child and those are: healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged (ASCD, 2022). These five tenets will serve as the theoretical framework for this research on the whole child and ASCD will function as the scientific authority on the whole child for the purposes this case study. Data collection strategies included interviews, field notes, and a document review. Analysis of data occurred in three phases: (a) coding themes from participant responses during interviews (b) analysis of interview field notes (c) document review. The analysis of the case study data was based on the theoretical proposition that educating the whole child involves children being healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged (ASCD, 2022). The credibility of the analysis was protected by triangulation of data through the coding of interviews, interview field notes, and a document review. The results revealed that that all five tenets of the whole child were identified as a common theme or sub-theme from participant responses. Five common themes: (1) Engaged (2) Space to Thrive/Choices (3) Identify Needs/Skills (4) Confidence/Hope (5) Relationship and five sub-themes emerged from the analysis of data: (1) Challenged (2) Supported (3) Safe (4) Healthy (5) Communication. alternative education whole child student-centered learning trauma relationships Appalachian Studies Applied Behavior Analysis Applied Ethics Child Psychology Community-Based Learning Counselor Education Curriculum and Instruction Developmental Psychology Development Studies Disability Studies Early Childhood Education Educational Leadership Educational Methods Educational Psychology Elementary Education and Teaching Experimental Analysis of Behavior Health Psychology Leadership Studies Multicultural Psychology Other American Studies Other Education Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Psychology School Psychology Social Psychology Social Psychology and Interaction Special Education Administration Special Education and Teaching Theory and Philosophy Urban Education

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