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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Conant's recommendations for the American high school : implications for implementation in Ohio high schools /

Steer, Donald R. January 1959 (has links)
No description available.
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A functional analysis of the post-Sputnik addresses of James Bryant Conant to the National Association of Secondary School Principals

Cease, John Sheldon, January 1968 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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Managing uncertainty Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant and the development of the atomic bomb, 1940-1945 /

Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 283-288).
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Resolute readings of later Wittgenstein and the challenge of avoiding hierarchies in philosophy

Giesewetter, Stefan January 2011 (has links)
This dissertation addresses the question: How did later Wittgenstein aim to achieve his goal of putting forward a way of dissolving philosophical problems which centered on asking ourselves what we mean by our words – yet which did not entail any claims about the essence of language and meaning? This question is discussed with reference to “resolute” readings of Wittgenstein. I discuss the readings of James Conant, Oskari Kuusela, and Martin Gustafsson. I follow Oskari Kuusela’s claim that in order to fully appreciate how later Wittgenstein meant to achieve his goal, we need to clearly see how he aimed to do away with hierarchies in philosophy: Not only is the dissolution of philosophical problems via the method of clarifying the grammar of expressions to be taken as independent from any theses about what meaning must be – but furthermore, it is to be taken as independent from the dissolution of any particular problem via this method. As Kuusela stresses, this also holds for the problems involving rule-following and meaning: the clarification of the grammar of “rule” and “meaning” has no foundational status – it is nothing on which the method of clarifying the grammar of expressions as such were meant to in any way rely on. The lead question of this dissertation then is: What does it mean to come to see that the method of dissolving philosophical problems by asking “How is this word actually used?” does not in any way rely on the results of our having investigated the grammar of the particular concepts “rule” and “meaning”? What is the relation of such results – results such as “To follow a rule, [...], to obey an order, [...] are customs (uses, institutions)” or “The meaning of a word is its use in the language” – to this method? From this vantage point, I concern myself with two aspects of the readings of Gustafsson and Kuusela. In Gustafsson, I concern myself with his idea that the dissolution of philosophical problems in general “relies on” the very agreement which – during the dissolution of the rule-following problem – comes out as a presupposition for our talk of “meaning” in terms of rules. In Kuusela, I concern myself with his idea that Wittgenstein, in adopting a way of philosophical clarification which investigates the actual use of expressions, is following the model of “meaning as use” – which model he had previously introduced in order to perspicuously present an aspect of the actual use of the word “meaning”. This dissertation aims to show how these two aspects of Gustafsson’s and Kuusela’s readings still fail to live up to the vision of Wittgenstein as a philosopher who aimed to do away with any hierarchies in philosophy. I base this conclusion on a detailed analysis of which of the occasions where Wittgenstein invokes the notions of “use” and “application” (as also “agreement”) have to do with the dissolution of a specific problem only, and which have to do with the dissolution of philosophical problems in general. I discuss Wittgenstein’s remarks on rule-following, showing how in the dissolution of the rule-following paradox, notions such as “use”, “application”, and “practice” figure on two distinct logical levels. I then discuss an example of what happens when this distinction is not duly heeded: Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker’s idea that the rule-following remarks have a special significance for his project of dissolving philosophical problems as such. I furnish an argument to the effect that their idea that the clarification of the rules of grammar of the particular expression “following a rule” could answer a question about rules of grammar in general rests on a conflation of the two logical levels on which “use” occurs in the rule-following remarks, and that it leads into a regress. I then show that Gustafsson’s view – despite its decisive advance over Baker and Hacker – contains a version of that same idea, and that it likewise leads into a regress. Finally, I show that Kuusela’s idea of a special significance of the model “meaning as use” for the whole of the method of stating rules for the use of words is open to a regress argument of a similar kind as that he himself advances against Baker and Hacker. I conclude that in order to avoid such a regress, we need to reject the idea that the grammatical remark “The meaning of a word is its use in the language” – because of the occurrence of “use” in it – stood in any special relation to the method of dissolving philosophical problems by describing the use of words. Rather, we need to take this method as independent from this outcome of the investigation of the use of the particular word “meaning”. / Die Ausgangsfrage dieser Dissertation ist: Wie gedachte der späte Wittgenstein sein Ziel zu erreichen, eine Art und Weise der Auflösung philosophischer Probleme zu vorzulegen, die daran ansetzt, was wir mit unseren Worten meinen, jedoch keine Thesen über Sprache und Bedeutung mit sich zieht? Ich behandele diese Frage mit Bezug auf sogenannte „strenge“ Lesarten Wittgensteins. Ich befasse mich mit den Interpretationen von James Conant, Oskari Kuusela und Martin Gustafsson. Ich nehme Kuuselas Gedanken auf, daß zu einem vollen Verständnis davon, wie Wittgenstein sein philosophisches Ziel zu erreichen gedachte, gehört, die Abwesenheit von Hierarchien in seiner Spätphilosophie zu sehen: nicht nur sollte die Auflösung philosophischer Probleme mithilfe der Methode der Klärung der Grammatik von Ausdrücken von jeden Thesen darüber, wie sprachliche Bedeutung zustande kommt, unabhängig sein – sondern darüberhinaus auch unabhängig von der Auflösung bestimmter Einzelprobleme mittels dieser Methode. Dies, so Kuusela, gelte auch für die Probleme um Regelfolgen und um Bedeutung: „Regel“, „meinen“, und „Bedeutung“ seien keine Grundbegriffe, auf deren Klärung die Methode der Klärung der Grammatik von Ausdrücken in irgendeiner Weise aufbaue. Die Leitfrage dieser Dissertation ist: Was genau heißt es zu verstehen, daß die Auflösung philosophischer Probleme mittels der Frage „Wie wird dieses Wort tatsächlich gebraucht?“ nicht auf Ergebnissen der Untersuchung der Grammatik der Begriffe „Regel“ und „Bedeutung“ aufbaut? In welcher Beziehung stehen diese Ergebnisse – Ergebnisse wie „Einer Regel folgen, [...], einen Befehl geben, [...] sind Gepflogenheiten (Gebräuche, Institutionen)“ und „Die Bedeutung eines Wortes ist sein Gebrauch in der Sprache“ – dann zu dieser Methode? Unter diesem Blickwinkel befasse ich mich mit zwei Aspekten der Lesarten von Gustafsson und Kuusela. Bei Gustafsson befasse ich mit der Auffassung, die Auflösung philosophischer Probleme an sich „beruhe auf“ genau der Art von Übereinstimmung, die sich – im Zuge der Auflösung des Regelfolgen-Problems – als eine Voraussetzung für unsere Rede von „meinen“ und „bedeuten“ herausstellt. Bei Kuusela befasse ich mich mit der Idee, daß Wittgenstein, indem er zur Auflösung philosophischer Probleme die Frage nach dem tatsächlichen Gebrauch von Wörtern einführt, dem Modell „Bedeutung als Gebrauch“ folgt – welches er vorher eingeführt hatte, um einen Aspekt des tatsächlichen Gebrauchs des Wortes „Bedeutung“ übersichtlich darzustellen. Ich versuche zu zeigen, warum diese beiden Aspekte der Lesarten von Gustafsson und Kuusela noch zurückfallen hinter die Vision von Wittgenstein als einem Philosophen, dem es darum geht, Hierarchien zu vermeiden. Zur Begründung lege ich eine detaillierte Analyse der Art und Weise des Auftretens der Begriffe „Gebrauch“, „Verwendung“ und „Anwendung“ (sowie „Übereinstimmung“) in Wittgensteins Spätphilosophie vor. Wie ich zeige, läßt sich das Auftreten dieser Begriffe unterteilen in Fälle, wo es im Zusammenhang steht mit der Auflösung bestimmter Einzelprobleme, und Fälle, in denen es im Zusammenhang steht mit Auflösung philosophischer Probleme im Allgemeinen. Als Beispiel behandele ich Wittgensteins Bemerkungen über Regelfolgen. Ich zeige, wie in der Auflösung des Regelparadoxes Begriffe wie „Gebrauch“, „Verwendung“, „Anwendung“ auf zwei unterschiedlichen logischen Ebenen auftreten. Dann behandele ich Gordon Bakers und Peter Hackers Auffassung, Wittgensteins Bemerkungen zum Regelfolgen hätten eine besondere Bedeutung für sein Projekt der Auflösung philosophischer Probleme an sich. Ich lege ein Argument dafür vor, daß ihre Idee, die Klärung der Regeln der Grammatik des bestimmten einzelnen Ausdrucks „einer Regel folgen“ könne eine Frage über Regeln der Grammatik im Allgemeinen beantworten, auf einer Vermengung der beiden Ebenen basiert, auf denen der Begriff „Gebrauch“ in den Regelfolgen-Bemerkungen vorkommt, und daher in einen Regreß führt. Anschließend zeige ich, daß dies auch für Gustafssons Idee gilt. Schließlich zeige ich, daß Kuuselas Auffassung, das Modell „Bedeutung als Gebrauch“ – gewonnen im Rahmen der Untersuchung der tatsächlichen Verwendung des Wortes „Bedeutung“ – habe eine besondere Relevanz für die Methode der Untersuchung der tatsächlichen Verwendung von Wörtern an sich, ebenfalls in einen Regreß führt. Meine Schlußfolgerung ist, daß die grammatische Bemerkung „Die Bedeutung eines Wortes ist sein Gebrauch in der Sprache“ in keinem besonderen Bezug zu Wittgensteins Methode der Untersuchung des tatsächlichen Gebrauchs von Ausdrücken stehen kann. Stattdessen muß diese Methode als unabhängig von diesem Ergebnis der Untersuchung des Gebrauchs des bestimmten Wortes „Bedeutung“ betrachtet werden.
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James B. Conant, pressure groups, and the national defense, 1933-1945

Tuttle, William M., January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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Visionary of Control: The Efficiency, Expertise, and Exclusion of Alexander James Inglis

Kramer, Heidi Tilney 09 July 2010 (has links)
Alexander James Inglis was the key contributor to changes enacted in education during the Progressive era. He instituted an administrative and curricular hierarchy in order to create social organization during a chaotic time in American history, thus advancing professionalism in teaching and systematizing a future workforce - teaching previously had no standards, and throngs of immigrants overwhelmed the school system. While necessary at the time, this system of centralization, homogenization, and sorting continues to result in exclusion in secondary education and middle schools. Categorization is Inglis' hallmark in his work in education, following Frederick W. Taylor's managerial practices, and he influenced Ellwood P. Cubberley and James B. Conant. Using John Dewey's words - but with different meanings and purposes - Inglis and his associates reworked education in a way that made the state responsible for choosing academic or vocational training for pupils despite family objections. Michel Foucault reveals the control techniques used by schools: the examination, normalizing judgment, and hierarchical observation. These parallel Inglis' categorizing standards.
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The Creative Identity of Women: an Analysis of Feminist Themes in Select Chamber Music Theater Works by Composer William Osborne for Trombonist Abbie Conant

Ducharme, Jessica Ashley 01 July 2013 (has links)
This thesis is an analysis and exploration of the feminist themes present in select chamber music theater works by William Osborne for trombonist Abbie Conant. Before analyzing Osborne's compositions, the author provides crucial background information about the lives and experiences of husband and wife and artistic collaborators William Osborne and Abbie Conant. Specifically, the author addresses the sexism that Conant experienced as a trombonist in the Munich Philharmonic. Osborne composed a new genre of works for Conant to perform as an artistic response to the pain both he and Conant experienced during the thirteen year legal battle with the state of Munich and their desire to create fully integrated musical theater works. The author traces the evolution of Osborne and Conant's collaboration by examining three works within the genre of chamber music theater: Winnie--Osborne's adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days; Miriam: The Chair--Osborne's first completely original work; and Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano. Through personal interviews with Osborne and Conant, the author became aware of Osborne and Conant's influences from Samuel Beckett as well as the formal structure that Osborne uses in his works, and she traces this structure in each work as a method for understanding and organizing the musical and dramatic events. Since Osborne's chamber music theater works require the performer to play a musical instrument, act, and sing, the author employs balanced musicological, dramaturgical, and theoretical analytical approaches when studying each piece. After addressing the formal and compositional devices that Osborne utilizes in each piece, the author focuses her analysis on the feminist themes that are found in the latter two works: Miriam: The Chair and Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano, for these two works were written as a direct response to the discrimination that Conant experienced in the Munich Philharmonic. The author provides the transcript from her interview with Osborne and Conant as an appendix to the document.
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A failed elite the Committee on the Present Danger and the Great Debate of 1951 /

Isherwood, Paul E. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, March, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until April 1, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-154)
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A Failed Elite: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Great Debate of 1951

Isherwood, Paul E. 27 April 2009 (has links)
No description available.

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