Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-97). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M. A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997. / Bibliography: leaves 174-179.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Philosophy, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-112)

This thesis explores how and why two capitalistic American corporations were granted access to the Soviet Union's internal market. For decades communist leadership railed against what they termed "cheap bourgeois consumption," yet in 1972 Pepsi-Cola became the first officially sanctioned American consumer product in the USSR. Eighteen years later, McDonald's would become the first American restaurant to open in the Soviet Union. Both companies became deeply involved in Cold War politics and diplomacy, with high-ranking officials from both sides taking part in the negotiations to bring these companies into the country. These two case studies shed light on a seldom-covered aspect of American-Soviet economic relations and cultural exchange.

Donald MacKinnon (1913-1994) is arguably one of the most influential Anglican theologians in the British context in the second half of the 20th century. His writings reveal a restive and unsystematic thinker, yet there is a good case to be made that a series of reoccurring questions – ‘obsessions’ might better suit MacKinnon’s temperament –appear throughout. These relate to the demands of moral realism, the tensions between the philosophical positions of realism and idealism generally, and the perennially disruptive presence of Christ, whose redemptive significance cannot be fully appreciated apart from a tragic ascription. The first chapter proposes a new lens through which MacKinnon’s project may be viewed. It will characterise his work as a form of ‘therapeutic’ philosophy that combines a call for intense interiority and moral realism in a way that sees these notions as mutually involved and reinforcing. As the chapter progresses the extent to which Kant lies behind much of MacKinnon’s therapeutic language of ‘purgation’ and ‘illumination’ will become clear. So too the fact that moral realism becomes, for MacKinnon, both the end of a certain therapeutic discipline and a commitment that shapes his engagement with philosophy and theology at every level. It characterises a ‘form of life’. MacKinnon never sets out a systematic defence of moral realism nor for his insistence that the tension between idealism and realism is at once a) something crucial for theologians to confront explicitly, b) a tension that necessarily exists and remains perennially unsolved, and c) results in the continued need for a language of metaphysics. Yet, these ideas occur again and again throughout his corpus. They emerge as philosophical inevitabilities from within the task of continued description and redescription of human experience in all its historical particularity. An examination of the key influences on MacKinnon follows in Chapter 2, and it is here we can detect one of the sources of MacKinnon’s restiveness as he seeks to imbibe insights from a confident moral apologic theology of the previous generation, while at the same time respecting the ways in which the analytical turn had highlighted the impossibility of such projects. The rest of the thesis is spent looking at various domains in which MacKinnon’s therapeutic moral realism comes to the fore. These include his understanding of Christ (Chapter 3), his convictions as to the indispensability of good literature for moral philosophy (Chapter 4) and his response to Wittgenstein as he sought to articulate his own distinctive moral and theological convictions (Chapter 5). The thesis concludes with words of affirmation and critique, having shown MacKinnon to represent a compelling voice in support of catholic humanism that remains provocative into the 21st century.

Recientemente, algunos críticos del enfoque davidsoniano de la atribución intencional han señalado que el mismo no puede ser aplicado para el caso de los delirios psiquiátricos, dado que las creencias delirantes no satisfacen los requisitos de racionalidad que este impone. En este trabajo: i) reconstruyo, a partir del análisis del caso del delirio de Capgras, la crítica a la idea de que solo podemos interpretar a un agente con creencias irracionales si mantiene aún un trasfondo de racionalidad; ii) objeto la misma y argumento que este delirio no representa un verdadero contraejemplo ya que un examen adecuado del mismo muestra que los sujetos con delirio de Capgras conservan un trasfondo de racionalidad. Señalaré así, que las condiciones mínimas para que la atribución de estados intencionales tenga lugar se encuentran garantizadas.

Orientador : Rachel Vilela Favero / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-14T03:57:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celeri_EloisaHelenaRubelloValler_M.pdf: 3030686 bytes, checksum: 3ccabd3b614bb3e7f7b038648cbcbf83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 / Resumo: Esta dissertaçâo tem por objetivo organizar as contribuições do pediatra. psiquiatra infantil e psicanalista D.W. WINNICOTT para uma teoria do desenyolvimento emocional do bebê e da criança em seus primeiros anos de vida. A teoria de WINNICOTT, seguindo dois caminhos paralelos e que frequentemente se intercruzam, estuda. de um lado, o crescimento emocional do lactente e, de outro, as qualidades da mãe. suas mudanças e o cuidado materno que satisfaz as necessidades específicas do lactente. A presente dissertaçâo é dividida em uma introdução, quatro capítulos e um epílogo. Utilizou-se. do conjunto da obra winnicottiana. corno fonte primária pesquisada, mas nâo se aventurou em uma análise epistemológica da mesma. Na introdução. retrata-se em linhas gerais, o homem e o clínico D. W. WINNICOTT que, tendo trabalhado como pediatra, chegou à psicanálise. Assim através de um diálogo constante entre estas duas influências principais. elaborou sua contribuiçâo teórica a uma grande variedade de temas, que sempre tiveram presentes o estudo do desenvolvimento emocional do bebê em seus estádios mais precoces e o papel que o cuidado materno desempenha nesse período. O capítulo I relata a jornada do ladente desde o período de dependência absoluta, passando por um período de dependência relativa, para finalmente chegar à independência ou autonomia, que nunca é absoluta. Para WINNICOTT essa jornada só se torna possível em virtude do reconhecimento que a mãe tem da dependência do bebê nos períodos iniciais do seu desenvolvimento. Isto faz com que a mãe corresponda às necessidades egóicas e instintivas do lactente, adaptando-se quase que perfeitamente a ela e criando um "setting", que \VINNICOTT denominou "ambiente de facilitação" - , permitindo que os "processos de maturação" do bebê possam se revelar através de um impulso para a integraçâo e para o desenvolvimento de um self pessoal e real. O capítulo lI, descreve os primórdios do desenvolvimento emocional primitivo, durante o período de dependência absoluta. quando o bebê está em um estado de fusão com a mãe. Centralizando-se no estudo de desenvolvimento do ego, que vivencia uma "continuidade de ser" , graças a um bom cuidado materno, três são as realizações principais expostas neste capítulo: a - integração, isto é, o bebê adquire um status de unida.de; b -personalização ou inserção psicossomática, permitindo que o bebê sinta-se habitando o próprio corpo e que possibilita que a da pele, como membrana, passe a delimitar um interior e um exterior; c - início das relações objetais ¿Observação: O resumo, na íntegra poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digital. / Abstract: The objective of this dissertation is to organize the contributions of D.W.WINNICOTT, paediatrician, child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst to the theory of emotional developmeni of the infant and the child during the first years of life. Following two parallel and frequently crossing paths, WINNICOTT'S theory studies on the one hand the emotiona] growth of the infant, and on the other, the mother's qualities, the changes in these qualities and the maternal care which satisfies the specific needs of the infant. This dissertation is divided as follows: introduction, four chapters and an epilogue. The author used the complete works of W1NNICOTT as the primary source of research. but did not attempt an epistemological analysis of thc aforesaid. In the introduction the author presents a brief overall view of D. W. W1NNICOTT the man and the clinician. who arrived at psychoanalysis through his work as a paediatrician. In this way, by means of a constant dialogue between these two principaJ infll1ences. he made his theoretical contributions to a great variety of subjects alI of which contained the study of the emotional growth of the infant in its earliest stages and the role played by maternal care during this period. Chapter one describes the infant's journey from the period of absolute dependence. followed by a period of relative dependence, arriving finally at independence or alltonomy, which is never absolute. For WINNICOTT this journey is only made possible by the mother's knowledge of theinfant's dependence during the initial stages of development. This allows the mother to correspond to the ego-needs and instinctual needs of the infant, adapting almost perfectly to them and creating a setting which WINNICOTT termed environment provision, thus permitting the maturational processes of the baby to be revealed through an impulse for integration and for the development of a personal and real self. In chapter II the author describes the beginnings of primitive emotional development during the total independence period when the infant is in a state of being merged in with the mother. Concentrating on the study of ego development where a continuity of being is experienced, due to good-enough maternal care, there are three main realizations shown in the chapter a) integration, that is, the infant acquires the status of being a unit b) personalization or psychosomatic insertion which allows the baby to feel himself living inside his own body and which makes it possible to equate the skin as a membrane which delimits an interior and an exterior c) initiation of object-relating ...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations. / Mestrado / Mestre em Ciências Médicas

In this thesis I give a response to external world scepticism. I first argue that scepticism arises when we accept that it is an empirical question whether I am in a sceptical scenario, that is, a scenario in which my beliefs are coherent, and yet my empirical beliefs are false. The idea that it is an empirical question whether I am in a sceptical scenario gets its plausibility from the realist claim that our empirical beliefs have an objective subject matter. I then attempt to give a response to scepticism that is compatible with this realist claim. Three promising responses to scepticism are considered, but are found to be inadequate. Seeing why these responses are inadequate helps us to appreciate some of the conditions on an adequate response to scepticism. By drawing on the work of Donald Davidson I develop a response to scepticism that is compatible with the realist claim, and that meets these conditions. According to this response, when we get clear about the concept of belief we see that sceptical scenarios are a conceptual impossibility. Thus, just as it is not an empirical question whether I am a married bachelor, it is not an empirical question whether I am in a sceptical scenario, and the argument for scepticism breaks down.

A nonlinear, 4½-layer model with active thermodynamics and mixed-layer physics is used to examine salinity effects due to various forcings in the Indian Ocean. Theses forcings include: evaporation (ε) and precipitation (Ρ), river runoff in the Bay of Bengal, the Indonesian Throughflow, and the influx of salty waters from the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Solutions with P - ε forcing produce salinity patterns that agree qualitatively with the observations in the upper three layers. Quantitatively, however, salinity values tend to be higher than the observations in most of the basin. In regions where precipitation is strong (P - ε » 0), a thin surface mixed layer (layer 1), and thus a thicker seasonal thermocline (layer 2, a barrier layer), are formed due to decreased entrainment. In these regions, surface currents generally strengthen, T2 warms considerably and SST increases somewhat, resulting in temperature inversions at some locations of the southern Bay and the eastern equatorial ocean. Somewhat surprisingly, P - ε also causes large temperature changes in layer 3 (thermocline) and thickness changes in layers 3 and 4 (intermediate water). The Bay-of-Bengal river runoff improves salinity values significantly in the upper three layers, especially within the Bay and alongC the west coast of India. During the Southwest onsoon (SWM), coastal Kelvin waves driven by the Ganges-Brahmaputra river inflow suppress upwelling along the northeast coast of India, increasing SST by 1°C. During the Northeast Monsoon (NEM), fresh water from the rivers is carried southward by the East India Coastal Current (EICC), raising sea level and thus strengthening the EICGby 10 cm/s. This fresh water can flow directly through the India-Sri Lanka separation in the surface mixed layer, generating a strong salinity gradient along the west Indian coast during winter. The river water decreases entrainment around the perimeter of the Bay during winter, thereby producing a thin surface mixed layer, increasing T2 , and resulting in temperature inversions in the northwestern Bay. Like P - ε, the rivers cause significant thickness and temperature anomalies in layer 3. The Indonesian Throughflow improves salinities in all four layers of the model, especially in the southern tropical ocean. Consistent with previous studies, most of the Throughflow water flows out of the Indian Ocean along the western boundary and near Madagascar. A significant amount of water, however, is advected northward into the Somali basin and subsequently carried eastward into the ocean interior and northward into the Arabian Sea. The Throughflow increases SST primarily along the west Australian coast but warms the thermocline (layer 3) throughout the Indian Ocean, especially in the southern tropical ocean. As a consequence, sea level is raised in the entire basin. Warmer and saltier Persian-Gulf water (PGW) enters the Indian Ocean in layer 3, warming the northern Arabian Sea by 0.2-2°C and increasing the salinity by 0.1-0.6 psu through horizontal mixing. It increases sea-surface salinity (SSS) in a broad region of the Arabian Sea by 0.1- 0.2 psu because entrainment and, to a less extent, coastal upwelling bring PGW into the surface mixed layer, where it spreads over a large region due to advection. High-salinity and high-temperature Red-Sea water (RSW) warms layer-4 (upper intermediate layer) and increases its salinity by a significant amount in most region of the Indian Ocean, especially in the Somali Basin, the interior Arabian Sea, and the central and western equatorial ocean.