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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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The natural philosophy Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sysak, Janusz Aleksander January 2000 (has links) (PDF)
This thesis aims to show that Coleridge's thinking about science was inseparable from and influenced by his social and political concerns. During his lifetime, science was undergoing a major transition from mechanistic to dynamical modes of explanation. Coleridge's views on natural philosophy reflect this change. As a young man, in the mid-1790s, he embraced the mechanistic philosophy of Necessitarianism, especially in his psychology. In the early 1800s, however, he began to condemn the ideas to which he had previously been attracted. While there were technical, philosophical and religious reasons for this turnabout, there were also major political ones. For he repeatedly complained that the prevailing 'mechanical philosophy' of the period bolstered emerging liberal and Utilitarian philosophies based ultimately on self-interest. To combat the 'commercial' ideology of early nineteenth century Britain, he accordingly advocated an alternative, 'dynamic' view of nature, derived from German Idealism. I argue that Coleridge championed this 'dynamic philosophy' because it sustained his own conservative politics, grounded ultimately on the view that states possess an intrinsic unity, so are not the product of individualistic self-interest.
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Corpulações: Informação, Comunicação, Movimento e contato

Queiroz, Clélia Ferraz Pereira de 11 October 2006 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Clelia Ferraz Pereira de Queiroz.pdf: 3142824 bytes, checksum: 401b7a880d5b17eaf5c9a7fa02dd770c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-11 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The subject-matter of this thesis is the role played by movement and contact in the processes of communication. The present research proposes the hypothesis that movement is information and perception, which turns the body into a Corpusmedia (the body as a communication medium). The close relationship between movement and contact plays a fundamental role in the developmental processes of the organism. In order to understand how the body is implied in communication, research on this matter must take recourse to the cognitive sciences. In order to sustain that movement is information and perception, it is necessary to explain the relations and implications of movement and contact within information networks and bodyenvironment communication. The aim of this research is to understand movement and contact as language in a non hierarchic information and communication network, bound to compromise a new epistemology as a applied science of the body. Within the Communication and Semiotic Program at the São Paulo Catholic University, semiotic theories, cognitive science and sciences of complexity are theories of excellence and the most appropriate field to comprehend this phenomena and form the theoretical frame of reference. Corpusmedia, designed to cover all the communication processes, developped both by Phd Professors Christine Greiner & Helena Katz, is the foundation to approach the body within the field of communication, as presented herein. This endeavor is the basis upon which the necessary conditions arise to carry out research on the body within the communication field. With the Semiotic concept of Corpusmedia, the technical term mídia differs from its common meaning. The medium and midiatic concepts in the information society many times reproduce in their core the bodymachine metaphor, which is so widely disseminated in Mass Media consumption society. According to this metaphor understanding of the communication processes sustain a mechanicist, dualist and reductionist view, one which fails to explain all the body-environment processes. The need to focus the question of movement and contact on communication, derives from the fact that available literature on this issue approaches the body as an information-processing machine. The present study sustains that by regarding the body as Corpusmedia, we escape from dualistic formulations and from those which imply that the body is disposable and replaceable, since it is considered as an object and a reproducer under the body-machine metaphor. The point here is to approach the body as a producer of knowledge. This research, starting from theoretical-praxis processes, explored communication through the cognition processes of the body. For this purpose, it was fundamental to count on the theories of neurodarwinism of Gerald Edelman, and the dynamic theory of Esther Thelen. Supported by these views, it was possible to research outside the common nature versus nurture split that gets in the way of understanding communication as an evolutive feature of the body / O foco desta tese é o papel dos movimentos e do contato no campo da comunicação. Defende a hipótese de que movimentos são informações e percepção, e fazem do corpo um corpomídia. A estreita relação entre movimento e contato confere papel fundamental aos processos de desenvolvimento do organismo. Para compreender como o corpo está implicado na comunicação, portanto, é preciso pesquisá-lo no âmbito da cognição. Para sustentar que movimento é informação e percepção, faz-se necessário explicar suas relações e implicações na comunicação corpo-ambiente. O objetivo da pesquisa é entender movimento e contato como linguagem em rede não hierarquizada de informação e comunicação, com o compromisso de uma nova epistemologia de ciência aplicada ao corpo. No contexto do Programa de Comunicação e Semiótica da PUC-SP, as teorias semióticas, as ciências da complexidade e as ciências cognitivas são as mais indicadas à pesquisa e embasam, por isso, o quadro teórico de referência. Propomos então fundamentar a abordagem da pesquisa aqui apresentada com a teoria corpomídia desenvolvida pelas Professoras Doutoras Christine Greiner e Helena Katz, que abrange todos os processos de comunicação social. No conceito semiótico corpomídia, o termo técnico mídia difere da noção do senso comum. Desse empreendimento, surgem as condições necessárias para se realizar investigações sobre o corpo na área da Comunicação. Os conceitos de mídia e midiática da era da informação muitas vezes reproduzem em seu bojo a metáfora corpo-máquina tão disseminada na sociedade de consumo. E sustenta um tratamento para corpo dentro de uma visão mecanicista, dualista e reducionista, que não consegue explicar os processos de comunicação corpo-ambiente. A necessidade de se focar a questão dos movimentos e do contato na comunicação se deve ao fato de a bibliografia disponível na área abordar o corpo a partir da concepção de corpo como um processador-de-informação. Os estudos que encaminham a proposta do corpo como corpomídia permitem escapar das formulações dualistas e daquelas nas tais o corpo é descartável, uma vez que o apresentam como um objeto e reprodutor, debaixo da concepção corpo-máquina. Trata-se aqui de abordar o corpo como produtor de conhecimento. Partindo de processos teórico-práticos, o campo da comunicação foi explorado através dos processos de conhecimento que se estabelecem quando o corpo se comunica. Para tal, foi indispensável contar com os pressupostos teóricos do neurocientista Gerald Edelman e da cientista cognitiva Esther Thelen. Com eles, tornou-se possível trabalhar fora da habitual separação entre natureza e cultura que atrapalha a compreensão da comunicação como um traço evolutivo do corpo

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