Transcending the ‘End of War’ Debate: Toward a Mechanism-Centered View on the ‘War on War’ by Lucas de Oliveira Paes

“…The focus on securing predictions about the end of war keeps analyses trapped in either a teleological or nomothetical linearity and overshadows the varied set of contingent mechanisms that allow for non-violent outcomes to prevail in contentious political episodes. …”
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Theoretical and Practical Aspects regarding the Independence of the Romanian Ombudsman by Oana Saramet

“…In this context, through this paper, we propose to analyse, through specific research methods, such as the comparative, sociological, teleological method, if the way of appointing and, respectively, of revoking the head of this institution is one that does not affect this role, risking politicizing the institution of the Ombudsman.…”
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Program Improvement by Automatic Redistribution of Intermediate Results by Hall, Robert Joseph

“…The system performs search and screening by deriving, using a novel explanation-based generalization technique, operational filtering predicates from input teleological information. The key advantage is to focus the system's effort on optimizations that are easier to prove safe.…”
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Swimming against the current: Muslim conversion to Christianity in the Early Islamic period by Sahner, C

“…Many studies of Islamization are teleological, aiming to explain the large-scale conversion of the Middle East by the end of the Crusades. …”

What are You Trying to Say?: World Literature and the Frustration of Translation by Josh McMahon

“…This essay argues that whilst translation dichotomously offers a teleological understanding of texts, it fails to grapple with the deep cultural milieus that manufacture texts. …”
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Designing an Entrepreneurship Process Model in Coastal Tourism in Bushehr Province Using the Grounded Theory Approach by Zeinab Bahraini, Nader Naderi

“…This research is attempting to adopt a non-teleological approach to the entrepreneurship process in the coastal tourism area of Bushehr province. …”
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Political Myths in Election Campaigns: Structure, Functions, Types by Oleg Onopko, Larisa Landik

“…The authors proved that the distinctive characteristics of a political myth include a teleological concept, certain political aims, full mythmakers’ awareness and dynamism. …”
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The Concept of Loyalty in Legal Regulation in the Republic of Latvia: Current Situation and Challenges by Ēriks Treļs, Ivans Jānis Mihailovs

“…Grammatical, historical, comparative, teleological method and general research methods were used, such as comparison and summarization, causal relationship detection, analysis, and synthesis. …”
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Insulin rather than glucose homoeostasis in the pathophysiology of diabetes. by Turner, R, Holman, R

“…Glucose regulation thus becomes of secondary importance to the maintenance of basal insulin secretion, which is teleologically needed for the "anabolic" requirements of cell growth. …”

La Conciencia en la Enciclopedia de 1817 by María del Carmen Paredes-Martín

“…The Encyclopaedia of 1817 contains Hegel’s first published doctrine of consciousness without a teleological exposition of the various shapes of spirit. …”
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Recovering the mundane practices of economic time by Jacqueline Best

“…By revealing the often-flawed material efforts that go into producing speculative temporalities, I argue that such struggles might allow us to arrive at a less teleological account of the resilience of neoliberalism. …”
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Kant and the Relation between Imagination and Reason in the Beauty of Art by Reza Mahouzi

“…Because the Third Critique must fill the gap between those two, and thus enable communication between two realms of philosophy, it has to establish a relation between faculties of understanding, reason, and imagination in an aesthetical and a teleological reflective. This paper, introducing the general principles governing on aesthetical reflective judgment and the free play of imagination and understanding for abstraction of pure and final form of objects, wants to justify the relation between imagination and reason in the beauty of art and its two parts, i.e., the mechanical arts, and fine art (genius).…”
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Judgment Puzzles. In Conversation With Pascal Engel by Ernest Sosa

“…He attributes to me a kind of teleological/axiological normativity, whereas he opts rather for a normativity that is deontic. …”
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Publieke pastorale leiers 1: Roeping, werwing, keuring, opleiding, ordening by Malan Nel

“…The second article will explore the implications for theological education as it relates to the teleological core of theological education and recruitment, reviewing (screening), and training respectively.…”
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MODELING IN LAW AS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING LEGAL PHENOMENA by D. G. Trinitka

“…The author focuses on the philosophical and legal dimension of models, which makes it possible to base not only the teleological aspect of the application of models, but also the subjective-rational one. …”
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Non-linear black hole dynamics and Carrollian fluids by Jaime Redondo-Yuste, Luis Lehner

“…In particular: we discuss how the null surface where the Carrollian fluid evolves is affected by its behavior; that the fluid’s equilibration properties are tied to teleological considerations; the connection of higher derivative contributions as both source of energy and dissipation for the fluid and the non-linear behavior of black holes. …”
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Sur la route de la guerre totale sur le front ouest : l’armement et ses utilisations entre 1914 et 1918 by François Cochet

“…But if the idea of totalization, although ranging in its timeline, can be admitted as such to the Great War, it is necessary to avoid any teleological scheme. Furthermore, it should be carefully distinguished the debates on war totalization, and “brutalization” of societies during and after the Great War.…”
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Brazilian response to the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis: Operation Acolhida as a politics of hope by Matheus Augusto Soares, Nerissa Krebs Farret

“…The methodology is divided in the following subsections: the first section brings the discussion on the metaphysics of presence and its logocentric and teleologic perspectives; section two discusses how theories and understanding of hope have been evolving from the Ancient Greek thinkers till the present day and presents the politics of hope as a tool to understand the Operation Acolhida. …”
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The Relation of Conatus with spinoza`s Ethics by muhammad ali abdllahi, muhammad gharibzade

“…Spinoza, after explaining the conatus and justifying the problem of self-destruction (suicide), rejected many of common concepts of his predecessors’ philosophical tradition and redefined them in a different way by conatus doctrine. Spinoza denied teleological interpretation of world events and offered a nonteleological explanation of them by “desire” and “appetite” that rooted in the conatus principle. …”
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The "Brazilian Native" on Display: Indianist Artwork and Ethnographic Exhibits at the World's Fairs, 1862-1889 by Schuster, Sven

“…By this line of thought, the Empire of Brazil emerged as the result of a long-term teleological process, taking ancient indigenous cultures as its historical starting point. …”
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