Program Understanding through Cliché Recognition by Brotsky, Daniel

“…Our approach involves assuming constraints on the possible decompositions of programs according to the teleological relations between their parts. Programs are analyzed by translating them into a language-independent form and then parsing this representation in accordance with a context-free web grammar induced by the library of clichés. …”
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Terminators, monkeys and mass culture - The carnival of time in science fiction films by Dimitrakaki, A, Tsiantis, M

“…Through the reading of films such as 12 Monkeys, Terminator and others we attempt to show that time in this context entails a possibility of intervention in history (both personal and social) and is presented as non-linear and non-teleological.…”

Modal ethics: the role of counterfactuals in stoicism by Breen, EV

“…Thus, moral responsibility understood this way encompasses an understanding of the agent’s nature as a being that is teleologically capable of virtue and a consideration of her future moral development. …”

Conceptions of truth in Plato's Sophist by Peramatzis, M

“…Drawing on the 6th definition of the sophist, I argue for a normative-teleological conception of truth in which the best condition of our soul –in its making statements or having mental states– consists in its seeking to attain the telos of truth. …”

Wordsworth’s self-composure by Hart, JL

“…Wordsworth’s poetic and compositional practices, then, challenge the stricter divisions in the eighteenth century between undesirable and splintered forms of selfhood and the more unified kinds of self, which usually rely on fulfilling a telos. Teleological views of selfhood, in Wordsworth’s eyes, are insufficient to account for the contingencies and happenstance that are natural and attractive aspects of experience. …”

Neoliberalism in the Information Age, or Vice Versa? Global Citizenship, Technology, and Hegemonic Ideology by Robert Neubauer

“…Drawing on the work of Antonio Gramsci, this paper argues that information-age theories have served to facilitate the neoliberal project, obscuring behind a veil of teleological inevitability and technological determinism the political transformations which make global neoliberalism possible, even while prescribing the technological innovations which make such transformations technically feasible. …”
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Learning Environments and the Scientific Dimension of Didactical Endeavor by Marius Costel EŞI

“…Moreover, the scientific basis of education involves a rational recovery in the teleological dimension of scientific knowledge. It is about assuming, practically and theoretically, the axiological approaches in the simplicity-complexity relation. …”
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On the Nature of Medicine: Necessities, Approaches, and Challenges by Alireza Monajemi

“…In this model, medicine is a scientific practice, based on judgment, dialogue, communication and social order. This model faces teleological, epistemological, scientific, political, and professional challenges that require serious and continuous reflection on the nature of medicine.…”
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Expectation management at the local scale: Legal failure of public participation for large urban planning projects by Thomas Hartmann, Fennie van Straalen, Tejo Spit

“…The juridical analysis of German and Dutch codified law is based on four elements: literal content, institutional positioning, historical context, and teleological meaning of a legal text. The paper furthermore distinguishes four rationales for participation in planning: support,legitimization, improving plan quality, and education. …”
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Justicia de paz y cultura jurídica en el largo siglo XIX en Mendoza (Argentina). El caso del departamento de San Rafael en el sur provincial by Inés Elena Sanjurjo

“…The route is realised trying to avoid a teleological glance, in which the Indian judges of smaller quantity are considered like an imperfect antecedent of the future judges of peace, as well the territorial judges of the first half from century XIX are not considered like a simple initial stage of the institution as she appeared by the end of the same, in the heat of use of the codification. …”
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Hoe cultureel mag cultuurgeschiedenis zijn? Rond het IJkpunt 1650 by W. Frijhoff, M. Spies

“…Instead, they show that the key terms which they used to describe and explain the specific quality of Dutch culture at its 17th-century zenith (pluriformity, discussion culture, burgher participation, ecumenism of everyday life, etc.) are used in this cross-section of Dutch society as analytical, descriptive terms, without any teleological view towards future developments. Finally, they explain the sense in which the European context should be understood and where the limits of European comparison lie at the moment with regard to 17th-century culture.…”
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The Eco-Theology of the <i>Bhagavad Gītā</i>: A Multi-Layered Ethical Theory by Supratik Sen

“…I contextualize the <i>Bhagavad Gītā</i>’s environmental ethics by placing it within the larger framework of the text’s distinctive multi-layered approach to ethical theory, in which the foundational teleological <i>mokṣa</i> theory grounds and explains the plurality of more superficial normative foundational theories.…”
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Projekt „teologii” ewolucyjnej Edwarda D. Cope’a by Michał Wagner

“…This article examines Cope’s philosophical views and shows how he reinterpreted the mechanism of natural selection by incorporating it into his own teleological account of evolution. According to Cope free will enables man to control evolution, but there is no guarantee that man will survive. …”
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The monstrous and the grotesque: (De)scribing and unmasking eschatology in Sepedi folktales by Sekgothe Mokgoatšana

“…In this article, I analyse the story of a monster and explain how monstrosity and the grotesque are used as a discourse to craft, uncover and (re)construct how Bapedi interprets the teleological and eschatological from the tale; Kgolomodumo. …”
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The Ethical Experience of Nature: Aristotle and the Roots of Ecological Phenomenology by Dylan B. van der Schyff

“…I demonstrate here how Aristotle's teleological conception of nature has been largely misunderstood in the scientific age and I consider what his view might offer us with regard to the environmental challenges we face in the 21st century. …”
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Uses and Abuses of Religion in the Contemporary Legal Development of Montenegro: Undermining the Principle of Secularity by Aleksandra Vukasinovic, Biljana Damjanović

“…In the interpretation of positive legal regulations, this paper predominantly uses teleological and normative methodology together with sociological and axiological methods, necessary for understanding the broader context of the widened scope of bonding between religion and politics. …”
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The Genesis of Spanish /θ/: A Revised Model by Ian Mackenzie

“…The revised chronology weakens the teleological analysis of /θ/, which treats its genesis in terms of a functionally motivated widening of the articulatory distance between similar-sounding sibilants. …”
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American-European Relations in U. S. World History Textbooks, 1921-2001 by Martin Alm

“…The textbooks view relations within a general teleological narrative of progress through democracy and technology. …”
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An Evolutionary Explanation for the Perturbation of the Dynamics of Metastatic Tumors Induced by Surgery and Acute Inflammation by Alberto Carmona Bayonas

“…This notion explains the evolutionary basis for tumor dormancy, and warns against the teleological view of tumorigenesis as a process directed towards the maximization of a concrete trait such as aggressiveness.…”
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Medieval Accounting and Economic Rationality: Reflections on a Historical Belief by Julie CLAUSTRE

“…It attempts to sketch out new avenues of analysis, moving away from grand teleological writings. The article raises the question of whether the accounting ratio of these actors constitutes a manifestation of the European genius of the Renaissance or are a writing practice anchored in specific social functioning.…”
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