A Saturday’s Trip to Epistemology by Larisa Segida

“…This article examines a travailing search for a researcher’s epistemological stance, which is essential for grounding any theorist in the domain of education. The author immerses the reader in an imaginary and cognitive journey in the labyrinths of epistemology and investigates some prominent paradigms, namely, postpositivism, social constructivism, critical theory, pragmatism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. …”
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Facilitating the emancipation of the learner by Vasi van Deventer

“…Learner action is considered a function of theorising and practice, and four classes of learner action are distinguished, namely the actions of a consultant, a theorist, a practitioner and an entrepreneur. Examples from existing courses in Psychology illustrate how the core tenets of the model can be operationalised in practice. …”
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Forces, faiblesses et paradoxes de la théorie monétaire de Walras by Nicolas Piluso

“…This work will highlight a paradoxical result: despite being a value theorist, Walras has an affinity with the monetary tradition, unlike most of his neoclassical successors. …”
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Na počátku byl domov : fenomén domova jako inspirační zdroj jednání některých členů Opus bonum by Ondřej Bakeš

“…We will outline the influence of the idea of a happy home on further work in exile on the examples of the priest Anastáz Opasek, lay Catholic activist Vladimír Neuwirth and art theorist Petr Spielmann.…”
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Johann Sebastian Bach in the Eyes of Johann Mattheson: On the Cantata ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis’, BWV 21 by Katarzyna Korpanty

“… This article addresses the appraisal of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music by Johann Mattheson, specifically the commentary on the cantata Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, BWV 21 which that Hamburg-based theorist included in a 1725 issue of his periodical Critica musica. …”
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Morality without Categoricity by Elizabeth Ventham

“…You can hold a desire-based view of moral normativity, I argue, without being (e.g.) a moral relativist or error theorist about morality. I’ll make this argument by showing how two important features of an objective morality are compatible with such a desire-based account: 1) morality’s authoritative nature, 2) our ability to condemn immoral agents.…”
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Tuning into Harmut Rosa’s systematic romanticism by Frédéric Vandenberghe

“…Abstract The article reconstructs the intellectual itinerary of the German social theorist Hartmut Rosa. It follows the development of his oeuvre, from his doctoral thesis on Charles Taylor and his book on social acceleration to his more recent work on resonance and responsivity. …”
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A IMAGEM NAS IMAGENS: LEITURAS ICONOLÓGICAS by Prof. Dr. Antônio Jackson de Souza Brandão

“…Thus, from the work of this Italian theorist of the 16th century, we find the relevance of the concept of iconology, employed by Panofsky, confronting artistic works that have the same traits iconology.…”
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Aggregating extended preferences by Greaves, H, Lederman, H

“…We consider three ways in which the extended-preference theorist might avoid this problem, and recommend that she pursue one: developing aggregation rules (for extended preferences) that violate Arrow’s Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives condition.…”

Social Network Theory and Comedy: Insights from NBC’s by Adam R. Roth

“…As evidenced through a network visualization—and interviews with the show’s writers—Greg Daniels was clearly thinking like a social network theorist in his careful development of one of the most successful sitcoms in television history.…”
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Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson by NEAGU ADRIANA

“…It invites reflection and rethinking of epistemic change from a major literary historian and theorist whose work in the Anglo-American context has become synonymous with the examination of temporality, historicity, and poeticality in twentieth century experimentation with form. …”
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‘Viens!’: On Maurice Blanchot’s Prayers and Promises by Arleen Ionescu

“…Starting form Caputo’s proposal to look for Derrida’s prayers and tears, and investigating several Blanchotian récits, it similarly and persistently asks the Augustinian question on the French philosopher and literary theorist: “what do I love when I love my God?”. My aim is to find out who Blanchot’s God was and such a critical analysis resorts to a threefold structure based on one of Blanchot’s keywords (viens!…”
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ON GENRE IDENTIFICATION OF POEM OF A. A SHAHOVSKOY «THE STOLEN FUR COATS» by O. K. Strashkova, A. A. Filippova

“…Wieland «Oberon», the English theorist of classicism A. Poup «Rape of the Lock» mock-heroic V. …”
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A Caliphate of Ideas? Islamic Politics in Dialogue with Contemporary Marxism by Daniel Tutt

“…This article deconstructs the conceptual framework of the social theorist Salman Sayyid by critically examining his work on the political and hegemony in relation to the thought of the post-Marxist philosopher Ernesto Laclau. …”
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ABOUT VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH COMMISSAROV (IN HONOR OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCIENTIST) by YANI Pavel Sergeevich

“…The article analyzes the views of this prominent theorist of criminal law on the institute of complicity in crime developed by him.…”
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Through the Lenses of Hollywood: depictions of Terrorism in American Movies by Thomas Riegler

“…Nonetheless, since movies are, according to cinema theorist Siegfried Kracauer, a "mirror of the prevailing society", they too reveal something about the historical evolution of terrorism and modifications in its understanding. …”
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Pos(t)pornografía o Porno Queer en el cine de Albertina Carri. El cuerpo político y militante by Francisco A. Zurian, Karina Perdomo Rodríguez, Francisco-José García-Ramos

“…This process traversed by Carri attempts to overcome what was sustained by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey (1975) regarding the scopophilic gaze of men and the traditional sexual conception of women in conventional cinema and, specifically, in pornographic cinema.…”
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Las zonas de diáspora. La traducción según Susana Romano Sued by Claudia Elina Rosa

“…In this paper we approach the works written by Susana Romano Sued, semiologist, poet, translator, and literary theorist, who proposes a conceptual network around the politics and poetics of translation that goes beyond the studies of comparative literatures. …”
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Christine Brooke-Rose’s Remake: Constraints as Modes of Loosening the Author by Joanna Piechura

“…The author analyses Christine Brooke-Rose’s autobiographical novel "Remake" in light of three notions devised by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant: ‘loosening,’ ‘inconvenience,’ and ‘infrastructure.’ …”
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The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Reshaping Anticancer Drug Development by Kostas A. Papavassiliou, Amalia A. Sofianidi, Vassiliki A. Gogou, Athanasios G. Papavassiliou

“…While the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) has deep historical roots, its development as a formal scientific field was initiated in the 1950s by Newell and Simon, who invented a “thinking machine” called the Logic Theorist [...]…”
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