Essays about: "dualism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 48 essays containing the word dualism.

  1. 16. Nature has no waste : how do European landscape architecture studios approach urban sustainability through resource management?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Anne Maren Heinkelmann; [2020]
    Keywords : landscape architecture; sustainable development; sustainable resource management; urban management; resource efficiency; circular economy; ; circular economy; nature-culture-dualism; urban metabolism;

    Abstract : In the context of the global environmental crisis, urgent steps need to be taken towards sustainable development. Within the profession of landscape architecture, efficient and far-sighted resource management plays an important role. READ MORE

  3. 17. Let's Do Away with Urban : Autoethnographic Adventures in Stockholms län

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Olivia Butler; [2020]
    Keywords : Urban; Rural; Spatiology; Political Ecology; Embodiment; Emplacement; Stockholm;

    Abstract : The spatial categorisations of urban and rural are still used in academia, lay terminology and policy formation in spite of a postmodern obsession with the deconstruction of binaries. Hitherto, the urban rural dichotomy has been exposed to little scrutiny, and the critiques that have been made come from the epistemological standpoint of total urbanisation which assumes the rural will be effaced by a perennial urban sprawl. READ MORE

  4. 18. Ecology From Within: Ecocriticism and Allegory in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Joel Fransson; [2019-01-08]
    Keywords : ecology; nature; allegory; dualism;

    Abstract : This essay reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest to explore whether there is a connection between Cartesian dualism, allegorical reading, and environmentalist thought. To answer this the essay employs the philosophy and theoretical writings of Timothy Morton, namely The Ecological Thought and Ecology Without Nature. READ MORE

  5. 19. Is Searle a Property Dualist?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Felix Schröder; [2019]
    Keywords : John Searle; biological naturalism; reduction; consciousness; property dualism; mental causation; causality; physicalism; philosophy of mind; epiphenomenalism; overdetermination;

    Abstract : It has often been argued that John Searle’s theory of mind, biological naturalism, due to its commitment to mental irreducibility amounts to no more than disguised property dualism. I suggest that a thorough analysis of Searle’s somewhat unusual views on the nature of reduction reveals this irreducibility to be not a metaphysical relation between mental properties and physical but one concerned only with the semantics of the respective terms used to refer to these. READ MORE

  6. 20. The Second Skin : A study on the relationship between clothes and human bodies

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Emmi Flodin; [2019]
    Keywords : Second Skin; Clothes; Human Bodies; Culture and Nature; Material Agency; New Materialism;

    Abstract : Clothes are the second skin on human bodies. By coming in contact with humans, clothes become a part of the body. Through the contact, clothes affect and enable human actions. This thesis investigates the relationship between human bodies and clothes by conducting interviews and wardrobe studies. READ MORE