Reflection, Metaphilosophy, and Logic of Action in the Science of Knowledge

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-137
Author(s):  
Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Action

scholarly journals Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
CAROLIN FREIER ◽  
MONIKA SENGHAAS
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Activation Policy

Abstract Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced discretion in an innovation project carried out by the German Federal Employment Agency. Applying a bottom-up perspective, we reconstruct PES employees’ logic of action and the dilemmas they face in improving counselling and placement services. According to our findings, placement staff use enhanced discretion to promote more individualised support and an adequate matching of jobseekers and employers. The use of discretion is framed by organisational norms and reward mechanisms and by the current labour market situation. Our analyses are based on qualitative interviews and group discussions with placement staff.

A Estrutura Triádica da Filosofia de M. Blondel (o Trinitarismo Blondeliano)

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
M. Patrão Neves ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Action ◽  
Characteristic Structure ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Philosophical Project

The present work intends to show that Maurice Blondel's philosophy follows a triadic structure made up by the undissociable bond between thought, being and action, which is not just the resuit of the evolution achieved in the Trilogy but that was already present since L'Action (1893). Firstly we briefly outline the itinerary from L'Action (1893) to the Trilogy, underlining the continuity that Blondel ascribes to his progress coming later to make evident the unity of his philosophical project. Secondly we will consider the aspects revealing a triadic structure in the philosophy of action: the sense of action as mediation, the dialectics of action and the logic of action. Finally we will show how blondelian philosophy, in its characteristic structure, corresponds, quoting the author, to an "unitarian trinity".

scholarly journals Literary learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaspar H. Spinner ◽  
Petra Anders
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
German Film ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Literary Learning

Imparting 'literary competence' (understood here as a combination of skills involved in engaging with 'texts' of various kinds, among them film) has always been a core concern within German critical pedagogy. This article presents 11 aspects of literary learning, covering subjective involvement and the development of a text within the imagination; cognitive approaches such as awareness of perspectives, logic of action and linguistic style; and consciousness of genre-related and literary-historical classification. While these suggestions pertain in particular to the teaching of written literature, they are presented here as also having considerable significance for the teaching of film, and with a new introduction from German film education scholar Petra Anders.

Getting started: Beginnings in the logic of action

Studia Logica ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 347-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krister Segerberg
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Action

Why Military Organizations Are Cautious About Learning?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Hasselbladh ◽  
Karl Ydén
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organization ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts ◽  
Collective Sensemaking ◽  
The Military ◽  
Bureaucratic Organizations

This article argues that military organizations display a more rigorous form of collective sensemaking than ordinary bureaucratic organizations. Military organizing is predicated on the rigorous modes of thinking and acting that follow from the particular military propensity to impose order on chaos. This trait is antithetical to modern notions of “the learning organization,” in which exploring variety and experimenting and testing out unproven methods are central. We identify two sets of structural conditions that constitute the sociocognitive landscape of military organizations and discuss how the military logic of action might be enacted in different sociocultural contexts. Our framework is brought to bear on recent research on international military missions, and in the concluding section, we summarize our arguments and discuss their wider implications in terms of trade-offs between adaptability and other capabilities in the design of military forces.

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