Analytical Feminist Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Normative Analysis ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Feminist Work ◽  
Ethics Reflection

Feminist ethics is that branch of ethics that is concerned first and foremost with understanding the oppression of women and developing a normative analysis of its wrongness. Analytical feminist ethics uses the tools and techniques of analytical philosophy, such as conceptual analysis, to further understand the injustices revealed by feminist approaches to ethics. The chapter surveys analytic themes, trends, and tendencies within feminist ethics taking a broad lens on what counts. The chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in analytic feminist philosophical engagements with ethics, reflection on examples of important contributions to this discussion, a discussion the extent to which feminist work has changed or entered the mainstream of the field, and current and future directions in analytic feminist ethics.

scholarly journals Design Principles: Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine K. Fu ◽  
Maria C. Yang ◽  
Kristin L. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Design Science ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Future Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Archival Practices

Design principles are created to codify and formalize design knowledge so that innovative, archival practices may be communicated and used to advance design science and solve future design problems, especially the pinnacle, wicked, and grand-challenge problems that face the world and cross-cutting markets. Principles are part of a family of knowledge explication, which also include guidelines, heuristics, rules of thumb, and strategic constructs. Definitions of a range of explications are explored from a number of seminal papers. Based on this analysis, the authors pose formalized definitions for the three most prevalent terms in the literature—principles, guidelines, and heuristics—and draw more definitive distinctions between the terms. Current research methods and practices with design principles are categorized and characterized. We further explore research methodologies, validation approaches, semantic principle composition through computational analysis, and a proposed formal approach to articulating principles. In analyzing the methodology for discovering, deriving, formulating, and validating design principles, the goal is to understand and advance the theoretical basis of design, the foundations of new tools and techniques, and the complex systems of the future. Suggestions for the future of design principles research methodology for added rigor and repeatability are proposed.

Pragmatism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin McKenna ◽  
Maurice Hamington
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethics ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
Feminist Work

This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist philosophical engagements with the uniquely American intellectual tradition often referred to as American pragmatism. After introducing pragmatism, the foundational feminist work and influence of Jane Addams is presented, followed by a discussion of other noteworthy contributors to feminist pragmatism. Significant themes in feminist pragmatism including race and identity, epistemology, care ethics, utopian thinking, and environmentalism are explored. The chapter addresses the extent to which feminist work has changed or entered the mainstream of the American pragmatism, as well as current and future directions of feminist pragmatism. In addition to offering a history of the development of feminist pragmatism, the chapter considers how feminism is a resource for pragmatism and how pragmatism is a resource for feminist philosophy.

Discourse Analysis and ANLP

2012 ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kent ◽  
Philip M. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Central Meaning ◽  
The Many ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
Tools And Techniques

The goal of this chapter is to outline a (primarily) qualitative and (secondarily) quantitative approach to the analysis of discourse. Discourse Analysis thrives on the variation and inconsistencies in our everyday language. Rather than focusing on what is said and seeking to reduce and homogenise accounts to find a central meaning, discourse analysis is interested in the consequences of “saying it that particular way at that particular time.” Put another way, it is interested in “what was said that didn’t have to be, and why?” and “what wasn’t said that could have been, and why not?” The chapter outlines the basic theoretical assumptions that underpin the many different methodological approaches within Discourse Analysis. It then considers these approaches in terms of the major themes of their research, the ongoing and future directions for study, and the scope of contribution to scientific knowledge that discourse analytic research can make. At the beginning and end of the chapter, we attempt to outline a role for Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) in Discourse Analysis. We discuss possible reasons for a lack of computational tools and techniques in traditional Discourse Analysis but we also offer suggestions as to the application of computational resources so that researchers in both disciplines might have an avenue of interest that assists their work, without directing it.

Prisons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Zurn
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Feminist Work

This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist philosophical work on prisons, examples of important contributions, and future directions for feminist work in the field. It does so, however, in a way that consciously deploys a feminist methodology that resists the replication of hierarchical norms and structural violence in the very doing of theory and history. In this spirit, it emphasizes the record of struggle across the prison’s history, the resistance efforts that live behind individual academic theories, and the conceptual frameworks generated by groups bearing the brunt of carcerality, and it investigates alternative strategies of harm reduction developed across those communities. The chapter closes with an explicit exploration of prison abolitionism, which works not only to radically rethink punishment but also to shift the locus of voice and leadership. In so doing, the chapter aims to review, as much as to create anew, a feminist theoretical analysis of prisons.

CellML and associated tools and techniques

2008 ◽  
Vol 366 (1878) ◽  
pp. 3017-3043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Garny ◽  
David P Nickerson ◽  
Jonathan Cooper ◽  
Rodrigo Weber dos Santos ◽  
Andrew K Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Application Program Interface ◽  
International Union ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Application Program ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Code Generators ◽  
Computational Perspective ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Program Interface

We have, in the last few years, witnessed the development and availability of an ever increasing number of computer models that describe complex biological structures and processes. The multi-scale and multi-physics nature of these models makes their development particularly challenging, not only from a biological or biophysical viewpoint but also from a mathematical and computational perspective. In addition, the issue of sharing and reusing such models has proved to be particularly problematic, with the published models often lacking information that is required to accurately reproduce the published results. The International Union of Physiological Sciences Physiome Project was launched in 1997 with the aim of tackling the aforementioned issues by providing a framework for the modelling of the human body. As part of this initiative, the specifications of the CellML mark-up language were released in 2001. Now, more than 7 years later, the time has come to assess the situation, in particular with regard to the tools and techniques that are now available to the modelling community. Thus, after introducing CellML, we review and discuss existing editors, validators, online repository, code generators and simulation environments, as well as the CellML Application Program Interface. We also address possible future directions including the need for additional mark-up languages.

Sharing-collaborative economy in tourism: A bibliometric analysis and perspectives for the post-pandemic era

2021 ◽  
pp. 135481662110357
Author(s):  
Natalia Vila-Lopez ◽  
Inés Küster-Boluda
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
H Index ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
Index Analysis ◽  
The Web

Sharing economy research has risen exponentially during the last 4 years. Although several theoretical revisions on this topic have been developed, a conceptual analysis based on bibliometric techniques and science mapping tools is lacking. Within this framework, this article has two aims: (i) to carry on a performance analysis to identify the outstanding themes and (ii) to visually present the scientific structure by topics of research in sharing-collaborative economy as well as its evolution to identify future directions. The resources in the Web of Science Citation Index were used. Intelligent techniques and, more specifically, the SciMAT tool (based on co-word analysis and h-index analysis) were applied using a sample of 940 indexed papers from 2010 to 2020 (with 10.652 global citations). Our results show that the new post-pandemic era requires the sharing economy industry to investigate alternative ways: to improve trust, to innovate, to search for authenticity and experiences, to attend tourist motivations based on sustainability, and to use big data and manage overtourism.

Feminist Bioethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Leach Scully
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Relational Autonomy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Distinguishing Features ◽  
Feminist Work ◽  
Feminist Bioethics

This chapter offers an account of the central issues and themes in feminist philosophical engagements with bioethics. After outlining the history and goals of feminist bioethics, I discuss how feminist ontology and epistemology have generated the distinguishing features of feminist bioethical approaches, including both the substantive topics addressed and the particular ethical areas highlighted. Among these areas are: attention to power dynamics and social context; the use of empirical information to inform ethical theory; a focus on relationality, care, and embodiment; and an acknowledgement of minority viewpoints that are often excluded from mainstream bioethics. In taking these distinctive approaches, feminist bioethics has also made major theoretical contributions to moral philosophy: here I discuss (i) the ethics of care and (ii) relational autonomy. Finally, I consider the extent to which feminist work has changed or entered the mainstream, and look to current and future directions in feminist bioethics.

Big Data

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhay Kumar Bhadani ◽  
Dhanya Jothimani
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Traditional Technologies ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Technological Improvements ◽  
Relational Database Management

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and Web 2.0 technologies, there has been a tremendous growth in the amount of data generated. This chapter emphasizes on the need for big data, technological advancements, tools and techniques being used to process big data. Technological improvements and limitations of existing storage techniques are also presented. Since the traditional technologies like Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) have their own limitations to handle big data, new technologies have been developed to handle them and to derive useful insights. This chapter presents an overview of big data analytics, its application, advantages, and limitations. Few research issues and future directions are presented in this chapter.

A Few Thoughts on Conceptual Analysis 30 Years Later

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Jickling
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Fuzzy Concept ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Subject

I am enormously grateful to the readers of this journal for their kind attention to this work over the past 30 years. Conceptual analysis, the subject of my article, is primarily about clarifying meanings of those key concepts that are central to our collective work. Given the number of nebulous concepts in environmental education, and in education in general, this work has never ceased to be important — though, sadly, it is often neglected. Take, for example, a concept currently in vogue, social learning. Two ways of approaching this sometimes fuzzy concept would be, first, for authors to provide a clear articulation of the term, in their own view. What exactly does the idea of social learning involve for an author, and what are the implications for its use in the particular context in which it is used? This is a lot like clarifying one's own assumption about a concept for the benefit of the author and reader alike, and something we should be able to expect from all authors. Second, researchers can analyse the scope of a concept's usage within a body of literature, such as Rodela (2012) has done with social learning. This kind of analysis can provide a kind of heuristic for other researchers to navigate the extant usage of a key concept, and to point in future directions.

Chesterton's Philosophy of Education

Philosophy ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 65 (251) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Haldane
Keyword(s):  
British Journal ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
General View ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
The One ◽  
Educational Studies

‘Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine to convey some general view of life it is not education at all’ (Chesterton).In an essay written for the thirtieth volume of the British Journal of Educational Studies, R. F. Dearden surveyed philosophy of education during the period 1952–82. As might be imagined he was largely concerned with the emergence in and development through these years of analytical philosophy of education, as the influence of linguistic or conceptual analysis spread beyond the somewhat ill-defined boundaries of core philosophy and was taken up by those interested in the theoretical presuppositions of educational practice. After charting the course of this development, and having reached the point at which certain worries arose about the limits of conceptual analysis as a method, Dearden turned to consider what if any alternatives might be available. The first possibility which he mentions in expectation of its having received explicit articulation is Catholic philosophy of education. However, as he notes, nothing meeting this description was developed during the period in question—in effect, since the war. The one book which he mentions, viz. Jacques Maritain's Education at the Crossroads, is barely known of in professional philosophy of education and in style and content is quite out of the mainstream.

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