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	Metroactive Shuttlebucks
		The philosophy begins with some fundamental facts and quickly spins off into an interesting -- if somewhat unsettling -- world view.
		Just last fall, NASA and the European Space Agency came to an agreement on funding the station, with the ESA chipping in $3.5 billion to the project.
		Asked if things like the Coke experiment represented the commercialized future of the space agency, Logsdon scoffed.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.23.96/nasa-9621.html (2489 words)

	Tomis Kapitan's Home Page
		Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115
		According to the news agency, the official said some sections of the film were shot in March in the southern Afghan town of Spinboldak, near the Pakistani border.
		The Al-Ansaar Islamic news agency, based in the English city of Birmingham, said Sunday that it was given the 40-minute video by a Pakistani security official in Islamabad about a month ago.
	www.niu.edu /phil/~kapitan/IPC143.shtml (447 words)

	Jobwise : Love Your Job
		As a leading recruitment agency, we are committed to finding opportunities that really make a difference to both the candidate and the company - a philosophy that tackles the aspirations of both parties ensuring that employees "love their jobs" and employers get staff who "love to work".
		Welcome to our new website and brand identity which we hope reflect our core values and philosophy as an organisation in respect of what we truly believe everyone who works is really looking for — "to love their job".
		Jobwise specialise in placing people in temporary and permanent positions throughout the North West.
	www.jobwise.co.uk (171 words)

	Broadmining: Agency
		In philosophy, law, and other fields, agency is the status of an agent.
		In philosophy, agency is the capacity to choose actions, normally held to apply only to humans.
		Agency in many contexts means a government agency.
	www.broadmining.com /Agency (185 words)

	Teaching Tools
		Here you can find the Rules regarding assessment and procedures regarding essays and examination papers in first year philosophy and the Rules regarding assessment and procedures regarding assignments and examination papers in second and third year philosophy units.
		The University does not have to pay a fee to a copyright collection agency, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), for copying that is a "fair dealing".
		As a quick guide, a fair dealing is 10% or one chapter of a published literary, dramatic or musical work and/or 10 pages or more of one article from a periodical.
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /philoswww/teachingtools.html (251 words)

	Agency
		In philosophy, agency is the capacity to choose actions, normally held to apply only to humans.
		Agency in many contexts means a government agency.
		In sociology, agency refers to the ability of an actor (usually a person, but can also be a business) to organize future situations and resource distribution.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ag/agency.html (187 words)

	Agency Investigations Intel, Inc - Private Investigations and Consulting firm
		This business philosophy is summarized in the company's motto - "Whatever it takes." Agency's staff is committed to doing whatever it takes to meet the needs of its clients.
		Agency was established to meet the needs of its clients by providing high quality, cost-efficient and timely delivered investigation and consultation services.
		Agency Investigations Intel, Inc. is a private investigations and consulting firm headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	agencyintel.com (169 words)

	Subject (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy, a subject is a being which has subjective experiences or a relationship with another entity (or "object").
		Subjectivity emphasizes an individual's having not just a passive relationship to the world and the sense impressions it causes, but also agency, an active engagement with that material.
		The word subjectivity is also used to refer to the antithesis of objectivity as an epistemic virtue: one who judges according to personal feelings or intuitions, rather than according to objective observation, reasoning, and judgment, is judging subjectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metaphysical_subjectivism (1358 words)

	Human agency: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Human agency invests a moral[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] component into a given situation.
		Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world.
		Human agency entails the uncontroversial, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/human_agency.htm (1057 words)

	Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
		Gaia is the name of a proposed space probe, set to launch in 2010 by the European Space Agency.
		* Gaia philosophy is a set of varied philosophical views related to the Gaia theory.
		Gaia theory is a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planets biosphere to make it more hospitable to life.
	www.pagannews.com /cgi-bin/gods3.pl?Gaia/Tellus (474 words)

	Gaia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaia philosophy, a set of philosophical views based on Gaia theory and the concept of a "living planet"
		Gaia probe, a space astronomy mission due for launch in 2011 by the European Space Agency
		Gaia theory (science), a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planet's biosphere to make it more hospitable to life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia (424 words)

	Self-Knowledge
		Knowledge of others' mental states may incorporate knowledge of their environment, but even on the Displaced Perception model, it will involve attending to the other person and not just to the features of the world her mental state represents.
		Knowledge of one's relatively stable traits and dispositions -- one's character -- is believed, by some, to be crucial for the exercise of free agency.
		Moore, G.E., 1942, ‘Reply to Critics’, in The Philosophy of G.E. Moore, P.A. Schilpp (ed.), Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/self-knowledge (13641 words)

	Evolved vs. Designed (the topic of the meeting this Sunday 7-17-05) - ! Philosophy in Los Angeles ! - tribe.net
		Irreducible complexity is supposedly something which could not have come through unbroken law, and especially not through the agency of natural selection.
		Since this is a philosophy group, discussions about how IDers have lousy evidence, or defenses of evolution, blah blah blah would in my mind be useless, unphilosophical and uninteresting.
		In case you want to read the original article, it's from one of my favorite websites, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
	philosophy-in-la.tribe.net /thread/87af6639-c34b-48ea-ad37-4244b7f02516 (4351 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Society & Community - Futurism Primer PBS
		You'll notice I said 'futures' and not 'the future'; the reason is that choice and human agency play a big role in shaping the many futures we face.
		As it sounds, futures studies is the principled study of the possible, probable, and preferable future of institutions and societies, and the steps required to bring about those futures.
		Rather, futurists tend to look at futures that are 10 or more years away, examined through the lenses of demographics, technology, the social science, aesthetics, industry, geopolitics and ecology.
	www.pbs.org /now/society/futurism.html (815 words)

	Process Philosophy Essays
		Inter-subjectivity and process categorization: co-agency in a unitive paradigm is the less than helpful title I gave my Masters dissertation.
		In the development of a co-agentive process model, consideration is given in particular to Feuerbachian projection and the notion of the self as a project.
		At the heart of this is a complex metaphysics of 'process' in which the idea of "matter" being the primary stuff of existence is rejected.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /Users/paullc/essays1.html (643 words)

	Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy
		Nietzsche's moral philosophy is primarily critical in orientation: he attacks morality both for its commitment to untenable descriptive (metaphysical and empirical) claims about human agency, as well as for the deleterious impact of its distinctive norms and values on the flourishing of the highest types of human beings (Nietzsche's “higher men”).
		Every philosophy which believes that the problem of existence is touched on, not to say solved, by a politicalevent is a joke- and pseudo-philosophy.
		Those who claim to find a political philosophy in Nietzsche typically rely on a handful of passages — most often, sections 56-57 of The Antichrist — as the slender evidence on the basis of which elaborate views about the ideal forms of social and political organization are attributed to Nietzsche.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche-moral-political (643 words)

	APA Newsletters 98:2 - Feminist Moral Philosophy
		Developing models of moral agency that speak to the complexities of women’s moral experience was the theme of four papers I heard at the recent IAPH conference.
		We must attend to the variety of circumstances in which women live if we wish to develop a rich and multi-layered understanding of agency, and we must be careful not to universalize virtues exercised by some women under specific circumstances to all women in all circumstances.
		Care ethics entails a "’categorical’ moral obligation to form and maintain caring relations, which emanates from the ‘fundamental reality’ of relatedness." On her understanding of care ethics, any and all attempts to distance oneself from caring relationships are moral failings and cannot, as such, be the object of autonomous moral choice.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/archive/newsletters/v98n2/feminism/keller.asp (643 words)

	ipedia.com: Agency Article
		In philosophy, agency is the capacity to choose actions, normally held to apply only to humans.
		Agency in many contexts means a government agency.
		In sociology, agency refers to the ability of an actor (usually a person, but can also be a business) to organize future situations and resource distribution.
	www.ipedia.com /agency.html (230 words)

	>-- The Garden of Forking Paths --<
		A blog devoted to Agency Theory, including related issues in Philosophy of Action, Moral Psychology, Metaphysics, and Ethics
		I hope you will find that it offers an impressive line-up of excellent philosophers presenting cutting-edge work in many different areas of contemporary philosophy.
		"This is turning into a big year for the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University, which cracked the top 50 for the first time in the 2004 PGR.
	gfp.typepad.com (2512 words)

	Shyam Ranganathan: Resume
		I argue that Sankhya and Yoga are two distinct schools of thought and they differ crucially on the nature of moral agency: Sankhya holds that purusas (persons) are passive spectators in life, while Yoga regards purusas as actors, in charge of their destinies.
		An Ancient and Modern Debate.” The Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion conference on Language, Consciousness and Culture: East West Perspectives.
		This moral epistemology is often criticized for ignoring the socially and materially conditioned nature of moral knowledge, and for making appeal to a suspect epistemic faculty of moral intuition.
	www.yorku.ca /srangan/Resume.htm (2512 words)

	Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy
		Nietzsche's moral philosophy is primarily critical in orientation: he attacks morality both for its commitment to untenable descriptive (metaphysical and empirical) claims about human agency, as well as for the deleterious impact of its distinctive norms and values on the flourishing of the highest types of human beings (Nietzsche's “higher men”).
		Thus, the normative component of MPS is harmful because, in reality, it will have the effect of leading potentially excellent persons to value what is in fact not conducive to their flourishing and devalue what is in fact essential to it.
		Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche-moral-political (15691 words)

	Action Collection Agency - Credit Collection Services
		We have always adhered to the philosophy that a hands on, personalized approach to collections fosters a relationship with "the quality of friendship and the professional etiquette it imposes." Our integrity is further proven by our membership in The American Collectors Association, Inc. and the fact that we are bonded and insured.
		From our owner and field representatives, to our knowledgeable collectors, our goal at APS is to treat your claim with the level of professionalism to which you're accustomed.
		Our longevity has afforded us expertise in a wide variety of industries, so you can be assured that our collectors understand and are sensitive to the nuances of your business.
	action.business-direct.com (257 words)

	Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was the apparent culmination of a years old turf war regarding influence, philosophy and budget between the Defense Intelligence Agency of The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency.
		The Office of the General Counsel[10]advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all legal matters relating to his role as CIA director and is the principal source of legal counsel for the CIA.
		Hastening the Agency's fall from grace were the involvement of ex-CIA agents in the Watergate break-in and President Nixon's subsequent attempts to use the CIA to stop the FBI investigation of Watergate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency (7098 words)

	India and Pakistan : Fool Moon
		According to Indian officials, the Pakistani nationals that massacred 31 Hindus at a temple in the troubled state of Gujarat were members of a Kashmiri terrorist group that is allegedly supported by elements of the Pakistani intelligence agency.
		If such reports are verified, India and America will need to engage in a concerted effort to bend a stubborn Pakistan into line.
	foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=33154 (153 words)

	Action (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A primary concern of philosophy of action is to demarcate actions from other similar phenomena.
		Many branches of Buddhism reject the notion of agency in varying degrees.
		The classification of actions can become even less clear when the effect of the action is contrary to the intention, such as accidentally curing a person of an unknown disease while intending to kill them by poisoning the well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Action_(philosophy) (153 words)

	CV - Schwartzman (Nov 2000)
		Review of Catriona Mackenzie and Natalie Stoljar, eds., Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self, in Teaching Philosophy, Vol.
		B.A. in Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1991.
		M.A. in Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997.
	www.msu.edu /user/lhschwar/vita.htm (867 words)

	Ethics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Therefore, for selfish reasons alone, we devise a means of enforcing these rules: we create a policing agency which punishes us if we violate these rules.
		Second, I (the speaker) am trying to get you to donate to charity and am essentially giving the command, "Donate to charity!" This is called the prescriptive element in the sense that I am prescribing some specific behavior.
		The lines of distinction between metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics are often blurry.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/e/ethics.htm (867 words)

	Philosophy
		RUCH, E.A. and Anyanwu, K.C. African Philosophy: An Introduction to the Main Philosophical Trends in Contemporary Africa (Rome: Catholic Book Agency, 1981).
		"African Philosophy and the Sociological Thesis," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22/4 (December 1992): 440-460.
		The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1994).
	www.africaresource.com /onl/ophil4.htm (867 words)

	Agency
		In philosophy, agency is the capacity to choose acti...
		Agency, Iowa Agency is a city in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 622.
		Agency, Missouri Agency is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 599.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/agency.html (1746 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Micer, Dominic
		I argue that composition studies would be best served by making relations, rather than student agency, the subject matter of composition.
		In order to develop this concern, I argue for a relational ontology that is normative rather than absolute and which speaks to the real conditions of experience and transforming the double binds that capture students, teachers, and institutions in oversimplified modern and postmodern ontologies.
		Such a model of critique emphasizes the study of bodies and emotions and recognizes that the point of critique is to transform persons’ feelings about and sensibility of experience.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?miami1090254160 (1746 words)

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