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Competing Conceptions (competing + conception)
Selected AbstractsGlobalization's Alternatives: Competing or Complementary Perspectives?1GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 1 2008John Glenn Recent writings on globalization have tended to argue that such economic interconnectedness is, in one way or another, geographically delimited. Three competing views appear in the literature, regionalization, triadization and the involutionist perspective. This article challenges the portrayal of these perspectives as competing conceptions and instead argues that each perspective furnishes us with a partial view of a larger process. In so doing, this paper revisits the involutionist perspective, arguing that, in relation to the developing countries' relative share of world trade and investment shares, the use of the term ,globalization' should be questioned. Rather, in relation to trade, involution is a more apt description. However, in terms of FDI, stasis better describes the contemporary international economy. The article then examines the trade and investment patterns within the triad, corroborating earlier findings that each leg of the triad is increasingly trading more with their neighbours than with each other, but that inter-triad FDI is indeed increasing. Three main factors are presented in order to explain the contemporary patterns of trade and investment associated with involution, regionalization and triadization: product differentiation, vertical specialization and the continuing concentration on primary product production in much of the developing world. [source] Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: The Place of TechnologyJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 3 2001Simon Guy This paper examines the relationships between diverse technical design strategies and competing conceptions of ecological place making. It highlights the conceptual challenges involved in defining what we mean by calling a building "green" and outlines a social constructivist perspective on the development of sustainable architecture. The paper identifies six alternative logics of ecological design which have their roots in competing conceptions of environmentalism, and explores the ways in which each logic prefigures technological strategies and alternative visions of sustainable places. Finally, the paper discusses the implications of the contested nature of ecological design for architectural education, practice, and research. [source] In the Interests of Clients or Commerce?JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 4 2007Demand, Ethical Indeterminacy' in Criminal Defence Work, Legal Aid, Supply As a professional, a lawyer's first duty is to serve the client's best interests, before simple monetary gain. In criminal defence work, this duty has been questioned in the debate about the causes of growth in legal aid spending: is it driven by lawyers (suppliers) inducing unnecessary demand for their services or are they merely responding to increased demand? Research reported here found clear evidence of a change in the handling of cases in response to new payment structures, though in ways unexpected by the policy's proponents. The paper develops the concept of ,ethical indeterminacy' as a way of understanding how defence lawyers seek to reconcile the interests of commerce and clients. Ethical indeterminacy suggests that where different courses of action could each be said to benefit the client, the lawyer will tend to advise the client to decide in the lawyer's own interests. Ethical indeterminacy is mediated by a range of competing conceptions of ,quality' and ,need'. The paper goes on to question the very distinction between ,supply' and ,demand' in the provision of legal services. [source] Discerning Fidelity: Badiou between Faith and ReasonNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1033 2010Geoffrey Holsclaw Abstract At this juncture in history, viewed as either the dusk of modernity or the dawn of its overcoming, questions of faith and reason are continually cast up anew. The questioning of faith and reason raise familiar binaries and oppositions: Is faith for or against, internal or external, before or after, above or below reason? Does faith perfect or overcome, complete or destroy, add or subtract from reason? This essay will pass through two figures representative of the contested field of Thomistic scholarship en route to a discussion of how the French philosopher Alain Badiou might intervene within the contemporary discussions of faith and reason. It will first engage Denys Turner's recent work which could be characterized as a dogmatic faith in reason attempting to repel the dispositional faith which he attributes to Fergus Kerr. These competing conceptions of faith will set the backdrop for a presentation and application of Badiou's understanding of faith as discerning fidelity. [source] Traditions of Australian governancePUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 1 2003John Wanna Australia's traditions of governance tend to be pragmatic and to blend different ideologies. Its traditions are less dependent on political party ideologies, and more on competing conceptions of the significant problems and the way that they should be addressed. In this article we identify five principal traditions, namely: settler,state developmentalism; civilizing capitalism; the development of a social,liberal constitutional tradition; traditions of federalism; and the exclusiveness/ inclusiveness of the state and society. These traditions have been robust and have developed over time. We show how political actors operating from within this plurality of traditions have understood the public sector and how their understandings have led to changes in the way the public sector is structured. [source] DEMONS AND THE ISOLATION ARGUMENTTHE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 220 2005Scott Hendrigks Justifying a belief gives reason to think that the belief is true. So our concept of justification contains a ,truth connection'. I canvass a number of proposals for analysing this. In the end, two competing conceptions of the truth connection remain: the first, that justifying a belief makes the belief objectively probable, the second, that justifying a belief makes the belief probable in a world which would make true our other beliefs. I discuss reasons for embracing and rejecting these two versions of the truth connection. Ultimately, the two versions appear to represent distinct but equally plausible conceptions of justification. I conclude by rejecting the proposal that these truth connections respectively capture internalist and externalist conceptions of justification. [source] Beware of Domestic Objects: Vocation and equivocation in 1936ART HISTORY, Issue 5 2001Steven Harris This article focuses on the competing conceptions of surrealism held in the 1930s by Salvador Dalí and André Breton, which were centred on the notions of paranoia-criticism and automatism. The article is oriented around the production of a number of surrealist objects and paintings in which these differences were articulated, and includes a discussion of the ways in which paranoia-criticism and automatism were theorized in the 1930s. It includes as well a discussion of the surrealists' critical relation to modern art, which is exemplified by the surrealist object, and of the way in which gender played a determining role in the conflict between the conceptions of surrealism offered by Dalí and Breton. [source] | ||||||||||