“…Through the book, Phillips and Bunda provide an invitation to locate storying as a valuable ontological, epistemological and methodological contribution to the academy across disciplines, arguing that storying research gives voice to the marginalised in the academy. …”

“…This leads Laclau to a second line of questioning: What is the ontological terrain that allows us to understand the nature of social relations in our heterogeneous world?" …”

“…Time, in turn, is ontologically dependent on change, but despite being its measure, it is mind-independent: time is what makes a changing thing suitable of being understood in a series of successive stages by a possible mind. …”

“…The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis…”

“…For this book, Romy Jaster has received both the Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize and the De Gruyter Prize for Analytical Philosophy of Mind or Metaphysics/Ontology…”

“…On one hand, the discourses are discussed as representing convergences and divergences in relation to their epistemological, ontological, axiological and methodological assumptions. …”

“…From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today.Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right…”

“…Ecstatic naturalism, as a new movement, is both a semiotic theoretical method and a metaphysics that probes deeply into the ontological divide between nature naturing and nature natured. …”

“…For a half-century or more, political theory has been characterized by a pronounced distrust of metaphysical or ontological speculation. Such a disposition has been sharply at odds with influential currents in post-war philosophy - both analytic and continental - where metaphysical issues have become a central preoccupation. …”
Sumario

“…The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the ontological status and indispensability of dispositions and powers in science. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10.4.2 Test for the EDGE System 443 -- 10.4.3 Test for the UMTS System 445 -- 10.4.4 Tests for the EDGE-to-UMTS System 445 -- 10.5 Conclusions 452 -- References 453 -- 11 Context-based Visual Media Content Adaptation 455 -- 11.1 Introduction 455 -- 11.2 Overview of the State of the Art in Context-aware Content Adaptation 457 -- 11.2.1 Recent Developments in Context-aware Systems 457 -- 11.2.2 Standardization Efforts on Contextual Information for Content Adaptation 467 -- 11.3 Other Standardization Efforts by the IETF and W3C 476 -- 11.4 Summary of Standardization Activities 479 -- 11.4.1 Integrating Digital Rights Management (DRM) with Adaptation 480 -- 11.4.2 Existing DRM Initiatives 480 -- 11.4.3 The New ''Adaptation Authorization'' Concept 481 -- 11.4.4 Adaptation Decision 482 -- 11.4.5 Context-based Content Adaptation 488 -- 11.5 Generation of Contextual Information and Profiling 492 -- 11.5.1 Types and Representations of Contextual Information 492 -- 11.5.2 Context Providers and Profiling 494 -- 11.5.3 User Privacy 497 -- 11.5.4 Generation of Contextual Information 498 -- 11.6 The Application Scenario for Context-based Adaptation of Governed Media Contents 499 -- 11.6.1 Virtual Classroom Application Scenario 500 -- 11.6.2 Mechanisms using Contextual Information in a Virtual Collaboration Application 502 -- 11.6.3 Ontologies in Context-aware Content Adaptation 503 -- 11.6.4 System Architecture of a Scalable Platform for Context-aware and DRM-enabled Content Adaptation 504 -- 11.6.5 Context Providers 507 -- 11.6.6 Adaptation Decision Engine 510 -- 11.6.7 Adaptation Authorization 514 -- 11.6.8 Adaptation Engines Stack 517 -- 11.6.9 Interfaces between Modules of the Content Adaptation Platform 544 -- 11.7 Conclusions 552 -- References 553 -- Index 559.…”

“…In the context of globalization, characterized by the spread of capitalist commodification and new technologies of transportation and communication, determining the legitimacy of democratic nation-states is particularly urgent. Questioning ontological challenges to democracy, this book confronts the public narratives, symbols and rituals of the political domain. …”

“…Humans could interact with the robotic agents either on site or remotely through the Internet and thus influence the evolving ontologies and languages of the artificial agents. The present book describes in detail the motivation, the cognitive mechanisms used by the agents, the various installations of the Talking Heads, the experimental results that were obtained, and the interaction with humans. …”

“…Eleftheria Thanouli provides new insights into a series of issues from both classical and contemporary film theory, like the conceptual and ontological stakes in the use of digital technology, the impact of mass media on public memory and the political role of cinema in a globalized and conglomerated world…”

“…"The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the ontological status and indispensability of dispositions and powers in science. …”

“…In this thought-provoking book, the author puts forward a robust critical assessment of one of the most widely used concepts in management research and practice. Beginning with an ontological and historical discussion around which the concept of strategic leadership has developed, the book continues to discuss the phenomenon of strategic leadership. …”

“…While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize aesthetics in its ontological connotations. It is according to this shift that speculative realists have proclaimed aesthetics as “first philosophy” and as speculative in nature. …”

“…This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound and various sonic ontologies to usher in a more inclusive global anthro-history of religious sounds. …”

“…Divided into three distinct parts, the book explores the ontological and socio-political grounds underlying our notions of education and justice, and offers self-reflective meta-critique on education philosophers' tendency of promoting and upholding orthodox visions and missions. …”

“…Both are preoccupied with ontological implications of the Unknown and the importance of emotional life. …”