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Greg J Mcinerny - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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stitch the niche a Practical Philosophy and visual schematic for the niche concept
Journal of Biogeography, 2012Co-Authors: Greg J Mcinerny, Rampal S EtienneAbstract:By over-focusing on precise definitions, ecology has produced a confused idea of the niche concept. This, our second paper, develops a Practical Philosophy for the niche that approaches the concept at the correct level of abstraction. We deconstruct the niche into effect and response components and then reconstruct those parts into a general, visual schematic of the niche and ecology. Using this schematic we examine the relationship of particular niche ideas to ecology, and examine the relationship between niche and ecological sub-disciplines, particularly species distribution modelling (SDM). This general description clarifies the duality of the niche concept, as both a facet of species and a facet of environments. Unclear use of these dual concepts can confuse the scientific approach, and our ideas about uncertainty and error. By misclassifying models as concepts, ecology has confused the niche. Our Practical Philosophy uses the current wealth of ecological and niche ideas as a panoramic view of a general niche concept. We argue that stitching the niche produces a concept that underpins straightforward ecological thinking.
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Stitch the niche – a Practical Philosophy and visual schematic for the niche concept
Journal of Biogeography, 2012Co-Authors: Greg J Mcinerny, Rampal S EtienneAbstract:By over-focusing on precise definitions, ecology has produced a confused idea of the niche concept. This, our second paper, develops a Practical Philosophy for the niche that approaches the concept at the correct level of abstraction. We deconstruct the niche into effect and response components and then reconstruct those parts into a general, visual schematic of the niche and ecology. Using this schematic we examine the relationship of particular niche ideas to ecology, and examine the relationship between niche and ecological sub-disciplines, particularly species distribution modelling (SDM). This general description clarifies the duality of the niche concept, as both a facet of species and a facet of environments. Unclear use of these dual concepts can confuse the scientific approach, and our ideas about uncertainty and error. By misclassifying models as concepts, ecology has confused the niche. Our Practical Philosophy uses the current wealth of ecological and niche ideas as a panoramic view of a general niche concept. We argue that stitching the niche produces a concept that underpins straightforward ecological thinking.
Rampal S Etienne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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stitch the niche a Practical Philosophy and visual schematic for the niche concept
Journal of Biogeography, 2012Co-Authors: Greg J Mcinerny, Rampal S EtienneAbstract:By over-focusing on precise definitions, ecology has produced a confused idea of the niche concept. This, our second paper, develops a Practical Philosophy for the niche that approaches the concept at the correct level of abstraction. We deconstruct the niche into effect and response components and then reconstruct those parts into a general, visual schematic of the niche and ecology. Using this schematic we examine the relationship of particular niche ideas to ecology, and examine the relationship between niche and ecological sub-disciplines, particularly species distribution modelling (SDM). This general description clarifies the duality of the niche concept, as both a facet of species and a facet of environments. Unclear use of these dual concepts can confuse the scientific approach, and our ideas about uncertainty and error. By misclassifying models as concepts, ecology has confused the niche. Our Practical Philosophy uses the current wealth of ecological and niche ideas as a panoramic view of a general niche concept. We argue that stitching the niche produces a concept that underpins straightforward ecological thinking.
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Stitch the niche – a Practical Philosophy and visual schematic for the niche concept
Journal of Biogeography, 2012Co-Authors: Greg J Mcinerny, Rampal S EtienneAbstract:By over-focusing on precise definitions, ecology has produced a confused idea of the niche concept. This, our second paper, develops a Practical Philosophy for the niche that approaches the concept at the correct level of abstraction. We deconstruct the niche into effect and response components and then reconstruct those parts into a general, visual schematic of the niche and ecology. Using this schematic we examine the relationship of particular niche ideas to ecology, and examine the relationship between niche and ecological sub-disciplines, particularly species distribution modelling (SDM). This general description clarifies the duality of the niche concept, as both a facet of species and a facet of environments. Unclear use of these dual concepts can confuse the scientific approach, and our ideas about uncertainty and error. By misclassifying models as concepts, ecology has confused the niche. Our Practical Philosophy uses the current wealth of ecological and niche ideas as a panoramic view of a general niche concept. We argue that stitching the niche produces a concept that underpins straightforward ecological thinking.
Frederic Vandenberghe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sociology as Practical Philosophy and moral science
Theory Culture & Society, 2018Co-Authors: Frederic VandenbergheAbstract:The philosophical assumptions that organize moral sociology as Practical Philosophy are the outcome of a secular quest to investigate the principles, norms and values behind the constitution of society. As a protracted response to the whole utilitarian-atomistic-individualistic tradition that systematically deemphasizes the constitutive role that morality plays in the structuration of self and society, the sociological tradition has continued, by its own means, the tradition of moral and Practical Philosophy in theoretically informed empirical research of social practices. Going back to classic moral Philosophy, I want to show in this article how social theory is involved in the quest for ‘the good life with and for the others in just institutions’ (Ricoeur).
Robin Celikates - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critique and resistance: Ethical, social‐theoretical, political? On Fabian Freyenhagen's Adorno's Practical Philosophy
European Journal of Philosophy, 2017Co-Authors: Robin CelikatesAbstract:Fabian Freyenhagen's impressive reconstruction of Adorno's ‘Practical Philosophy’ provides a convincing defence of the possibility of making normative claims about the social world we live in without justifying these claims in terms of the right, the good, or human nature. More specifically, and more controversially, Freyenhagen argues that the normative resources Adorno's critique relies on are provided by a negative Aristotelianism. In this paper, I argue that this approach underestimates the extent to which Adorno follows the model of immanent critique, I highlight the socio-theoretical underpinnings of what Freyenhagen calls Adorno's ‘ethics of resistance’, and I discuss the risk of overstating the danger of co-optation that collective political action faces.
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critique and resistance ethical social theoretical political on fabian freyenhagen s adorno s Practical Philosophy
European Journal of Philosophy, 2017Co-Authors: Robin CelikatesAbstract:Fabian Freyenhagen's impressive reconstruction of Adorno's ‘Practical Philosophy’ provides a convincing defence of the possibility of making normative claims about the social world we live in without justifying these claims in terms of the right, the good, or human nature. More specifically, and more controversially, Freyenhagen argues that the normative resources Adorno's critique relies on are provided by a negative Aristotelianism. In this paper, I argue that this approach underestimates the extent to which Adorno follows the model of immanent critique, I highlight the socio-theoretical underpinnings of what Freyenhagen calls Adorno's ‘ethics of resistance’, and I discuss the risk of overstating the danger of co-optation that collective political action faces.
James Gordon Finlayson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Morality, politics and critical theory: on the Practical Philosophy of the Frankfurt School
2007Co-Authors: James Gordon FinlaysonAbstract:Critical theory is a multifarious and dynamic body of thought, and it is hard to make general statements about its relation to Practical Philosophy without shoehorning it into one-size-fits-all judgments. To avoid doing this, this article indicates wherever possible whose critical theory is at issue and at what phase in its development. The Frankfurt School critical theory is a particular kind of Gesellschaftskritik or social criticism, the Practical aims of which are essential to and inseparable from it. Indeed, as distinct from social theory or sociology, critical theory is, in the eyes of its architects and practitioners, a kind of practice. Yet critical theory is still very much Philosophy. Furthermore, critical theory from early on had an almost entirely negative view of instrumental reasoning. This raises the question which asks about the kind of Practical upshot that critical theory can have, absent of all political, moral, and prudential considerations.
