Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF QUINE'S D-THESIS
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-02)The philosophical significance of Quine's D-thesis is considered. The D-thesis - "Any statement can be held true come what may, if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system? (W.V.0. Quine, From a Logical ... -
Philosophy in Pieces: The Aphorisms of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)This thesis considers the philosophical importance of the literary form of two aphoristic works of philosophy: Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Though both these German-speaking ... -
The Philosophy of Behavioral Biology
(Springer, 2012)This volume offers a broad overview of central issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, addressing philosophical issues that arise from the most recent scientific findings in biological research on behavior. It thus ... -
The Philosophy of Bioinformatics
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)The development of bioinformatics as an influential biological field should interest philosophers of biology and philosophers of science in general. Bioinformatics contributes significantly to the development of biological ... -
Physiological and Affective Responses to Immersion in Virtual Reality: Effects of Nature and Urban Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-16)With the rapid advancements in technology, researchers are seeking new ways to incorporate modern high-tech solutions such as virtual reality into treatment paradigms for stress. The current experiment explores the beneficial ... -
Physis
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Physis presents eight digitally constructed photographic images and one video installation that were created through mixing and sampling a variety of representations of built environments, visual languages and processes. ... -
Pictures in an Exhibition
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Can the female feel at home in nature, myth and on screen, realms where she is so often laid to rest? "Pictures in an Exhibition" is a pastiche that exposes popular culture and art historical tropes in which ambiguous ... -
The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows"
(Guernica, 2020)Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text could be considered the culmination ... -
Plain, but not Simple: Plain Language Research with Readers, Writers, and Texts
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-01)Plain language is defined in a variety of ways, but is generally understood to refer to language and design strategies that make texts easier for target audiences to understand and use. Research has helped demonstrate that ... -
Planet Finance: The Governance of Climate Change Risks in Financial Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)This thesis asked two research questions: 1) how are the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and ClimateWise designed to achieve their objectives and 2) what explains the emergence of these unique initiatives? In ... -
Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region: Adapting Feminist Organization Theory to Daily Practice
(University of Waterloo, 1998)As a volunteer with Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region (PPWR), I observed an organization that was providing services in a feminist context. PPWR is a feminist organization: a goal of the agency is to reduce gender power ... -
Plastic Pollution in the Canadian Great Lakes: Drivers, Barriers and Policy Recommendations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)Plastic pollution is detrimental to the economy, the environment and human health. More research have been conducted on marine plastic pollution than on freshwater plastic pollution, even though rivers and lakes are ... -
The Player and The Machine
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Modern multiline video slots are popular games with high fidelity sounds and salient graphics, which allow players to wager on multiple lines at once. Interestingly, on multiline slots, many small wins actually amount to ... -
Playing for keeps: The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in the public sphere, 1983-2006
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-14)This thesis is an intellectual history of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) and its public policy activity from 1983 to 2006. The EFC represents many of the major evangelical Protestant denominations and organizations ... -
Playing the Story: The Emergence of Narrative through the Interaction between Players, Game Mechanics, and Participatory Fan Communities.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-07)If all games are understood as ultimately driven by the operation of their mechanics, then that operation cannot fully exist without the interaction of a player, and by extension the participatory fan community in which ... -
A Pluralistic Approach to Interactional Expertise
(Elsevier, 2014-09)The concept of interactional expertise – characterized by sociologists Harry Collins and Robert Evans as the ability to speak the language of a discipline without the corresponding ability to practice – can serve as a ... -
Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada is a community-based study among sixteen Nepali immigrant students in graduate and undergraduate programs that ... -
La poésie engagée : la modernisation de l’imaginaire acadien dans les années 1970
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)Ce mémoire portera sur l’évolution de la notion d’imaginaire collectif en Acadie tel qu’elle apparaît dans trois œuvres poétiques majeures de la première moitié des années 1970. Il s’agit de Cri de Terre (1972) de Raymond ... -
Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Civilian Oversight Mechanisms in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-27)Police services in Canada were historically self-regulating institutions that managed internally their administrative affairs and allegations of professional misconduct. In recent decades, however, there has been an ... -
The Political Discourse of Religious Pluralism: World Religions Textbooks, Liberalism, and Civic Identities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)Religious pluralism is a meaningful framework for many scholars and students of religion as well as citizens working to make sense of a religiously and culturally diverse society. It purports noble aims: bringing people ...