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Pekka Mäkelä

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A realist account of the ontology of impairment

2008

This paper provides a philosophical analysis of the ontology of impairment, in part social and in part not. The analysis is based on the division between two categories of facts concerning the world we live in: "brute" and institutional facts. Brute facts are those that require no human institution for their existence. To state a brute fact requires naturally the institution of language, but the fact stated is not the same as the statement of it. For example, regardless of any human institution or opinion, the presence of an extra chromosome 21 is a brute fact, and despite of people's constructions or deconstructions, this fact remains. As for the lives of people with extra chromosome 21, t…

PsycholinguisticsHealth (social science)Statement (logic)CommunicationHealth Policymedia_common.quotation_subjectSocial realityBrute factPsycholinguisticsEpistemologyDisability EvaluationIssues ethics and legal aspectsSocioeconomic FactorsArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)State (polity)Philosophical analysisLawInstitutionOntologyHumansDisabled PersonsSociologyQuality of Health Caremedia_commonJournal of Medical Ethics
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Johdatus eheyttävään kulutukseen

2013

kestävä kulutustuottavuusuusi talouskulutuskäyttäytyminenjakaminenkulutuskuluttajakäyttäytyminenkasvukäyttökäyttöikäkulutushyödykkeetyhteiskäyttökulutusyhteiskuntataloussosiologiakulutuskulttuurikriittinen teoria
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