Since the mid-1980s, social theorists have moved beyond the relatively underdeveloped character of previous reflections on the compression or annihilation of space to offer a rigorous conception of globalization.
The fact that most of the shifting paradigms are related to sustainability, in our profession understood as a scarcity of resources and the satisfaction of social necessities, indicates clearly where to search for such a coherent, transversal and at the same time rigorous, conception which might be the base for a new relevance.
Options here range from the axiomatic or syntactic view of the logical positivists and empiricists (see Vienna Circle) to the semantic or model-theoretic view (see models in science), to Kuhnian (see Thomas Kuhn) and less rigorous conceptions of theories.
For an attempt to work out a rigorous incompatibilist conception of autonomy that does not appeal to the notion of agent causation, see Kane 1996.
A clip of him at work on "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" shows how he combines his rigorous visual and emotional conception with a loose, improvisational approach to performance.
The latter is the conception introduced in rigorous fashion by David Hilbert and later by an American geometer, Oswald Veblen.
But even as the board approved a 15-year lease for a warehouse at 411 East 76th Street that would house the school, a racially charged conflict continues to rage among competing groups of parents and elected officials over whether the school's admissions policy and curriculum would undermine its original conception as a rigorous, traditional neighborhood high school.
It is a vast and ambitious book with rigorous research promising to expand conceptions of textiles and identity politics both geographically and thematically". "It is difficult to characterize this vast and ambitious book, but not its achievement, which is magnificent.
Kircher's research encompassed a variety of disciplines including geography, astronomy, mathematics, language, medicine, and music, bringing to each a rigorous scientific curiosity girded in a mystical conception of natural laws and forces.
This paper is an expansion of Alexander's less rigorous (1909 10), where he compares the new conception of mind as a mere part of the universe as opposed to being at the centre of the universe to the move from geocentrism to heliocentrism.
The calculation is based on the construction of indicators developed from the conception of the programme and rigorous data collection on the processes with programme actors likely to induce variations in the implementation.
