Utility • Vol. 14
Utility • Vol. 14

In this issue of Academic Quarter, we focus on the concept of utility. References to utility are ubiquitous in both practical and theoretical settings. One of the most widespread ways of arguing for the initiating of or holding on to a certain practice or activity is that it is useful to us, and appeals to utility is a common and important argumentative move in theoretical discussion. However, the vast and often diverse specifications of utility reveal the indeterminacy inherent in the comprehension of utility. This gives cause for a struggle for the meaning and reference of utility, which in some cases, may lead to altering the originally positive normativity of utility into a negative interpretation. We get confused about utility, and become uncertain of how to apply and how to regard the concept. But at the same time, we cannot seem to escape it or avoid it, and we certainly cannot seem to be indifferent to its forceful nature. 

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Anne-Marie S. Christensen, Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
4-11
Utility: Theoretical, Practical and Intercultural Perspectives
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2697
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Henrik Jøker Bjerre
12-24
Freedom of Expression in the Era of the Privatization of Reason
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2698
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Søren Engelsen
25-38
Emotioners (u)nytte: En fænomenologisk analyse af emotioner i praktisk rationalitet
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2699
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Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
39-51
Discovering utility between the descriptive and the normative
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2700
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Birte Heidkamp, David Kergel
52-66
e-learning in the digital age.: The utility of the entrepreneurial self
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2701
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Diana Stentoft
67-79
Tensions and co-existence: Exploring multi-facetted articulations of intentions of problem-based learning in higher education
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2702
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Gry Kjærsdam Telléus
80-95
The utility of psychiatric diagnosis: Diagnostic classifications in clinical practice and research in relation to eating disorders
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2703
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Prem Poddar
96-109
The Differential Uses of Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2704
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Jesper Garsdal, Michael Paulsen
110-124
Den lille og den store nytte: Et interkulturelt perspektiv på forholdet mellem nytte og frihed
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i14.2705
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