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This paper responds to continuing commentary on Velmans (2002a) “How could conscious experiences affect brains,” a target article for a special issue of JCS. I focus on the final question dealt with by the target article: how free will... more
In the coming decades, the platforms and formalisms scholars employ to display, transform, and transmit information will continue to evolve. Innovations in information management did not stop with the codex. They will not stop with the... more
How do philosophical accusations of talking nonsense relate to the layperson’s notions of meaning and meaningfulness? If one were to explain carefully what philosophical nonsense was supposed to be, would one be greeted with... more
Women’s sexuality in Japan has persistently been linked to reproduction, while men’s sexuality is associated with play, and the patriarchal structure of Japanese society even endorses male infidelity. In recent years, however, there are... more
Integrating concepts from transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, identity and cultural studies, this study presents a conceptual framework for examining how identity is constructed and construed in transnational spaces. Such a topic is... more
The aim of this study was to investigate how individuals;who had been victims of school bullying;perceived their bullying experiences and how these had affected them;and to generate a grounded theory of being a victim of bullying at... more
To see an official published version: Markham, A. N. (2022). The ontological insecurity of disconnecting: A theory of echolocation and the self. In Chia, A., Jorge, A., and Karppi, T. (Eds.). Reckoning with Social Media: Disconnection in... more
Abstrak: Identitas diri merupakan suatu hal yang sangat fundamental dalam diri individu dan seringkali mengalami krisis dalam pembentukannya. Identitas dapat dibentuk dan dipengaruhi oleh budaya yang melekat dalam diri seseorang,... more
Travel writing as a genre of literature has not been a contemporary happening, as a cursory look at the annals of literary history shows us that from the biblical times till the present day, though the forms and media have changed, the... more
This paper looks at philosophical accusations of talking nonsense from the perspective of argumentation theory. An accusation of this sort, when seriously meant, amounts to the claim that someone believes there is something she means by... more
Identity-Based Leadership Storytelling Rethinking How Purposeful Identity-Based Storytelling Encourages Narrative Work in Business Business leaders need to encourage and mentor the innate tendency of humans to story about their lives.... more
Still in draft form and under construction, An Integral Theory of Cultural Evolution gathers evidence across the social, behavioral and biological sciences in search of Consilience, or the underlying unity of scientific knowledge. This... more
Charles Taylor is one of the leading living philosophers. In this book Arto Laitinen studies and develops further Taylor's philosophical views on human agency, personhood, selfhood and identity. He defends Taylor's view that our ethical... more
This book is an introduction in a double sense. It is intended to introduce beginners in philosophy to the idea of philosophical nonsense and the problems it raises. But it is also addressed to professional philosophers, most of whom seem... more
"Is the self narratively constructed? There are many who would answer yes to the question. Dennett (1991) is, perhaps, the most famous proponent of the view that the self is narratively constructed, but there are others, such as Velleman... more
In a multi-lingual and multi-religious society such as the Egyptian one, the development of the collective memory is obvious and can be traced in order to identify the events in Christian Egypt that were most influential in shaping Coptic... more
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird der Versuch unternommen, das Problem der menschlichen Identität von der Vorstellung der geschlossenen Autonomie bzw. der Heteronomie des menschlichen Selbst zu befreien. Anhand der praktischen... more
" A wide variety of claims, both scientific and philosophical, have come from the results of what has come to be known as “Mirror Self Recognition” tests/tasks. Examining the claims regarding MRS researchers' "object of study", it is... more
In the present paper, we begin with a brief overview of the digital technological developments of the past decade and their impact on music, describe the functions of new digital music applications (i.e., “apps”), determine their possible... more
This paper starts from Tractatus, 6.53, and ask how one could show someone ‘that he had failed to give a meaning to certain signs in his propositions’. Once one has fully mastered the ‘austere’ conception of nonsense – that nonsense has... more
Among the challenges faced by postcolonial African literature are the presumptions and naïveté of Westerners. The Western reader typically assumes Africans have nothing to write about outside their feelings about Westerners. As much as... more
I originally entitled this paper ‘Why are there no uncontroversial examples of philosophical nonsense?’, but since this seemed apt to provoke rather superficial responses, I decided to re-title it. In it I ponder the fact that, not only... more
The classical pragmatists––Peirce, James Dewey, and Mead––all had important things to say about the self and there are clear continuities in their thought. Since little work has been done to connect them up, in this chapter I trace these... more
Shashi Deshpande has numerous symbols. In intellectual debates, she defends the reasons for English as an Indian language and fights for the recognition of a woman as a person. She talks about the truth delicately yet solidly, her words... more
I am planning a history of the notion of philosophical nonsense and naturally difficult historical and exegetical questions have come up. Charles Pigden has argued that the notion goes back at least as far as Hobbes and that Locke,... more