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Between Citizenship and Solidarity: PRC and ROC Constructions of the Chinese Diaspora in the 1998 Anti‐Chinese Riots in Indonesia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The May 1998 anti‐Chinese riots in Indonesia tested how states claiming ties to a transnational ethnic community define responsibility during crises. This article compares how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) constructed obligations towards the Chinese diaspora following the violence.
Judy Yi‐nga Lee
wiley   +1 more source

D. Dennett's brand of anti-representationalism : a key to philosophical issues of cognitive science

open access: yes, 2006
Although D. Dennett is sometimes accused of insensitivity to 'real', first-person problems of the mind, his Intentional Systems Theory offers a comprehensive, cognitive science grounded, account of the nature of subjectivity.
Miguens, Sofia
core   +1 more source

Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
wiley   +1 more source

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

Representationalism

open access: yes, 2012
Representationalism, in its most widely accepted form, is the view that the human mind is an information-using system, and that human cognitive capacities are to be understood as representational capacities.
Egan, Frances
core   +3 more sources

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

The View From the Centre: Recovering Nagel's Objective Self

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thomas Nagel highlighted a puzzle in accommodating the subjective fact that I am TN within an objective, centerless conception of reality. He rejected the “semantic diagnosis,” which treats “I” as an indexical as trivial, and proposed instead the concept of the “objective self.” In this paper, I do two things: first, I defend the semantic ...
Clas Weber
wiley   +1 more source

Privacy as a Defense Against Premature Representation

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Jordan Wallace‐Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

Putting Democratic Theory and Principles of Justice in the Right Place: Ethical Pluralism in Collaborative and Participatory Governance

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision‐making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea
wiley   +1 more source

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