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« This Empty Tale » : monstration de l’envers et dire politique dans How the Dead Live de Will Self
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2008 This article envisages one of Will Self’s novels through the prism of the uncanny. Such tonality owes a lot to a poetics of radical inversion that taps the powers of contradiction to renew the tradition of ars moriendi. By resorting to a logic of excess,
Jean-Michel Ganteau
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Journal of Social Ontology, 2022 Credentials play an important role in all modern societies, but the analysis of their nature and function has thus far been neglected by social philosophers.
Giuseppe Lorini
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Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play [PDF]
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2018 AbstractThe notion of “deontic rights”—the capacity of an individual to determine action—is described as a tool to analyze human power plays in the turn‐by‐turn unfolding of social interaction. Drawing on various bodies of literature, the paper portrays the organization of the adjacency‐pair sequence as the key locus of negotiation over deontic rights.
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An Institutional Individualist Approach to Technology [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīThis paper investigates an adequate methodology for examining the social and ethical dimensions of technology, highlighting the significant role of intentionality in the ontology of technology. The paper argues that since technology is deeply embedded in
Alireza Mansouri
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Psychological Contracts With Purpose: A Review and Path Forward
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This review advances the understanding of psychological contracts (PCs) that include third‐party beneficiaries and transcend self‐interested goals, which we term “PCs with purpose.” PC theory has challenged the assumption that social exchange relies solely on balanced rewards and inducements, highlighting that individuals may wish to ...
Marjo‐Riitta Diehl +2 more
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Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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John Searle on Institutional Facts
Metaphysics, 2010 One general categorization by some of the contemporary analytic philosophers divides the facts into institutional and brute. The characteristic of institutional facts is that they are constituted by collective recognition.
M.A. Abdullahi, M.T. Janmohammadi
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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Advocacy and the function of folk psychology
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Why do we care about getting mental state attributions right? A common answer is that folk psychology is a proto‐scientific theory that allows us to predict and explain the behavior of physical systems. I argue that this position is inconsistent with one of the central practices in which attribution of desire occurs: to advocate for our interests and ...
Henry Schiller
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