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What's in a Promise?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
wiley   +1 more source

The will of the middleperson: Triangular communication and its asymmetries in the figures of the Hebrew prophet and the Jewish Shtadlan

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Ancient rhetoric instructs the advocate to evoke in themselves the emotions they wish to elicit in the judge in order to successfully act as the Fürsprecher (advocates) of their clients. Taken to its extreme, this formula of “affection through auto‐affection” renders the figure of the Fürsprecher a double‐sided representative who compensates ...
Shira Miron
wiley   +1 more source

First Impressions at Work: A Meta‐Analytic Review

open access: yesPersonnel Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First impressions are critical in shaping work‐related outcomes and social judgments in organizational contexts. However, research has generated conflicting findings and left unanswered questions about their dimensional structure, antecedents, consequences, and temporal stability.
Junhui Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inquiry and Logical Form

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of grammatical personal pronoun in the Johnny English Reborn Movie 2011

open access: yes
The study is aimed at recognizing the personal pronoun that used in the Johnny English Reborn Movie 2011. The writer uses a qualitative method that employs the descriptive analysis technique. The results of this study show that the utterance doesn t only
Sharah Agusti
core  

Unfit Mothers Only: Medical Gatekeeping of Second‐ and Third‐Trimester Abortion in France

open access: yesPerspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In France, abortion is available without restriction as to reason until 14 weeks of pregnancy. Beyond this limit, medical authorization is required and “medical termination of pregnancy” is permitted for fetal malformation or serious danger to the woman's health, including from “psychosocial distress.” Little is known about how ...
Raphaël Perrin
wiley   +1 more source

On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
wiley   +1 more source

Are societies becoming more self-centric? Evidence from five decades of popular music spanning three continents. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Golubickis M   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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