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Corpus Linguistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory (CPT) and Subtext: A New and Final Linguistic Theory
By casting corpus linguistics (CL) as a ‘methodology’ Stephan Th. Gries has managed to delay but not to stifle the debate concerning the right of...
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Superstitions and Rationality
This chapter explores the nature of human rationalityRationality/irrationality and how this concept has been brought historically to perspectives of...
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Hill, Nicholas
Nicholas Hill was one of the most intriguing and particular personalities of England during the reign of James I. Details of his life are scarce. He...
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Virtues for agents in directed social networks
In the age of the Internet, people have increased access to information along multiple dimensions. It might seem that we are on our way to an...
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Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dissatisfaction, and Problematic Beliefs
Body dissatisfaction has long been considered an integral component of and driving force behind anorexia nervosa. In this paper, I characterise body...
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Two dogmas of dynamicism
I critically discuss two dogmas of the “dynamical approach” to spacetime in general relativity, as advanced by Harvey Brown [ Physical Relativity ...
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On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion
This essay has two main claims about EPR’s Reality Criterion. First, we claim that the application of the Reality Criterion makes an essential...
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Introduction to the special issue ‘The phenomenology of joint action’
The contributions collected in this special issue explore the phenomenology of joint action from a broad range of different disciplinary and...
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Machine learning, misinformation, and citizen science
Current methods of operationalizing concepts of misinformation in machine learning are often problematic given idiosyncrasies in their success...
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Crime and Punishment
Drug policy in the United States, as in most other countries, takes a criminal justice approach, using punishment to achieve its goals. So, in this...
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Understanding of the norm of political discourse
It is argued that understanding is the norm of political discourse, and it is shown why political assertions can be epistemically problematic within...
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Elected Extremists, Political Communication and the Limits of Containment
The paper examines the complex relation between anti-democratic forces (“the extremists”) and the broader liberal-democratic institutional...
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The Radio and the Plant
A comparison of Jürgen Habermas’ and Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ approach to colonialism and their relevance for framing a pathway towards...
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Consequentialist Theories of Punishment
In this chapter, Lee considers contemporary consequentialist theories of punishment. Consequentialist theories look to the consequences of punishment...
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Western Skeptic vs Indian Realist. Cross-Cultural Differences in Zebra Case Intuitions
The cross-cultural differences in epistemic intuitions reported by Weinberg, Nichols and Stich (2001; hereafter: WNS) laid the ground for the...
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The Double Revision of Marxism and Similarity with Lukács
Fatalistic and mechanistic determinism is typical of a phase still defined by the subalternity of certain social groups, constituting a sort of...
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What Effect Can a Good Permanent Theatre Actually Achieve? (1785)
In his so-called Schaubühnenrede [theatre speech], Schiller presents his theory of the theatre as a public medium: as one of the most important...
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Individual and Group Factors Associated with Superstitious Beliefs
If individuals respond in different ways to superstitions, it begs the question of whether the superstitious can be profiledProfiling of...
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Regulating Communicative Risk: Online Harms and Subjective Rights
States are in the process of creating controversial legislation aimed at subjecting ‘harmful’ online communication on social media and search engines...