VOLUME 9 • 2010
INTERVIEWS: DIALOGUE ON CHINESE MODERNISM AND THE NEW CHINESE POETRY: AN INTERVIEW WITH LI ZHI-MIN
Li Zhi-min is Chair Professor of British and American Literature Studies at the School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou University, and is Director of both its Foreign Languages Training Centre and its Chinese and Western Cultural Study Institute. He is also a Fellow of the British and American Languag..
A RECONSIDERATION OF GESTALT CONCEPTS AS DESCRIPTIVE METAPHORS IN MUSIC ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. We shall focus here on the development of the aesthetic and creative dimensions of Gestalt therapy, metaphorical descriptions of the musical experience, and the relationship between the emotional and the aesthetic experience of music. Indurkhya says that the representations emerge from int..
MACHIAVELLI’S POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the timeliness of Machiavelli’s example of civic engagement, the specificity of Machiavelli’s political thought, and the relationship between Christian religion and republican political thought. Bernard claims that Machiavelli identifies discord ..
CRONIN ON THE IMPERATIVE OF TRANSPARENCY AND IMMEDIACY IN TRANSLATION
ABSTRACT. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring creativity in translation, the relationship between language and translation, and the representation of translation in world cinema. Cronin claims that it is the pressure to translate that is a central rather than a peripheral aspect ..
SOCIAL MEDIA, NETWORKING SOFTWARE, AND CREATIVE DIGITAL MARKETING
ABSTRACT. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the current literature by examining interactional dimensions of social networks, the advancement and popularity of online social networks, and the booming growth of online social media demand. Madden and Smith examine the everyday choices that internet use..
THE USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN MODELING CONCEPT FORMATION
ABSTRACT. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring the neural mechanism of concept formation, neural structures responsible for knowledge and language instincts, and the natures of machine and human sign systems. Perlovsky argues that the mind and brain refer to the same physical syst..
SOME CRITICAL NOTES ON SALERNO’S EPISTEMIC MOTIVATIONS FOR LOGICAL REVISIONISM
ABSTRACT. Joseph Salerno has attempted to provide an account of how anti-realist views concerning the nature of truth motivate intuitionistic revisions of logic. I will show that Salerno’s motivations can succeed granting the principles of inference that he assumes, but that further and more e..
ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPEN SCIENCE
ABSTRACT. This paper arises out of a keynote presentation given at the inaugural Science in Society conference at the University of Cambridge, 5-7 August, 2009.1 It emerges from some thinking about the nature of openness as a philosophical concept that I develop in a book called The Virtues of Openn..
HUMOR AND ESOTERIC RELIGION IN WITTGENSTEIN
ABSTRACT. The title of this paper mentions humor and esoteric religion. Neither is commonly treated in philosophy. Only the linguistic aspect of esoteric religion is taken into account in what follows. It’s the only aspect prominent in Wittgenstein’s writings. And it’s an aspect that is understandab..
POST-CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: ITS DEFINITION, CONTOURS, AND FUNDAMENTAL SOURCES
ABSTRACT. This is the introduction to a collection of essays on “post-continental” philosophy that appears in the web dossier Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise. It opens up a space for a number of Third World critical intellectual positions that defy the boundaries of analytic and continental philosop..
DIGITIZED YOUTH: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN THE CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
ABSTRACT. The paper elaborates on the notion of building knowledge cultures and the creative knowledge economy, referring largely to work jointly written with Michael A. Peters (Peters & Besley, 2006, 2009). It then discusses some of the recent research findings about U.S. youths’ engagement and..