VOLUME 8 • 2009
JAMES’S CONCEPTION OF NOVELISTIC TRUTH AND HIS AESTHETIC OF FICTION
ABSTRACT. On Davidson’s reading, for James, the writing of fiction and literary criticism is essentially a moral practice. Wakana illustrates how James’s realism reflects life’s fictional quality. Otten points out that James identifies bodily ambiguity with rhetorical ambiguity. Miller contends that..
VISUAL PERSUASION IN ADVERTISING
ABSTRACT. McQuarrie and Mick define style to include all those aspects of an ad that can be varied independently of the assertion of a brand-attribute linkage. Söderlund and Lange examine the process by which the exposure to a physically attractive model influences the attitude toward a visually jux..
LINGUISTIC MEANING, NAMING, AND IDENTITY
ABSTRACT. Pilatova finds it objectionable to employ controversial metaphysical assumptions in the context of a study of the semantics of natural language. According to Tschaepe, Merleau-Ponty introduces with his theory of language an analysis of how meaning is achieved in the world through the indiv..
THE CHOMSKYAN VERSION OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
ABSTRACT. On Smith’s reading, Chomsky shows that the immense complexity of the innumerable languages we hear around us must be variations on a single theme. Botha and Knight write that, as Chomsky puts it, recursion sets human language apart from animal communication. Chomsky focusses on the mind of..
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, DIGITAL JOURNALISM, AND THE STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEW MEDIA
ABSTRACT. Driscoll et al. look at the relationship between feelings of fear about terrorism and public attitudes toward restrictions on civil liberties and the news media. Imfeld and Scott analyze newspaper online sites in an attempt to gather baseline data to begin exploring the determinants of onl..
“DARWIN’S DOUBT” REVISITED: PLANTINGA AND HIS CRITICS ON THE EPISTEMIC IMPLICATIONS OF NATURALISM
ABSTRACT. In the final chapter of “Warrant and Proper Function” Alvin Plantinga makes an argument that evolutionary naturalism is an epistemically incoherent view. Accordingly, if one believes in the doctrine of evolutionary naturalism then the reliability of their belief-forming faculties is called..
AN EYE FOR AN I? A REPLY TO MANDIK ON WITTGENSTEIN ON SOLIPSISM
ABSTRACT. Integrating the technical aspects of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus with his apparent endorsement of solipsism is no small task. Recently Pete Mandik has presented an analysis of Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory of Meaning that allows for such an integration. We will argue, however, that some key a..
LIVING IN THE ESCHATA: THE END OF CHRISTENDOM AND PROSPECTS FOR A GLOBAL SPIRITUALISM
ABSTRACT. This paper investigates the theological trope of the end of Christendom – the Eschata – and the prospects of global spiritualism through the work of the New Zealand radical theologian, Lloyd Geering. The paper focuses on Geering’s The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future as ..