VOLUME 12 • 2013
BOOK REVIEWS
Melancholy and the Otherness of GodAlina N. Feld (Hofstra University)Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011, 210 pp.ISBN 978-0-7391-6603-1 A Philosophical Guide to ChanceToby Handfield (Monash University)New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 256 pp.ISBN 978-1-107-60735-4 Infinity: New Research Fr..
THE ROLE OF TRANSLATION IN BORGES’S CREATIVE PROCESS
ABSTRACT. This paper aims to analyze and discuss the role of translation in Borges’s writing, Borges’s writings on translation and its prevalence as a theme in his fiction, and the narrative features of Borges’s translation. The findings of this study have implications for Borges’s translation pract..
THE TRANSFORMATION OF RESEARCH PUBLISHING AND THE COMPETITIVE NATURE OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the quality and reliability of the scientific literature, the importance of validation in online publishing, the publication of unworthy scientific research, and the dissemination of scholarly knowledge. I am specifically interest..
THE RECONFIGURATION OF TRANSLATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
ABSTRACT. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the translation fallout of crowdsourcing, the emergence of new forms of translation production/reception, the impacts of digital technology on translation practice, and the work of translation in the age of digita..
ASPECTS OF METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS IN SOLUTION-FOCUSED THERAPY
ABSTRACT. My paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence on cognitive maturity and the associated enhanced capacity for explicit L2 learning, the development of language learning aptitude and metalinguistic awareness, the metalinguistic awareness gained by learning a second language, a..
TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE ONTOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
ABSTRACT. In this essay, written for educators who might be unfamiliar with the more technical aspects of “existential-phenomenological” philosophy, I focus on diverse and alternative forms of meaning arising from the lived experience of educators and students in the process of learning, in order to..
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS: THE PRINCIPLE OF DIALECTICAL CORRESPONDENCE
ABSTRACT. In the epistemological field, the issue of scientific progress has been deeply investigated by some illustrious philosophers of science like Thomas Kuhn, Karl R. Popper, Paul K. Feyerabend and so on, but they disregarded the fact that all scientific theories are idealizations of reality. B..
DEFINITION OF NECESSITY WITH ENTAILMENT
ABSTRACT. The main idea of the article is to give a reductive explanation of the concept of necessity. It is done with the concepts of truth, law and entailment. I claim that the sentence “It is necessary that P” means that (1) There is a set of truths and (2) There is a set of laws such that (3) P ..
THE UNEXAMINED LIFE IS WORTH LIVING: A SOCRATIC PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. Socrates is famous in Apology for stating that the unexamined life is not worth living, but it is argued that this statement is not deserving of its reverence. It is more likely Socrates’ comment, rather than Plato’s, because it is not mentioned in other dialogues. The paper’s contention i..
THE EXTENDED SELF, FUNCTIONAL CONSTANCY, AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
ABSTRACT. Personal indexicals are often taken to refer to the agent of an expression’s context, but deviant uses (e.g. ‘I’m parked out back’) complicate matters. I argue that personal indexicals refer to the extended self of the agent, where the extended self is a mereological chimera incorporating ..
THE LAST POST? POST-POSTMODERNISM AND THE LINGUISTIC U-TURN
ABSTRACT. This paper adopts an autobiographical tone to review the linguistic turn and its demise at the hands Richard Rorty. Rorty, along with Continental philosophers like Lyotard rescued us from a philosophical delusion that we might achieve a neutral analysis resulting in linguistic and conceptu..
A SOLUTION BASED ON ORDINARY LANGUAGE TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL OBJECTION
ABSTRACT. Contemporary accounts of linguistic content usually do not take account of the relevance that the speaker intention (as well as other related psychological elements) has in the determination of the content of the sentences uttered in our ordinary life. This has as a consequence a psycholog..