VOLUME 13 • 2014
REMARKS ON “THE SEMANTICS OF RACIAL SLURS”
ABSTRACT. In “The Semantics of Racial Slurs,” an article recently published in Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Hedger (2012) draws upon Kaplan’s (1999) distinction between descriptive and expressive content to argue that slurs are expressions with purely expressive content. Here I revie..
SHUTTER-SPEED MEANING, NORMATIVITY, AND WITTGENSTEIN’S ABRICHTUNG
ABSTRACT. How is it, the paper asks, that on hearing the word sound of “intriguing” we cannot at the very same time entertain the concepts of “green” or “democracy”? I approach this question with the help of Wittgenstein’s concept of Abrichtung and the discussion of normativity as rule-following. In..
ANXIETIES OF KNOWING: ACADEMIC PATHOLOGIES, CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE CULTURE OF THE ACADEMIC SELF
ABSTRACT. This exploratory paper coins the term “academic pathologies” to discuss in a critical approach the culture of the academic self focusing on what is called “anxieties of knowledge”. The paper plays with these themes in reference to the work of Kierkegaard, the American film director Woody A..
THE EU’S NORM-DRIVEN PRACTICES
ABSTRACT. Applying new conceptual and methodological approaches, this study advances to the next level research on the role of community in transnational processes, the EU’s policy of democracy promotion, the characteristics of normative power, and the universal standing of EU norms. The literature ..
JAPANESE ENGLISH LEARNERS ON THE EDGE OF ‘CHAOSMOS’: FÉLIX GUATTARI AND ‘BECOMING-OTAKU’
ABSTRACT. This paper constructs a language learning perspective derived from the philosophical work of Félix Guattari, which enables a re-evaluation of the ways in which Japanese university students learn English in Japan. The implementation of Guattarian pedagogic practises into the English teachin..
OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES ATTRIBUTION
ABSTRACT. The author presents a theory which helps to solve the popular skeptic puzzle: 1. If you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat, then you do not know anything, 2. You do not know that you are not a brain in a vat. Therefore: 3. You do not know anything. He claims that the concepts wh..
‘ART’, HABITUS, AND STYLE IN HERDER, HUMBOLDT, HAMANN, AND VOSSLER: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTICS
ABSTRACT. I show how a consistent line of anti-Cartesian and anti-Kantian philosophies established by Herder, Humboldt, Hamann, and Vossler transformed the sign-character of human expressions into an expression of style by concentrating on the German term ‘Art’ as a sort of habitus. Especially Humbo..
LINGUISTIC DATA AND FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
ABSTRACT. According to abstract creationist views, fictional characters are contingently existing abstract entities. Thomasson and others have showed that creationism can be successfully defended against standard objections. I will argue, however, that the main claims of creationism are flawed in li..
COGNITIVE FEATURES OF LINGUISTIC MEMES
ABSTRACT. This paper discusses the major trends in scholarship about the organizational implications of linguistic memes, the processes by which one can generate and disseminate memes online, the concept of memetic evolution, and the role memes play in developing culture and creativity. I am specifi..
CHALLENGES FACING SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the shape and form of academic knowledge ecologies, the excessive cost of commercial journal content, escalating costs of scientific periodicals, and the benefits of facilitating access to research data and outputs. Applying new c..
SOCIAL RIGHTS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN THE EU
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate EU cooperation on asylum and migration matters, the internationally guaranteed rights of refugees, and the perception of refugees as a public good. The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the mora..
THE ROLE OF HOSTILE AND INSTRUMENTAL AGGRESSION IN SPORT
ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I focus on psychological and social factors leading to abnormal aggression, the association between aggressive behavior and injury in ice hockey, situational factors that affect the probability of aggression occurring in sporting events, and the neural mechanisms unde..