VOLUME 14 • 2015
BOOK REVIEWS
Vagaries of Value: Basic Issues in Value TheoryNicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh)Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Books/Rutgers University, 2014, 162 pp.ISBN 978-1-4128-5460-3Reviewed by Theodor Damian (Metropolitan College of New York)Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and PhilosophyPaola Marrati (Johns Ho..
TE REO MAORI, PHILOSOPHY AND COLONIALISM: A CONVERSATION WITH MAORI PHILOSOPHER CARL MIKA
Kia ora CarlSome advice if you have the time... I have been asked to give a paper at Uppsala on philosophy of language and autonomy. I want to focus on colonialism and use some examples from the colonial history concerning te reo Maori. I did a little research at the time of the Royal Commission in ..
LANGUAGE, SUBJECTIVITY, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN KRISTEVA’S DETECTIVE NOVELS
ABSTRACT. This study is grounded in the considerable body of scholarship examining Kristeva’s psychoanalytically informed notion of the subject, her urging on the singularity and plurality of existence, her conception of language and the speaking subject, and the theoretical and psychoanalytic subst..
ARE ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS (OCBS) REALLY POSITIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH MEASURES OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS?
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of personal and organizational elements that are instrumental in the operation of organizational citizenship conducts, the possible beneficial and adverse effects that may arise from stimulating organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) ..
CAN TERRORISM EVER BE MORALLY JUSTIFIED?
ABSTRACT. Research on the moral significance of terrorism, the ethical features of counterterrorist initiatives, the ethics of the war on terror, and the moral justification of separate facets of the war on terror has yielded fairly consistent findings over the past decade. My analysis complements t..
MEDITATIVE THOUGHT AND GELASSENHEIT IN HEIDEGGER’S THOUGHT OF THE “TURN:” RELEASING OURSELVES TO THE ORIGINAL EVENT OF LEARNING
ABSTRACT. In this speculative and theoretical analysis, we adopt a phenomenological-hermeneutic method of research grounded in “textual analysis,” the findings of which propose an alternative mode of “meditative” inquiry related to a renewed relationship to Being and its unfolding that outstrips the..
THE UNIVERSITY IN THE EPOCH OF DIGITAL REASON: FAST KNOWLEDGE IN THE CIRCUITS OF CYBERNETIC CAPITALISM
ABSTRACT. This article examines the university institutional in relation to the notion of time by postulating the concept of “the epoch of digital reason.” Within this epoch the university exhibits “fast knowledge” flows of knowledge in the circuits of “cybernetic capitalism.” The paper introduces t..
FUNCTIONALISM, THE COMPUTER MODEL OF THE MIND, AND CAUSAL CONNECTIONS
ABSTRACT. The aim of this paper is to point out two quandaries to which functionalism and the computer model of the mind give rise, and to resolve them. Resolving these quandaries will serve, or so I hope, to better understand the essence of functionalism and the computer model of the mind and the r..
A REPRESENTATIONAL ACCOUNT OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
ABSTRACT. According to the artefactual theory of literature, fictional characters are contingently existing abstract objects. Sherlock Holmes, Fyodor Karamazov and other creatures of fiction are contingent existents because they are brought into being by the creative acts of their authors, and they ..