VOLUME 16 • 2017
THE ETHICS OF ENVY ON FACEBOOK
ABSTRACT. Recent studies (Chou and Edge, 2012; Crusius and Lange, 2017; Tandoc Jr. et al., 2015; Vogel and Rose, 2016) show that envy is essentially a social emotion driving individuals to react to status threat. As benign/malicious envy, it stimulates conduct in the quest of status contingent on re..
DO INCESSANT COMPARISONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA GENERATE FACEBOOK ENVY?
ABSTRACT. A large body of research (e.g. Chou and Edge, 2012; Lin and Utz, 2015; Tandoc Jr. et al., 2015; Vogel and Rose, 2016) demonstrates that when conceiving impressions of other individuals, it is unproblematic for recurrent Facebook users to recollect the remarks and images published by their ..
DEMOCRATIC FORMS OF WORKPLACE GOVERNANCE
ABSTRACT. I follow relevant literature (Foley and Polanyi, 2006; Levin, 2006; Lansbury, 2009; Estlund, 2014; Yeoman, 2014; and Budd et al., 2018) to clarify that workplace democracy may arise via separate membership of trade unions which may negotiate jointly with management and express their member..
METAPHYSICAL DESPAIR AND TRAGIC HUMANISM IN MALRAUX
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of Malraux’s tragic humanism, his fictional expression, his image patterns, his construal of the character of destiny, and the ethico-metaphysical rhetoric bolstering his novelistic works. The findings of this study have implications for M..
HEIDEGGER: WAHRNEHMUNGSVERGESSENHEIT
ABSTRACT. The paper explores Wahrnehmungsvergessenheit, the forgetting of perception, as a pervasive trait in Heidegger’s writings, and as methodological shadow of Seinsvergessenheit, the forgetting of the ontic-ontological difference. Forgetting perception, the paper contends, is a precondition for..
IN DEFENSE OF MATHEMATICAL INFERENTIALISM
ABSTRACT. I defend a new position in philosophy of mathematics that I call mathematical inferentialism. It holds that a mathematical sentence can perform the function of facilitating deductive inferences from some concrete sentences to other concrete sentences, that a mathematical sentence is true i..
THE DISCOVERY THAT PHOSPHORUS IS HESPERUS: A FOLLOW-UP TO KRIPKE ON THE NECESSITY OF IDENTITY
ABSTRACT. It was an empirical discovery that Phosphorus is Hesperus. According to Kripke, this was also the discovery of a necessary fact. Now, given Kripke’s theory of direct reference one could wonder what kind of discovery this is. For we already knew Phosphorus/Hesperus, and we also knew that an..
ONTOLOGICAL SYMMETRY IN PLATO: FORMLESS THINGS AND EMPTY FORMS
ABSTRACT. This is a study of the correspondence between Forms and particulars in Plato. The aim is to determine whether they exhibit an ontological symmetry, in other words, whether there is always one where there is the other. This points to two questions, one on the existence of things that do not..