VOLUME 11 • 2012
TAKING LOGOPHOBIA SERIOUSLY
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of the theoretical strength of Foucault’s analysis of power, the specific and the non-specific interpretation of indefinite descriptions, and the meaning of natural language. pp. 147–152 Keywords: meaning making, language, lingui..
SARTRE’S ANTHROPOLOGY OF FREEDOM
ABSTRACT. This paper is grounded in the considerable body of scholarship examining Sartre’s idea of the subject as responsible for the world, his idea of absolute freedom, his metaphysics of the human subject, and his description of the subject as non-self-identical. The mainstay of the paper is for..
PHILOSOPHY OF SUBSTANCE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe Descartes’s independence conception of substance, Locke’s conception of material substance, the original Aristotelian theory of substance, and Brentano’s ontology of substance and accident. Scholarly research reveals strong correl..
THE ROLE OF LEARNING IN L2 ACQUISITION
ABSTRACT. Our paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the relationship between the role of processing mechanisms in L2 acquisition, processing mechanisms in language comprehension, similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, brain mechanisms speci..
SARTRE’S EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
ABSTRACT. The paper generates insights about Sartre’s existentialism, Sartre’s theories of consciousness, being and freedom, the ground of Sartre’s philosophy, and the development of Sartre as an existential phenomenologist. The objective of this paper is to emphasize Sartre’s views on the human con..
THE RELIABILITY OF IMPACT FACTOR AS AN INDICATOR FOR JOURNAL QUALITY
ABSTRACT. The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on the impact factor’s establishment as a crucial criterion of evaluation and achievement, the pressure resulting from the need to publish in high impact factor journals, and the potential for abuse and manipulation..
MERLEAU-PONTY’S UNDERSTANDING OF INTENTIONALITY
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe Merleau-Ponty’s account of motor intentionality, his full phenomenological account of object perception, and his account of seeing things. The paper generates insights about Merleau-Ponty’s account of object transcendence, his ful..
HUSSERL ON THE WORLD AS AN ONTOLOGICALLY DEPENDENT CORRELATE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECT
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of Husserl’s distinction between conceptual and empirical inquiry, his method of reduction, his commitment to idealism, his aim of criticizing epistemological naturalism, and his definition of the transcendent world. The paper g..
INTERACTION OF SENSE, REFERENCE AND STRUCTURE IN CONTEMPORARY JOURNALISTIC STYLE
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the wide usage of the Internet by news organizations, the complexity of online news consumption, online news economics, and determinants of media consumption. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe citizen participa..
CHOMSKY’S BIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO MIND AND LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. The paper generates insights about Chomsky’s characterization of the language faculty, his reasoning regarding lexical selection, his insistence on economy principles as a valuation measure for derivations, and the Chomskyan notion of semantic representation. Our analysis complements the g..
THE BRAIN MECHANISMS OF LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. My analysis complements the growing literature on the neurobiological correlates of words, the mechanisms necessary for grammar processing, the external significance of language, syntactic competence in neuronal networks, and the cortical mechanisms of cognition and language. This research..
THE SEMANTICS OF RACIAL SLURS: USING KAPLAN’S FRAMEWORK TO PROVIDE A THEORY OF THE MEANING OF DEROGATORY EPITHETS
ABSTRACT. In this paper I adopt Kaplan’s framework for distinguishing between descriptive and expressive content. Racial slurs are an especially difficult challenge for truth-conditional semantics because of their projection behaviors. That is to say, the offensive content of slurs “scopes out” of l..