The Limits of Internalism: A Case Study

Dialogue ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karyn L. Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Belief Formation ◽  
First Person ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Psychological Dimensions ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACT: Looking at specific populations of knowers reveals that the presumption of sameness within knowledge communities can lead to a number of epistemological oversights. A good example of this is found in the case of survivors of sexual violence. In this paper I argue that this case study offers a new perspective on the debate between the epistemic internalist and externalist by providing us with a fresh insight into the complicated psychological dimensions of belief formation and the implications that this has for an epistemology that demands reasons that are first-person accessible.

A Fresh Insight into Film Morphology Measurement Techniques for Advanced Ulsi Manufacturing

1993 ◽  
Vol 309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seshadri Ramaswami
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Film Morphology ◽  
Integrated Circuit Fabrication ◽  
Circuit Fabrication ◽  
Non Destructive ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractA laser based non-destructive technique has been used to study the morphology of sputterdeposited aluminum alloy films. The data emanating from the Therma-wave Imager that makes use of this principle, has been correlated with reflectivity, grain size and micro-roughness of the film. In addition, through the use of a case study, this paper demonstrates the utility of this application as an in-line monitor in an integrated circuit fabrication line.

Zakir Naik and His Audiences: A Case Study of Srinagar, Kashmir

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Raoof Mir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Most literature on Mumbai-based Muslim tele-Islamicist Zakir Naik offers an organizational, biographical and ideological profile. This approach has concealed the symbolic significance attached to Naik by his audiences. This paper attempts to explore not only who and what Naik is, but how and where he is located. By incorporating ethnographic and cultural studies approaches, this paper offers fresh insight into Naik and his methods of communicating religion. Taking Srinagar, a city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, as an ethnographic site, this paper explores how Muslim individuals or groups interpret Naik in relation to their religious worldviews. The articulation of Islam by Zakir Naik through media platforms such as television and social media has contributed to a religious trend in Kashmir, in which people have discovered new ways to think about themselves and to participate in discourses about religion that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.

scholarly journals Other Types of Meaning: Relationships between Round Barrows and Landscapes from 1500 bc–ac 1086

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwen Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Extended Time ◽  
Generic Group ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Extended Time Period

This paper is about Bronze Age round barrows and the ways in which they became caught up in human practices over an extended time period. At one level it belongs to a flourishing body of work that examines the ‘re-use’ or ‘biography’ of prehistoric monuments. Rather than treating the latter as a generic group, however, this study focuses on chronologies of one specific monument type—round barrows—over a 2600-year period from 1500 bc–ac 1086. By bringing together evidence and interpretations generated mainly within period specialisms, significant homogeneities are revealed in terms of how activities at prehistoric monuments have previously been understood. The possibilities for seeking out different interpretative ground are duly explored. Using a case study from the east of England and drawing on evidence and ideas from much more broadly, the approach taken places particular emphasis on examining relationships between round barrows and other aspects of landscape. The findings offer fresh insight into the temporality of activities undertaken at round barrows, question existing characterizations of past people's historical understandings, and explore the long-term coherence of ‘round barrows’ as a category.

scholarly journals A Pragma-Dialectical Study of Advertising Discourse: Take Melatonin Advertisements as Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Fan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Fundamental Objective ◽  
The Ideal

<p align="LEFT">The fundamental objective of advertising</p><p align="LEFT">discourse is to persuade target audiences to</p><p align="LEFT">accept and purchase the advertised product,</p><p align="LEFT">thus in essence, persuasiveness is crucial</p><p align="LEFT">characteristic of advertising discourse. Actually,</p><p align="LEFT">successful persuasion usually involves</p><p align="LEFT">argumentativeness. Drawing on the research</p><p align="LEFT">framework of Pragma-Dialectics, this paper</p><p align="LEFT">attempts to explore a pragma-dialectical</p><p align="LEFT">approach to advertisement discourse on the</p><p align="LEFT">basis of the ideal model of critical discussion.</p><p align="LEFT">This approach involves two interrelated parts:</p><p align="LEFT">argumentative reconstruction and strategic</p><p align="LEFT">maneuvering analysis. Taking the case of</p><p align="LEFT">Melatonin advertisements, the pragma-dialectical</p><p align="LEFT">approach can show the argumentativeness of</p><p align="LEFT">advertisement discourse to a great extent and</p><p align="LEFT">meanwhile reveals advertisers’ manipulation of</p><p align="LEFT">dialectical reasonableness and rhetorical</p><p align="LEFT">effectiveness. Therefore, the pragma-dialectical</p><p align="LEFT">approach can not only give a deep insight into</p><p>persuasiveness and argumentativeness of</p><p align="LEFT">advertising discourse, but also provides a</p><p align="LEFT">theoretical guidance for advertisers to skilfully</p><p align="LEFT">employ dialectical strategies in advertising</p><p align="LEFT">discourse. Consequently, such approach can</p><p align="LEFT">offer a new perspective for comprehensive and</p><p>systematic study of advertisement discourse.</p>

Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing Understandings of Henges in Prehistory and the Present

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca K. Younger
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

This paper offers a fresh insight into three of Scotland’s most complex henge monuments, based on a critical analysis of the term henge. The late Neolithic circular earthwork enclosures have undergone re-evaluation in Scotland as Early Bronze Age dates for some sites have emerged since the 1990s, and the author draws on the long-term nature of these monuments to explore what came before the earthworks. Case-study sites are Cairnpapple Hill, North Mains and Forteviot henge 1. Each is explored in terms of the centuries of re-use of the space for activities such as ceremony, deposition, fire-setting and monument construction, and viewed through a framework of social memory and commemoration,

Modelling the subjective experience of fun at work

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maeve Clancy ◽  
Carol Linehan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Psychological Contracts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain some divergent findings on experiences of fun at work. It explains conflicting findings by moving from a focus on classifying the activity (as, e.g. task/managed/organic) to foregrounding the dynamics of the experience, adding to the growing conceptualisation of fun at work as a multi-dimensional construct.Design/methodology/approachThis research draws on empirical data obtained through case study and interviews with 13 participants from two organisations. These interviews were subjected to intense thematic analysis.FindingsIt was found that an individual’s underlying beliefs about the organisation; the perceived drivers of the fun practice; and the level of control exerted over a fun practice significantly shape the experience. The paper draws on the concept of the psychological contract to frame the relationship between these three key interacting elements.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a greater understanding of the dynamics of fun experiences, enabling management to better recognise and contextualise the impact of fun practices.Originality/valueGiven conflicting findings on both the experience and outcomes of fun at work, this study elucidates the dynamics underpinning the experience of fun at work. It is novel to consider experiences of fun through the lens of psychological contracts, which offers fresh insight into the understanding of individual experiences of fun.

scholarly journals Towards a methodology for analysing nineteenth-century collecting journeys of science and empire, with Charles Darwin's activities in Tierra del Fuego as a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-420
Author(s):  
Janet Owen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
Alfred Russel Wallace ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

The interests of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in natural history and evolution took them to remote parts of the globe on hazardous, multi-sensory journeys that were ultimately about collecting. This paper introduces a methodology for exploring these complex experiences in more detail, informed by historical geography, anthropology, textual analysis and the geo-humanities. It involves looking for evidence of the richly stimulating and often challenging sensory dynamics within which they collected and connected data, observations, images, specimens, memories and ideas. Darwin's exploits in Tierra del Fuego are examined as a case study, with a particular focus on the collection of ‘Fuegian’ body paints in 1833. This type of analysis provides a fresh insight into the multi-sensory entanglement of encounter with people and place involved in the collecting process. It helps us to understand better the experiences that shaped what was collected and brought back to Britain, and the personal observations associated with these collections that sowed the seeds for Darwin's work on the origin of species.

‘Have we any motherJuliana’samong us?’: The multiple identities of Julian of Norwich in Restoration England

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Temple
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Julian Of Norwich ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Restoration England ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

The true identity of the fourteenth-century anchoress Julian of Norwich has been lost to history. Yet in the seventeenth century Catholic and Protestant polemicists created different ‘Julians’ to construct and contrast their own confessional positions. This article traces the different identities prescribed to Julian and argues that they allow us fresh insight into some of the most prevalent religious and political issues of Restoration England. It begins by tracing the positive reception of Julian’s theology among the Benedictine nuns of Paris and Cambrai, including the role of Augustine Baker in editing Julian’s text. It then explores how the Benedictine Serenus Cressy and the Anglican Edward Stillingfleet created different identities for Julian in their ongoing polemical battles in the Restoration period. For Cressy, Julian was proof of the strength of Catholic devotional and spiritual traditions, while Stillingfleet believed she was evidence of the religious melancholy encouraged by monasticism. By exploring these identities, this article offers new perspective on issues of Catholic loyalty, enthusiasm, sectarianism and doctrinal authority.

Service, Openness and Engagement as Digitally-Based Enablers of Public Value?

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P Roy
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Governance Innovation ◽  
Insight Into

Public value creation is increasingly viewed as a central pivot of a government's digital transformation. The objective of this article is twofold: to better understand some of the major inhibitors of public value creation within a context of digital government, and to offer some fresh insight into how such inhibitors may be overcome in order to strengthen public value creation by leveraging digital governance innovation. In pursuing this objective, the author adopts the Government of Canada as a broad, qualitative and exploratory case study of digital government's capacities to generate public value. These findings reveal many structural and cultural inhibitors within the Government of Canada to innovation and public value creation across the inter-related realms of service, openness and engagement. How inhibitors can be addressed and eventually overcome is also discussed as a basis for future public sector reform and academic and applied research.

scholarly journals A New Perspective on Female-to-Male Communication in Salamander Courtship

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 722-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L Staub ◽  
Alexandrea B Stiller ◽  
Karen M Kiemnec-Tyburczy
Keyword(s):  
Courtship Behavior ◽  
Chemical Signals ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Sperm Release ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Insight Into

Synopsis Courtship behavior in salamanders is often complex and involves well-documented communication from males to females in multiple sensory modalities. Historically, behaviors exhibited during the major stages of courtship have been predominately framed as a male acting and signaling to “persuade” a passive female to participate in courtship and remain with him until sperm release is completed. In this review, we use courtship descriptions for lungless salamanders (Plethodontidae) as a case study to illustrate this historical bias of a male-centered perspective. We then re-examine the literature and summarize the many ways females are active participants during plethodontid courtships. We also relate female behaviors to the types of female-to-male communication that may occur. For example, females have been documented to approach a male and initiate courtship, participate in mutual head rubbing, and step astride the male’s tail to begin the tail-straddling walk (a key courtship behavior observed in all plethodontids). Additionally, females have glands that may produce chemical signals that males respond to during courtship. We conclude that communication during courtship is more accurately described as a two-way interaction where each partner’s behavior is coordinated with the other’s via multi-modal signaling. Shifting the lens through which we view courtship and behavior provides insight into which female behaviors and anatomical features are most likely to be used for communication with males.

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