The Metaphysics of Truth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Pluralist Approach ◽  
Philosophical Questions

What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? The Metaphysics of Truth tackles these fundamental philosophical questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. Moreover, it does so in a climate where the traditionally central issue of the nature of truth has diminished in significance due to the rise of deflationary and primitivist views, which deny that there are interesting and informative things to say about truth. This book responds to these views, and demonstrates the importance of the metaphysics of truth with regard to both the study of truth itself, and metaphysical debates more generally. It also develops a detailed pluralist metaphysical approach, which starts with the diversity of different subject areas, and holds that there are different relationships between language and the world in different areas, or ‘domains’. A pluralist approach is constructed that explains what domains are; how different domains are individuated; which metaphysical frameworks apply in different domains; and how truth plays a key role in the picture. The picture is extended to incorporate ontological pluralism—the idea that there are different ways of being—which increases the explanatory power of the view. Particular focus is given to important domains that have not yet received a great deal of attention in debates about truth, namely the institutional and social domains, which connects work on the metaphysics of truth and being to key issues in social construction.

scholarly journals Reply to Doing Indigenous Epistemology: Internal Debates About Inside Knowledge in Māori Society’, by Toon Van Meilj

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sissons
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Indigenous Epistemology ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being

Van Meijl is right to insist that epistemology must be about active, socially contested ‘ways of knowing’ and that understanding the relationship between such ways and their products is as much an ethnographic problem as it is a philosophical one. Ways of knowing, as social practices, are also, more generally, ways of being or becoming and so are not, in my view, radically distinct from the ontologies they produce and reproduce. Phillipe Descola argues strongly that his four ‘ontologies’ are also schemas of practice, fundamental ways that people know, experience and inhabit the world. I think Van Meijl is mistaken, therefore, when he characterises the ontological turn in anthropology as being about different relations between mind and matter. For me, it is most significantly about the different ways that personhood or subjectivity can be understood and embodied.<br>

scholarly journals Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being

Non-Being ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Sara Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
Fictional Objects ◽  
Fundamental Categories ◽  
The Relationship

Ontological pluralism is the view that there is more than one fundamental way of being. This paper sketches ontological pluralism about non-being, the idea that non-being can be further divided into more fundamental categories. After drawing out the relationship between pluralism about being and pluralism about non-being, I discuss quantificational strategies for the pluralist about non-being. I examine historical precedent for the view. Finally, I suggest that pluralism about non-being has explanatory power across a variety of domains, and that the view can account for differences between non-existent past and future times, between omissions and absences, and between different kinds of fictional objects.

scholarly journals Antinomies and paradoxes of life destinies of the heroes of romanov F. M. Dostoevsky

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 636-640
Author(s):  
E. M. Babosov
Keyword(s):  
Social Violence ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Sociological Aspect

The literary heritage of F. M. Dostoevsky is a rich research material that traces the philosophical and sociological aspect, expressed in the author’s reasoning about the existence of man, his place in the world and society, their interaction through the prism of dichotomy. F.M. Dostoevsky known as a deep and paradoxical thinker. In his works, he asked philosophical questions about man, the relationship between rational and unreasonable principles, his place in the world and society. Dostoevsky F. M. worried about the moral greatness of man and his extreme forms, criticism of social violence and utopian attempts to improve and make people and society happy. The leitmotif of the characters in the novels is the possibility of a dignified, happy life in various social realities.

Relationship between EVA (Economic Value Added) and Share Prices of Select Companies in BSE-SENSEX - An Empirical Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3and4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathangi Aravind ◽  
K. Ramya
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Economic Value Added ◽  
Share Prices ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In todays competitive world, corporate companies all around the world are trying to maximize the wealth of their shareholders in order to gain market value as well as satisfy their stakeholders. With the gaining popularity of value based performance measures like Economic Value Added (EVA), Total Shareholder Return (TSR), Cash Value Added (CVA) etc., many corporate companies in India have started assessing their value in terms of these measures. This paper investigates the relationship between EVA and share prices of select companies in BSE-SENSEX for a period of six years from 2008 to 2013. The study focuses on the explanatory power of EVA with respect to share prices of the selected companies. In turn, the performance of the selected companies belonging to different sectors in BSE-SENSEX was analyzed using EVA. The volatile nature of the capital markets characterized by various speculative activities have a greater influence on share prices, eventually undermining the impact of performance metrics on them. Thus, the findings of the study enumerates that EVA does not have a considerable explanatory power on share prices.

scholarly journals Introduction: Sustainability Science as Co-Creative Research Praxis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Alex Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Generative Process ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being

AbstractThis chapter explores the relationship between collaboration and creativity within social sustainability research. Aimed at stimulating further reflection and debate on the role of ‘co-creativity’ in enabling transformative sustainability agendas, the chapter acts also as an introduction to the entire edited collection. A key guiding question posed from the outset is how co-creative research practice, as a generative process, can best support the emergence of alternative—potentially even transformative—ways of being in the world. The discussion proceeds with a conceptual review of creativity, followed by a detailed explanation of how co-creativity is defined for the purposes of this edited collection. The remainder of the chapter looks towards the nurturing of co-creative practice within social sustainability research; particular attention is given to socially inclusive forms of co-creative and engaged research praxis. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Accordingly, emphasis is placed throughout this chapter on co-creative research practice as requiring a retained sensitivity to the importance of researching ‘with’.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis L. F Lee ◽  
Joseph M Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Connective Action ◽  
The Relationship

The concluding chapter summarizes the account of the Umbrella Movement provided in the book. It discusses the implications of the analysis on several key issues in the study of media and social movements, including the origin of connective action, the power and limitations of digital media and connective action, the significance of movement frames, and the relationship between digital media and mainstream media. The implications are discussed by referring not only to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong but also to other similar protest campaigns around the world in previous years. The chapter ends with some updates about happenings in the movement scene in Hong Kong after 2014.

scholarly journals Reply to Doing Indigenous Epistemology: Internal Debates About Inside Knowledge in Māori Society’, by Toon Van Meilj

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sissons
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Indigenous Epistemology ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being

Van Meijl is right to insist that epistemology must be about active, socially contested ‘ways of knowing’ and that understanding the relationship between such ways and their products is as much an ethnographic problem as it is a philosophical one. Ways of knowing, as social practices, are also, more generally, ways of being or becoming and so are not, in my view, radically distinct from the ontologies they produce and reproduce. Phillipe Descola argues strongly that his four ‘ontologies’ are also schemas of practice, fundamental ways that people know, experience and inhabit the world. I think Van Meijl is mistaken, therefore, when he characterises the ontological turn in anthropology as being about different relations between mind and matter. For me, it is most significantly about the different ways that personhood or subjectivity can be understood and embodied.<br>

scholarly journals A philosophy of birth: if you want to change the world, change the conversation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Stella Villarmea
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Key Questions

This essay is about why and how we should introduce birth into the canon of subjects explored by philosophy. Birth care brings to the fore fascinating philosophical questions: is a woman in labour a subject with full rights in practice as well as in theory? Can a labouring woman exercise her autonomy in a situation of maximum vulnerability but also maximum lucidity and awareness, as characterises the work of giving birth? What is the relationship between agency, capacity, and pain during and between contractions? Birth care proposes key questions relating to knowledge, freedom, and what it means to be a human being. Nonetheless, giving birth continues to be a blind spot in contemporary prevailing philosophy. My approach to a philosophy of birth aligns with one of the aims of contemporary philosophy; I explore the relationship between knowledge and emancipatory action in the relatively unchartered waters of birth and delivery, to create an epistemology that is sensitive to feminism and embodiment. What I propose to achieve through a philosophy of birth is a new logos for genos —a radically new meditation on origin and birth. How we understand our origin and the practices that bring us into being reveals our humanity. The lived experiences of women and their situated knowledge challenge widely-held assumptions about rationality, about what it is to be a birthing woman and what it is to have agency and capacity in the delivery suite. A philosophy of birth enables us to navigate the stormy waters of contemporary obstetric practice towards a new and radical logos for genos —an embodied genealogy which not only redresses imbalances of gender, but also addresses life and happiness.

Badlands and the Music of Temporal Immanence

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-196
Author(s):  
Daniel Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Heterogeneous Film ◽  
Carl Orff ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Erik Satie ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Pure Immanence

As an eccentric outlaw crime film, Terrence Malick’s Badlands employs expressive sensory immersion, eccentric humor, and a concern for the relationship between history and human experience. The past, in Badlands, is a complex ontological ground for the characters’ (and audiences’) senses of being in the world, a temporalized film world akin to a field of pure immanence within the uncanny strangeness of material reality. A film set in the fifties, but far more concerned with transhistorical philosophical questions, Badlands uses the musical soundtrack to explore these existential concerns. Within this musically heterogeneous film, the two most important sources of compiled non-diegetic classical music (the pedagogical music of Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman and the early compositions of Erik Satie) function as active philosophical agents, cultivating embodied states of play and melancholy that strive, albeit ambiguously and inconclusively, to create meaning from the raw immediacy of experience.

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