scholarly journals Two schemas for metaphysical emergence

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-74
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Proper Subset ◽  
Base Level ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Causal Overdetermination

Wilson presents the problem of higher-level causation (Kim 1989, 1993, 1998), according to which metaphysical emergence gives rise to problematic causal overdetermination. She argues that there are two and only two strategies of response to this problem of making sense of metaphysical emergence. One strategy provides a schematic basis for ‘Weak’ (physically acceptable) emergence; core and crucial here is that a macro-entity or feature has a proper subset of the powers of its base-level configuration. The other strategy provides a schematic basis for ‘Strong’ (physically unacceptable) emergence; core and crucial here is that a macro-entity or feature has a new power as compared to its base-level configuration. Wilson shows that a range of seemingly diverse accounts of metaphysical emergence are plausibly seen as satisfying the conditions in one or the other schema, and thus are more unified than they appear.

scholarly journals Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking During COVID-19 Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette N. Markham ◽  
Anne Harris ◽  
Mary Elizabeth Luka
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Ongoing Experiment

How does this pandemic moment help us to think about the relationships between self and other, or between humans and the planet? How are people making sense of COVID-19 in their everyday lives, both as a local and intimate occurrence with microscopic properties, and a planetary-scale event with potentially massive outcomes? In this paper we describe our approach to a large-scale, still-ongoing experiment involving more than 150 people from 26 countries. Grounded in autoethnography practice and critical pedagogy, we offered 21 days of self guided prompts to for us and the other participants to explore their own lived experience. Our project illustrates the power of applying a feminist perspective and an ethic of care to engage in open ended collaboration during times of globally-felt trauma.

The wrong side of the spreadsheets: a life in the digital humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Wrong Side ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to reflect on both the technological and the humanities aspects of working in the digital humanities. Design/methodology/approach The author completed her academic career as Professor of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of Brighton, UK. In terms of approach, she looks back over 25 years of working in this domain, which she entered as a scientist in contrast to most of the other academics at that time who came from the humanities. She delineates her academic journey that passed through various disciplines/fields. Findings The author reflects upon her entire career, starting with decisions made at school, to see how they have affected her contribution to DH. She concludes that a deep understanding of technological issues is fundamental to making sense of such complex fields as Big Data and its effect on humanities research in particular and society in general. She also draws attention to the loss of several highly technical, specialised and practical DH teams, which were replaced with ones whose focus is on DH discourse. Originality/value The author is writing as one of the very few scientists who belonged to the new area of history and computing in the mid-1990s.

The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-38
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Blood Disorder ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork

Relations within are quintessential in anthropological fieldwork — and in archipelagos in particular. The domestic sea is incorporated in the national consciousness connecting an archipelagic nation but distinguishing individual islands with a strong emphasis on the centre. The Maldivian archipelago displays this spatial organization of a socio-political and economic centre and a dependent island periphery. In the national consciousness, the capital island, Male', contrasts with “the islands” — a distinction which is particularly evident in the public health sphere, where striving for health equity encounters geographical and socio-political obstacles. Using the topic of the inherited blood disorder thalassaemia as a magnifying lens, this paper asks how different actors are making sense of health inequities between central and outer islands in the Maldivian archipelago. Intra-archipelagic and international mobilities add to the complexities of topological relations, experiences, and representations within this multi-island assemblage. Yet, my study of archipelagic health relations is not confined to a mere outside look at the construction of the ‘island other’ within the archipelagic community. It is a situated investigative gaze on disjunctures, connections, and entanglements, reflecting my methodological-theoretical attempt to unravel my own involvement in island–island relations and representations — my being entangled while investigating entanglements.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Infants’ Differential Responses to Incongruity

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Gina C. Mireault ◽  
Vasudevi Reddy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Differential Responses ◽  
Violation Of Expectation ◽  
Contextual Differences

Infants show strikingly different reactions to incongruity: looking or smiling. The former occurs in response to magical events and the latter to humorous events. We argue that these reactions depend largely on the respective experimental methodologies employed, including the popular violation of expectation (VOE) paradigm. Although both types of studies involve infants’ reactions to incongruity, their literatures have yet to confront each other, and researchers in each domain are drawing strikingly different conclusions regarding infants’ understanding of the world. Here, we argue that infants are sensitive to and constrained by several contextual differences in the methodologies employed by incongruity researchers that afford one or the other reaction. We apply De Jaegher and Di Paolo’s participatory sense-making framework to further understand what infants are sensitive to in these paradigms. Understanding infants’ reactions to incongruity (i.e., VOE) is necessary to clear up claims regarding the sophistication of their knowledge of physical and social phenomena. Attention to several simple methodological details is recommended.

separating groundwater response to climate and anthropogenic changes using long-term groundwater head time series in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Zaadnoordijk
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
Base Level ◽  
Groundwater Head ◽  
Groundwater Response ◽  
Groundwater Regime

<div>A set of time series has been investigated which spans more than 50 years of groundwater head measurements throughout the Netherlands.<br>The relation between the groundwater head and precipitation and evaporation has been established using linear transfer noise modeling. This has been done for each entire series and for parts. The latter to detect base level changes and other groundwater regime changes.</div><div>In addition, trends in the other components of the groundwater heads have been investigated as well as possible non linearities in the groundwater response.</div><div>The link is explored between the trends and regime changes from the time series models on one hand and anthropogenic (land use) changes and climate change on the other hand.</div><div> </div>

scholarly journals Approximations of continuous functions by squares

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-366
Author(s):  
Paul D. Humke ◽  
Miklós Laczkovich
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Function ◽  
Borel Subset ◽  
Continuous Functions ◽  
Geometric Characterization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Proper Subset ◽  
Space Of Continuous Functions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Decreasing Functions ◽  
Function Mapping

AbstractLet C denote the space of continuous functions mapping [0,1] into itself and endowed with the sup metric. It has been shown that C2 = {f ∘ f: ∈ C} is an analytic but non-Borel subset of C. This implies that there is no simple geometric characterization for a function being a square. In this paper we consider the problem of characterizing those functions which can be approximated by squares. In the first section we prove that any continuous function mapping a closed proper subset of [0,1 ] into [0,1 ] can be extended to a square. In particular this shows that C2 is Lp dense in C. On the other hand, C2 does not contain a ball when C is endowed with the sup metric. In the second section we prove that no strictly decreasing function can be uniformly approximated by squares, although the distance between the class of strictly decreasing functions and C2 is zero. In the last section we investigate the function f(x) = 1 − x and show that for every g ∈ C and that ¼ cannot be improved.

scholarly journals Mening med vrøvlet

Barnboken ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus K. Madsen ◽  
Lea Allouche
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
First Case ◽  
The One ◽  
Acoustic Phenomenon

Making Sense of Nonsense: Readings of Children’s Poetry as Play and Creative Thinking Abstract: Nonsense and meaning are not necessarily conflicting concepts, but can be conceived of as a hendiadys, that is, not opposites, the one or the other, but as one and the other. The idea that meaning and nonsense are related and coexist is a premise for this article, which describes different structures of meaning in the nonsense poetry of Birgitte Krogsbøll and Kamilla Wichmann’s picture book Funkelgnister: Rim, råb og remser (2015, Glittersparks: Rhymes, Roars and Rigmaroles). By linking our analysis of Funkelgnister to Johan Huizinga’s theory of play as a prerequisite for culture, we reveal how the specific structures and logics of the poems generate meaning and thereby we disclose how children’s nonsense poetry is simultaneously meaningful and nonsensical, as a creative thinking akin to culture developed through play and playfulness. We describe how meaning can be sought in three directions, suggested by Gilles Deleuze: above, below and on the surface. In the first case, we consider nonsense as a seductive acoustic phenomenon. In the second, we focus on nonsense poetry as subversive. And finally, in the third case, we show how it is an event. In all, these different aspects demonstrate how nonsense poetry functions as play and challenges our understanding of what it means to read. Following Jurij Lotman’s understanding of pictorial language as creative thinking, we show how nonsense in Funkelgnister opens up a free space by utilizing an in-between, where meaning takes on different forms as signs and sounds, and how the inherent rejection of normative rules of reading in such a venture, initiates a production of meaning as metonymic activity. We thereby highlight how nonsense generates a ground for a creative development of meaning. 

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