scholarly journals empirically testable causal mechanism for divine action

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-282
Author(s):  
Arlyn Culwick
Keyword(s):  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Necessary Being ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Second Person Perspective

A form of special divine action often considered central to the everyday experience of Christianity is that of a personal interaction with God. For example, in The Second Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics, Andrew Pinsent characterises this interaction in terms of mutually empathic relations that serve to “infuse” virtues and other attributes into a person. Such interaction requires that causal relations exist between a necessary being and the contingent universe. This paper addresses a central problem of special divine action: that the empirically identifiable causes of physical events are modally ill-suited for (and epistemically distinct from) the action of an eternal, non-composite, necessary being. Accounts of what brings about physical events are standardly empirical accounts, grounded upon experience of the world.

Gender Indeterminacy in Translation: the Case of R. L. Stine’s Give Yourself Goosebumps Gamebooks via Portuguese Translation

2018 ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Ana Brígida Paiva
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The North ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Second Person Perspective ◽  
Neutral Language

As works of fction, gamebooks offer narrative-bound choices – the reader generally takes on the role of a character inserted in the narrative itself, with gamebooks consequently tending towards being a story told in the second-person perspective. In pursuance of this aim, they can, in some cases, adopt gender-neutral language as regards grammatical gender, which in turn poses a translation challenge when rendering the texts into Portuguese, a language strongly marked by grammatical gender. Stemming from an analysis of a number of gamebooks in R. L. Stine’s popular Give Yourself Goosebumps series, this article seeks to understand how gender indeterminacy (when present) is kept in translation, while examining the strategies used to this effect by Portuguese translators – and particularly how ideas of implied readership come into play in the dialogue between the North-American and Portuguese literary systems.

scholarly journals Integrating qualitative research methodologies and phenomenology—using dancers’ and athletes’ experiences for phenomenological analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Ravn
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
Emic Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective

AbstractThis paper sets out from the hypothesis that the embodied competences and expertise which characterise dance and sports activities have the potential to constructively challenge and inform phenomenological thinking. While pathological cases present experiences connected to tangible bodily deviations, the specialised movement practices of dancers and athletes present experiences which put our everyday experiences of being a moving body into perspective in a slightly different sense. These specialised experiences present factual variations of how moving, sensing and interacting can be like for us as body-subjects. To use of these sources inevitably demands that qualitative research methodologies – especially short-term ethnographical fieldwork – form part of the research strategy and qualify the way the researcher involves a second-person perspective when interviewing dancers and athletes about their experiences. In the subsequent phases analysing the data generated, I argue that researchers first strive to achieve internal consistency of empirical themes identified in the case of movement practices in question thus keeping to a contextualised and lived perspective, also denoted as an emic perspective. In subsequent phases phenomenological insights are then actively engaged in the exploration and discussion of the possible transcendental structures making the described subjective experiences possible. The specialised and context-defined experiences of ‘what a moving body can be like’ are accordingly involved as factual variations to constructively add to and potentially challenge phenomenological descriptions. Lastly, I exemplify how actual research strategies have been enacted in a variety of projects involving professional dancers’, golfers’ and sports dancers’ practices and experiences, respectively.

Enchantment

2020 ◽  
pp. 982-995
Author(s):  
Scott Burnham ◽  
Gordon Graham
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Material World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Descriptive Language ◽  
Piano Prelude

In this essay, a philosopher (Graham) and a music analyst (Burnham) explore the nature of music’s power to enchant. Graham establishes this enchantment as the result of a desirable relocation into an alternative sonic world that nevertheless shares important features with the everyday material world. The huge range of descriptive language that music is able to sustain, including temporal and spatial terms, reveals the tangential relationship of music to the world of everyday experience, while more specifically musical terms (for example, cadenza) show that music operates as a truly different world. Burnham elaborates on the emotional rewards of relocation into the world of music by describing our investment in two specific musical worlds, a brief Chopin piano prelude and Barber’s Adagio for Strings. We are eager to be put under the spell of such pieces because relocations into the enchanted worlds of music ultimately anchor and enhance our sense of self.

Talking to each other and talking together: Joint language tasks and degrees of interactivity

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Gambi ◽  
Martin J. Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective

AbstractA second-person perspective in neuroscience is particularly appropriate for the study of communication. We describe how the investigation of joint language tasks can contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying interaction.

scholarly journals Mental Attribution in Interaction: How the Second Person Perspective dissolves the Problem of Other Minds

Daímon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Gomila Benejam ◽  
Diana Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Classical Problem ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Simple Addition ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Traditional Problem ◽  
Problem Of Other Minds ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second Person Perspective

In this paper, we will address the question of the impact of the second person perspective of psychological attribution on the traditional problem of knowing other minds. With that purpose in mind, we will introduce the notion of a second-personal perspective of mental attribution within the context of the classical problem of other minds, and discuss the epistemic and ontological implications that follow once the second person perspective is honored. In particular, we will examine how its recognition transforms the traditional problem of other minds, both in its epistemological, ontological and semantical dimensions, and offers a way to go beyond the objective/subjective dichotomy of Modern Philosophy. A proper notion of intersubjectivity, we will argue, is not a simple addition to this dichotomy, but it offers the way to get over the traditional philosophical problems that follow from this modern philosophical paradigm.

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