scholarly journals The Transformation of Ice-Candy-Man: Account of Partition Trauma in Cracking India

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Katariya ◽  
Priyanka Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Core ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Transition Stages ◽  
Traumatic Impact ◽  
Changing Society

This article aims to unveil the capricious transformation of the key figure, Ice-Candy-Man (named Dilnawaz) and the riotous traumatic impact of the Partition of India on his personality in Cracking India. The most arousing, poignant, efficacious figure Ice-Candy-Man of Bapsi Sidhwa’s magnum opus Cracking India traps the mind of the readers. Sidhwa, the original mark and a victim of the Partition in 1947, had sensed the brutal incidents which impaled her heart with pathos and enforced her to pen it down by presenting vivacious, colorful characters with autobiographical touches. The Ice-Candy-Man appears with a different disguise each time. Why did Sidhwa characterize him in such a specific and dynamic manner? His gestures, speech and even his transition stages and his every next footstep are the symbols and metaphors of the changing society during the traumatic events of Partition—they denote how an individual turns his course of life. His act of transformation is the core to unlocking Sidhwa’s magical world. Without analyzing the Ice-Candy-Man, all endeavors to interpret Sidhwa’s messages are futile.

Introduction

Giving a Damn ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zed Adams ◽  
Jacob Browning
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
The Core ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Authentic Life ◽  
Pittsburgh School

This introduction revisits a number of Haugeland’s most influential essays and organizes them around five themes: holism about the mental, the dependence of intentionality on sociality; the mind as embodied and extended; the essential normativity of objectivity and truth; and the existential commitment necessary for an authentic life. It demonstrates the centrality and interconnectedness of these themes through a close reading of Haugeland’s magnum opus, “Truth and Rule-Following.” The introduction also discusses the historical influence of these essays in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, Heidegger studies, and the development of the Pittsburgh School. It aims to encourage re-reading of Haugeland’s most important texts, as well as to compel philosophers to grapple with his guiding belief that giving a damn is at the core of what it means to be human.

The Form of the Phi Kernel

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Harbour
Keyword(s):  
Language Of Thought ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Evolution Of Mind ◽  
First Order Predicates

This chapter considers the broader lessons that might be drawn from the current study of person. It draws out the core commonalities between the person and number features that have been proposed: that features are “operations” richer than first-order predicates held together by conjunction; that they are not subject to extrinsic constraints on order of composition or co-occurrence; and that there are semantic and morphological grounds for representing features of both kinds bivalently. The consequences of this study might ramify beyond linguistics by altering our understanding of and means of investigating the language of thought and the nature and evolution of mind. The author asserts, contrary to widespread opinion, minds do leave fossils, but these are to be sought, not by paleoanthropologists sifting through the archeological record, but by cognitive scientists, including linguists, via our theories of the structure of the mind itself.

Introduction and Synopsis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Georges Rey
Keyword(s):  
Body Problem ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Theory ◽  
Mind Body Problem ◽  
The Mind

The book is divided into three parts1. Part I provides a somewhat novel exposition and defense of what I regard as the core ideas of a Chomskyan linguistic theory; Part II, a discussion of some of the core philosophical claims that surround it; and Part III, a more contentious discussion of the ultimate problem that concerns me: whether and how the core theory is committed to a philosophically troublesome notion of intentionality that is associated with the near ubiquitous term “representation.” The last chapter will conclude with a brief critical discussion of a few further philosophical views that Chomsky has expressed regarding the mind–body problem, which many might—mistakenly—take to be essential to his theory....

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Antognazza
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The Core ◽  
Practical Project ◽  
Scientific Advancement ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Good And Evil

The ‘Epilogue’ concludes that it is possible to trace important elements of Leibniz’s way of thinking back to many different traditions, all of them reshaped and remodelled with the help of conversations with many hundreds of individuals, into a strikingly original outlook. It was in order to explain the actual world as we experience it, and what good and evil we find in it, that Leibniz took us on a journey through possible worlds and the mind of God. This theoretical understanding was for him at the core of an ultimately practical project of scientific advancement for the benefit of humankind.

scholarly journals CONVEX AND CONCAVE: CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES IN PSYCHOLOGY, NOW AND THEN (BUT MAINLY THEN)

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Rylance
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Mental Phenomenon ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Victorian Psychology ◽  
Modern Thinking

MY TITLEis derived from G. H. Lewes's psychological magnum opusProblems of Life and Mind(1874–79). Lewes's image is a metaphor for the relation of mind to brain, or more generally of the mind to the nervous system: “every mental phenomenon has its corresponding neural phenomenon (the two being as convex and concave surfaces of the same sphere, distinguishable yet identical)” (Problems: First Series1: 112). His point is that, though the two entities can be analytically distinguished, they are as necessarily linked as the two surfaces of a bending plane. Like the recto and verso of a sheet of paper, or signifier and signified in the linguistic sign, one can make an interpretative separation of the two, but not an ontological one. It is a characteristically deft metaphor by Lewes to express a notoriously vexed relationship, not only in Victorian psychology but also in modern thinking today.

NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHS’ INFLUENCE ON MADE IN NIGERIA PRODUCTS PATRONAGE IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Owuamalam Emman-Owums ◽  
Chizoba P. Okonkwo ◽  
Stanley U. Ugboaja
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Mental Picture ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Core ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Made In

Pictures they say worth more than a thousand words. Photographs have gained a worldwide acceptance in terms of its usage in newspapers to stimulate the sales of goods and services based on its immense prowess to establish a mental picture in the mind of readers. This study examines newspaper photographs influence on made-in-Nigeria products patronage in Anambra State. The uses and gratifications theory was adopted as the core theoretical framework for this study. The study adopted survey research method with four hundred copies of questionnaire administered to respond-ents across five major cities in Anambra State. The study found that the regular usage of photographs on made-in-Nigeria product campaign by the newspapers have prompted many people to patronize locally made products. Therefore, this study rec-ommends that the use of photographs on made-in-Nigeria products’ campaign should be integrated or replicated on the various newspapers online platforms since majority of the respondents chose online, as their ideal source of accessing newspapers. Also, the study recommends that the federal government should ensure that the newspapers are constantly presenting pictures of quality made-in-Nigeria goods, so that readers’ will inadvertently get to associate these goods with quality and reliability.

The Illusion of Conscious Will

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Wegner ◽  
Daniel Gilbert ◽  
Thalia Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Conscious Will ◽  
Ouija Board

Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. The first edition of this book proposed an innovative and provocative answer: the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain; it helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, the book says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion (“the most compelling illusion”), it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. This new edition includes a foreword and an introduction. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, the book examines cases both when people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing and when they are not willing an act that they in fact are doing in such phenomena as hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, and dissociative identity disorder. The author's argument was immediately controversial (called “unwarranted impertinence” by one scholar) but also compelling, and the book has been called the author's magnum opus.

scholarly journals Mirrors and Windows

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-107
Author(s):  
Ismail Serageldin
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
Shared Social Values ◽  
The Mind

On BoundariesFmntiets are an invention of the mind. We set boundaries for ourselvesand others by what we choose to see as reality and by what wechoose to value. But men and women are social creatures, and individualbehavior is subjected to the control of widely shared social values. Theseboundaries that define the limits of acceptable behavior also tend toreflect and reinforce limits on acceptable thinking.How are such social values developed? How do they change overtime? The intelligentsiaartists and intellectuals-create mirrors throughwhich we see outselves and windows through which we perceive reality.It is these mims and windows that define the boundaries of the mind.The intelligentsia's roleboth as makets of a cultual outlook and productof the milieu-is central to my view of what is happening in the worldgenerally and in the Muslim societies of the Middle East particularly.These important questions will appear throughout this essay like a leitmotif.The intelligentsia needs a space offreedom in which it can performits dual tole and shape the boundaries by which we define ourselves.Are such boundaries important? They cettainly are. Shared values reflectedin predictable behavior not only are the basis of all social organizationbut are at the core of "cultural identity"a hackneyed expressionthat nevertheless remains essential to anyone who lives in a group.' Yetindividuals within a group are not clones, interchangeable units within acollectivity. Each petson interacts with others in an expanding series ofcircles starting with high intensity vis-his the immediate family circleand with decreasing intensity to the limit of the group(s) with which theindividual identifies ...

scholarly journals SIMULACRA ASAS PRADUGA TIDAK BERSALAH DALAM INGSUTAN KEWENANGAN PRAPERADILAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rustamaji
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
New World ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Presumption Of Innocence ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Core ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
The Mind

<p align="center"><em>A</em><em>b</em><em>s</em><em>tr</em><em>ac</em><em>t</em></p><p><em>d</em><em>i</em><em>e</em><em>d</em><em>. ‘New World’ which Baudrillard calls the ‘Galactic Simulacra’, was struck all life aspects, including law. Dialectics about the pretrial judge over status of a suspect several times ago which is better known as Sarpin’s Effect, and has been abolished with the appearance of  The Constitutional Court Decision Number 21 / PUU-XII / 2014, shows how the reality of the presumption of innocence (APTB) often turns into hyperreality in the application of national law APTB at the pretrial stage, which applies only in textual various issues surrounding the complexity of the legal reality. The competition between the presumption of guilt and innocence, the legal and factual concept in the minds of law enforcement, as well as human values that precede the legality brooded in the Pancasila revolution ala Indonesia human rights, failed to be described due to the simplifying of Presumption of Innocence in monofacet. Therefore, Presumption of Innocence as one of the principles at the core of the formal criminal law, according to Satjipto Rahardjo, it is proper to be conceived as a law manner that does not just stop at reading the text, but continues with the action or human effort. An effort that certainly draining the mind, empathy and courage, which is not purely alles binnen de cadre van de wet.</em></p><p><em>K</em><em>e</em><em>y Words : Presumption of Innocence, normativity, contextuality, the Indonesian way, pretrial</em></p><p align="center">Abstrak</p><p>Jean Baudrillard melalui <em>Simulacra and Simulation </em>(1981) membuat rancangan pikir yang memprediksi bahwa realitas pada akhirnya telah mati. ‘Dunia baru’ yang Baudrillard sebut sebagai ‘Galaksi Simulacra’, ternyata melanda seluruh aspek kehidupan tidak terkecuali hukum. Dialektika tentang praperadilan yang mengadili status tersangka beberapa waktu lalu yang lebih dikenal sebagai <em>Sarpin’s Effect</em>, dan dipungkasi dengan munculnya Putusan MK Nomor 21/PUU-XII/2014, menunjukkan betapa realitas asas praduga tidak bersalah (APTB) acapkali berubah menjadi hiperealitas dalam penerapan hukum nasional. APTB pada tahap praperadilan yang hanya diterapkan secara tekstual dan dipisahlepaskan dari konteksnya, hukumnya. Persaingan antara praduga bersalah dan tidak bersalah, maupun kesenjangan <em>legal concept </em>dan <em>factual concept </em>dalam benak penegak hukum, serta nilai kemanusiaan yang mendahului legalitas yang diperam dalam revolusi Pancasila ala HAM Indonesia, gagal tergambar akibat penyedehanaan APTB yang monofaset. Oleh karenanya, APTB sebagai salah satu asas yang menjadi inti dalam hukum pidana formil, menurut Satjipto Rahardjo, sudah selayaknya dikonsepsikan sebagai cara berhukum yang tidak hanya berhenti pada membaca teks, tetapi melanjutkannya dengan aksi atau usaha (<em>effort</em>) manusia. Suatu usaha yang tentu saja menguras energi, baik pikiran maupun empati dan keberanian yang tidak semata-mata bersifat alles binnen de kader van de wet.</p><p>Kata kunci: asas praduga tidak bersalah, normativitas, kontekstualitas, keindonesiaan, praperadilan.</p>

Rationalism, optimism, and the moral mind

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quinn Hiroshi Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Complementary Strategy

Abstract I welcome many of the conclusions of May's book, but I offer a suggestion – and with it what I take to be a complementary strategy – concerning the core commitments of rationalism across the domains of moral psychology in the hopes of better illuminating why a rationalist picture of the mind can deliver us from pessimism.

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