scholarly journals Presentación del número monográfico sobre Expressing Hatred: The Political Dimension of Expressives

Daímon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Pérez Navarro ◽  
María José Frapolli Sanz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Fitting In

Desde hace unos años, se ha producido dentro de la filosofía analítica un movimiento de acercamiento a las prácticas reales y de huida de las idealizaciones no justificadas que pretende poner las herramientas conceptuales desarrolladas durante el último siglo al servicio de la justicia social. En el ámbito de la filosofía del lenguaje, este giro ha pasado por el análisis de expresiones del lenguaje natural que, por no encajar de forma completamente satisfactoria con la concepción del significado como condiciones de verdad, han recibido tradicionalmente poca atención. Sin embargo, estas expresiones juegan un papel fundamental en la comunicación con impacto político. Hablamos de los expresivos, esto es, expresiones que se utilizan para comunicar una cierta actitud. El propósito de este número especial de Daimon es ofrecer una panorámica de algunos debates que se están desarrollando en la actualidad en relación con la dimensión política de los expresivos, pero también de discusiones cercanas que en ocasiones se solapan con esta, tanto en filosofía del lenguaje como en ramas de la filosofía afines. For some years now, there has been a movement within analytic philosophy to get closer to real practices and to flee from unwarranted idealizations in order to put the conceptual tools developed over the last century at the service of social justice. In the field of philosophy of language, this turn has involved the analysis of natural language expressions that, not fitting in a completely satisfactory way with the conception of meaning as truth conditions, have traditionally received little attention. However, these expressions play a fundamental role in communication with political impact. We are talking about expressives, that is, expressions that are used to communicate a certain attitude. The purpose of this special issue of Daimon is to offer an overview of some of the debates that are currently taking place in relation to the political dimension of expressives, but also of related discussions that sometimes overlap with it, both in philosophy of language and in related branches of philosophy.

Taking Frege at his Word

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Work

Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy. As standardly read, he meant to introduce—and make crucial contributions to—the project of giving an account of the workings of (an improved version of) natural language. Yet, despite the great admiration most contemporary philosophers feel for Frege, it is widely believed that he committed a large number of serious, and inexplicable, blunders. For, if Frege really meant to be constructing a theory of the workings of (some version of) natural language, then a significant number of his stated views—including views that he claimed to be central to his philosophical picture—are straightforwardly wrong. But did Frege mean to be giving an account of the workings of language? Frege himself never actually claimed to be doing this. Taking Frege at his Word offers an interpretation that is based on a different approach to his writings. Rather than using the contributions he is taken to have made to contemporary work in the philosophy of language to infer what his projects were, Taking Frege at his Word gives priority to Frege’s own accounts of what he means to be doing. The upshot is a very different view of Frege’s project. One might suspect that Frege’s writings would have purely antiquarian interest. But this would be a mistake. The final two chapters show that Frege offers us new ways of addressing some of the philosophical problems that worry us today.

scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Beate Reinertsen ◽  
Louise Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Traditional Notion ◽  
Leadership Management ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
Methodological Tool

 This special issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodologies: Writing Organizations: Management, Leadership and Appraisal presents to readers seven articles with particular focus on ‘writing’ as a methodological tool. As guest editors, what encounters were we opening to/up when we invited contributions on writing as a methodological tool and writing about being/becoming in assemblages of leadership, management and appraisal? We hoped for a shift, an unsettling of what was thought of as ‘writing’. Semetsky and Stables draw on the concept of edusemiotics to challenge the traditional notion of writing; "While more often than not signs are taken as solely linguistic and in compliance with analytic philosophy of language, edusemiotics includes images, pictures and, indeed, anything that potentially signifies ..." (2014, p. 1)1. We called contributors to consider ‘writing’ as various edusemiotic, nomadic, embodied and embedded, artistic and scholarly gestures, experimentations, playful interventions, exchanges, encounters, ruminations, rhizomatic entanglements and practical philosophical discussions.

scholarly journals Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 435-451
Author(s):  
Daniel Jackson ◽  
Filippo Trevisan ◽  
Emma Pullen ◽  
Michael Silk
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sport Communication ◽  
Sports Communication

In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice.

scholarly journals Who aspires to be a scientist/who is allowed in science? Science identity as a lens to exploring the political dimension of the nature of science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Avraamidou ◽  
Renee Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Research Areas

AbstractOur purpose in this paper is to put forward an argument about both the need and the value for understanding how the constructs of science identity and the nature of science (NOS) might intersect and intertwine and offer useful insights about science participation in times of crises. Based on our knowledge and understanding of these two research areas, we maintain that science identity research has not been fully engaged in understanding how perspectives on NOS might be intersecting with the questions of who can be (or not) a scientist and who is allowed (or not) in science. In this paper, we argue that the formation of a disrupting science identity that challenges existing constructed systems of power in science, requires robust understandings of NOS that place emphasis on the socially-produced narratives about science and scientists. In doing so, we engage with the following questions: (a) How have understandings of NOS contributed to conceptualizations of who can be a scientist and who is recognized as a scientist? (b) How have these conceptualizations contributed to producing exclusionary narratives and perpetuating inequalities in science? and, (c) How might an exploration of NOS through the lens of science identity be used to promote goals related to equity and social justice?

scholarly journals Representing Regions, Challenging Bicameralism: An Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. I-IX ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gamper
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Functional Design ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Conference Papers

Abstract This special issue publishes a number of conference papers presented at the conference ‘Representing Regions, Challenging Bicameralism’ that took place on 22 and 23 March 2018 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In this issue, the developments of European bicameral parliaments in (quasi-)federal states are dealt with as well as the political impact of shared rule and alternative models to second chambers. Several papers compare the organizational and functional design of territorial second chambers. Finally, closer examination is given to the EU’s Committee of Regions and the second chambers in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

Introduction to the Science of Meaning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Ball ◽  
Brian Rabern
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
Dynamic Semantics ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Natural Language Semantics ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Compositional Model ◽  
Language Semantics ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus

This Introduction aims to acquaint the reader with some of the main views on the foundations of natural language semantics, to discuss the type of phenomena semanticists study, and to give some basic technical background in compositional model-theoretic semantics necessary to understand the chapters in this collection. Topics discussed include truth conditions, compositionality, context-sensitivity, dynamic semantics, the relation of formal semantic theories to the theoretical apparatus of reference and propositions current in much philosophy of language, what semantic theories aim to explain, realism, the metaphysics of language and different views of the relation between languages and speakers, and the epistemology of semantics.

Disjunction–Conjunction–Disillusionment

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Andreas Heuser
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
West African ◽  
The Political ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
African Countries ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Presidential Regimes ◽  
The 1960S

In Pentecostal political theology in Africa, there has been a movement from Pentecostal disjunction from state and society towards conjunction on governance levels. This eventually led to disillusionment with Pentecostal policymaking, both within African Pentecostal milieus and public discourses. The entrance of Pentecostal actors onto the political stage in African countries dates back to the transformative years from 1989 to 1993, in which democratic movements all over the continent were challenging autocratic presidential regimes. This era has been termed in political science the “second democratization” after the immediate postcolonial era of nation building in the 1960s. Almost invisible before, Pentecostal political impact was growing enormously and transformed into varied efforts to ‘pentecostalize’ governance since the turn of the millennium. In view of selected West African political cultures and Kenya discussed in this special issue of Nova Religio, a dialectics in Pentecostal visions of politics becomes obvious: The diversity of political strategies testifies to African Pentecostal potency in public discourses, but once entangled in actual policymaking, Pentecostal praxis discredits self-images of superiority in politics.

Special issue on the political impact of metaphors

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Perrez ◽  
Min Reuchamps
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Impact

scholarly journals The Political Dimension of Byron’s “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill”

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Savo Karam
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Impact

Byron‘s major poems, such as Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan, and others, are unmistakably flavored with political satire. It is therefore puzzling that a number of literary critics, with the exception of Malcolm Kelsall, Michael Foot, and Tom Mole, have avoided commenting in any significant manner on the political dimension of Byron‘s ―An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill,‖ a poem which is emphatically responsible for identifying him as a vibrant, political poet. In his ode, Byron demonstrates his capacity to fuse his political notions with a poetic sensitivity extending beyond rhyming verses. In this respect, the purpose of this paper is to position Byron‘s ode in its appropriate historical and literary frame, to examine its political affiliations, and to highlight the role Byron plays in displaying a synthesis between politics and poetics, a role cautiously avoided by other Romantic poets. Malcolm Kelsall claims in Byron’s Politics that Byron‘s poetry had essentially made no substantial political impact (50). Similarly, Michael Foot in The Politics of Paradise contends that Byron‘s political fervor ―existed independently of his poetry‖ (Qtd. in Coe para. 9). I differ with both and tend to agree with Tom Mole‘s assessment that Byron‘s ―An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill‖ is principally responsible for exhibiting him as a poet of an unmistakable political disposition.

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