Metaphilosophical Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Intentional State ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Wide Range

This chapter draws the discussion to a close by summarizing and further exploring some philosophical implications of the book’s overall position. Among other things, it addresses the nature of ‘belief’, and argues that this term, even when it is used in a restrictive and technical way, most likely accommodates a range of subtly different kinds of conviction, different ways of taking something to be the case. This applies not only to psychiatric illness, but also more generally. Issues are therefore raised for the practice of philosophy itself. When one is said to believe a philosophical claim, it is not always clear what kind of conviction is involved or, for that matter, which kinds of conviction are appropriate to which kinds of philosophical position. More generally, the structure of intentionality encompasses a wide range of different intentional state types and does not respect clear-cut, categorical distinctions between them. These subtleties are masked by certain uses of language, in philosophy and elsewhere. Reliance on univocal notions of ‘belief’, ‘desire’, and the like is thus rendered problematic.

Twenty-First-Century Realism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulka Anjaria
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
Literary Histories

Realism has a bad reputation in contemporary times. Generally thought to be an outdated mode that had its heyday in Victorian fiction, the French bourgeois novel, and pre-revolutionary Russian literature, literary histories tend to locate realism’s timely end in the ferment of interwar modernism and the rise of the avant-garde. Outside of the West, realism might be said to have met an even worse fate, as it was a mode explicitly presented to colonized societies as a vehicle of modernity, in opposition to what were deemed the poetic excesses, irrational temporalities, and/or oral-storytelling influences of indigenous literature. Yet despite this sense of realism’s outdatedness and political conservatism, the first decade-and-a-half of the 21st century has witnessed, across a wide range of literature and cultural production, what might be seen as a return to realism, not simply as a resistance to today’s new culture of heterogeneity and digitization but as a new way of imagining literary and political futures in a world increasingly lacking the clear-cut lines along which politics, history, and capitalism can be imagined. The arc of 21st-century realism can be seen through contemporary debates around the term, suggesting that considering 21st-century realism not as a residual mode or grouping of texts but as a particular perspective on literary futures—as the coming together, for instance, of unresolved and newer conflicts over relations of power and the politics of knowledge—offers a different story of global form making.

Prehistoric Llama Breeding and Herding on the North Coast of Peru

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody Shimada ◽  
Izumi Shimada
Keyword(s):  
North Coast ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Middle Horizon ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Early Horizon ◽  
Range Of Functions ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

There is no clear-cut consensus or reliable body of published data in the Andean literature indicating whether llamas were bred and herded on the prehistoric North Coast of Peru or periodically imported from the highlands. Based on four lines of evidence—ethnographic, archaeozoological, physiological, and ethnohistoric—we argue that llamas (and perhaps even alpacas) were successfully bred and maintained on the North Coast from the early Middle Horizon (ca. A.D. 600) and perhaps since the Early Horizon. More specifically, we discuss population structure, representation of body parts, climatic and dietary adaptability, and abundance of coastal forage. Both llamas and alpacas are physiologically well-adapted for the coastal environment and can efficiently process a wide range of forage. By the Middle Horizon, domestic camelids served a wide range of functions including transport, sacrifice, tools, and meat. Species identification, coastal herd management, effects of disease vectors, and other related issues are also discussed.

scholarly journals The ‘potential’ optative in Homeric Greek

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Willmott
Keyword(s):  
Clear Cut ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Modal Verb

AbstractWhen translating the ‘potential’ Homeric Greek optative into English, ‘could’ is often the best modal verb to use, to be preferred to the more usual ‘would’. I will argue that, in some cases, this reveals that the optative expresses what is termed in the literature ‘dynamic’ modality. Examining several examples in more detail I will claim that the optative expresses a wide range of meanings, the differences between which are subtle and not always clear-cut.

Schizophrenia and Selfhood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Interpersonal Trauma ◽  
Intentional State ◽  
Recent Application ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Modal Structure ◽  
Minimal Self ◽  
Auditory Verbal Hallucination ◽  
Specific Sense

This chapter introduces some of the central concepts, themes, and issues addressed in the book. First of all, it discusses the concept of ‘minimal self’ and its recent application to schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucination (AVH). Then it raises the question of whether minimal self includes only the sense of having some kind of experience or, in addition, a more specific sense of the type of intentional state one is in. A refined account of minimal self is proposed, according to which it centrally involves the latter: a grasp of the modalities of intentionality. It is further argued that certain anomalous experiences centrally involve disturbances of modal structure. Following this, the chapter considers an alternative account of AVHs, according to which they are diagnostically non-specific, meaningful symptoms of interpersonal trauma. In so doing, it stresses the need to place more emphasis on the interpersonal aspects of psychiatric illness, and shows how minimal self, as conceived of here, could turn out to be both developmentally and constitutively dependent on ways of relating to other people.

From Organisms to World Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
World Society ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Sociology Of Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article proposes to analyze the idea of organism and other closely related ideas (function, differentiation, etc.) using a combination of semantic fields analysis from conceptual history and the notion of boundary objects from the sociology of scientific knowledge. By tackling a wide range of source material, the article charts the nomadic existence of organism and opens up new vistas for an integrated history of the natural and human sciences. First, the boundaries are less clear-cut between disciplines like biology and sociology than previously believed. Second, a long and transdisciplinary tradition of talking about organismic and societal systems in highly functionalist terms comes into view. Third, the approach shows that conceptions of a world society in Niklas Luhmann's variant are not semantic innovations of the late twentieth century. Rather, their history can be traced back to organicist sociology and its forgotten pioneers, especially Albert Schäffle or Guillaume de Greef, during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

A Critical Essay on the Exercise of Critique

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steen Nepper Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Essay ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Vivid Dream ◽  
Conceptual Work

Ontology and epistemology will never be reconciled, this article argues. There is widespread opinion among scientists and laymen alike that we are standing at the threshold of a fusion and reconciliation of ontology (being, what the world is) and epistemology (acknowledgement theory, how the world is). But my thesis is that this will never happen – and my argument can be read as a credo for non-identity. The tensions between being and thinking are here to stay, and this philosophical ‘position’ has a wide range of implications for politics, education, Bildung and thinking. Strongly rooted in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno’s philosophy, it is claimed that he was right in emphasizing that the non-identical must be honored, defended and emancipated. The vivid dream is that conceptual work opens and ‘dignifies’ the non-identical, while the non-identical ‘longs for’ conceptual assistance so it can come to exist among us.

scholarly journals Re-imagining the dialogic spaces of talanoa through Samoan onto-epistemology

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Jacoba Matapo ◽  
Dion Enari
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Institutional Ethics ◽  
Research Protocols ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Relational Space

This article proposes a Samoan indigenous philosophical position to reconceptualise the dialogic spaces of talanoa; particularly how talanoa is applied methodologically to research practice. Talanoa within New Zealand Pacific research scholarship is problematised, raising particular tensions of the universal and humanistic ideologies that are entrenched within institutional ethics and research protocols. The dialogic relational space which is embedded throughout talanoa methodology is called into question, evoking alternative ways of knowing and being within the talanoa research assemblage[1] (including the material-world). Samoan epistemology reveals that nature is constituted within personhood (Vaai & Nabobo-Baba, 2017) and that nature is co-agentic with human in an ecology of knowing. We call for a shift in thinking material-ethics that opens talanoa to a materialist process ontology, where knowledge generation emerges through human and non-human encounters.     [1] The concept of assemblage developed by Deleuze and Guattari (1987) refers to a process of temporary arrangements or constellations of objects, expressions, bodies, qualities and territories that create new ways of functioning. The assemblage is a multiplicity shaped by a wide range of flows and emerges from the arranging process of heterogenous elements (Livesey, 2010).

scholarly journals Cytokines in Bipolar Disorder: Paving the Way for Neuroprogression

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Guimarães Barbosa ◽  
Moisés Evandro Bauer ◽  
Rodrigo Machado-Vieira ◽  
Antonio Lucio Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Postmortem Studies ◽  
Immune Imbalance ◽  
Immune Changes ◽  
Circulating Levels

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe, chronic, and recurrent psychiatric illness. It has been associated with high prevalence of medical comorbidities and cognitive impairment. Its neurobiology is not completely understood, but recent evidence has shown a wide range of immune changes. Cytokines are proteins involved in the regulation and the orchestration of the immune response. We performed a review on the involvement of cytokines in BD. We also discuss the cytokines involvement in the neuroprogression of BD. It has been demonstrated that increased expression of cytokines in the central nervous system in postmortem studies is in line with the elevated circulating levels of proinflammatory cytokines in BD patients. The proinflammatory profile and the immune imbalance in BD might be regarded as potential targets to the development of new therapeutic strategies.

scholarly journals Creating multiferroic and conductive domain walls in common ferroelastic compounds

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Jian Zhao ◽  
Jorge Íñiguez
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Domain Walls ◽  
Nano Materials ◽  
Ordered Structures ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Domain Structures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract Domain walls in ferroelectrics and ferroelastics often present peculiar functional properties, offering an intriguing route toward the design of nano-devices. Here we use first-principles simulations to illustrate an approach for engineering such walls, working with representative ferroelastic perovskites LaGaO3 and CaTiO3 (insulating, non-magnetic, non-polar). We show that a wide range of substitutional dopants can be used to create long-range-ordered structures confined within the walls of these compounds, yielding functional interfaces with tailor-made properties. We thus identify clear-cut strategies to produce metallic walls within an insulating matrix. Further, we find ways to create magnetic walls that also display ferroelectric order (proper or improper), thus providing an original route to obtain magnetoelectric multiferroics. Given the recent developments on the preparation of high-density domain structures in perovskite films, our results suggest a definite path toward new functional nano-materials.

scholarly journals Radio Observations of Moderately Compact Steep Spectrum Sources

1989 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Chidi Akujor ◽  
I.W.A. Browne ◽  
P.N. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Radio Galaxies ◽  
Radio Spectrum ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Radio Observations ◽  
Radio Structure ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Compact Sources

It is now common practice for objects with a steep radio spectrum and compact radio structure to be lumped together and called compact steep spectrum (CSS) sources (Peacock and Wall, 1982; van Breugel, 1984 Fanti et al. 1985). This rather arbitrary categorisation results in the class containing sources with a wide range of structures, from core-jet or complex (e.g. 3C147,3C48), small classical doubles (e.g. 3C237, 3C241), to VLBI compact doubles (e.g. CTD93; Phillips and Mutel, 1982). Some of the questions we are asking include: (a)Are compact sources intrinsically small, or do they appear small because they are seen in projection?(b)Why are structures in compact radio galaxies and compact radio quasars different? Wilkinson et al. (1984) and Spencer et al (1988, in preparation)have shown that there appears to be a ‘clear-cut’ difference in morphology between quasar CSS and galaxy CSS, with quasars showing more distortions while galaxies tend to be doubles. But is this trend present even in their slightly more-extended counterparts?

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