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- (1 other version)Classifying Genetic Essentialist Biases using Large Language Models.Ritsaart Reimann,Kate E. Lynch,Stefan A.Gawronski,Jack Chan &Paul E. Griffiths -forthcoming -Review of Philosophy and Psychology:1-31.The rapid rise of generative AI, including LLMs, has prompted a great deal of concern, both within and beyond academia. One of these concerns is that generative models embed, reproduce, and therein potentially perpetuate all manner of bias. The present study offers an alternative perspective: exploring the potential of LLMs to detect bias in human generated text. Our target is genetic essentialism in obesity discourse in Australian print media. We develop and deploy an LLM-based classification model to evaluate a large (...) sample of relevant articles (n = ∼26,000). We show that our model detects genetic essentialist biases as reliably as human experts; and find that, while genes figure less prominently in popular discussions of obesity than previous work might suggest, when genetic information is invoked, it is often presented in a biased way. Implications for future work are discussed. (shrink)
- Measuring the Unmeasurable.Stefan L. K. Gruijters &Bram P. I. Fleuren -2018 -Human Nature 29 (1):33-44.Within evolutionary biology, life-history theory is used to explain cross-species differences in allocation strategies regarding reproduction, maturation, and survival. Behavioral scientists have recently begun to conceptualize such strategies as a within-species individual characteristic that is predictive of behavior. Although life history theory provides an important framework for behavioral scientists, the psychometric approach to life-history strategy measurement—as operationalized by K-factors—involves conceptual entanglements. We argue that current psychometric approaches attempting to identify K-factors are based on an unwarranted conflation of functional descriptions and (...) proximate mechanisms—a conceptual mix-up that may generate unviable hypotheses and invites misinterpretation of empirical findings. The assumptions underlying generic psychometric methodology do not allow measurement of functionally defined variables; rather these methods are confined to Mayr’s proximate causal realm. We therefore conclude that K-factor scales lack validity, and that life history strategy cannot be identified with psychometrics as usual. To align theory with methodology, suggestions for alternative methods and new avenues are proposed. (shrink)No categories
- Spotting When Algorithms Are Wrong.Stefan Buijsman &Herman Veluwenkamp -2023 -Minds and Machines 33 (4):541-562.Users of sociotechnical systems often have no way to independently verify whether the system output which they use to make decisions is correct; they are epistemically dependent on the system. We argue that this leads to problems when the system is wrong, namely to bad decisions and violations of the norm of practical reasoning. To prevent this from occurring we suggest the implementation of defeaters: information that a system is unreliable in a specific case (undercutting defeat) or independent information that (...) the output is wrong (rebutting defeat). Practically, we suggest to design defeaters based on the different ways in which a system might produce erroneous outputs, and analyse this suggestion with a case study of the risk classification algorithm used by the Dutch tax agency. (shrink)
- Converging evidence: Bringing together experimental and corpus data on the association of verbs and constructions.Stefan Th Gries,Beate Hampe &Doris Schönefeld -2005 -Cognitive Linguistics 16 (4):635-676.Much recent work in Cognitive Linguistics and neighbouring disciplines has adopted a so-called usage-based perspective in which generalizations are based on the analysis of authentic usage data provided by computerized corpora. However, the analysis of such data does not always utilize methodological findings from other disciplines to avoid analytical pitfalls and, at the same time, generate robust results. A case in point is the strategy of using corpus frequencies. In this paper, we take up a recently much debated issue from (...) construction grammar concerning the association between verbs and argument-structure constructions, and investigate a construction, the English as-predicative, in order to test the predictive power of different kinds of frequency data against that of a recent, more refined corpus-based approach, the so-called collexeme analysis. To that end, the results of the application of these corpus-based approaches to an analysis of the as predicative are compared with the results of a sentence-completion experiment. Concerning the topic under consideration, collexeme analysis is not only shown to be superior on a variety of theoretical and methodological grounds, it also significantly outperforms frequency as a predictor of subjects’ production preferences. We conclude by pointing out some implications for usage-based approaches. (shrink)
- Learning the Natural Numbers as a Child.Stefan Buijsman -2017 -Noûs 53 (1):3-22.How do we get out knowledge of the natural numbers? Various philosophical accounts exist, but there has been comparatively little attention to psychological data on how the learning process actually takes place. I work through the psychological literature on number acquisition with the aim of characterising the acquisition stages in formal terms. In doing so, I argue that we need a combination of current neologicist accounts and accounts such as that of Parsons. In particular, I argue that we learn the (...) initial segment of the natural numbers on the basis of the Fregean definitions, but do not learn the natural number structure as a whole on the basis of Hume's principle. Therefore, we need to account for some of the consistency of our number concepts with the Dedekind-Peano axioms in other terms. (shrink)
- On the Possibility of a Wittgensteinian Account of Moral Certainty.Stefan Rummens -2013 -Philosophical Forum 44 (2):125-147.
- Fatale Orthodoxie: Kritische Theorie auf der schiefen Bahn des Dezisionismus Eine Replik auf Fabian Freyenhagen.Roman Yos &Stefan Müller-Doohm -2018 -Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 66 (6):788-801.Our reply to Fabian Freyenhagen’s article “Was ist orthodoxe Kritische Theorie?” (DZPhil 65.3 [2017], 456-469) raises the question whether his proposal that Critical Theory only “be adequately and appropriately critical” without a program of justification spares the search for any general criteria. Answering negatively we conversely want to recall, particularly with regard to Horkheimers’s and Adornos’s Dialectic of Enlightment as well as Habermas‘s concept of an emancipatory interest, that such a criterion as a normative foundation of critique is crucial not (...) only for systematical purposes, but also recognised as necessary in this respect by Adorno, who Freyenhagen wants to play off against programs of justification. Critical Theory needs to be clear in this respect. Against this background we are questioning Freyenhagen‘s recourse to an “interest in abolishing social injustice” as the “only criterion for Critical Theory.” Because Freyenhagen ignores the fact that Critical Theory has been understood by its representatives in a twofold manner – as a theoretical program of justification for one and secondly as a cultural diagnosis – his plea for an orthodox Critical Theory is endangered by decisionism. (shrink)No categories
- Our Science Must Establish Itself.Stefan Reiners -2020 -Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (1):234-253.Often denied scientific status, Völkerpsychologie was set forth as a psychological program endeavoring to find insights into the structure and content of the ‘mind’ of social groups, especially ‘peoples’, which were regarded as the prototypical manifestation of those groups. This article examines how Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal’s nineteenth-century Völkerpsychologie came to be regarded as having the status of a science, by analyzing its scientific program. I claim that these founders of Völkerpsychologie developed a moderate methodological materialism by embracing a (...) historical turn in psychology, which—to a degree—enabled a synthesis of the methodologies of the social and the natural sciences. This approach is correlated with their modus operandi, collaboration through the medium of a journal. (shrink)
- Cognitive Strategies and Natural Environments Interact in Influencing Executive Function.Stefan C. Bourrier,Marc G. Berman &James T. Enns -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- How Do We Semantically Individuate Natural Numbers?†.Stefan Buijsman -forthcoming -Philosophia Mathematica.ABSTRACT How do non-experts single out numbers for reference? Linnebo has argued that they do so using a criterion of identity based on the ordinal properties of numerals. Neo-logicists, on the other hand, claim that cardinal properties are the basis of individuation, when they invoke Hume’s Principle. I discuss empirical data from cognitive science and linguistics to answer how non-experts individuate numbers better in practice. I use those findings to develop an alternative account that mixes ordinal and cardinal properties to (...) provide a detailed answer to the question: how do we in fact semantically individuate numbers? (shrink)
- Two roads to the successor axiom.Stefan Buijsman -2020 -Synthese 197 (3):1241-1261.Most accounts of our knowledge of the successor axiom claim that this is based on the procedure of adding one. While they usually don’t claim to provide an account of how children actually acquire this knowledge, one may well think that this is how they get that knowledge. I argue that when we look at children’s responses in interviews, the time when they learn the successor axiom and the intermediate learning stages they find themselves in, that there is an empirically (...) viable alternative. I argue that they could also learn it on the basis of a method that has to do with the structure of the numeral system. Specifically, that they (1) use the syntactic structure of the numeral system and (2) attend to the leftmost digits, the one with the highest place-value. Children can learn that this is a reliable method of forming larger numbers by combining two elements. First, a grasp of the syntactic structure of the numeral system. That way they know that the leftmost digit receives the highest value. Second, an interpretation of numerals as designating cardinal values, so that they also realise that increasing or adding digits on the lefthand side of a numeral produces a larger number. There are thus two, currently equally well-supported, ways in which children might learn that there are infinitely many natural numbers. (shrink)No categories
- Cognitive determinants of subtractive word formation: A corpus-based perspective.Stefan Th Gries -2006 -Cognitive Linguistics 17 (4).No categories
- Debate: The co-originality of private and public autonomy in deliberative democracy.Stefan Rummens -2006 -Journal of Political Philosophy 14 (4):469–481.
- Involuntary Hospitalization of Suicidal Patients: Time for New Answers to Basic Questions?Stefan Priebe -2019 -American Journal of Bioethics 19 (10):90-92.Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2019, Page 90-92.
- Building blocks for a cognitive science-led epistemology of arithmetic.Stefan Buijsman -2021 -Philosophical Studies 179 (5):1-18.In recent years philosophers have used results from cognitive science to formulate epistemologies of arithmetic :5–18, 2001). Such epistemologies have, however, been criticised, e.g. by Azzouni, for interpreting the capacities found by cognitive science in an overly numerical way. I offer an alternative framework for the way these psychological processes can be combined, forming the basis for an epistemology for arithmetic. The resulting framework avoids assigning numerical content to the Approximate Number System and Object Tracking System, two systems that have (...) so far been the basis of epistemologies of arithmetic informed by cognitive science. The resulting account is, however, only a framework for an epistemology: in the final part of the paper I argue that it is compatible with both platonist and nominalist views of numbers by fitting it into an epistemology for ante rem structuralism and one for fictionalism. Unsurprisingly, cognitive science does not settle the debate between these positions in the philosophy of mathematics, but I it can be used to refine existing epistemologies and restrict our focus to the capacities that cognitive science has found to underly our mathematical knowledge. (shrink)
- Der Rechtsbegriff bei Ronald Dworkin.Stefan Griller -forthcoming -Rechtstheorie.
- Call for papers.Stefan Grotefeld -1998 -Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1 (3):393-394.
- The limits of decidability in fuzzy description logics with general concept inclusions.Stefan Borgwardt,Felix Distel &Rafael Peñaloza -2015 -Artificial Intelligence 218 (C):23-55.
- Peerhood in Deep Religious Disagreements.Stefan Reining -2015 -Religious Studies (3):1-17.My aim in this article is to widen the scope of the current debate on peer disagreement by applying it to a kind of case it has hitherto remained silent about – namely, to cases of disagreement in which one of the disagreeing parties bases her opinion on a private religious experience to which the other party has no access. In order to do this, I will introduce a modified version of the notion of peerhood – a version that, in (...) contrast to the one employed in the current debate, can be fruitfully applied to the troublesome kind of case in question. I will then employ this new notion in order to specify the degree of conciliation rationally required from the disagreeing parties in the kind of case in question. (shrink)
- Would They Follow What has been Laid Down? Cancer Patients' and Healthy Controls' Views on Adherence to Advance Directives Compared to Medical Staff.Stefan Sahm,R. Will &G. Hommel -2005 -Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 8 (3):297-305.Advance directives are propagated as instruments to maintain patients’ autonomy in case they can no longer decide for themselves. It has been never been examined whether patients’ and healthy persons themselves are inclined to adhere to these documents. Patients’ and healthy persons’ views on whether instructions laid down in advance directives should be followed because that is (or is not) “the right thing to do”, not because one is legally obliged to do so, were studied and compared with that of (...) medical staff. Method: Vignette study presenting five cases. Cancer patients, healthy persons, nursing staff and physicians (n = 100 in each group) were interviewed. An adherence score was calculated (maximum value 5). The adherence score is found to be low in all groups, yet lowest in patients (1.55; standard deviation 1.13) and healthy controls (1.60; 1.37). The scores are significantly different between nursing staff on the one hand and patients and healthy controls on the other (p< 0.005 and p< 0.05, respectively), and between doctors and patients (p< 0.05). Interviewees who want these documents to be followed tend to live alone and to have already written an advance directive. Conclusions: Cancer patients and healthy persons widely disregard instructions laid down in advance directives and consider them less binding than physicians and nursing staff do. Only a minority tends to adhere more to advance directives. To improve decision-making at the end of life when patients are no longer able to decide for themselves alternative concepts, such as advanced care planning, should be considered. (shrink)
- Adorno's Anthropology.Stefan Breuer -1985 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1985 (64):15-31.Anniversary commemorations are ambivalent events, particularly when they celebrate philosophers. Such commemorations focus on a life's work and occasionally contribute to its elucidation. However, they frequently do violence to those they intend to honor, by emphasizing primarily those aspects of a thinker's work which make him acceptable to the spirit of the age. And such was the fate of Theodor Adorno, whose eightieth birthday was observed in 1983 at a major conference, held in Frankfurt, West Germany. There his interpreters, embarked (...) on the task of rediscovering, brought out important aspects and opened up new perspectives. But die heart of Adorno's work, the negative dialectic, encountered outright resistance. (shrink)
- The question of 'parenting'.Stefan Ramaekers &Judith Suissa -2011 -Ethics and Education 6 (2):101-108.Ethics and Education, Volume 6, Issue 2, Page 101-108, July 2011.
- Initiating Children in Language and World.Stefan Ramaekers &Naomi Hodgson -2017 -Philosophy of Education 73:281-295.No categories
- Die Ästhetik des Menschen: über das Technische in Leben und Kunst.Stefan Rieger -2002 - Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
- Becoming in the Age of Proletariat. The Identity Dilemmas of a Communist Intellectual Throughout Autobiographical Texts. Case Study: Tudor Bugnariu.Ștefan Bosomitu -2014 -History of Communism in Europe 5:17-35.Romanian historiography generally states that in Communist Romania there was no intellectual capable of stimulating a “heresy” comparable to those in Yugoslavia, Hungary or Poland. This is almost true. While the Romanian Communist/Workers Party despised intellectuals, even if they were docile and obedient, in the upper echelons of the RCP/RWP one could hardly find true intellectuals. However, there were some cases that can challenge this narrative – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Grigore Preoteasa, Miron Constantinescu or Tudor Bugnariu. My paper will discuss the (...) case of Tudor Bugnariu, one of the intellectuals seduced by the communist project and ideology in interwar Romania, who later managed to occupy important offices within the RCP/RWP and the state structures. By analyzing the narratives of Tudor Bugnariu’s several autobiographical texts, my paper will examine and explain his becoming and the construction of his self-identity and of his “revolutionary” self. (shrink)
- The Permanent Suspicion. The Romanian Communist Party and its International Cadres.Ştefan Bosomitu -2023 -History of Communism in Europe 11:95-118.This article attempts to explore the relations between the Romanian Communist Party and its “international” cadres after the end of the Second World War and its accession to power. Beyond a simply descriptive exegesis, the present study tries to capture the evolution of those relationships, and especially how the power relations between the two entities unfolded in the context of a paradigm shift: the legalisation of the party, its transformation into an important force of the political scene and, finally, its (...) accession to power. Those transformations imposed a structural reorganisation of the movement, forced to centralise its entire diffuse network of activists, many of them spread across Europe. After 1945, the Communist Party pursued a consistent policy of repatriating activists, whether they were in the Soviet Union or in Western European countries. But, as we will detail later, the party sought to control that infusion of “qualified personnel” through strict selection and nominal repatriation. Similar efforts were made to control and subordinate this political corpus of “internationals” to a party leadership that did not have flawless legitimacy. Within and as a result of those tangled interactions, complex relationships would emerge and develop between individuals and groups who disputed an informal primacy and whose claimed legitimacy had distinct origins and evolutions. (shrink)
- Classe, ceto e strato nella sociologia della religione di Max Weber.Stefan Breuer -2020 -Scienza and Politica. Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine 32 (63):41-61.In his early writings, dealing mainly with problems of agricultural policy, Max Weber at times differentiates between “class” and “estate”, but in general he treats them as synonyms. Only after 1909, when he started to work on Economy and Society and Economic Ethic of the World Religions, he felt the necessity to use these concepts in a more clear-cut manner. “Classes” are only placed within the economic order, while “estates” belong to the social order and take shape through the partition (...) of «social prestige» or «honor», which in turn derives from different sources, including the religious ones. This essay explores the forms of religious stratification which arise from the knowledge of rituals and precedents, from the knowledge of the Sacred Scriptures, or from a specific knowledge of the conditions of possibility of redemption. (shrink)No categories
- Max Weber, das Charisma und Erwin Rohde.Stefan Breuer -2015 -Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 67 (1):1-16.
- Resonanzen der Kulturkritik.Stefan Breuer -2007 -Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2007 (2):73-92.No categories
- Der Grundsatz der völkerrechtsfreundlichen Auslegung im Lichte der Rechtsprechung des BVerfG.Stefan Brink &Hartmut Rensen -2009 - In Stefan Brink & Hartmut Rensen,Linien der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtstrends in the Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court - Presented by Court Employees: Erörtert von den Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern. De Gruyter Recht.No categories
- Der Streitgegenstand der Verfassungsbeschwerde.Stefan Brink &Hartmut Rensen -2009 - In Stefan Brink & Hartmut Rensen,Linien der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtstrends in the Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court - Presented by Court Employees: Erörtert von den Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern. De Gruyter Recht.No categories
- Die Versammlungsfreiheit in der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts.Stefan Brink &Hartmut Rensen -2009 - In Stefan Brink & Hartmut Rensen,Linien der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtstrends in the Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court - Presented by Court Employees: Erörtert von den Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern. De Gruyter Recht.No categories
- Grundrechtliche Maßstäbe für die Wortberichterstattung der Presse – Kontrollstrategien von Bundesverfassungsgericht und EGMR im Vergleich.Stefan Brink &Hartmut Rensen -2009 - In Stefan Brink & Hartmut Rensen,Linien der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtstrends in the Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court - Presented by Court Employees: Erörtert von den Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern. De Gruyter Recht.No categories
- Vertrauen in das Steuergesetz.Stefan Brink &Hartmut Rensen -2009 - In Stefan Brink & Hartmut Rensen,Linien der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtstrends in the Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court - Presented by Court Employees: Erörtert von den Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern. De Gruyter Recht.No categories
- Contents.Stefan Riegelnik &Frederik A. Gierlinger -2014 - In Frederik Gierlinger & Štefan Joško Riegelnik,Wittgenstein on Colour. Boston: De Gruyter.
- Man, machine, and interpretation : Donald Davidson on Turing's text.Stefan Riegelnik -2010 - In[no title].No categories
- (2 other versions)Sentence, Proposition, and Context. On the Idea of an Intermediate Level.Stefan Riegelnik -2014 - In Piotr Stalmaszczyk,Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Inquiries. Preface. De Gruyter. pp. 241-254.In contemporary theories of language it is common to appeal to propositions as expressed by utterances of sentences. The aim of this paper is to question this idea, for as I argue, the relationship between sentences and propositions cannot be worked out in any rewarding way.
- Understanding Wittgenstein’s Wood Sellers.Štefan Riegelnik -2018 - In Gabriele Mras, Paul Weingartner & Bernhard Ritter,Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Proceedings of the 41st International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 429-440.No categories
- Kripkes kausale Theorie der Bezugnahme.Stefan Rinner -2019 -Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 73 (2):209-221.
- Wirken durch Anpassung Eine sprachphilosophische Erklärung der Wirksamkeit systemischer Fragen.Stefan Rinner -2022 -Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 76 (2):288-296.A central method of systemic therapy is the use of so called systemic questions. With these questions the therapist provides the client with an alternative and possibly less problematic description of reality. Since clients tend to tacitly accept these implicit offers by the therapist, systemic questions are often ascribed a "hypnotic" effect. In this paper, I will explain the "hypnotic" effect of systemic questions with the linguistic phenomenon of presupposition accommodation. For instance, in "Scorekeeping in a Language Game", David Lewis (...) points out that speakers tend to tacitly accept the presuppositions of an utterance, because an utterance is only appropriate if its presuppositions are already part of common ground. Starting from this, I will argue with von Fintel's 'Hey, wait a minute' test that the implicit offers of systemic questions are nothing more than presuppositions of these questions. First, this will provide an explanation of the "hypnotic" effect of systemic question via the phenomenon of presupposition accommodation. In addition, it will explain how the implicit offers of systemic questions enable a new description of reality on the part of the client. In this way, the present paper is an example of how philosophy of language can be applied to problems outside of philosophy, providing further evidence that the research area of applied philosophy of language is real. (shrink)No categories
- The Shoes of the Other.Stefan Bernard Baumrin -2004 -Philosophical Forum 35 (4):397-410.
- Spengler redivivus? Garth Fowden’s First Millennium.Stefan Rebenich -2016 -Millennium 13 (1):53-56.Name der Zeitschrift: Millennium Jahrgang: 13 Heft: 1 Seiten: 53-56.No categories
- I. Fichtes erste Rede vom 13. Dezember 1807 und die Vorgeschichte der Reden an die deutsche Nation.Stefan Reiß -2006 - InFichtes "Reden an Die Deutsche Nation," Oder, Vom Ich Zum Wir. Akademie Verlag. pp. 23-64.No categories
- “Having Identified an Utterance...” – Predication and Interpretation.Stefan Riegelnik -2010 -Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 39 (96):85-100.What is it for predicates to mean what they do and what is their contribution to the meaning of an utterance? It is exactly this question to which Davidson dedicates his book Truth and Predication. Most commentators focus on Davidson’s discussion of failed accounts, in particular of Frege’s account. In contrast to this tendency, I focus here on Davidson’s own account. The structure is as follows. First, I sketch the problem of predication and I glance at Davidson’s discussion of failed (...) accounts. Then I present his solution and integrate it in his theory of interpretation, thereby bringing out the particularity of the account. In doing so I shall scru- tinize some criticisms as well, for as I intend to show, they originate from a wrong understanding of his com- prehensive theory of interpretation. (shrink)
- Medienanthropologie.Stefan Rieger -2013 -Zeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 4 (1):191-205."Der Text gilt den Aporien der Medienanthropologie. Neben den Debatten um das mediale Apriori, wie sie vor allen die Arbeiten Friedrich Kittlers ausgelöst haben, geraten dabei zwei Dinge in den Blick. Zum einen die Möglichkeit, die Rede von der technischen Datenverarbeitung nicht nur metaphorisch, sondern der Sache nach auf die Verarbeitungsprozesse des Menschen zu übertragen und so quantifizierbare Kriterien für dessen Leistungsfähigkeit abzuleiten. Zum anderen wird in der Abwendung von einer spezifisch deutschen Medienwissenschaft gerade in der aktuellen internationalen Diskussion ein (...) Medienbegriff etabliert, der in seiner pluralen Ausrichtung Bezugnahmen etwa auch zur Biologie erlaubt (BioMedia). The paper is devoted to the aporias of medial anthropology. In addition to the debates about the medial a priori, as initiated primarily by the works of Friedrich Kittler, two things come into view: On the one hand, the possibility to apply the notion of technical data processing to human processes not only in a metaphorical, but also in a literal way, in order to derive quantifiable criteria for their performance; on the other hand, the turn away from specifically German media studies in the ongoing international discussion establishes a notion of media that, thanks to its pluralistic orientation, allows references to other fields of study, e.g. to biology (biomedia). ". (shrink)No categories
- Notes on the Contributors.Stefan Riegelnik &Frederik A. Gierlinger -2014 - In Frederik Gierlinger & Štefan Joško Riegelnik,Wittgenstein on Colour. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 119-121.No categories
- Obituary: Saul Kripke.Stefan Rinner -2022 -Philosophy Now 153:64-65.No categories
- The impact of 'exile' on thought: Plotinus, Derrida and Gnosticism.Stefan Rossbach -2007 -History of the Human Sciences 20 (4):27-52.This article examines the impact of `exile' — as an individual or collective experience — on how human experience is theorized. The relationship between `exile' and thought is initially approached historically by looking at the period that Eric Dodds famously called the `age of anxiety' in late antiquity, i.e. the period between the emperors Aurelius and Constantine. A particular interest is in the dynamics of `empire' and the concomitant religious ferment as a context in which `exile', both experientially and symbolically, (...) appears to assume an overbearing significance. Plotinus' narrative of emanation and epistrophe as well as a group of narratives often classified as `Gnosticism' are juxtaposed as two radical examples of a wider spiritual trend at the time according to which `exile' could be considered constitutive of human experience. By way of an historical analogy, the insights gained from this study of late antiquity are then used to guide an analysis of the current, `restless' epoch, in which experiences of displacement and exile on a mass scale undermine traditional notions of belonging, thus reviving the gnostic vision of cosmic reality as an alien, exilic environment. The article concludes with a discussion of Jacques Derrida's work as an example of contemporary gnosticism, in which a `metaphysics of exile' is presented in the disguise of an `exile from metaphysics'. (shrink)
- The Co-originality of Law and Democracy in the Moral Horizon of Modernity.Stefan Rummens -2010 -Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 39 (3):256-266.This paper argues that Neil Walker’s analysis of the complementary relationship between democracy and constitutionalism remains one-sided. It focuses only on the incompleteness of democracy and the democracy-realizing function of constitutionalism rather than also taking into account the reverse complementary and constitution-realizing function of democracy. In this paper, I defend a fuller account that takes into account this mutual complementarity between democracy and constitutionalism. Such an alternative approach is consequential for Walker’s argument in two respects. In terms of the general (...) analysis of the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism, my adjusted approach leads to a defence of the Habermasian thesis of the co-originality of constitutionalism and democracy which is too quickly dismissed by Walker himself. A fuller appreciation of this co-originality suggests that the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy is perhaps, after all, more singularly complementary than Walker recognizes. In terms of the more specific analysis of the impact of globalization, this adjusted approach tilts the argument in favour of the critics of current practices of postnational constitutionalism. Without complementary postnational democratic structures, this constitutionalism remains problematic and potentially oppressive. (shrink)Export citation
Bookmark - Educational Transformation and the Force of Film: Viewing Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent.Stefan Ramaekers &Naomi Hodgson -2016 -Philosophy of Education 72:218-226.No categories
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