Category: Arts and Humanities
Instructions can provide reasons by conveying practical information
Explore how instructions convey information about rational conclusions and establish reasons for action, bridging the philosophical gap between declarative and imperative sentences in decision-making.
Intermedial interference shapes audiovisual composition
Practice-based research investigating intermedial interference in electroacoustic audiovisual composition, proposing compositional methodologies and theoretical frameworks for sound-image integration.
Forensic knowledge depends on managing transformation, uncertainty, and warrant
Theoretical analysis of forensic knowledge production addressing technical instrumentalism through ontology, transformation processes, and epistemic capture mechanisms in institutional structures.
Reinach’s internalism is defended against externalism about speech acts
Philosophical analysis defending Reinach’s internalism about speech acts, arguing that speech-act performance does not require addressee uptake for its existence.
Microplastic pollution is framed as an ethical, legal, and theological crisis
Interdisciplinary analysis of microplastic ocean pollution integrating eco-theology, psychology, and legal frameworks from Orthodox Christian and South African perspectives.
Dominant psychiatric explanations shape self-narratives
Examination of how dominant psychiatric explanations function as master narratives to shape self-narratives and psychiatric self-understanding in individuals with diagnoses.
Argument presented for the law of non-contradiction
Novel argument for the principle of non-contradiction using extra-logical premises valid across classical and paraconsistent logical frameworks.
Debate over translator positionality in literary translation
Examining the Amanda Gorman translation controversy to explore whether translators should be selected based on lived experience or professional knowledge and expertise.
Patricia Noah’s resistance is read as empowering and conciliatory
Analysis of Patricia Noah’s womanist resistance and non-violent opposition to apartheid legacies in Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime using postcolonial and womanist theoretical frameworks.
Guatemala’s Economic Society was closed after challenging colonial rules
Explore how Spain’s Crown suppressed Guatemala’s Economic Society for proposing indigenous reforms that challenged colonial law and social hierarchies in late 18th-century Spanish America.
