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Rescuing the Intimate but Awkward Relationship between Cosmopolitanism and Urban Anthropology
Get PDFIn light of the all-encompassing force and scale of modern globalisation, in the 1990s cosmopolitanism effortlessly made its way to the forefront of debates in urban anthropology. Yet, with the same ease the term soon raised questions about its usefulness as an analytical framework. The common features between the enterprise of anthropology and cosmopolitanism, however, should make anthropologists particularly wary of eroding or even disqualifying cosmopolitanism as a productive framework for empirical analysis. This is especially relevant as debates on “a cosmopolitan anthropology” and “methodological cosmopolitanism” periodically emerge within the discipline
An Alternative Education: Resistance, Positioning and Play During a School Visit to the Jersey War Tunnels
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War and Paradise, An Interview with Marcus Rossberg
Get PDFMarcus Rossberg has been in St Andrews since 2001, finished his PhD in March 2006, and is now a postdoctoral research fellow here. His interests lie in philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Thanks to this, he had some illuminating advice on career prospects, as well as sharing his insight on the differences between continental and analytical philosophy and other battlefront
Can Modal Agnosticism Save Constructive Empiricism?
Get PDFIn this paper I argue that by adopting modal agnosticism, the constructive empiricist can overcome the scientific realist’s main objection. After introducing Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism and showing how he can respond to three traditional objections to his view, I consider James Ladyman’s recent critique. Ladyman correctly argues that the constructive empiricist needs to distinguish between the observable and unobservable in a non-arbitrary manner. To be able to do so, the constructive empiricist must recognise objective modality in nature, but doing so would be at odds with the position’s principle motivation of doing away with inflationary metaphysics and objective modality. I next explain John Diver’s modal agnosticism. I argue that the modal agnostic has the resources available for the constructive empiricist to be able to make the distinction Ladyman requires. Since modal agnosticism does not entail an inflationary metaphysics, I argue that it is compatible with, and can thus save, constructive empiricism from Ladyman’s challenge
How We Each Maintain Our Personal Identity
Get PDFIn this essay I will address the broad topic of personal identity. This topic deals with the problem of how we can truly claim that a person is the same person throughout his life or indeed over any period of his life. What is it about a person that means I can refer to him as a continuing entity? I will argue that some traditional approaches to identity miss the real question and propose that identity resides in a self’s characteristic interaction with the world
A Resentment of Disappointment for the Politics of Resentment
Get PDFPrejudicial beliefs are often associated with ignorance. Indeed, common views of prejudice hold that it is precisely in their ignorance that those with prejudicial beliefs perpetrate a wrong to the victim of the prejudicial belief. This view of prejudice neatly accounts for the prejudices of epistemically culpable epistemic agents. But what about cases where a prejudice is held by an epistemically exculpable epistemic agent? This paper presents an example of a deeply prejudiced belief about Indigenous Peoples, taken from a recent ethnography of rural Wisconsin, and argues that it is epistemically exculpable. If it is indeed epistemically exculpable, then we need to look beyond the individual when directing our blame for the prejudicial belief; we can only be disappointed in the circumstances that enable an epistemic agent to be epistemically exculpable for expressing such a belief
No temple in Palmyra! opposing the reconstruction of the Temple of Bel
Get PDFIn 2015, the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria was intentionally destroyed with explosives by the so-called Islamic State (ISIL, Daesh). (Fig. 1-3).2 Other ancient buildings in this oasis city were also destroyed. The museum was bombed through its roof, seriously compromising its structural integrity, and many artefacts were purposely smashed. Even the catalogue of the museum’s inventory was destroyed in the civil war. A new survey will have to be taken and a completely new catalogue composed. This alone will require years of work. Other serious consequences of the war were the lootings, especially in the ancient tombs, and the increased illegal export of artefacts, especially from Palmyra
The Colour of the Possible: Olafur Eliasson, and Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Colour-Image’ in Claire Denis’ High Life
Get PDF“The Story of Creeds and Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith” by Donald Fairbairn and Ryan M. Reeves
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Donald Fairbairn and Ryan M. Reeves, The Story of Creeds and Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2019), pp. xi + 396, ISBN 978-0801098161. £22.9