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‘Kebapcis do not have lives’: Migrant networks and identity among Turkish labour migrants in St Andrews.
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Disentangled Externalisms
Get PDFIn contemporary philosophy of mind, the consensus is that content externalism and vehicle externalism are logically independent. Both proponents and critics of content externalism agree that content externalism does not entail vehicle externalism, and vice versa. Sprevak and Kallestrup have recently challenged that view and argued that the conviction that content externalism and vehicle externalism are logically independent is not true for various forms of vehicle externalism. (Sprevak and Kallestrup 2014) According to them, what one can mean by vehicle externalism is vague and this is a problematic for understanding the relationship between content externalism and vehicle externalism. My aim here is to respond to their analysis of the subject by arguing that what they call “realization-vehicle externalism” is the most precisely formulated type of vehicle externalism and with an even more precise understanding of it, the independency principle (IP) is in no trouble. I will mostly use their terminology to avoid any possible misunderstandings.In §1, I will clarify what one means by content externalism and vehicle externalism comparing both of them to internalist accounts of content and pointing out the most straightforward differences. In §2, I consider some different types of vehicle externalism examined by Sprevak and Kallestrup and include further analysis of where they differ. I will argue that the differences stem from the philosophical motivation behind these definitions. In §3, the problems with the two most promising types of vehicle externalism are discussed and I argue that the realization vehicle externalism (with some modifications) is the best type of vehicle externalism. Later in that section, I clarify these modifications and attempt to achieve a new characterization of realization vehicle externalism, which works properly with the independency principle
Where have all the poets gone?
Get PDFAgainst the background of a diminished presence of poetry in the life of the Church, this essay sets out to trace the theological contours of poetic expression. The territory covered takes in the poetic texts found throughout Scripture (where we see poetry sanctified for the purpose of divine revelation) to the use of poetry in worship (where we see how it has sanctified the Church to doxological purpose). An absence of poetic texts in Church life risks two possible outcomes. First, it provides fertile ground for an arid rationalism as a result of uncoupling of the imagination and affections from the knowledge of God. Second, it can contribute to a sidelining of aesthetics in Church life and a resultant dichotomizing of the sacred and secular. The essay concludes by considering how churches might respond to the absence of poets. This takes in new approaches to the use of the Psalter in worship and the composition of poetry that reflects the impulses of contemporary Christian life.(This paper was selected as the winning entry in the 2016 Fraser Essay Prize competition.
“The Oxford Handbook of Christology” edited by Francesca Aran Murphy
No full textReview of Francesca Aran Murphy (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Christology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
The Semantical Method of the Construction of Frameworks: From Acceptance of Framework to Acceptance of Context
No full textInterrogating the Construction of Gendered Identity in the Syr-ian Nationalist Narrative: Al-Husari, Aflaq and al-Arsuzi
Get PDFIn Interrogating the Construction of Gendered Identity in the Syrian Nationalist Narrative: Al-Husari, Aflaq and al-Arsuzi, Rahaf Aldoughli sheds an important light on how early Bathist theortricans planted the intellectual foundation for the way in which gender roles were to be understood and, subsequently, taught and applied in Baathist Syria. Using extensive quotes from original sources, Aldoughli documents the systematic masculinisation of conceptions of nationhood by Baathist theoreticians. Perhaps most significant was the “normalisation of militarism in the national narrative” which, resulted in perpetuating “a hierarchy that obstructs the elimination of the gender gap in the Syrian constitution and legislation.
