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“Adequate Ideas” and Proper Names: Gareth Evans on Thought and Language
No full textIn The Varieties of Reference, Evans claims that thinking about an individual object requires satisfying what he calls “Russell’s Principle” by having an “adequate Idea” of the object. Acquiring an adequate Idea is intellectually demanding. By contrast, Evans agrees that acquiring a proper name, in the sense of coming to be able to use it to refer to its bearer, is easy. There is an apparent tension in these views that is made explicit if coming to use a proper name to refer would enable one to think about its bearer. The present paper argues that this tension is real, so that consistency requires major modification of Evans’s views. Particular attention is paid to his accounts of proper names, and his criticisms of Kripke’s views on that topic.
Literature Review of Microgrid Control Functions and Services
No full textMicrogrid control is complex due to its need to accommodate the intermittence of renewables, balance generation with load, transit between grid-connected and islanded modes, and maintain reliable power supply to end users. Much research has addressed microgrid control complexity in both centralized and decentralized settings. Research reviews generally follow a hierarchical control. In contrast, we use a rather different approach based, most and foremost, on the key requirements of microgrid control practices and technologies. This paper provides a literature review on the comprehensive list of functions and services in the various control domains that include energy management, protection, resiliency, ancillary services, and data management. Such a review is intended to guide research to address shortcomings, gaps, and challenges in microgrid control practices and to promote the advancement of microgrid control technologies
Social Media in Pediatric Rehabilitation Research: Affordances of Facebook and Twitter for Knowledge Translation
Full text linkThis study examines the affordances of Facebook and Twitter as knowledge translation tools in pediatric rehabilitation and potentially other fields of research. Findings from content and discourse analyses of a private Facebook group and public Twitter account suggest that social media facilitates engagement and collaboration with stakeholders. Implementation of dialogic communication principles on Twitter increases the exposure, reach, and engagement of a network. Establishing an online community on Facebook develops a common understanding of issues, builds relationships and the promotes stakeholder involvement in research. By acknowledging the affordances of the two social media platforms, researchers can consider using Twitter for end-of-grant KT and Facebook groups for integrated knowledge translation.
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Navigating power dynamics in student-staff partnerships: Applying equityXdesign principles in the co-design of a South African leadership programme
Full text linkThe idea of co-creating curricula with students has gained momentum in recent years to challenge conventional power relationships within universities through amplification of student voice and advocacy for meaningful student participation in teaching, research, and service. This is a necessary response to facilitate higher education transformation through curriculum reform grounded in students’ lived experiences. This paper explores a student-led process to design a new leadership academy at a large research-intensive university in the Western Cape, South Africa, a context characterised by pronounced disparities in power. The paper brings the literature on student-staff partnerships and equity-oriented learning design into conversation. Based on feedback from the student facilitators involved in designing the creation of this student leadership academy framed by principles developed by the equityXdesign cooperative, we will reflect on how these student-led design spaces can both catalyse transformation and render students vulnerable. The study’s findings have implications for curriculum design and development in higher education, particularly in contexts characterised by significant power disparities
Embedding student voice in European alliances: A case-based framework for pedagogical partnership in UNITA
Full text linkThis article explores how student-faculty pedagogical partnerships, widely implemented in North American institutions, can inform the development of inclusive and collaborative teaching models within European university alliances, with a focus on UNITA Universitas Montium. Grounded in the student voice movement, the study analyzes four U.S. case studies, including the SaLT program at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, through semi-structured interviews with students, faculty, and program coordinators. Guided by a qualitative, embedded case study design, the research identifies key features, benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions for successful partnerships. Findings emphasize the importance of role equality, structured training, open communication, institutional support, and recognition. The study argues that, while student-faculty partnerships are still emerging in European consortia, they hold strong potential for fostering student engagement, pedagogical innovation, and a shared academic culture. The paper concludes by offering recommendations for adapting such models within multilingual, intercultural, and geographically diverse settings like those found in the UNITA alliance
G. H. von Wright\u27s Connective Analysis of Goodness: The Varieties of Goodness (1963) Revisited
No full textThis article revisits G. H. von Wright’s value-theoretical treatise The Varieties of Goodness (1963) by discussing von Wright’s analytical methods and by contextualizing his work historically. Section 2 provides an overview of von Wright’s general approach to conceptual analysis and identifies two levels of analytic work—descriptive and moulding analysis—and pinpoints parallels with Peter Strawson’s proposal of connective analysis and Rudolf Carnap’s method of explication. Section 3 focuses on what I call the analytical topoi of goodness, i.e., the variety of methodological tools used by von Wright in his analysis of the conceptual varieties of goodness (see Appendix). It is suggested that von Wright’s focus on the criteria of goodness, demonstrably indebted to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, indirectly addresses R. M. Hare’s non-cognitivist account on the meaning of “good”. Finally, it is suggested that von Wright’s non-reductive approach in the analysis of meaning, consisting in a systematic use of many analytical topoi, is best viewed as a post-Wittgensteinian contribution, which, despite its originality, draws, in small and large, from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methodology
Evidence and Cause in Nineteenth-Century Naturalized Kantianism: : Helmholtz, Lange, and Quine’s Argumentative Strategies
No full textThis paper argues that W. V. O. Quine’s twentieth-century evidential and proximal theory of meaning and belief, developed in opposition to Donald Davidson, employs argumentation strategies strikingly similar to those of Hermann von Helmholtz and Friedrich Albert Lange in their nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize Kant’s epistemology. Contrary to Jim Hopkins’s interpretation, which links Helmholtz’s theory of unconscious predictive inferences with Davidson’s causal theory of action and truth-conditional semantics (2018), this paper contends that Quine’s epistemic externalism, rooted in a naturalized account of evidentiality and proximality, aligns more closely with Helmholtz and Lange’s psychophysiological theory of meaning
White/Right Shakespeare: Whiteness in the Field of Early Modern Studies
No full textThis review essay considers whiteness in Shakespeare and early modern studies through five books: David Sterling Brown’s Shakespeare’s White Others; Miles Grier’s Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery; Farah Karim-Cooper’s The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race; White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite, edited by Arthur L. Little, Jr; and Ian Smith’s Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race
Virtue\u27s Pour: Exemplarity and Conversion in Thomas Heywood\u27s The Fair Maid of the West, Part One
No full textIn her theory of moral exemplarity, philosopher Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski observes how every era and culture has recognized supremely good individuals, models who inspire admiration and imitation. On the early modern stage, Bess Bridges — heroine of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West — emerges as one such magnanimous figure. Her virtuous exemplarity enkindles deep admiration in other characters, their mimetic responses leading to metanoia. This essay explores the moral psychology of admiration in Heywood’s play, the complex relationship between the passions and conversion, and early modern theatre as a school and fruitful site for the realization of virtue
Jody Enders, ed. and trans. Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
No full textThis review considers Jody Enders\u27s translation and edition Trial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage