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Devotion, Influence, and Loyalty: Reevaluating Queen Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont’s Political and Diplomatic Role in Early Modern France
Get PDFThis article returns to Louise with a new set of questions in mind concerning her political and diplomatic role at the French court. Her political views and influence can be gleaned from the many letters she sent to the Guise matriarch Anne d’Este, her husband’s counselors, foreign monarchs, and, after her husband’s death, the new king, Henry IV. In this way, Louise acted as a crucial mediator between the French crown and the Guises; she performed a significant advisory and diplomatic role at the French court; and, finally, she deployed her political agency as a dowager queen after Henry III’s death. Throughout this time, her loyalty to Valois interests, and especially to her husband, never wavered
'Political Ideologies' in The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory, ed. Chiel van den Akker
Get PDFNon-selective distribution of infectious disease prevention may outperform risk-based targeting
Get PDFAphantasia, dysikonesia, anauralia: call for a single term for the lack of mental imagery – Commentary on Dance et al. (2021) and Hinwar and Lambert (2021)
Get PDFRecently, the term ‘aphantasia’ has become current in scientific and public discourse to denote the absence of mental imagery. However, new terms for aphantasia or its subgroups have recently been proposed, e.g. ‘dysikonesia’ or ‘anauralia’, which complicates the literature, research communication and understanding for the general public. Before further terms emerge, we advocate the consistent use of the term ‘aphantasia’ as it can be used flexibly and precisely, and is already widely known in the scientific community and among the general public
Model-Independent Error Mitigation in Parametric Quantum Circuits and Depolarizing Projection of Quantum Noise
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Non-propositionalism and the Suppositional Rule
Get PDFIt can often seem like the attitude we hold towards a conditional should be our attitude in the consequent on the supposition of the antecedent. Following by Williamson (Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals. Oxford University Press, 2020), we call this The suppositional rule (SR). The Adams-style non-propositional theories of indicatives upholds some key implications of SR, allowing, for instance, our credence in a conditional to be the probability of the consequent given the antecedent. Williamson (Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals. Oxford University Press, 2020) has recently provided a series of inconsistency arguments against SR. He thereby intends to undermine non-propositional views as well as other rivals to his favoured material conditional account. I outline a strategy which theorists of all stripes can employ to avoid Williamson’s arguments. I then show how non-propositionalists can implement this strategy. I show how they can uphold SR when it is intuitively compelling, whilst allowing it to fail when it is not
Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis
Get PDFThis article offers a timely, critical analysis of the male gaze upon sportswomen in male Chinese fans’ consumption of sporting megaevents. We use the most popular Chinese-language sports fandom platform, Hupu, as the data repository and scrutinise the threads of male Hupu users’ postings about two elite sportswomen at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the case studies. Drawing on feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA), we elucidate the discursive strategies that male Chinese fans adopt to sexualise sportswomen and trivialise their accomplishments. The research findings showcase how China’s sports fandom has evolved as a masculine terrain, where men’s visions of asymmetrical gender power relations are discursively negotiated and rationalised