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Tropes and Related Entities
, 2007
"... the redness of the apple the beauty of the picture the gentleness of John two kinds of intuitive descriptions: [1] concrete manifestations of properties in individuals, ‘concretized properties’, ‘particularized properties’ [2] ‘abstract particulars’: the thing you get when you abstract away from all ..."
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alternatives: ‘abstract particulars ’ (Campbell), ‘attribute instances ’ (Mertz), ‘modes ’ (Lowe), moments (Mulligan, Simons, Smith 1984), ‘cases ’ (Woltersdorff) historical alternatives: accidents (Aristotle), modes (medieval and upwards), s ome basic facts about tropes:
The Bunk House Rules: Housing Migrant Labour in Ontario Adrian Smith, “The Bunk House Rules: Housing Migrant Labour in Ontario ” (Forthcoming,
, 2015
"... The paper tackles the recent controversy surrounding an application to convert an abandoned school into housing for migrant agricultural workers in Ontario, Canada. It examines how the written reactions of community residents to a proposed municipal zoning by-law amendment convey and invoke understa ..."
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’, it is evident that the residents ’ submissions intervene in the organization and regulation of agricultural production. While framed in opposition to the proposed amendment and the rules on siting bunk houses, residents ’ responses-- which rehearse well-worn, racist colonial tropes-- (re)produce material
CULTURE, MEDIA & FILM | Junkie love-Romance and addiction on the big screen
"... Abstract: This article investigates the filmic construction of two disparate but intertwining cultural practices: those engaging in the life-affirming rituals of romantic love and those performing the potentially self-destructive rituals of hard drug consumption. Discussing a number of key feature ..."
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films from the (mini) genre "junkie love", it aims to show what happens when elements of mainstream romantic drama merge with the horror conventions of the heroin addiction film. Drawing amongst others on Murray Smith's theory of "levels of [spectator] engagement" and Greg Smith
Powerful People Make Good Decisions Even When They Consciously Think
"... Having power means that one makes decisions that determine the outcomes of less powerful others (e.g., Deprét & Fiske, 1993). In fact, powerful people sometimes face multiple impactful, complicated decisions a day, with little room for error. How do they accomplish this? Recent research indicate ..."
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indicates that power changes not only a person’s responsibilities, but also the way a person thinks. The powerful process information more abstractly—integrating information to extract the gist, detecting patterns and relationships—than the powerless (Smith & Trope, 2006). Work on unconscious
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"... The psychology of social life is vastly complex, supported by innumerable processes that allow us to, among other things, recognize the people around us, recall memories about them, experience feelings toward them, and interact with them. If all of these processes required conscious control, no indi ..."
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, no individual would be able to participate in the social world. Fortunately, many are automatic, initiated by the presence of social stimuli and completed with little conscious intervention (Bargh & Williams, 2006; Lieberman, Gaunt, Gilbert, & Trope, 2002; Smith & DeCoster, 2000). One particularly
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"... The psychology of social life is vastly complex, supported by innumerable processes that allow us to, among other things, recognize the people around us, recall memories about them, experience feelings toward them, and interact with them. If all of these processes required conscious control, no indi ..."
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, no individual would be able to participate in the social world. Fortunately, many are automatic, initiated by the presence of social stimuli and completed with little conscious intervention (Bargh & Williams, 2006; Lieberman, Gaunt, Gilbert, & Trope, 2002; Smith & DeCoster, 2000). One particularly
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"... The psychology of social life is vastly complex, supported by innumerable processes that allow us to, among other things, recognize the people around us, recall memories about them, experience feelings toward them, and interact with them. If all of these processes required conscious control, no indi ..."
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, no individual would be able to participate in the social world. Fortunately, many are automatic, initiated by the presence of social stimuli and completed with little conscious intervention (Bargh & Williams, 2006; Lieberman, Gaunt, Gilbert, & Trope, 2002; Smith & DeCoster, 2000). One particularly
The Fables of Pity: Rousseau, Mandeville and the Animal-Fable
"... Prompted by Derrida’s work on the animal-fable in eighteenth-century debates about political power, this article examines the role played by the fiction of the animal in thinking of pity as either a natural virtue (in Rousseau’s Second Discourse) or as a natural passion (in Mandeville’s The Fable of ..."
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of the Bees). The war of fables between Rousseau and Mandeville – and their hostile reception by Samuel Johnson and Adam Smith – reinforce that the animal-fable illustrates not so much the proper of man as the possibilities and limitations of a moral philosophy that is unable to address the political
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"... Citing Darwin (1872/1965) as inspiration, many scientists believe in the structural hypothesis of emotion perception—the idea that certain emotion categories (named by the English words anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and so on) are universal biological states that are triggered by dedicated, evoluti ..."
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’Sullivan, & Frank, 2008). A recent article succinctly summarized the structural hypothesis: “The face, as a transmitter, evolved to send expression signals that have low correlations with one another and... the brain, as a decoder, further decorrelates... these signals ” (Smith, Cottrell, Gosselin, &
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"... Citing Darwin (1872/1965) as inspiration, many scientists believe in the structural hypothesis of emotion perception—the idea that certain emotion categories (named by the English words anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and so on) are universal biological states that are triggered by dedicated, evoluti ..."
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’Sullivan, & Frank, 2008). A recent article succinctly summarized the structural hypothesis: “The face, as a transmitter, evolved to send expression signals that have low correlations with one another and... the brain, as a decoder, further decorrelates... these signals ” (Smith, Cottrell, Gosselin, &
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