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A thematic exploration of three countries’ government communication during the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding media coverage
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)This study attempts to add to the current literature on crisis communication by exploring differences in COVID-19 governmental crisis communication and variances in the media coverage of that communication through thematic ... -
On the Authenticity of De-extinct Organisms, and the Genesis Argument
(2017)Are the methods of synthetic biology capable of recreating authentic living members of an extinct species? An analogy with the restoration of destroyed natural landscapes suggests not. e restored version of a natural ... -
Does the solar system compute the laws of motion?
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)The counterfactual account of physical computation is simple and, for the most part, very attractive. However, it is usually thought to trivialize the notion of physical computation insofar as it implies ‘limited ... -
The Eightfold Way: Why Analyticity, Apriority and Necessity are Independent
(2017)This paper concerns the three great modal dichotomies: (i) the necessary/contingent dichotomy; (ii) the a priori/empirical dichotomy; and (iii) the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. These can be combined to produce a tri-dichotomy ... -
The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017)Famous examples of conceivability arguments include (i) Descartes’ argument for mind-body dualism, (ii) Kripke's ‘modal argument’ against psychophysical identity theory, (iii) Chalmers’ ‘zombie argument’ against materialism, ... -
Against Lewis on ‘Desire as Belief’
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2017)David Lewis describes, then attempts to refute, a simple anti-Humean theory of desire he calls ‘Desire as Belief’. Lewis’ critics generally accept that his argument is sound and focus instead on trying to show that its ... -
Doxastic desire and Attitudinal Monism
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018)© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht How many attitudes must be posited at the level of reductive bedrock in order to reductively explain all the rest? Motivational Humeans hold that at least two attitudes are ... -
The Fragmentation of Being
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)This is a densely argued dive into deep and rich metaphysical waters. McDaniel defends ontological pluralism, the doctrine that there are multiple ways of being (i.e., multiple modes, or degrees, or orders, or levels, or ... -
Why Katz is Wrong: A Lab-Created Creature Can Still Have an Ancient Evolutionary History
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Katz denies that organisms created in a lab as part of a de-extinction attempt will be authentic members of the extinct species, on the basis that they will lack the original species’ defining biological and evolutionary ... -
Tipping the Scale: PRC's Military Modernization and Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations
(SAGE Publications, 2014)As long as China considers Taiwan as part of its sovereign territory, China will always be the primary security threat to Taiwan. The modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over the last two decades is certainly ... -
Don’t Worry, Be Happy: The Gettability of Ultimate Meaning
(2022)Rivka Weinberg advances an error theory of ultimate meaning with three parts: (1) a conceptual analysis, (2) the claim that the extension of the concept is empty, and (3) a proposed fitting response, namely being very, ... -
Translation Theories in the Context of the Chinese Language – How Applicable are they to Community Translation?
(2022)This article presents a critical review of translation theories advocated in the context of the Chinese language with a focus on their applicability to Community Translation (Taibi & Ozolins, 2016). Community Translation ... -
Not so distinctively mathematical explanations: topology and dynamical systems
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)So-called ‘distinctively mathematical explanations’ (DMEs) are said to explain physical phenomena, not in terms of contingent causal laws, but rather in terms of mathematical necessities that constrain the physical system ... -
Belief, Truth and Virtue
(2013)In this paper, I defend the view that truth is a constitutive norm of belief formation, argue in favour of a virtue-theoretic account of epistemic evaluation and respond to possible objections. In §I, I argue that belief ... -
Falling in and falling out: Indo-Pacific in the midst of US–China tensions in the post-COVID world: introduction to the special issue
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)This special issue explores great power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific by moving the analytical focus away from the great powers and onto those they seek to influence. It asks what strategies states and international organisations ... -
German election: the race to replace Angela Merkel and why it matters to New Zealand
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The contribution of social work field education to work-integrated learning
(2021)This article documents an examination of the role and alignment of social work field education within workintegrated learning (WIL) pedagogy. Both social work education and work-integrated learning share a long history of ... -
Editors’ introduction to the Special Issue: The Member States and Differentiated Integration in the European Union
(2021)European integration has never been a ‘uniform’ process, with one set of rules applying equally to all Member States. Instead, from Rome (1958) to Lisbon (2009), the treaties establishing the European Union (EU) and its ...
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