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{"title":"I Choose for Myself, Therefore I Am: The Contours of Existentialist Welfare Economics","authors":"M. Dold, Alexandra Stanton","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3609571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3609571","url":null,"abstract":"Behavioral economics and existentialism both have persuasive, informative perspectives on human choice and welfare. We argue in this paper that the weaknesses in each of their positions are answered by the strengths in the other, creating a more comprehensive vision of what human choice is and how we should engage with the modern world. The dialogue between existentialism and behavioral economics can help us understand why we should protect our choices as our own and how doing so may be more difficult than we anticipate. While individuals are internally and situationally constrained, they can always endeavor to treat themselves as free. Acknowledging this tension in the form of a theoretical synthesis – which we propose to call Existentialist Welfare Economics – can help navigate the threat of identity-shaping social and technological developments, such as nudges or artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126673144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nietzsche's Naturalism: Neither Liberal nor Illiberal","authors":"B. Leiter","doi":"10.4324/9781351209472-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209472-7","url":null,"abstract":"It is no longer controversial that Nietzsche is some kind of philosophical naturalist, a view I argued for throughout the 1990s and then systematically in my 2002 book. As one scholar wrote subsequently: “Most commentators on Nietzsche would agree that he is in a broad sense a naturalist in his mature philosophy.” But Nietzsche is also not a “liberal naturalist”: while he rejects both the supernatural (as any naturalist must) and physicalism (in this regard he is not an “illiberal” naturalist), he countenances the reality only of that which is explicable by the various Wisssenschaften (sciences). And these sciences, on Nietzsche’s view, undermine the objectivity (or mind- or attitude-independence) of values, the first-personal point of view, and much of our common-sense or “folk” picture of the world. “Liberal naturalists” with their tolerance for objective values and reasons, and much of the “manifest image,” are from Nietzsche’s standpoint still in thrall to the same impulses that gave us belief in God: they want human beings to be “special,” while Nietzsche says the philosopher’s task is to repudiate the “dignified verbal pageantry” and “the false old finery, debris, and gold dust of unconscious human vanity.”","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132813500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interdisciplinarity in Research Evaluation","authors":"K. Huutoniemi, Ismael Rafols","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198733522.013.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198733522.013.40","url":null,"abstract":"The evaluation of interdisciplinary research is complicated by ambiguity about what interdisciplinarity is and what it should be. The question is topical, as evaluation plays an important role in how science is being shaped and changed today. The chapter performs a meta-analysis of the concept of interdisciplinarity in research evaluation, and gives an epistemic account of what would be involved in such evaluations. First, we discuss the various ways interdisciplinarity can add value to the disciplinary organization of academia and their respective implications for research evaluation. Second, we provide tools for mapping and measuring these value-added properties and illustrate what kind of evidence they can convey to research evaluations. The combined examination of values and indicators allows us to gain a more differentiated understanding of what exactly to look at when evaluating interdisciplinary research – and more generally, how to design research evaluations from an interdisciplinary point of view.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129967274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Concept of Hegemony","authors":"Doru Lung, M. Ball","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2961426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2961426","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the concept of hegemony and its applicability to understanding contemporary social and cultural developments. The concept of hegemony as used in social and cultural discourse has its roots in Marxist notions of class, oppression, ideology, base and superstructure, as well as Leninist notions of the vanguard, ​and was further developed by Antonio Gramsci, whose thoughts on cultural hegemony elaborated how one social group gained and then maintained power through cultural institutions, which constituted hegemony, and state institutions, such as the police, courts, and the military, which constituted domination. Adorno and Horkheimer developed a conception of a hegemonic culture industry and showed how the production of standardized cultural products could produce a dulled and docile populace. The concept of hegemony in understanding contemporary social and cultural developments has applicability not only through the thinking of the theorists named above, but also through what can be called a hegemonic discourse, which determines what can be thought, talked about or written, and thus is a concept which even a post-structuralist theorist, such as Foucault, makes use of, and whose applicability to understanding contemporary developments will be illustrated by recent events. The paper is consequently structured as follows: the first section introduces the concept of hegemony; the second section shows the origin of the concept of hegemony in Marxist thinking about ideology, superstructure, and the vanguard; the third section is concerned with Antonio Gramsci’s differentiation between rule, which is exercised directly through political institutions, and hegemony, which is maintained through culture; the fourth section addresses the notion of a culture industry, set forth by Horkheimer and Adorno, which creates mass produced culture for consumption by the masses, and whose function is a dulling of the consciousness of the same; the fifth section shows that the concept of hegemony is present in the thinking of Foucault about discourse; and the final section shows the applicability of the concept of hegemony to understanding recent events and concludes.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125568513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Neoliberal Politics of 'Smart': Electricity Consumption, Household Monitoring, and the Enterprise Form","authors":"A. Levenda, Dillon Mahmoudi, G. Sussman","doi":"10.22230/cjc.2015v40n4a2928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2015v40n4a2928","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates how digital technologies in the energy sector are enabling increased value extraction in the cycle of capital accumulation through surveillant processes of everyday energy consumption. We offer critical theory (Gramsci, Foucault) and critical political economy (Marx) as a guide for critical understanding of value creation in ICT through quotidian processes and practices of social reproduction. In this regard, the concept of the “prosumer” is extended beyond notions of voluntary participation in Web 2.0 to the political economy of energy use. Within this broad framework we investigate national and local level “smart grid” campaigns and projects. The “smartening” of the energy grid, we find, is both an ideological construct and a technological rationalization for facilitating capital accumulation through data collection, analysis, segmentation of consumers, and variable electricity pricing schemes to standardize social practices within and without the home. We look at BC Hydro as one illustration of where such practices are being instituted.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128780249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postmodern Discourse and Its Semiosis","authors":"K. Hakobyan, Jasmina Šuler-Galos","doi":"10.17323/2411-7390-2015-1-3-63-71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/2411-7390-2015-1-3-63-71","url":null,"abstract":"Symbolic representation is a specific, uniquely human form of objectification of the real world, a powerful means of communication activity of its reflectivity. Understanding of the phenomenon of sign representation, its modeling and the definition of the sign and its meaning depends on the sign language system and aspects of the language to be interpreted – dynamic or statistical, functional or structural aspects are taken as a basis. This article is an attempt to review the main components of the sign of the postmodern discourse.It should be noted that in modern science there is a tendency to revise the linguistic nature of the sign. Among all areas of linguistics there is a domination of the theoretical reflection, according to which all phenomena are regarded as the implementation of language text, discourse, narrative. Therefore, the full range of human culture is the sum of texts of the intertextuality. Consciousness also appears in the form of text that can be read by the relevant rules of grammar, or, by using the decryption of codes. Foreign linguists developed a new direction in science: the main emphasis is placed on the special role of the interpretation procedures and the importance of reading both cognitive and communicative signs, because any schematization of reality is a sign. The analysis of postmodern texts suggests that thought can not be just interpreted, but also disinterpreted in postmodern discourse. In these texts, the notion of the sign takes on a different, broader meaning than that of word mark. One of the important issues of semiotic analysis of postmodern discourse is to examine and identify the codes that exist to decipher all kinds of signs.Thus, in the context of our research the quite relevant question is to define the temporal signs (linguistic or non-linguistic) to be expressed in the postmodern discourse. As is known, the category of ‘time’ appears as a symbol of life / death, meaning as a cultural reality, and so forth. In modern linguistics it is assumed that postmodern text is regulated by a set of codes: the linguistic code of natural language, the literary code that defines the connectivity of the text, the genre code, and meta-language of a writer. In our view, the essence of postmodern discourse is a combination of mosaic codes, which include the following types of: linguistic, cultural, semiological, interactive, and metatextual codes. \u0000  \u0000This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122953728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Symbolism and Mythology of the Ancients: An Outline of Georg Friedrich Creuzer's Argument","authors":"A. V. Shalaeva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2537450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2537450","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to establish German Romanticism as the foundation for the process of formation of the humanities as a discipline. The research aims to enquire into the ideas that were crucial for the formation of mythology into discipline. The research explores the role of the romantic philosopher and philologist Friedrich Creuzer’s arguments in relation to the history of science of mythology. The findings of the research illustrate the impact of the different positions in the debates surrounding mythology in the age of German Romanticism and German Idealism on the development of the humanities as a discipline. At the same time as he was studying the symbolism and mythology of the ancients he was acutely influenced by romantic ideas. We suggest that this fact is crucial for the interpretation of the history of mythology as a subject and as a discipline along with the complex interactions between historical, philological and philosophical arguments in Creuzer’s work.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121225716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Publicidade Contemporânea e o Paradigma da Perversão (Contemporary Advertising and the Paradigm of Perversion)","authors":"J. C. Castro","doi":"10.18568/CMC.V11I30.478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18568/CMC.V11I30.478","url":null,"abstract":"A partir do modelo psicanalítico da estrutura perversa, cujo mecanismo fundamental é a Verleugnung (desmentido), o artigo propõe-se a articular as características mais gerais da publicidade contemporânea. Destacam-se, entre elas, a cumplicidade com o consumidor, a sutileza da mensagem, a ocultação da falta pelo fetiche, a mudança no papel da autoridade, a ilusão de onipotência do consumidor, o deslocamento de ênfase do desejo para o gozo, a normalização da transgressão e a plasticidade da identidade.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116434548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cybernetics of the Accident: Willing the Excess","authors":"M. Rahebi, Ebrahim Zargari Marandi","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2233062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2233062","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we are going to use the \"monstrous\" as a way to think through the excess that accompanies the capitalist/technocratic economic principle of maximum performance via the unlocking of all potentialities. In our analysis we will utilize certain texts and concepts by Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari as well as Samuel Weber and Niklas Luhmann. We shall further focus on the figure of the scientific or \"secular\" zombie as it functions as a new form of monstrosity, one that functions as a rhizomatic, acephallus network which is unleashed via the ultimate utilization of scientific performance.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129624464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory","authors":"C. Corradetti","doi":"10.5040/9781501300776.ch-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501300776.ch-003","url":null,"abstract":"The Frankfurt School, also known as the Institute of Social Research (Institut fur Sozialforschung), is a social and political philosophical movement of thought located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the original source of what is known as Critical Theory. The Institute was founded, thanks to a donation by Felix Weil in 1923, with the aim of developing Marxist studies in Germany. The Institute eventually generated a specific school of thought after 1933 when the Nazis forced it to close and move to the United States, where it found hospitality at Columbia University, New York. The academic influence of the “critical” method is far reaching in terms of educational institutions in which such tradition is taught and in terms of the problems it addresses. Some of its core issues involve the critique of modernities and of capitalist society, the definition of social emancipation and the perceived pathologies of society. Critical theory provides a specific interpretation of Marxist philosophy and reinterprets some of its central economic and political notions such as commodification, reification, fetishization and critique of mass culture.","PeriodicalId":149082,"journal":{"name":"Continental Philosophy eJournal","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121736221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}