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2007-01-01

Lupke, Christopher

This comprehensive biographical essay on Liu E discusses his entire life and all of his works with special attention paid to his seminal love Laocan Youji (The travels of Laocan).

2002

Welchman, Jennifer

Introduction: ”The Logic of Judgments of Practice,” first published in 1915 and then re-printed as the concluding essay of Dewey’s 1916 Essays in Experimental Logic,has been recognized as an important statement of Dewey’s developingnaturalistic moral epistemology. It expands upon discussions to...

2016-08-05

Beard, Laura J.

What does it mean to do autobiographical studies within the realm of Inter-American studies? What does it mean to study the story of a self within the context of such a huge terrain—geographic, cultural, linguistic, ethnic? In this chapter I look briefly at two Indigenous bilingual texts from...

2012

Pelletier, Francis J., Lepore, Ernest

This paper is an investigation into the role of linguistics in philosophical theorizing. In particular, we will show how linguistic evidence can be adduced in support of an event approach to action verbs and their adverbial modifiers: if we increase the adicity of verbs, if we allow there to be...

2022-01-01

Katalin Bimbó and J. Michael Dunn

This paper considers modalities added to the relevance logic LR (lattice-R), which is R with the distributivity of conjunction and disjunction omitted. First, the modalities are defined from the Ackermann constants and the lattice connectives. Then, we introduce modalities as primitives equipped...

2023-01-30

Thomas Hillen, Alexandra Shyntar

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are pluripotent cancer cells, which are less sensitive to treatments, and which can generate new tumors once transplanted into a healthy tissue environment. They have been identified in many cancers and they are the driving force of cancer growth and metastasis....

2013

Pelletier, Francis J., Asher, Nicholas

In Pelletier and Asher (1997) we presented a modal conditional analysis of the semantic interpretation of characterizing generics (in the terminology of Krifka et al. 1995). Since that time there have been a number of advances to our understanding of this area: Cohen (1999a,b, 2005), Leslie...

2022-09-26

Laishram, Devika

The development of efficient energy conversion devices offers new opportunities to address world energy demands; however, the advancement in this field is limited by the lack of suitable materials to drive effective conversion. In this perspective, multifunctional nanomaterials with their unique...

2002

Rockwell, G.

While we are tired of discussing whether humanities computing is a discipline or an interdisciplinary field, it is still worth looking at what it is to become a discipline. Starting with a discussion of disciplinarity I argue that when a field begins to control the means of its academic...

2019-01-15

Lupke, Christopher

One of the conundrums of modern Chinese literary studies is how to navigate the tortuous road between the particular cultural heritage from which it arises, the global phenomena of such trends as modernism, and the individual creative voice. Some adopt the strategy that indigenous cultures and...