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  1. Dancing an Expanded Habitual: Attuning to the More-Than-Human World.Amanda Kathleen Acorn - unknown
    This interdisciplinary thesis explores dance creation-as-research and phenomenological methods to articulate an embodied dialogue with the more-than-human world. Drawing on original phenomenological writing generated through embodied research, the work argues for dance practice as a salient tool for reimagining traditional forms of knowledge production and enacts the speculative possibilities of our communicative capacity between human and more-than-human bodies. The project imagines and articulates how we can bring relational, responsible thinking and sensing to our everyday movements while navigating the ruins of (...)
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  2. Can We Understand Nonhuman Minds Without Folk Psychology?Elizabeth Waldberg - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    One central commitment of comparative psychology is the prohibition against using folk-psychological concepts to explain nonhuman animal behavior, which requires us to disavow “the attribution of human qualities to other animals, usually with the implication it is done without sound justification” (Shettleworth 2010). Many scientists and philosophers believe attributing human folk-psychological concepts to nonhuman minds constitutes an egregious violation of the anti-anthropomorphism principle. Penn and Povinelli (2007) describe the practice as “insidious” and stemming from our “folk-psychological imagination.” Alternatively, others believe (...)
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  3. 'Blackness' and its Ethical and Social Implications: Discursive Impositions, Colonial Entrapments, and the Attendant Phenomenological Questions.Kuir Garang - unknown
    In this dissertation, I investigate the moral and social problems associated with ‘blackness’ in its historical and contemporary usage. Since ‘blackness’ now identifies continental and diaspora Africans (CADA) without major moral concerns, it seems ‘blackness’ has been normalized in society. From the 1960s, ‘blackness’ has become beautiful, socially uplifting and politically effective as a resistive socio-political and socio-economic device. This positive outlook apparently suggests that ‘blackness’ has been delinked from its historical problematics as the signifier of ugliness, evil, immorality, barbarism, (...)
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  4. Left Universalism: Towards a Muslim Feminist Ethics.Nuzhat Salma Khurshid - unknown
    How can we understand Muslim women’s agency? Is it possible to see such agency through the rubric of feminist universalism rather than through the standpoint of religious difference? This project presents a critical examination of the creative capacity of Muslim women to contribute to feminist and political goals, not as women who are Muslims, but through their religious identities. My objective is to build a theoretical grounding for a feminist ethic espoused by Muslim women that is not based on difference. (...)
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  5. The Ontopolitics of Complexity: Toward Agonistic Democracy and Ecological Political Economy.David Michael Mallery - unknown
    Complexity is among the most used yet rarely defined and often misunderstood terms in sustainability science. In this text, I argue that the conventionalization of the concept of complexity has resulted in the conflation of “thin” (i.e., reductionist) complexity and “thick” (i.e., perspectivist) complexity, and the resultant confusion surrounding these categories has created unnecessary tensions between sustainability science and environmental justice. Employing William E. Connolly’s ontopolitical-genealogical approach, I tease out implicit ontological commitments relating to complexity, holism, organicism, and environmental determinism, (...)
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  6. Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson and Jung.Philip George Delisle - unknown
    This book proposes an experiment: to unfold image and text together. Working in reverse, it begins with the painting processes of Francis Bacon (as analyzed by Gilles Deleuze), the metaphysics of philosopher Henri Bergson and the psychology of Carl Jung. The book attempts to build an in-between; to start with givens and fill in the space that blends them together into a smooth transition (intensity). Bringing ideas from philosophy, psychology and art together, and utilizing strategies that have practical application in (...)
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  7. Don't Let’s Go: Preemptive Grief, a World, and Others.Fehn Mathilda Foss - unknown
    This paper is written to accompany my MFA thesis exhibition, the work of holding and exiting, which took place April 10 - May 6, 2023 at shell projects, 13 Mansfield Avenue, Toronto, Canada. The exhibition consisted of lumen prints (a sort of photogram gone wrong), sculptures made from found and discarded materials, and elusive feelings that floated through the space. This paper, “Don’t Let’s Go: Preemptive Grief, A World, and Others” is in a symbiotic relationship with the work of holding (...)
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  8. Natural Fictions.Elisa Vita - unknown
    What if myths grew from the earth, unfurling their petals like fists? What if they lived in the undergrowth, in tree hollows, in between the feathers of ravens' wings? My MFA thesis exhibition, Natural Fictions (April 17-21, 2023), was produced with these questions in mind. In this support paper, I explore the ways in which painting can be a pathway to enchantment. In particular, I focus on the enchanted gaze, and how this gaze both complicates and enriches our interactions with (...)
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  9. On Racism: An Interrogation of the Canonical Theory of Knowledge of Anti-Racism Politics.Alejandro Campos-Garcia - unknown
    There are multiple ways of framing the analysis of racism and racial discrimination as public problems. Crucial differences in scope, ideological positions and theoretical standpoints inform these frames. Despite the tensions and disagreements among these stances, they all embrace four epistemological features: they treat racism and racial discrimination as given realities, which have an independent existence from awareness or recognition; they assume anti-racism and anti-discrimination practices and theories as contestations to those given realities; they all conceive power in terms of (...)
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  10. Repositioning the Gaze: An Aesthetic of Care.Corynn Phrona Kokolakis - unknown
    This paper explores, from the subjective positions of mother and figurative painter, the connections and incongruences between the practice of painting and the care practice of mothering. It considers the temporal de-calibration that occurs when engaged in the processes of both practices to shift the focus away from a timely, finished product. Through embodied and autotheoretical lenses, it argues for a reconfiguration of the gaze to look outward from mothering in order to emphasize practices of attunement. It contemplates how artwork (...)
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  11. The Ethics of Interpretation: Interpreting the Paradoxical Singularity of Spinoza's Ontological Argument.Jordan Robert Johnstone Nusbaum - unknown
    In this dissertation, I interpret Spinoza’s ontological argument to mean that the partiality of a part (mode) cannot be conceived except within the context of a whole (substance) in which it participates. Yet, insofar as a modified part (in-another) has a true idea of its own modified partiality, then that idea, and whatever follows from it, must be as irreducibly whole (in-itself) as the substantial whole in which it participates. This constitutes what I describe as the paradox of singularity in (...)
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  12. Green Strings vs. Purse Strings -Role of Eco-Emotions in Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour.Rahul Bose - unknown
    This study explores the influence of negative mixed emotions on consumer purchase choices in the context of environmental degradation. Previous research has focused on attitudes and emotions affecting preferences and willingness to pay, but understanding the gap between willingness to pay and actual behavior is crucial. The study uses a discrete choice experiment to examine the direct effect of "mixed integral eco-emotions" on purchase choices. Participants make a discrete purchase decision between two products with different environmental attributes and prices. Results (...)
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  13. Discourse, Design and Pedagogy in Translational Medicine.Cameron Michael Murray - unknown
    This dissertation is an ethnographic exploration into how translation is defined, taught and practiced in translational medicine. Based on fieldwork at translational research centres–one in Saint John and one in San Francisco–I confront a central tension between ways of understanding what translation is and how it should be performed in biomedicine. For some, translational medicine is simply another approach to commercializing research. For others, it is a novel way to bring researchers, governments, private companies and local communities together to shape (...)
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  14. Ballads for Remembering.Shelley Katherine O'Brien - unknown
    Ballads for Re-Membering is an examination of themes of consciousness such as time, space and emergence, set against the precarity of the climate crisis. Using an arts-and-Zen-practice-based methodology of research-creation, and a theoretical framework of New Materialism and Post-Humanism (“K(now)n Materialism”), this feminist response to the climate crisis manifests an otherwise-possible that is already right-here, taking cues from the emergent playful worlds of childhood studies and music, with interbeing as the net holding all. The dissertation is important because the climate (...)
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  15. Speech, Law and Civil Society: Liberal Thought Against Democratic Politics.Grant Taylor Andersen - unknown
    Historically-informed reflection on democracy reminds us of a curious fact: representative government, supposedly the modern form of democracy, was not originally envisioned as a technical solution to the difficulty of assembling the citizen body of an extensive nation state, but rather as a qualitatively different political form. The first thinkers to dedicate their attention to representative government in a systematic way were perfectly candid in contrasting this type of regime with democracy, which they viewed as an archaic form of politics (...)
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  16. Autotheory as Contemporary Feminist Practice: Performing Theory in Post-1960s Feminist Art, Literature, and Criticism.Lauren Gabrielle Fournier - 2019 - Dissertation, York University
    Autotheory is a term that has emerged in the zeitgeist of contemporary feminist cultural production to describe works of literature, art, and criticism that integrate autobiography and other explicitly subjective modes with philosophy and theory in experimental ways. While an emergent term, autotheorya merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoreticalcan be traced through earlier feminist art, literature, theory, and activism. In this dissertation, I take up autotheory in relation to a selection of post-1960s textschoosing works that engage a (...)
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  17. Teacher Identity and Ethical Responsibility: An Exploration Through Literary Representations.Lisa Simpson Schwartz - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation investigates the meaning of ethical responsibility as a fundamental feature of teacher identity. While there is a tendency to construct both responsibility and teacher identity in terms of instructional practice, agency, and competency, this research foregrounds understudied complexes of dependency, uncertainty, and failure. Drawing on continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, I frame teacher identity from the vantage of concepts of natality, hospitality, and relationality to illuminate a central conflict of responsibility that places the teacher in a tension between an (...)
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  18. Silence that matters: HIV Nondisclosure and the limits of Consent.Seran Gee - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation explores the legal and sociocultural linguistic implications of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Cuerrier (1998) where it was ruled that the nondisclosure of HIV-positive status could vitiate otherwise freely given consent, resulting in the sexual act being deemed aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault. Specifically, I am interested in how the logic of HIV nondisclosure law is deeply interwoven with heteronormative assumptions about sexuality and how consent is negotiated in practice. To interrogate the often-unstated (...)
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  19. Decolonizing Environmental Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Toward A Philosophy for Planetary Healing.Marliese Frances Whittle - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    Colonial mindsets and structures in the Western world drive broken relationships between human beings and non-human nature. In 2019, Kyle Whyte identified a tension between the rapid societal transformation required in response to climate change and the considerably slower pace at which remediation of trust, inequity, and imbalances of power happen between people within the colonial construct. This thesis offers a diagnostic tool to begin grappling with the question of how to heal broken relationships with each other and with non-human (...)
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  20. The Elusive Pursuit of Justice: Sexual Assault Survivors' Speak About Redress in the Aftermath of Violence.Tamera Ashley Margaret Burnett - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    The struggle of survivors to obtain justice after they have been sexually assaulted has been a much discussed topic in recent years. Significant attention and resources are being directed towards this issue, making academic research particularly valuable at this time. However, instead of asking how legal processes can theoretically be made better, as is the case in most of the literature on this topic, my focus has been on asking why survivors want to engage in a legal process at all. (...)
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  21. The Univocity of Attention: ADHD and the Case for a Renewed Self-Advocacy.Andrew Ivan Brown - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation uses multi-sited ethnography and socio-philosophical analysis to answer the following questions: What is the current state of ADHD’s onto-epistemological status in contemporary discourse? Is an equivalent to critical autism studies possible for ADHD? Specifically, is it possible to refigure ADHD’s ontology as an affirmative difference rather than a deficit? Drawing from my own experiences living with ADHD, as well as anecdotal and ethnographic accounts from my engagement with ADHD self-advocacy communities, I put various critical social scientific theories “to (...)
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  22. The Open City: A Grammatology of Migrant-Rights Movements and the Logic of Sovereignty.Tyler Correia - 2023 - Dissertation, York University
    In the following work I apply a grammatological method of analysis to the concomitant objects of a logic of sovereignty and migrant-rights politics. Drawing on the analytical tools of genealogy, etymology and pragmatics outlined by Jacques Derrida, I argue that a portable grammar of emplaced possibility generated by migrant-rights movements situated in cities (sanctuary politics in Toronto, Canada, the sans-papier in Paris, and Sheffield UK’s “Cities of Sanctuary” movement) give rise to novel and significant changes in political discourse, generating articulations (...)
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  23. (Education)3: An Exploration of Emotion, Embodiment, and Empathy.Jennifer Lisa Carmichael - unknown
    This research explores the role of the body in empathy with the goal of developing a pedagogical tool using storytelling. The study engaged participants in a series of mindfulness training sessions to explore whether empathy, viewed as a mode of responsiveness – a state of being – rather than a mode of cognitive access, can be enacted through non-judgmental observation of internal and external bodily sensation while engaging with narrative, a practice which I am calling willfully embodied perception. Findings indicated (...)
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  24. "What makes a great story?: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives On Digital Stories By Youth Formerly In Foster Care In Canada.Bryn Ashley Ludlow - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    What makes a great story? This qualitative arts-based dissertation study explores multidisciplinary and international perspectives on digital stories created by youth formerly in foster care. Over Skype, thirty-five participants from the arts, healthcare, education, and social services sectors watched three short digital stories about experiences of youth in foster care. Then, each participated in a 90 minute semi-structured interview to discuss the value, impact, and potential for digital storytelling to influence social change. All participants spoke about how the three digital (...)
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  25. Choreographing the Non-Ephemeral:An Investigation of Cyclical Temporality Using Minimalist Dance.Ashvini Sunthoram - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    This thesis is a philosophical and performative investigation of the embodied practice of cyclical temporality used in Indian classical music and dance, called taala, including an argument against the ontological specificity of dance as ephemerality. Extending on cyclical phenomena in Indian thought, the temporal structure in Indian classical music and dance is both linear and cyclical, constructing a unique perception of time as a living entity. Through minimalist movement composition, choreographic exploration and the development of a dance work called Art (...)
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  26. Predictive Networks and the Plate Tectonics Revolution.Matthew Patrick Burns - unknown
    Alfred Wegeners The Origin of Continents and Oceans was published in 1915. Therein, Wegener deviated from prevailing fixist expectations and argued for the relative displacement of continents across geological time. This hypothesis of continental mobilism languished for decades but rapidly became authoritative toward the end of the 1960s due to remarkable predictive successes of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. In this work, I develop an account of the rapid ascendence of mobilism that is receptive to both the historical contingency and (...)
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  27. Overcoming and Re-envisioning White Resistance to Antioppressive Teacher Education: Creating Transitional Spaces to Process Difficult Knowledge in Small Groups.Jordan Elliott Singer - unknown
    This dissertation argues that a fundamental rethinking of how Antioppressive teacher education views white teacher candidate (TC) learning is necessary to diminish what has been called white resistance. Examining the inadequate models and methods deployed to transform TC thinking about difference and Otherness reveals how teacher educators (TE) adherence to traditional paradigms contributes to their refusal to learn and change. The addition of Psychoanalytic insights into subjectivity, thinking and learning, it is argued, can mitigate TC resistance while enhancing student engagement (...)
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  28. Epistemologies of Imperial Feminism(s): Violence, Colonization, and Sexual (Re)Inscriptions of Empire.Faye Marie Fraser - unknown
    This doctoral thesis project brings together Indigenous theory and post-colonial feminism under a decolonial framework to highlight the significance of feminist moral epistemologies in establishing global hierarchical systems. I argue that when situated within the sexual matrices of coloniality, feminist moral regulation knowledge production in Canada institutionalizes hierarchical social ordering through the de-mediation of non-secular agency and sacred Indigenous self-consciousness. This dissertation warns feminist moral regulation scholars of the contamination of feminist knowledge produced about the sexual Other that remains colonized (...)
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  29. Normative Primitivism and the Possibility of Practical Thought.Samuel David Steadman - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    Reasons are essentially addressed to agents. Many contemporary efforts to illuminate this feature of reasons effectively reduce them to features of agents, e.g., to rationally-pruned desires, plans, or roles. Such reductive accounts neglect a second feature of reasons, namely, their capacity to transcend agential nature. They also neglect a feature of agents, namely, their orientation to normative entities as entities that transcend—and thus, that can guide and give shape to—agential nature. This dissertation offers a conception of the relation running from (...)
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  30. Pedagogies of Navigation: An Account of Difference.Noah Yusuf Hassan Khan - unknown
    The present thesis develops a pedagogy that responds to the finitude of the human, as approximated by its lived technological experiences. Prominent pedagogies that espouse rhizomic metaphysical conceptions are subjected to systematic doubt to determine whether they are consistent with these experiences. Then, these experiences are examined to discern the nature of sense-making from the lens of the individual, focusing heavily on the role of cognition. The author then furnishes an enactment of sense-making through the provision of a dialogue and (...)
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  31. Toward a Becoming Encounter: Arts-Based Research, Representation and Animal-Human Relations.Sara Kate Marino - unknown
    This dissertation integrates philosophical concepts from Deleuze and Guattaris Becoming-animal and Bubers I-Thou Encounters to create a conceptual metaphor that I call A Becoming Encounter. Through an arts-based methodology, the production and examination of several art objects (my own and others), and the ways in which they relate to the lived experience of animals, (using Lefebvre and content analysis), a theoretical framework is developed aimed at informing future representation and shaping future relationships with nonhuman animals and environments. Toward A Becoming (...)
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  32. Posthuman Game and Play: The Migration of Cyberpunk from Prose Media into the Medium of the Tabletop Roleplaying Game.David Milman - unknown
    Tabletop roleplaying games (or TRPGs in short form) have often been objects of analytical confusion. Scholars such as Andrew Ross have made conclusions about them on the basis of the same methodological techniques typically used to analyze prose media. These conclusions fail to account for the content of what Noah Wardrip-Fruin has called expressive processes. Ludologists following the discipline first developed by Espen J. Aarseth have created a series of tools that can be used to avoid the pitfalls of analysing (...)
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  33. Unthinkable, Indescribable, Unknowable: Thinking with Hannah Arendt About School Shootings Through Concepts of Unacknowledged Shame, Violence and Forgiveness.Wendy Mary Chappel - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    The figure of the rampage school shooter continues to present a challenge to educational thought and research. This dissertation examines discursive representations of unacknowledged shame, violence and forgiveness in young adult fiction written about rampage school shootings. I frame my thinking of concepts and analysis through Hannah Arendt's discussion of shame, violence, and forgiveness. To explore these concepts, I will engage with literary pedagogy, to examine the potential for fostering dialogue with students to think about the combined role of the (...)
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  34. Reviving Craft in a Context of Design: Physical Practice in a Digital Culture.Julia Grzeskowiak - unknown
    In the pursuit of speed and efficiency, contemporary visual communication eradicates the essence of the individual in favour of certainty. Mass production and the rational thought processes that steer Western Culture have caused much of the human relationship with the physical world to deteriorate. This graphic design research employs craft processes and theories of the discipline to explore the irregularities engendered by the human hand. It does so by merging production methods involving both analogue and digital operations. The unique vagaries (...)
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  35. The Hegelian-Marxian Machinery of History: Cedric J. Robinson, Unilinearity and the Dialectic Project of Liberation.Salmaan Abdul Hamid Khan - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    Through his lifes work Cedric J. Robinson had developed a historiographic and theoretical critique of Marxism that exposed it as reductive, Eurocentric, and built upon idealistic positions that did not reflect the concrete conditions of reality itself. However, his critical intervention has been largely ignored and where it has been addressed, it was dismissed as having engaged in a misreading or reductive engagement with Marxism which is otherwise signified as a much more dynamic and reflexive philosophy. The basic intention of (...)
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  36. Minimizing Stigma, Improving Care: An Investigation into Empathy and Narrative for Understanding the Lived Experience of Schizophrenia.Andrew Molas - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation explores a phenomenological account of empathy and narrative-based medicine. Its objective is to offer a sustained critical discussion of the benefits of a phenomenological account of empathy and narrative-based medicine for understanding the experiences of persons diagnosed with schizophrenia, improving therapeutic relationships, minimizing the stigma of mental illness, and supporting people with schizophrenia in their recovery. Part one of this dissertation critically examines the nature of empathy and highlights the challenges that impede our ability to understand the experiences (...)
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  37. Transcending the Impasses: Towards an Indigenous Vision of Legality in Palestine.Juman Abujbara - unknown
    This thesis attempts to demonstrate that the international legal impasse surrounding Palestine is animated by incommensurable visions of legality. It argues that in portraying the Palestinian struggle for liberation as a struggle for state sovereignty, international law subjects the indigenous worldview to a violent and perpetual erasure. The thesis employs Aaron Mills' theoretical framework to argue for an incommensurability between Palestine's indigenous conception of legality and the dominant conception of legality underlying international law. Further, the thesis offers a reading of (...)
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  38. Relationality over Coloniality: An Inquiry into Decolonizing Settler-isms with Indigenous Futurisms.Ryan Ayva Koelwyn - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    Reconciliation between non-Indigenous/settler peoples and Indigenous peoples has become a central tenet of Canadian education. In this dissertation I examine the ways a settler-colonizer's capacity to dream a vision of reconciliation into being is fractured. The ways schooling is stuck between, the potential for education to labour a decolonial future and the crisis of responsibility that ensues when education continues to be informed by settler ideologies that reinforce white supremacy and the superiority of Euro-western knowledge, come into focus. In the (...)
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  39. "Cruel Optimism," Burnt-out-souls, and the Ruptured Fantasy of Education.Louise Azzarello - 2022 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation conducts a philosophical political inquiry into ways in which the pervasive atmosphere of capitalist realism infiltrates and impedes public education and thus generates a ruptured fantasy of education. My project seeks to critically expose an exhausted depressive sensibility, promoted and perpetuated through the logic of neoliberalism, which gives way to what Byung-Chul Han terms the burnt-out-soul. Late critical theorist Lauren Berlants cruel optimism offers a conceptual framework through which I critically consider the double bind induced through attachments to (...)
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  40. Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment.Crystal Lee Marie Kotow - 2020 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation examines the way fat womens experiences in and relationships to their bodies are shaped by the affective environment of Big Beautiful Woman social events. Data from the researchers autoethnographic explorations of BBW bashes and 12 interviews with fat women who attend BBW social events is analyzed using a theoretical framework that engages with feminist understandings of how power produces and exerts control over marginalized bodies, how violence is justified and enacted against marginalized communities/individuals, societal forces that influence the (...)
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  41. The Lost Futures of Simone Weil: Metaxu, Decreation, and the Spectres of Myth.Matthew James Godfrey - 2022 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation places literature and myth at the suture of two of Simone Weil's most important concepts: decreation and metaxu. Decreation, or the decanting of subjectivity to become one with God, has become a fixture in Weil scholarship. Yet, the link between decreation and metaxu, the bridges that collapse self and other, has yet to be theorized. This study brings metaxu to the forefront of Weil studies to emphasize its role within the domains of community and culture, thereby signalling its (...)
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  42. Semantic Scepticism and the Possibility of Meaning.Alexandra Olivia Sultanescu - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    Nearly four decades ago, Saul Kripke articulated a semantic version of scepticism, according to which no finite goings-on, either mental or behavioural, can establish what someone means by an expression. The semantic sceptic reveals, among other things, the hopelessness of a deeply temptingand widely madeassumption, to the effect that we must be able to articulate what it is for a subject to use expressions meaningfully without presupposing meaning. According to a strain of thinking that is influential in contemporary philosophy, this (...)
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  43. Otherwise than Neoliberalism: The Aesthetics of Failure in Contemporary American Literature.Daniel Louis-Francois Dufournaud - 2021 - Dissertation, University of York
    This study focuses on failure in contemporary American literature. It reads literary texts that foreground failure as responses to the social and economic conditions of neoliberalism, proposing that these texts disclose ethical alternatives to everyday life. The literary texts at the core of this study -- be they novels, plays, poems, or short stories -- share a commitment to the future, one in which social interdependence as well as responsibility for the wellbeing of others would supplant the egoistic desires abetted (...)
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  44. Wholly Quantum.Armaghan Yari - 2020 - Dissertation, University of York
    Most theories of quantum mechanics do not offer clear yes/no empirical answers to all questions that seem at face value. The Many-Worlds Interpretation, originated by Hugh Everett in the late 1950s, is unique for its unambiguous envisioning of reality: our universe is one of the numerous parallel universes that frantically branch off from each other nanoseconds by nanoseconds. In many of these worlds, there exist exact replicas of you and me, all evolving independently. My thesis exhibition, entitled Wholly Quantum, articulates (...)
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  45. The Radical Democratic Thought of Thomas Jefferson: Politics, Space, & Action.Dean Carl Caivano - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    Thomas Jefferson has maintained an enduring legacy in the register of early American political thought. As a prolific writer and elected official, his public declarations and private letters helped to inspire revolutionary action against the British monarchy and shape the socio-political landscape of a young nation. While his placement in the American collective memory and scholarship has remained steadfast, a crucial dimension of his thinking remains unexplored. In this dissertation, I present a heterodox reading of Jefferson in order to showcase (...)
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  46. Subjectivity, Alienation, and Liberation in Levinas and Marx.Robert Brian Froese - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation examines the relationship between subjectivity, normativity, and politics in Emmanuel Levinas and Karl Marx. At first sight, Levinas depiction of a singular and unique relation to othersa bond which prohibits even the slightest trace of historical, hermeneutic or political contextappears not only at odds with the basic philosophical and political insights of Marx but the whole of the Continental tradition. This much is evident from the numerous political critiques and appropriations of Levinas, which condemn him on the grounds (...)
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  47. Sankofa: Disability and the Door of Return.Evelyn Folake Kissi - 2020 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation is organized as sets of related essays that explore the concept of Sankofa as a method to revisit, resurge and reclaim Nkrumah's ideology to better understand the structures that continue to create disablement in Ghana. Disability studies as a field has come to acknowledge that the majority of disabled individuals live in the global south, however, the field does not yet account for how Europe underdeveloped Africa, how it continues to do so, and the impact it has on (...)
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  48. The Affectivity of White Nation-Making: National Belonging, Human Recognition and the Mournability of Black Muslim Women.Jan-Therese Mendes - 2021 - Dissertation, University of York
    Drawing Canadian and Swedish national imaginaries into comparative dialogue, this dissertation considers how ideals of liberal, anti-racism paradoxically persist alongside white supremacist investments in the sanctity and authenticity of a white citizenry as well as the terror of Black and Muslim subjects. A sense of fear, threat and vulnerability are examined as useful bad feelings nurtured for the ends of white nation-making; while, the contingencies for assimilation reveal how ideals of racial tolerance can simultaneously be retained. Engaging with tropes of (...)
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  49. Effect of Mindfulness Bibliotherapy on Kinesiology Students.Kamran Shahabi - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    This project explores the perceived effect of mindfulness bibliotherapy and discuss the possible underlying reasons behind those effects on college students. We used audiobook version of Zen Mind Beginner's written by Shunryu Suzuki in order to simplify the bibliotherapy process and decrease the burden of participation. In this research students were provided with the bibliotherapy content and were instructed to study the material within seven days. Fourteen to twenty one days after finishing the book, a semi- structured interviews were conducted (...)
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  50. Subsumption as development: A world-ecological critique of the south korean "miracle".Kyle Andrew Gibson - 2022 - Dissertation, University of York
    This work offers a critical reinterpretation of South Korean "economic development" from the perspectives of Marxian form critique and Jason Moore's world-ecology. Against the "production in general" view of economic life that dominates the extant debates, it analyzes the rise, spread, and deepening of capitalism's historically specific social forms in twentieth-century Korea: commodity, wage-labor, value, and capital. Eschewing the binary language of development and underdevelopment, we adopt Marx's non-stagist distinctions regarding the relative degree of labor's subsumption under capital: hybrid, formal, (...)
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  51. Epistemological Justice in Strategic Challenges to Legislation under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Dana Erin Phillips - 2021 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation responds to two recent developments in the landscape of Canadian constitutional litigation. First, the advent of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has invited a wave of strategic constitutional challenges directed at systemic social reform, including many cases aligned with progressive social justice goals. Second, the focus of Charter litigation has shifted from legal interpretation and argument to the consideration of extensive evidence pertaining to social and legislative facts. The recent successes of a number of strategic Charter (...)
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  52. Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx.Paul Steven Elias - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation demonstrates several theses in relation to key components of Marxs philosophy that conventional interpretations either misrepresent or overlook. The chief thesis concerns his idea of revolutionary subjectivity which is demonstrably inconsistent and undertheorized. The main areas of Marxs work that are explored to elucidate this idea are his ontology and method, philosophical anthropology, idea of communist society, and theory of history. Insight into these and other aspects of his work can be derived through analysis of a tradition of (...)
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  53. Politically Engaged Wild Animals.Dennis Vasilis Papadopoulos - 2022 - Dissertation, University of York
    My dissertation is called Politically Engaged Wild Animals; in it, I suggest that wild animals live in a politicized world, which gives their behaviour unintended political meanings—if humans will listen appropriately. To arrive at this conclusion, I start with Dinesh Wadiwel's biopower critique according to which any proposals to conserve wilderness or protect wild animals, which relies on human representatives, suffer from a particular sort of risk, namely that of transforming the current overt domination into a neoliberal form of continued (...)
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  54. Relations and States.Yasar Bukan - 2022 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation attempts to re-interpret the concept of relations as such and examines their actualization in relation to the relations of states. It is divided into two parts. In the first part, it examines past interpretations of the concept of relations and provides a different understanding of the concept. It argues that relations should not be perceived solely as that which occurs either as an extension of things or as between things, rather that relations are such phenomena that can also (...)
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  55. An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous.Renee A. Valiquette - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    Notions of identification and resemblance have been central to the onto-epistemologies of Anglo Environmental Ethics in the 20th and 21st centuries. In order to dismantle Western conceptions of the human as separate from the material world the case needed to be made for the likeness of humans and nature; "nature is us" (Crutzen and Schäwgerl 2011). This dissertation builds on such efforts while also proposing a change of course, one that moves away from sameness and toward otherness. To contend with (...)
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  56. Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction.Katherine Wrobel - 2016 - Dissertation, University of York
    The Condition-of-England Question - a series of discussions that involve commentary on the state of relations between disparate groups and classed subjects - contains a nexus of competing and overlapping discourses, as well as an attention to feelings such as anger and to the comnumication of feeling that comprises sympathy. It evolves through the interrogative methodologies of moral philosophy, Romantic idealism, political radicalism, and the cultural assumptions that guide literary production and consumption. Condition-of-England novels, such as Elizabeth Gaskell' s Mmy (...)
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  57. The Entanglements of Canada's National Identity Building and Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflicts: Racial Capitalist Democracy and the Cold War Neoliberal Multicultural Subject.Anh Phung Ngo - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    This study weaves Cold War Epistemology, critical multiculturalism, racial capitalism, and critical refugee studies to theorize how the Vietnamese Canadian subjectivity is related to Canadas national identity formation. Adopting a critical ethnography methodology and discourse analysis, this study asks: What are the conditions of community conflicts within the Vietnamese community and how are those conflicts related to the processes of Canadian national identity formation? The production and contestation of Vietnamese Canadian subjectivity in the making of Canadian national identity is traced (...)
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  58. Emergence.Mark Julian Adam Mungo - 2020 - Dissertation, University of York
    Emergence is a feature-length coming-of-age and science-fiction screenplay set between 2044 and 2059 in Canada and a settlement on Mars. The story follows Nate Ein, a prodigy in computational neuroscience, who loses his mother at a young age. He embarks on a single-minded techno-mythological quest to save his mother from death, and grant immortality to all. His quest forces him into a world of political intrigue and manipulations that leads to him being given the burden of choice for the future (...)
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  59. Moving with Stories of "Me too.": Towards a Theory and Praxis of Intersectional Entanglements.Brianna Ivy Wiens - 2022 - Dissertation, University of York
    This dissertation offers a critical-theoretical intervention into how we approach the study of mediated phenomena. Using the example of the #MeToo Movement, I bring together intersectional feminism, posthumanism, and new materialism to delineate "intersectional entanglements" in order to develop the praxes of virtual dwelling, vibrant ethos, and vital structuring and to analyze the ways that stories from the "me too." Movement flow throughout individual, collective, and structural domains of power. I argue that we need to envision spaces and relationalities through (...)
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  60. The Social and Political Dimensions of the Ethics of PrEP for HIV Prevention Among MSM.Michael Martin Montess - 2021 - Dissertation, University of York
    For many men who have sex with men, the risks, treatment, and prevention of HIV are central and unavoidable aspects of their experiences of sex and romance. This constant vigilance around HIV complicates their lives in medical as well as interpersonal and socio-political ways. Pre-exposure prophylaxis is a relatively new method of HIV prevention that is already revolutionizing the lives of MSM by lessening the need for this ongoing vigilance. However, the wide-ranging effects of PrEP on MSM are as of (...)
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  61. Birthday.Atefeh Khademolreza - 2019 - Dissertation, University of York
    BirthDay is a 28-minute experimental narrative film set in Toronto, following one day in the life of three immigrants: an Afghani woman, a Serbian man, and a Syrian boy who lives with his grandmother. Their lives are interconnected through montage, giving the illusion that they are one family. Toronto becomes a space that seems to embrace the characters, while at the same time separating them through the hardships of immigration.
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  62. The Existential Nihilism Scale (ENS): Theory, Development, and Psychometric Evaluation.Jeremy Eugene Forsythe - unknown
    Existential nihilism is a worldview characterized by a rejection of the existence of meaning in life and a belief in the futility of trying to ameliorate this absence. Despite the rich philosophical and cultural history of existential nihilism, its impact on mental health and society remains largely unknown due to a gap in the measurement literature. To address this gap, an 8-item scale measuring the proposed construct was developed and tested in accordance with psychometric theory and scale development guidelines. Two (...)
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  63. Natural Fiction and Artifice in Hume's Treatise.Brent C. Delaney - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    David Hume's early philosophy appeals to fiction and artifice to explain several important features in our cognitive and social activity. In this dissertation, I develop a typology of Humean fictions and artifices to clarify and render his account consistent. In so doing, I identify a special class of fictions I divide into natural fictions and natural artifices. I argue that this special class of cognitive and social fictions represents a significant break with prior English-speaking philosophers, such as Francis Bacon and (...)
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  64. How Will I Know? An Epistemology of Lawyering.Emanuel Raul Tucsa - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    What does anyone know after a trial, after a witness gives testimony, or even after seeking the counsel of a lawyer? Hopefully, the answer to these questions has something to do with the truth. Legal systems claim to have truth-seeking functions. Lawyers have specific roles in the procedures by which legal systems seek the truth and these roles are informed by the norms of legal practice. Yet, lawyers' relationship to truth and knowledge remains underexplored in the philosophy of lawyering. I (...)
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  65. How We Do What We Do: Joint Action and Spontaneity.Alexander Emil Leferman - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    The dissertation defends a novel account of joint agency, one that accommodates the neglected phenomenon of spontaneous joint action. The goals of the dissertation are to reveal the importance of spontaneous joint action, to show why these actions are problematic for many accounts of joint agency, and to produce a satisfactory theory of them. Chapter 1 argues that being capable of explaining spontaneous joint actions is in fact a requirement on a satisfactory theory of joint agency and this poses a (...)
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  66. Monstrous Liminality; or the Uncanny Strangers of Secularized Modernity.Robert Gerald Beghetto - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    As modernity began to rapidly change and influence European culture, many nineteenth and twentieth-century writers and intellectuals struggled to identify themselves with this modern paradoxical context. As a result, the modern stranger was conjured up out of the uncanny depths of secularized modernity. Although a subject whose makeup is continually shifting, the modern stranger still exists as a strong allegory for secularized modernity, particularly because of its unsolidified and liminal characteristics. Along with its doppelgnger the monster, the stranger reflects not (...)
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  67. Emancipating the Dancing Body: Bridging the Interdependency of Aesthetic Theory with Separated Roles in Contemporary Dance to Solidify the Phenomenology of Creative Movement Causation.John Michael Vintila - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    This thesis involves the development of a methodology that when assessed hermeneutically, provides an existential yet accessible framework that informs and deepens the practice of improvised contemporary movement forms. This theoretical methodologys construction also initiates a unique aesthetic theory that can be used for solidifying an improvisational creative process. The unveiling of concealed convergences eventually resonates with dancing bodies as the becoming of the unseen through a phenomenological grounding that performers using improvised movement structures have ostensibly disregarded as being the (...)
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  68. Exploring the Life and Work of Gladys Forrester: A Canadian Dance Educator, 1936 - 1998.Pamela Rae Steel - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    The current body of literature regarding dance history in Canada is informative and expanding, focusing predominantly on professional schools, dancers, choreographers and companies. There is much yet to be said, however, regarding individual dance educators, their instructional practices and influence on the subject of Canadian dance evolution and culture. This research investigates one mid-twentieth century, Toronto dance teacher, Gladys Forrester, expanding the body of knowledge specific to her career and contributions within the context of Toronto dance history. Through archival and (...)
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  69. Knowing and Expressing Ourselves.Benjamin Ian Winokur - 2021 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation concerns two epistemologically puzzling phenomena. The first phenomenon is the authority that each of us has over our minds. Roughly, to have authority is to be owed a special sort of deference when self-ascribing your current mental states. The second phenomenon is our privileged and peculiar self-knowledge. Roughly, self-knowledge is privileged insofar as one knows ones mental states in a way that is highly epistemically secure relative to other varieties of contingent empirical knowledge. Roughly, one has peculiar self-knowledge (...)
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  70. Science, Modernity, and the Colonial Encounter: Rethinking Biotechnological Interventions in Thailand’s Elephant Trekking Industry.Megan Whitney - unknown
    This paper will analyze the integration of biotechnologies in conservation strategies, law enforcement, anti-trafficking efforts, and wildlife tourism through an investigation of Thailand’s elephant trekking industry. The conditions of Asian elephants in Thailand is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most challenging conservation cases, existing at the nexus of pressing animal welfare, labor, national development, and ecological considerations. My paper will call upon a social-historical approach to analyze how biotechnologies as tools of valuation in the complex space of elephant (...)
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  71. Revisiting Adam Smith and the Politics of Commercial Societies.Maxime Alexandre Levy-Tessier - 2020 - Dissertation, York University
    The following dissertation investigates the connection between the division of labour, political subjection and the psychology of authority in Adam Smiths body of work to further his analysis of commercial societies. By shedding light on this connection, I endeavour to examine what Smith under-theorizes: how power relations are organized in commercial societies to account for their historical specificity. Although this dissertation focuses on what remains under-theorized in Smiths account of commercial societies, it proceeds through an internal critique of his system (...)
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  72. Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge.Nathan Alan Harron - 2020 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation investigates and supports arguments intended to justify claims that social diversity in scientific research communities not only promotes justice but is good for knowledge. One such claim that I focus on is that increasing the social location diversity of research communities increases that communitys capacity for critically evaluating knowledge claims. I investigate existing arguments defending this position and point out a common weaknessthey inadequately detail how social diversity in research communities can be epistemically beneficial, and end up implicitly (...)
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  73. Low Femme, Low Theory: An Ethno-Archive of Femme Internet Culture.Andrea Justine Schwartz - 2020 - Dissertation, York University
    Low Femme, Low Theory: An Ethno-Archive of Femme Internet Culture is a collection of four papers detailing the findings from my dissertation research, a six-month online ethnography of femme internet culture. In the first paper, I develop an understanding of femme memes as particular audiovisual content found online that appropriate and mobilize public symbols to address the devaluation of femininity. I examine three genres of femme memes, and use the frameworks of low theory and bedroom culture to argue that femme (...)
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  74. SuperLattice.Daniel Thomas Tapper - unknown
    SuperLattice documents the creation of a hybrid structure that combines human perception with computational methods of processing information. Through SuperLattice I showcase the malleability of data and highlight the creative and narrative choices that are implicit in the recording and presentation of information. The artistic work accompanying SuperLattice is designed to manipulate data and detail how narrative structure and didactic text have the power to transform the meaning of data. To an extent SuperLattice is inspired by Angela Carters novel The (...)
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  75. Power from Below: Power, Democracy and Socialist Theory.Alain Savard - 2020 - Dissertation, York University
    This dissertation reframes socialist theory through the concept of power. The goal of this reconceptualization is to overcome the main limits of Marxism on issues of usefulness for activists, of accessibility for ordinary people, of the integration of feminist and anti-racist perspectives, and on its relationship to democracy. By building upon the implicit theory of power within the works of contemporary Marxists, such as Ellen Meiksins Wood, Alex Callinicos and G.E.M. De Ste. Croix, this dissertation proposes a new set of (...)
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  76. Pudovkin's Precept [Summary]: Pudovkin, Kant and the Transcendental Unity of Apperception.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    In 1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin solved the fundamental problem of film design by showing filmmakers how to select and order the parts of a movie to ensure that viewers can perceive coherently and with least effort the events that they encounter by means of it. He did so by unwittingly bringing Kant's transcendental constraint of apperceptive unity to bear upon it, confirming with unprecedented elegance and power that respect for the constraints of the self-conscious perceptual integrity of observers is the primal (...)
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  77. Time, Bergson and the Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky.Donato Totaro - unknown
    A thesis by Donato Totaro [M.F.A., 1990] on the affinities between the philosophical conjectures of Henri Bergson and the movies and remarks on filmmaking of Andrei Tarkovsky.
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  78. Pudovkin's Precept, Part 3: Bringing Movies to Kant's 'Transcendental Unity of Apperception'.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    In 1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin, a not-so-young Russian of thirty-two making his first movie of feature length, articulated within a brief manual for filmmakers how to solve the fundamental problem of film design by describing how to select and order the parts of a movie to ensure that viewers can perceive coherently and with least effort the events that they encounter by means of them. How did he do it? How, indeed, could anyone have done it, much less an inexperienced filmmaker, (...)
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  79. Review of Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll. [REVIEW]Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    A review of Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll, xviii & 564 pages, $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper, published on pages 492-494 of Philosophy & Literature, Vol. 21, No. 2.
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  80. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Induction? Flip a Coin, Twice if Needed.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    A simple solution to Hume's problem of induction, pragmatically construed.
     
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  81. Kant and Aesthetics: an Introduction.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    A brief introduction to Kant's Third Critique as presented in November 1986 at the request of Professor Seth Feldman to the undergraduate students enrolled within his 'Introduction to Fine Arts' course of the Fine Arts Cultural Studies programme, required at the time of all first-year students entering the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
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  82. Eisenstein, Part 1: 'A Fly in the Fly-Bottle' – Montage to 1930.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    Few artists have tried harder than Sergei Eisenstein to understand what they were doing, how and why, as they fashioned early on the works that made them famous, and no one among them has ever affirmed later on – with such clarity and conviction – how and why they had at the time misconceived what they were doing, and what lessons they had learned about their art from having done so. Though some filmmakers understood afterwards what Eisenstein had achieved by (...)
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  83. Kant at the La Ciotat Station: the Arrival of the Lumière's Train.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    In 1787 Immanuel Kant published a second edition of his Critique of Pure Reason. Within a new preface he reaffirmed an identity that his critics had failed to comprehend: we and God encounter things differently rather than different things. A century later Louis Lumière, by the first public screening of a movie, exemplified a comparable identity that a good many nonfilmmakers have ever since failed to comprehend: we see differently by means of movies the same things that stood before the (...)
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  84. King Kong, Carroll and Currie: Misconstruing monstrously how we see things by means of movies.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    Two confusions have vitiated recent philosophical discussions about filmmaking: the presumption of Nöel Carroll that discrimination entails essentialism and the presumption of both Carroll and Gregory Currie that we cannot be seeing what we commonly speak of seeing when seeing 'fictional things' things by means of movies, monsters like King Kong in particular, for our responses differ from what they would have been had we been in the presence of the things that we are encountering. Fortunately, neither of the confusions (...)
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  85. Nelson Goodman's 'Theory of Symbols': an Exposition and Critique.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    Notes in outline form for a presentation on 13 February 1985 to the 'Media, Mind and Society' seminar of David R. Olson, Co-Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the University of Toronto, on the 'Theory of Symbols' of Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art [1968] and Ways of Worldmaking [1978].
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  86. Pudovkin's Precept: Coherence, Kant and 'Temporal Concentration'.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    In 1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin solved the fundamental problem of film design. More exactly, he showed filmmakers how to select and order the parts of a movie to ensure that viewers can perceive coherently and with least effort the events that they encounter by means of it. He did so by unwittingly bringing Kant's transcendental constraint of apperceptive unity to bear upon it, confirming that respect for the constraints of the self-conscious perceptual integrity of observers is the primal precondition of authentic (...)
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  87. How to Measure an Ideology.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    A primer on the rudiments of the tough task of theorizing for film 'theorists' unable to distinguish theories from ideologies.
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  88. McLuhan's Method: the Mad Hatter at Tea with Austin and Wittgenstein.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    What was McLuhan doing? How was he doing it? Was it important? Within this essay I try to answer those questions by linking what he said and did, and how he did it, with the ways and means of the seemingly dissimilar philosophical project of Austin and Wittgenstein.
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  89. Pudovkin, Kant and the Principle of Perceptual Coherence.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    In 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin, while making his first feature film, articulated a precept crucial to understanding how powerful movies are made. He did so by assimilating unwittingly the core of Kant's principle of experiential coherence. I here summarize the precept and its Kantian origins.
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  90. 'In My Mind's Ear': Misconstruing Sounds as Sights – a Philosophical and Cinematical Caution.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    The notion of 'imaging' music ought to perplex us philosophically, for 'to imagine' is a verb of visualisation. Hearing musical events may cause us to imagine things, and seeing things may cause us to think of hearing musical events, but to speak of visualising how we hear when hearing musically is to echo an innervating confusion. The primary space within which we encounter things is auditory/tactile rather than visual. To think accurately of music, and especially so when composing it, one (...)
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  91. Randomness and Mr. Goodman's Paradox.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    Viable inductions can only be drawn from unbiased samples. A predicate like Nelson Goodman's 'Grue', therefore, cannot be used within inductions, for the temporal nature of its definition ensures that any sampling of objects that we could encounter would be biased with respect to it. The supposed 'grue paradox' is therefore neither paradoxical nor relevant to how we make viable inductions.
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  92. Review of Noël Carroll's "Problems of Classical Film Theory". [REVIEW]Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    A review of Noël Carroll's Problems of Classical Film Theory, x + 268 pages, published on pages 85 and 86 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47, No. 1.
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  93. From Plato to Socrates: Wittgenstein's Journey on Collingwood's Map.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    How can I learn and help others to learn to mean more precisely by saying, doing and making things? By attending to how Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robin Collingwood answered that question during the first half of the twentieth century. I show how the last of three answers given by Wittgenstein, and the journey that he undertook to arrive at it, exemplify the kind of answer that Collingwood had been advocating and exemplifying. I conclude by suggesting, however, that a fourth answer (...)
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  94. Santayana's Missing Pages: Learning by Recollecting How We Use Photographs.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    Sometime between 1900 and 1907 George Santayana addressed the Harvard Camera Club on 'Photography and the Mental Image', noting that his remarks seemed to him 'of some importance'. They were indeed, for his talk marked the first time that a philosopher of artistic sensibility had drawn attention to how the photographical arts of reappearance, filmmaking among them, are distinguished from others. Santayana's manuscript of his talk remained unpublished until 1967, and few are aware of how prescient was his commentary and (...)
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  95. Spengler's List: Screenwriting, the Wilderness and the Civilising Death of the Arts.Evan Wm Cameron - 1994 - Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 24 (2).
    A lament upon the dying of the art of screenwriting, alongside the other 'liberal arts', provoked by the pondering of two texts: Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and John Livingston's The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation.
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  96. A Prescriptive Criterion for Distinguishing Analytic from Synthetic Judgments.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    An essay confirming, in defiance of an opinion shared by many philosophers after Quine, that we may indeed, as Kant suggested, distinguish analytic from synthetic judgments but only by attending to how students could be taught how to use them, and therewith how to use them differently, rather than by attempting to describe how differently they appear.
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  97. God, Kant and the Transcendental Object: an Investigation into the Kantian Critique of the Ontological Argument.Evan Wm Cameron - unknown
    An address to the 4th International Kant Congress, Mainz, Germany, 8 April 1974 on the nature and consequences of Kant's remarks within his Critique of Pure Reason on the notions of 'God' and the 'Transcendental Object', a text of which was published later the same year within the proceedings of the Congress as pages 347-355 of the Akten des 4 International Kant Kongresses, Mainz 6 10 April 1974, Teil II.1.
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