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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Feminismo del fin in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
This is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Subversive Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
I argue that an indirect and imaginative route through subversive humor offers a means to
raise consciousness about covert oppression and the mechanisms underlying it, reveal the errors
of those with power who complacently sustain systematic oppression, and even open those people
up to changing their minds. Subversive humor confronts serious…[Read more] -
Chris A. Kramer deposited Dave Chappelle’s Civic Rhetoric: Positive Propaganda in a Liberal Democracy in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Some of Dave Chappelle’s uses of storytelling about seemingly mundane events, like his experiences with his “white friend Chip” and the police, are examples of what W.E.B. Du Bois calls “Positive Propaganda.” This is in contrast to “Demagoguery,” the sort of propaganda described by Jason Stanley that obstructs empathic recognition of others, and u…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Playful Thought Experiments of Louis CK in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
It is trivially true that comedians make jokes and thus are not serious; they are “just playing.” But watching Louis CK, especially his performances in Chewed Up, Shameless, and Hilarious, it is evident that he has more in mind than simply getting his audience to frivolously guffaw. I will make the case that this is so given the content of som…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited A Wise Person Proportions their Beliefs With Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
What has proportion to do with humor or irony? And what do either of these have to do with being human? Jokes, laughter, and funniness connote excess, exaggeration, incongruity, dissonance, etc., the opposite of proportion–balance, symmetry, Aristotle’s golden mean. Yet, The Philosopher maintains, the wit has found the ideal moderate position b…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Is Laughing at Morally Oppressive Jokes Like Being Disgusted by Phony Dog Feces? An Analysis of Belief and Alief in the Context of Questionable Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
In two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited How Socratic was Swift’s Irony? in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Was Swift correct that “reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” (Letter to a Young Gentleman)? If so, what recourse is there to change attitudes especially among those who continue to fervently believe unjustified claims and act upon them in a way that affects other people? I will answer the…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited I Laugh Because it’s Absurd: Humor as Error Detection in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This chapter will focus on the overlap and benefits of a humorous and philosophical attitude toward the world and our place in it. The first part of this chapter’s title borrows from Kierkegaard and before him the Christian apologist Turtullian, who once quipped about the central contradictory tenets of Christianity, in putatively ironic f…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited As if: Connecting Phenomenology, Mirror Neurons, Empathy, and Laughter in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
The discovery of mirror neurons in both primates and humans has led to an enormous amount of research and speculation as to how conscious beings are able to interact so effortlessly among one another. Mirror neurons might provide an embodied basis for passive synthesis and the eventual process of further communalization through empathy, as…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited An existentialist account of the role of humor against oppression in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
I argue that the overt subjugation in the system of American slavery and its subsequent effects offer a case study for an existentialist analysis of freedom, oppression and humor. Concentrating on the writings and experiences of Frederick Douglass and the existentialists Simone De Beauvoir and Lewis Gordon, I investigate how the concepts of…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Incongruity and Seriousness in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
In the first part of this paper, I will briefly introduce the concept of incongruity and its relation to humor and seriousness, connecting the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer and the contemporary work of John Morreall. I will reveal some of the relations between Schopenhauer’s notion of “seriousness” and the existentialists such as Jean Paul Sartr…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited World-Traveling, Double Consciousness, and Laughter in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
In this paper I borrow from Maria Lugones’ work on playful ” world-traveling ” and W.E.B. Du Bois’ notion of ” double consciousness ” to make the case that humor can facilitate an openness and cooperative attitude among an otherwise closed, even adversarial audience. I focus on what I call ” subversive ” humor, that which is employed by or on…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Parrhesia, Humor, and Resistance in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This paper begins by taking seriously former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ response in his What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? to systematic violence and oppression. He claims that direct argumentation is not the ideal mode of resistance to oppression: ” At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.” I…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Subversive Humor as Art and the Art of Subversive Humor in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This paper investigates the relationships between forms of humor that conjure up possible worlds and real-world social critiques. The first part of the paper will argue that subversive humor, which is from or on behalf of historically and continually marginalized communities, constitutes a kind of aesthetic experience that can elicit enjoyment…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited HUMAN AND VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY RELATION: A POSTPHENOMELOGICAL ANALYSIS in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
In this essay, I shall examine VR technology so as to ascertain the kind of human-technology relations therein. This will be done using the framework provided by Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek (who are currently seen as postphenomenologists). My choice of VR technology, as an instantiation of technological advancement, is due to its impact on…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: A PANASEA FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
In this essay, I examined the idea of ‘technological revolution’ to confirm whether it connotes a sort of incorporation of existing technologies as new ones emerges or whether it portrays a ‘sharp discontinuity’ from the prior technologies. I began by exploring the dictionary definitions of ‘revolution’ in order to appropriate its usage in re…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited THE QUESTION OF RATIONALITY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AND THE CHALLENGE OF COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
During comparative discourse, some scholars have ridiculed African indigenous concepts, phenomena, beliefs, and worldview in a forceful attempt to allow it to fit into western framework and to avoid the charge of irrationality. It is against this background this essay attempt to establish the basis for the rationality of discourse within the…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited FACTS AGAINST SPECULATIONS: UNDERSTANDING PATRICIA CHURCHLAND’S NEUROPHILOSOPHY in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This essay focuses on Patricia Churchland contribution to this interdisciplinary approach towards gaining a holistic understanding of our human nature and realities surrounding us, with specific reference to the perceived framework needed for the development of a unified theory of the mind-brain. A critical engagement with Churchland’s ideas s…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF KARL MARX’S MATERIALISTIC INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This paper is a critical appraisal of Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism and a deployment of its emphasis on economic factor in addressing Nigeria’s socio-economic situation. As we applaud Marx’s materialistic approach to history as an account that is rich enough to promote contextual understanding of past events in various part of the w…[Read more]
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Bethany Laursen deleted the file: PPJ One Sheet: Elements of Formative Peer Review from
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
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