Historicity, responsibility, subjectivity

Hume and the Historicity of Human Nature

This paper urges a reconsideration of Hume’s role in the philosophy of history. It begins by challenging the common perception of Hume as a proto-positivist hoping to draw from history a mechanical causal account of the unchanging human nature. It draws attention instead to his grasp of historical contingency, the sui generis nature of the social world, and the complexity of the relationships o...

Unifying Subjectivity

Subjective behavior is essential for applications that must adapt their behavior to changing circumstances. Many different solutions have been proposed in the past, based, for example, on perspectives, roles, contextual layers, and “force trees”. Although these approaches are somehow equally expressive, each imposes a particular world view which may not be appropriate for all applications. We p...

Improving Subjectivity Detection using Unsupervised Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation

In this work, we present a sentence-level subjectivity detection method, which relies on Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation (SWSD). We use an unsupervised sense clustering-based method for SWSD. In our method, semantic resources tagged with emotions and sentiment polarities are used to apply subjectivity detection, intervening Word Sense Disambiguation sub-tasks. Through an experimental stu...

Historicity of Categories of Fiction: Virginia Woolf’s Concept “Modern Fiction”

This article attempts to construct Woolf’s concept of “modern fiction” in modern context within the two dimensions: fiction’s category and historicity. Firstly, based on the essay “Modern Fiction”, the article aims to construct the connotation of “modern fiction”, which takes “historical consciousness”, “the duration of life”, “man’s subjectivity”, “the complexity of psychological structures” a...

Historicity of the ways in which knowledge production impacts practice