In Tibet, the negative dialectics of Madhyamaka are typically identified with Candrakı̄rti’s interpretation of Nāgārjuna, and systematic epistemology is associated with Dharmakı̄rti. These two figures are also held to be authoritative commentators on a univocal doctrine of Buddhism. Despite Candrakı̄rti’s explicit criticism of Buddhist epistemologists in his Prasannapadā, Buddhists in Tibet have i...

At the very start of a chapter on hysteria in her book From Mastery to Analysis: Theories of Gender in Psychoanalytic Feminism, Patricia Elliot cites Nietzsche’s “truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions”. This paper follows this connection between hysteria and the work of Nietzsche. This paper will highlight how a Lacanian interpretation of hysteria can elucidate...

Despite the central role that argumentation plays in human communication, the computational linguistics community has paid relatively little attention in proposing a methodology for automatically identifying arguments and their relations in texts. Argumentation is intimately related with discourse structure, since an argument often spans more than one phrase, forming thus an entity with its own...

We discuss the problems of developing a theory of context that applies to the phenomena of naturally occurring discourse and that might be useful in assisting with the problems that arise in generating and interpreting discourse. The theories of context that have recently emerged in AI treat context as a determinant of literal meaning. This idea does in fact t some natural language phenomena. B...

Implicit bias has recently gained much attention in scholarly attempts to understand and explain different forms of social injustice by identifying causally relevant mental states in individual’ minds. Here we question the explanatory power of implicit bias in a particular type of injustice, testimonial injustice, and more generally in what we call speech injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs...

1954. To be sure, Ball saw the appeal of the Korea, Munich, and dominochain analogies, but in each, he also saw serious weaknesses; more important, he felt he saw deeper similarities to the situation the French had faced, which led him to his gloomy but accurate predictions of what would happen to American troops if they went in. I found this discussion enlightening, but it left me wondering, W...

Computational psycholinguistics seeks to build theories of human linguistic processes that take the form of working computational models. These models address processes ranging from word recognition to discourse comprehension, and produce behaviour that constitutes predictions to be compared to human data.

From the sociolinguistic perspective, conspiracy theories (CT), which convey heterodox forms of knowledge that diverge from accepted narratives, are worth examining since their discourses abound in persuasive language. Still, discourse CTs is under-researched (Demata/Zorzi/ Zottola 2022). The present empirical, discourse-analytical case study seeks to address this lacuna by exploring discursive...

The article concentrates on epistemological and methodological issues. Theories of the nature of information and its users are metatheories which guide the formation of concrete research programs in information seeking research. The article presents the discourse analytic viewpoint, the "theory of knowledge formations", as an alternative to the cognitive viewpoint, "the information man -theory"...