Critics of psychiatry (or “anti-psychiatrists”) such as philosopher Michel Foucault, sociologist Erving Goffman and physician Ronald David Laing tend to view a form social control, one the state institutions oppression. The concept “norm” in relation mental health is understood culturally conditioned. Psychiatry used isolate “stigmatise” carriers non-normative rationality, individuals with diff...

Abstract This article introduces the controversy over naming of COVID-19 as “Chinese Virus” and related hate crimes in US. It focuses on a group Chinese Christians North America who devote themselves to defending legitimising concept within various social media. research analyses content texts videos defines Christian far-right narrative reviews relationship between narrative, fundamentalism, n...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how a general metaphysical framework can be fruitfully integrated with contemporary fundamental physics to help advance our understanding of quantum ontology. The basic idea is that metaphysics concerns fundamental reality and how fundamental reality is related to reality. If we accept that fundamental reality includes fundamental physics, then the invest...

I sketch a philosophical program called ‘Empirical Fundamentalism,’ whose signature feature is the extensive use of a distinction between fundamental and derivative reality. Within the framework of Empirical Fundamentalism, derivative reality is treated as an abstraction from fundamental reality. I show how one can understand reduction and supervenience in terms of abstraction, and then I apply...

This paper interrogates multiculturalism in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Multiculturalism is a technique which author use to tell their stories. When analyzing novel, it important identify this technique. It used order shed light on the ways they function story. Hamid, an emerging novelist of Pakistan has given new identity genre Pakistani English Writing through his popular no...