Brands make believe: ethical veganism and labelling in fashion

Labelling fashion markets

The present article discusses how an ethical and environmental labelling system can be implemented in fashion garment markets. Consumers act in markets that provide them with more information than their limited cognitive capacity allows them to handle. Ethical and environmental labelling in markets characterized by change, such as the fashion garment market, makes decision-making even more comp...

Models as make-believe

In this paper I propose an account of representation for scientific models based on Kendall Walton’s ‘make-believe’ theory of representation in art. I first set out the problem of scientific representation and respond to a recent argument due to Craig Callender and Jonathan Cohen, which aims to show that the problem may be easily dismissed. I then introduce my account of models as props in game...

The Bedrock of Internet Fashion Brands

Fashioning Data - A Social Media Perspective on Fast Fashion Brands

In this paper, we study the performance of N-gram language models on classification tasks such as sentiment analysis and spam detection and evaluate the effect of prior probability estimates on the results. Our data is in the form of public online posts pertaining to fast fashion brands, from different social media channels (Twitter and Facebook). We propose a novel ensemble model based on the ...

Ritual, Self-deception and Make-Believe: a Classical Buddhist Perspective

Everyone, with the possible exception of those who are really good at it, is personally familiar with the phenomenon of self-deception. Anyone who has been conscious of struggling with a temptation to do what goes against her own better judgment and has then found justification for yielding to temptation is familiar with self-deception. So if I may be allowed to begin with the assumption that m...