Weoffer an overviewof someways of examining the connections between stance and rationality, by surveying recent work on four central topics: (a) the very idea of a stance, (b) the relations between stances and voluntarism, (c) the metaphysics and epistemology that emerge once stances are brought to center stage, and (d) the role that emotions and phenomenology play in the empirical stance.

Expressions of epistemic stance in academic discourse reflect not only the authors’ commitment to truth what is being said, but also their awareness other members community, current thinking within discipline, and established patterns interaction. Stance-taking strongly embedded culture language, as demonstrated numerous studies that focus on L2 English (e.g. Hinkel 2002; Dontcheva-Navratilova ...

This article argues the virtues of a particular research methodology, the confrontational stance, for making theory count by helping it to formulate approximate truths of some rigor. Argument proceeds by first showing how a particular anthropological tradition, social anthropology, achieved success by haphazardly adopting such a stance; and then by suggesting certain requirements needed to syst...

Writers’ stance can be communicated by various linguistic means in both English and Chinese. Previous research (Camiciottoli 2004; Neff 2004; Xu 2007; Liang 2008) shows that L2 learners of English, even for advanced learners, are not capable of taking their stance appropriately in English. This study takes a contrastive approach to examine the stance markers in 122 pieces of Chinese learners’ E...

The external knee adduction moment is considered a surrogate measure for the medial tibiofemoral contact force and is commonly used to quantify the load reducing effect of orthopedic interventions. However, only limited and controversial data exist about the correlation between adduction moment and medial force. The objective of this study was to examine whether the adduction moment is indeed a...

In this paper, I propose a developmental explanation of the reliability of the intentional stance as an interpretive strategy, and by doing so counter an objection to Dennett’s intentional stance theory (i.e. the ‘If it isn’t true, why does it work?’ objection). Specifically, young children’s use of the intentional stance enables them to learn from and thereby to become more similar to the adul...