Contemporary literary traumatheory indicates that experiencing trauma creates a fear that destroys identity. In fact, experiencing trauma creates a new identity for the victim. The representation of the trauma and the formation of the new identity for the victim are the building blocks of trauma novels. Due to the nature of trauma, it seems impossible to fully describe traumatic experiences by ...

Physicalism (P) entails minimal physicalism (MP), MP entails minimal supervenience (MS), and MS is the thesis that there is covariance between the supervenient and the subvenient stuff. Therefore, if the (alleged) supervenient and subvenient stuff do not covary, then MS is false, and if MS is false then MP is false, and if MP is false then P is false. Put differently: if MS is false then P is f...

Over the last fifty years the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has generated massive numbers of refugees. The scale and longevity of the conflict has made the Palestinian refugee problem the most protracted and largest refugee situation in the world today (Merhab et al. 2006). The processes of becoming a refugee and living as a refugee have had direct impacts on the formation of Palestinian identit...

1. Overview of the Madelung Problem 2. Analytic Consequences of the Andrews Identity 3. Connection with Multiple Zeta Sums 4. An -Series for M(s) 5. Integral Representations for the Madelung Constant 6. Number-Theoretical Implications: Sums of Three Squares 7. Open Problems Acknowledgments References From a modern theta-function identity of G. E. Andrews we derive new representations for the ce...

In this paper we give an analytic proof of the identity A 5,3,3 (n) = B 0 5,3,3 (n), where A 5,3,3 (n) counts the number of partitions of n subject to certain restrictions on their parts, and B 0 5,3,3 (n) counts the number of partitions of n subject to certain other restrictions on their parts, both too long to be stated in the abstract. Our proof establishes actually a refinement of that part...

In this paper I examine William James' concept of the 'warmth and intimacy' of bodily self-consciousness and relate it to recent attempts to recast bodily self-consciousness in strictly neural terms. James takes bodily 'warmth and intimacy' to solve a number of problems related to the material and spiritual aspects of self and personal identity. He mentions but does not fully explore the possib...

Abstract According to one-level physicalism, reality is exhausted by fundamental physical entities and properties. This position sometimes defended on the basis of truthmaker view ontological commitment. Accordingly, physicalists can affirm higher-level truths without ontologically committing any properties or states affairs; affairs serve as truthmakers all that have truthmakers, a physicalist...

1. THE PROBLEM AND THE PROGRAMME Only a dreadful prig could seriously condemn secret lust as a form of adultery. However, even someone who claims to be wholly concerned with the things of the mind must have some interest in what he says and does, and these require the occurrence of bodily processes. Realising that so much of what matters to us involves physical events and processes, it is natur...

Jonardon Ganeri’s The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the FirstPerson Stance is a trailblazing study in cross-cultural philosophy of mind. Its liberal conception of naturalism makes room for a rich analytic taxonomy of conceptions of personal identity that go well beyond the standard models of Cartesianism, Physicalism, and Reductionism. But this naturalistically respectable model of the s...