This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critique derived from Enlightenment’s specific conceptualization of reason as critiq...

Cet article aborde la question du plurilinguisme dans création artistique italienne contemporaine au travers cas de Doro Gjat (Luca Dorotea), un chanteur hip-hop, originaire Frioul-Vénétie Julienne, qui chante essentiellement en italien, tout ayant recours frioulan et à l’anglais. À partir différents perspectives méthodologiques (approche biographique, analyse textuelle sociolinguistique, socio...

This is a historical-critical study of the hole argument, concentrating on the interface between historical, philosophical and physical issues. Although it includes a review of its history, its primary aim is a discussion of the contemporary implications of the hole argument for physical theories based on dynamical, background-independent space-time structures. The historical review includes Ei...

The internalization of public stigma by persons with serious mental illnesses may lead to self-stigma, which harms self-esteem, self-efficacy, and empowerment. Previous research has evaluated a hierarchical model that distinguishes among stereotype awareness, agreement, application to self, and harm to self with the 40-item Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (SSMIS). This study addressed SSMIS...

This paper explores the implications of the incompressibility of complex systems for the analysis and modelling of such systems. In particular, a provisional epistemology will be developed that attempts to remain faithful to the limitations derived from this aspect of complexity science. We will argue that such an investigation of complex systems highlights the relevance of paradigmatic plurali...

AM MOST GRATEFUL to J. Linn Mackey (2002) for his thoughtful commentary on my article. He is correct in arguing that intuition deserves a more prominent place in a discussion of how to do interdisciplinary research. I welcome the opportunity to correct this oversight on my part. However, Mackey draws what I believe to be a false dichotomy between " rule-driven " and " intuitive " research; I wi...