Showing papers on "Identity (philosophy) published in 2012"

Memory and the Sense of Personal Identity

Abstract: Memory of past episodes provides a sense of personal identity — the sense that I am the same person as someone in the past. We present a neurological case study of a patient who has accurate memories of scenes from his past, but for whom the memories lack the sense of mineness. On the basis of this case study, we propose that the sense of identity derives from two components, one delivering the content of the memory and the other generating the sense of mineness. We argue that this new model of the sense of identity has implications for debates about quasi-memory. In addition, articulating the components of the sense of identity promises to bear on the extent to which this sense of identity provides evidence of personal identity.

On the definition and properties of p-harmonious functions

Abstract: We consider functions that satisfy the identity ue(x) = α 2 { sup Be(x) ue + inf Be(x) ue } + β ∫

The Regularized Siegel-Weil Formula (The Second Term Identity) and the Rallis Inner Product Formula

Abstract: In this paper, we establish the second term identity of the Siegel-Weil formula in full generality, and derive the Rallis inner product formula for global theta lifts for any dual pair. As a corollary, we resolve the non-vanishing problem of global theta lifts initiated by Steve Rallis.

Rational analogues of Ramanujan's series for 1/π

Abstract: A general theorem is stated that unifies 93 rational Ramanujan-type series for 1/π, 40 of which are believed to be new. Moreover, each series is shown to have a companion identity, thereby giving another 93 series, the majority of which are new.

The History of Belerion: An Investigation into the Discussions of Greeks and Romans in Cornwall

Abstract: "Who controls the past [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,"1 In the first century BCE Diodorus of Sicily described a corner of the British Isles he called Belerion and drew attention to the ingenious way the inhabitants extracted tin and the civilised manner they had acquired through trading that metal. In 2012 a tourist may stay in a bed and breakfast near Penzance or buy books from a shop named after that promontory. However, during the nineteenth century a debate amongst historians arose as to the meaning of Diodorus' Greek text, its relationship to other classical texts and the status of Cornwall in antiquity. The discussion involved at least ten treatments specifically of the topic in Cornwall alone and was incorporated into a variety of other narratives. The debate offers an unusual insight into the role of classical texts in the description and understanding of local identity. This thesis looks at passages from the classical world that have been linked to Cornwall and which often have very little academic scholarship relating to them, and examines how they have been interpreted by Cornish historians. It will show how, despite the inconclusiveness of the ancient material, a connection between Cornwall and Greek and Roman traders has been constructed by Cornish writers, and why they were interested in doing so. This thesis suggests that the political and social contexts of local historiographers has actively shaped the interpretations of the texts often assigning a meaning to classical texts that allows a narrative of independence, cultural sophistication and unbroken mining innovation to be constructed concerning Cornwall. As such this thesis will form part of a rapidly expanding inter-disciplinary interest in our understanding of responses to the Classics and to our conception of the formation of regional historical narrative. 1 G. Orwell (1973) p.38.

On Kinds of Indiscernibility in Logic and Metaphysics

Abstract: Using the Hilbert-Bernays account as a spring-board, we first define four ways in which two objects can be discerned from one another, using the non-logical vocabulary of the language concerned. (These definitions are based on definitions made by Quine and Saunders.) Because of our use of the Hilbert-Bernays account, these definitions are in terms of the syntax of the language. But we also relate our definitions to the idea of permutations on the domain of quantification, and their being symmetries. These relations turn out to be subtle---some natural conjectures about them are false. We will see in particular that the idea of symmetry meshes with a species of indiscernibility that we will call `absolute indiscernibility'. We then report all the logical implications between our four kinds of discernibility. We use these four kinds as a resource for stating four metaphysical theses about identity. Three of these theses articulate two traditional philosophical themes: viz. the principle of the identity of indiscernibles (which will come in two versions), and haecceitism. The fourth is recent. Its most notable feature is that it makes diversity (i.e. non-identity) weaker than what we will call individuality (being an individual): two objects can be distinct but not individuals. For this reason, it has been advocated both for quantum particles and for spacetime points. Finally, we locate this fourth metaphysical thesis in a broader position, which we call structuralism. We conclude with a discussion of the semantics suitable for a structuralist, with particular reference to physical theories as well as elementary model theory.

Calvin, Classical Trinitarianism, and the Aseity of the Son

Abstract: Introduction 1. Calvin on the Aseity of the Son: The 1559 Institutes as Entry-Point 2. The Autothean Controversies: Calvin s Complex Solidarity 3. The Theological Shape of the Autothean Debates: Eternal Generation s Role in Classical Trinitarianism 4. Identity, Distinction, or Tension in Trinitarian Language?: Loose Approaches to the Son s Aseity 5. Tension In Distinction: Classical and Mainstream Reformed Approaches to the Son s Aseity 6. The Irreducible Triunity of God: The Reformed Minority Report s Strict Distinction of the Two Ways of Speaking 7. Of Himself, God Gives Himself

Bernini as the Seicento Michelangelo: Imitation and Identity in Art, Architecture and Biography

Abstract: This dissertation examines how Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), acclaimed the “Michelangelo of his age,” constructed his identity by imitating the art, practices and persona of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Buonarroti’s “inimitability,” a disputed sixteenth-century notion that became ever more contentious as newly critical seventeenth-century perspectives of his work and practice questioned his worth as a model for imitation, furnishes the point of departure for investigating how Bernini became Bernini through and against his predecessor. By analysing Gianlorenzo’s formal, stylistic, theoretical and conceptual references to Buonarroti in his early narrative sculpture (ch.1), his sculpted self-portraits (ch.2), his work at St. Peter’s (ch.3), his architectural ornament (ch.4) as well as the intertextual strategies attending the literary uses of the association between the two artists (ch.5), I shed light on various imitative modes –ranging from emulation, allusion and paraphrase, to repetition, quotation and bricolage – that Bernini and his biographers employed to shape the artist into Michelangelo’s worthy “son” rather than his burdened epigone. In positing a filial model as a flexible framework for understanding Bernini’s life-long relationship to Michelangelo, I take a cue from early modern art writers who suggested that the way to

On Intra-Regular Left Almost Semihypergroups with Pure Left Identity

Abstract: In this paper, we characterize intra-regular LA-semihypergroups by using the properties of their left and right hyperideals and we investigate some useful conditions for an LA-semihypergroup to become an intra-regular LA-semihypergroup.

Identity and discernibility in philosophy and logic

Abstract: Questions about the relation between identity and discernibility are important both in philosophy and in model theory. We show how a philosophical question about identity and discernibility can be ‘factorized’ into a philosophical question about the adequacy of a formal language to the description of the world, and a mathematical question about discernibility in this language. We provide formal definitions of various notions of discernibility and offer a complete classification of their logical relations. Some new and surprising facts are proved; for instance, that weak discernibility corresponds to discernibility in a language with constants for every object, and that weak discernibility is the most discerning nontrivial discernibility relation.

Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting

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Beyond the Exceptionalism of Constitutional Conflicts: The Ordinary Functions of the Identity Clause

Abstract: Article 4(2) of the Treaty on the European Union, in its novel formulation provided by the Treaty of Lisbon, requires the Union to ?respect Member States? national identities, inherent in their fundamental structures, political and constitutional, including regional and local self-government?. This work seeks to elucidate the meaning and the legal implications of the identity clause in its current wording. To this end, this work analyzes the working documents of the European Convention to determine the drafter?s intended role of the so-called ?Christophersen clause?, the predecessor of Art. 4 (2) TEU. It then focuses on the use of the identity clause by the ECJ in the review of both EU and national measures. This work challenges the conventional assumption that the evident purpose of the clause is that of applying in exceptional cases of conflicts between EU law and domestic constitutional law?in an attempt to narrow the scope of application of the supremacy doctrine?and explores the potential use of the clause in the ordinary functioning of EU law. Some normative recommendations will be put forward as to the identity clause potential use in safeguarding Member States? cultural diversity, regulatory autonomy, and margin of appreciation.

Soviet and post-Soviet identities

Abstract: Introduction Mark Bassin and Catriona Kelly Part I. The Status of National Identity: 1. The contradictions of identity: being Soviet and National in the USSR and after Ronald Grigor Suny 2. Tales told by Nationalists Nancy Condee Part II. Institutions of National Identity: 3. National identity through visions of the past: contemporary Russian cinema Birgit Beumers 4. Archaising culture: the Museum of Ethnography Dmitry Baranov 5. Rituals of identity: the Soviet passport Albert Baiburin Part III. Myths of National Identity: 6. 'If the war comes tomorrow': patriotic education in Soviet and post-Soviet primary school Vitaly Bezrogov 7. Conquering space: the cult of Yuri Gagarin Andrew Jenks 8. Nation-construction in post-Soviet Central Asia Sergei Abashin Part IV. Spaces of National Identity: 9. Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow: literary reality or nightmare? Dina Khapaeva 10. From the USSR to the Orient: national and ethnic symbols in the city text of Elista Elza-Bair Guchinova 11. The place(s) of Islam in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia Victoria Arnold Part V. Languages of National Identity: 12. Language culture and identity in post-Soviet Russia: the economies of Mat Michael Gorham 13. Policies and practices of language education in post-Soviet Central Asia: between ethnic identity and civic consciousness Olivier Ferrando 14. Surviving in the time of deficit: the narrative construction of a 'Soviet identity' Anna Kushkova Part VI. Creeds of National Identity: 15. Competing orthodoxies: identity and religious belief in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia Catriona Kelly 16. 'Popular orthodoxy' and identity in twentieth-century Russia: ideology, consumption and competition Alexander Panchenko 17. Religious affiliation and the politics of post-Soviet identity: the case of Belarus Galina Miazhevich Index.

Constitutionalism, identity, difference, and legitimacy : theoretical perspectives

Abstract: Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since World War II there has also been a proliferation of new constitutions that differ in several essential respects from the American constitution. These two developments raise many important questions concerning the nature and scope of constitutionalism. The essays in this volume—written by an international group of prominent legal scholars, philosophers, political scientists, and social theorists—investigate the theoretical implications of recent constitutional developments and bring useful new perspectives to bear on some of the longest enduring questions confronting constitutionalism and constitutional theory. Sharing a common focus on the interplay between constitutional identity and individual or group diversity, these essays offer challenging new insights on subjects ranging from universal constitutional norms and whether constitutional norms can be successfully transplanted between cultures to a consideration of whether constitutionalism affords the means to reconcile a diverse society’s quest for identity with its need to properly account for its differences; from the relation between constitution-making and revolution to that between collective interests and constitutional liberty and equality. This collection’s broad scope and nontechnical style will engage scholars from the fields of political theory, social theory, international studies, and law. Contributors . Andrew Arato, Aharon Barak, Jon Elster, George P. Fletcher, Louis Henkin, Arthur J. Jacobson, Carlos Santiago Nino, Ulrich K. Preuss, David A. J. Richards, Michel Rosenfeld, Dominique Rousseau, Andras Sajo, Frederick Schauer, Bernhard Schlink, M. M. Slaughter, Cass R. Sunstein, Ruti G. Teitel, Robin West

Cooperative Identity and the Law

Abstract: This paper deals with the legal identity of cooperatives. It is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the role and function of law and of comparative legal research on the topic of cooperative identity (sec. 2). The second part focuses on cooperative identity within the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Principles and the ICA Statement on the Cooperative Identity at large (sec. 3). The third part compares the ICA Statement on cooperative identity with the legal identity that several European jurisdictions assign to cooperatives (sec. 4). Conclusions follow.

"The Squadron Under Your Command:" Change and the Construction of Identity in the U.S. Navy's North Atlantic Squadron, 1874-1897

Abstract: Title of Dissertation: “THE SQUADRON UNDER YOUR COMMAND”: CHANGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN THE U.S. NAVY’S NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON, 1874-1897 James C. Rentfrow, PhD, 2012 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Jon T. Sumida Department of History This dissertation examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897. At the beginning of this period, the warships assigned to this station were collectively administered by a rear-admiral, but were operationally deployed as individual units, each of whose actions were directed by their captains. By 1897 the North Atlantic, or “Home” Squadron as it was known, was a group of warships constituting a protean battle fleet – that is, an organized body moving and fighting in close-order, which meant that the actions of the captains were directed by a commanding

Classical Allusions and Imperial Desire: Problems of Identity in Georgian and Russian Literature

Abstract: Classical Allusions and Imperial Desire: Problems of Identity in Georgian and Russian Literature Mary Evelynne Childs Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor James D. West Department of Slavic Languages and Literature This dissertation explores cultural and political aspects of the relationship between Russia and Georgia, through the lens of Classical allusions. Since ancient Greek and Roman times, Classical myths and tales have been re-written by successive generations to reflect on critical political and social issues, including questions of empire and national identity. In Russia and Georgia, such a use of the Classics has been perhaps even more marked than in Western Europe. Straddling Asia and the West, Russians appreciate access to the western Classics as a touchstone of their belonging to Europe. Georgia, on Russia’s southern border, is actually home to several famous Classical mythological characters, including Prometheus, Medea, and her father Aeëtes, and its claim to these figures provokes a sense of cultural competition with Russia. In negotiating political and cultural control in the Caucasus, Russia, imagining itself as a neo-Roman Empire, may lay claim to ruling the physical space, imaging itself as a harbinger of civilization for the “uncultured barbarians” on its southern border. Georgia, however, has developed its own sense of nationhood, claiming a spiritual hegemony as an empire of humanism, embracing its ties to Hellenism. Applying a thread of post-colonial theory both to think about Empire from within the hegemonic empire itself, and to listen to voices from the margins, my dissertation is structured on the process of veiling, unveiling, and self-unveiling, and how the use and manipulation of Classical allusions aid in this process. From the common language of Classical references emerges an intellectual space in which the authors I study, the Russians Andrei Bitov, Liudmila Ulitskaia, the Georgian-Armenian, Bulat Okudzhava, and the Georgian, Otar Chiladze, articulate their hopes, passions and desires, a space for their various voices to be heard. Read together, they tell a larger story about the relationship between Russia and Georgia. Touching upon how empire is conceived, imagined and generated, they reflect their countries’ shared and intertwined history that includes conflict, disappointment, the problem of dealing with Stalin’s legacy, and a strong desire from both parties to be accepted as full and active members in the increasingly complex post-Soviet world.

The politics of memory and identity in Carolingian royal diplomas : the West Frankish Kingdom (840-987)

Abstract: This dense, lengthy and – by the author’s own admission – ‘very difficult’ book (p. xi) tackles complex questions of power in one of the most contested and formative periods of Frankish history, between the death of Louis the Pious and the formal accession of the Capetians as kings of West Francia. By examining diplomas as ‘performatives’ rather than being ‘used within performances’ alone, Geoffrey Koziol sets out a ‘harder edged and more wide-ranging’ (p. 3) analysis of, inter alia, the documentary, ritualistic, public, aristocratic and sacral aspects of Carolingian power after the Treaty of Verdun. Koziol argues that diplomas were instrumental, a painstakingly calculated conduit for royal power and more than a means by which kingship could simply be projected or petitioners could conveniently secure their privileges. The result is a careful and comprehensive reconsideration of the diploma and Carolingian kingship, though one which requires hard work on the part of the reader. Not all Carolingianists or charter scholars will agree with all of Koziol’s conclusions, and will no doubt feel that his argument could have been condensed and more rigorously structured. Although the study is avowedly ‘less history than a semantic excavation’, readers might be disappointed to once again see on occasion what Marjorie Chibnall described as the author ‘clarifying his thoughts as he writes’, as he did in his seminal but challenging study of ritual.(1) Nevertheless, what Koziol offers is bold, thoughtful – poignant at times – and stimulating.

Composition as Identity Doesn’t Settle the Special Composition Question1

Abstract: Orthodoxy says that the thesis that composition is identity (CAI) entails universalism: the claim that any collection of entities has a sum. If this is true it counts in favour of CAI, since a thesis about the nature of composition that settles the otherwise intractable special composition question (SCQ) is desirable. But I argue that it is false: CAI is compatible with the many forms of restricted composition, and SCQ is no easier to answer given CAI than otherwise. Furthermore, in seeing why this is the case we reveal an objection to CAI: that it allows for the facts concerning what there is to be settled whilst leaving open the question about what is identical to what.

ROOSTERS, COLUMNS, AND ATHENA ON EARLY PANATHENAIC PRIZE AMPHORAS: Symbols of a New Athenian Identity

Abstract: This article examines the addition of columns surmounted by roosters to the iconography of Panathenaic prize amphoras around 540 b.c. The author argues that the roosters were a visual equivalent of Athena as defender of cities and also a link to the aristocratic ideals of paideia and arete; together with the columns, the birds squarely claimed the favor and military prowess of Athena for the city of Athens. It is suggested that the impetus for this iconographic innovation was an attempt by Athens to promote itself as the emerging leader of the broader Greek world. Panathenaic prize amphoras have received much scholarly attention over the past century, but many significant questions remain about these vases.1 The interpretation of the obverse (principal) side of these vases is especially controversial. Recently, scholars have analyzed individual iconographic elements in isolation, frequently with stimulating results.2 In this article, however, I offer a possible resolution to the controversy by suggesting that the images on the obverse, of Athena, columns, and roosters, together with the prize inscription, operate not only as individual elements but also as complements (Figs. 1, 2). The idea that these elements work as an ensemble derives from visual evidence—they create a cohesive formal composition, with the columns and roosters framing Athena and the prize inscription— and also from the consequent probability that many Athenian viewers would have regarded such a coherent composition as a whole, not just as the sum of its parts. Together, the Athena, columns, roosters, and inscription convey 1. I presented an earlier version of this paper in 2009 at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, where I received much helpful feedback from the audience. I would like to thank Jenifer Neils and the second (anonymous) Hesperia reviewer for their thoughtful comments; they have saved me from errors and stimulated many new ideas. I am very grateful to the following individuals who read various drafts of this article and provided generous feedback and encouragement: Guy Hedreen, Clemente Marconi, Elizabeth McGowan, Joan Mertens, Katherine Welch, and Bonna Wescoat. James McCredie has also been a source of helpful information, and Jenni Rodda provided invaluable assistance in obtaining images for publication. All dates are b.c. unless otherwise noted. The fundamental work on Panathenaic prize amphoras is Bentz 1998, with a thorough bibliography up to that date. More recently, see Bentz and Eschbach 2001; Palagia and SpetsieriChoremi 2007. 2. See, e.g., Eschbach 1986; Valavanis 1987; Tiverios 1996. This content downloaded from 128.197.33.158 on Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:35:41 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions mag g ie l . p opk in 208 a definite message, formulated around the middle of the 6th century, that Athens was the emerging, self-proclaimed leader of the Greek world. From the earliest surviving Panathenaic prize amphoras, dated to the 560s, to later examples, we can see that much about the vases was highly standardized, including the shape, technique of manufacture, and volume.3 The iconography of the prize amphoras, a critical component of the vases, was in part standardized from an early date but underwent more transformations through time than did the shape and manufacturing technique. What came to be the standard, or canonical, obverse iconography of Archaic and Classical Panathenaic amphoras after ca. 540 includes an image of an armed Athena rendered in profile, flanked by two Doric columns surmounted by roosters, and the official prize inscription (TON AΘENEΘEN AΘΛON), usually placed along the inner edge of the left-hand column.4 The obverse iconography can vary somewhat: Athena can wear a chiton (Fig. 1) or a peplos (Fig. 3); her shield device changes from vase to vase; and very occasionally the prize inscription runs along Figure 1. Panathenaic prize amphora attributed to the Euphiletos Painter, ca. 530–520. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 14.130.12. Image © The Metropolitan

Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images: Albert and Carl Einstein, Leiden and Berlin, Relativity and Revolution

Abstract: Albert Einstein accepted a “special” visiting professorship at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in February 1920. Although his appointment should have been a mere formality, it took until October of that year before Einstein could occupy his special chair. Why the delay? The explanation involves a case of mistaken identity with Carl Einstein, Dadaist art, and a particular Dutch fear of revolutions. But what revolutions was one afraid of? The story of Einstein’s Leiden chair throws new light on the reception of relativity and its creator in the Netherlands and in Germany.

The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves

Abstract: Like so many of Hegel’s pithy observations, this one is suitably enigmatic. I am drawn to it because it can be read to capture, avant la lettre, and with admirable brevity, the implications of recent work on identity in psychology, analytical philosophy and political theory. This research indicates just how elusive the concept of the self is, conceptually and empirically. As many philosophers contend, the self may be an illusion, but one that is central to the well-being of modern people. As Hegel suggests, we appear in multiple guises by virtue of our numerous self-identifications, but invariably think of ourselves in the singular. Given the contradictions between our self-understandings and those of science, we have a strong incentive to keep the former under wraps. My goal in this book is to shed light on conceptions of identity and their associated practices. Following in the footsteps of Hegel, my end goal is to think about the relationship between identity, and politics and ethics.

How to Live Without Identity—And Why

Abstract: Identity, we're told, is the binary relation that every object bears to itself, and to itself only. But how can a relation be binary if it never relates two objects? This puzzled Russell and led Wittgenstein to declare that identity is not a relation between objects. The now standard view is that Wittgenstein's position is untenable, and that worries regarding the relational status of identity are the result of confusion. I argue that the rejection of identity as a binary relation is perfectly tenable. To this end, I outline and defend a logical framework that is not committed to an objectual identity relation but is nevertheless expressively equivalent to first-order logic with identity. After it has thus been shown that there is no indispensability argument for objectual identity, I argue that we have good reasons for doubting the existence of such a relation, and rebut a number of attempts at discrediting these reasons.

Germano identity-based subgrid-scale modeling: A brief survey of variations on a fertile theme

Abstract: It has now been over 20 years since the introduction of the Germano identity. Mostly, the identity has been applied to closures for the subgrid-scale fluxes required in large eddy simulations in the bulk of turbulent flows. However, the basic ideas underlying the Germano identity can be applied in various other contexts. In recent years a number of such generalizations have been developed, and several of these are surveyed in this paper. The survey is based on an interpretation of the Germano identity stating that the sum of resolved and modeled contributions to basic quantities of intrinsic physical interest must be independent of filter scale. The focus of this survey is on the conceptual bases of the various generalizations and their common features, as a way of pointing to possible further extensions.

Political Theory After Deleuze

Abstract: 1 Introduction: The Ontological Turn in Political Thought 2 Identity and Difference 3 Desire and Subjectivity 4 Time and Novelty: The Nature of an Event 5 The Many Levels of Politics: Deterritorialization, the War Machine, Micropolitics and the State Further Reading Index