In Charles Taylor’s exhaustive study of the historical currents that have helpedconstitute the modern identity he proposes the notion of “the affirmation ofordinary life” as a way of encapsulating the core of that identity. As...
This paper is concerned with agrammatic production and the implications these data have for the theory of syntactic features. Agrammatism, a type of language breakdown, is usually characterized by a significantly higher rate of...
Afin d’introduire notre propos, nous souhaiterons d’abord insister sur deux desavancées herméneutiques fondamentales qu’ont à nos yeux rendues possibles letravail mené depuis 2010 au Fonds Michel Henry de l’université de...
Chatbots represent a promising tool to automate the processing of requests in a business context. However, despite major progress in natural language processing technologies, constructing a dataset deemed relevant by business...
Businesses around the world experience many challenges to acquire raw materials, parts, subassemblies, and the other necessary inputs to their production systems. As businesses are all moving into the e-commerce platform to gain...
Carnal Hermeneutics is a collection of essays published in 2015 in the “Perspectives in Continental Philosophy” series by Fordham University Press. The contributors fall into two categories: established French philosophers...
While Michel Henry is, in the words of Jean Leclercq, “l’un des plus grandspenseurs français du XXème siècle,” his philosophical contributions remained,throughout his career, anomalous or eccentric, in the etymological sense of...
Consumers want to engage with the retail store community in the shopping context. This study examines how consumers’ perceptions of source credibility and perceived usefulness of online reviews impact an intention to engage...
In Ecstasy of Reason, Jean-François Courtine states that F.W.J. Schelling’s late, “positive philosophy” is “not a sublime ground of being as a whole, but the contrary itself of a ground, the attempt of a phenomenology of … the...
In this article, we use the theoretical frameworks proposed by Brown andLevinson (1978) and by Kerbraat-Orecchioni (1996, 2002) to reveal hybridpoliteness strategies in the linguistic behaviour of African interpreters who...
Among thinkers and philosophers who have hazarded a non-theological and nonrationalistic approach to Christianity, Michel Henry’s published work—along with what remains unpublished and all that it harbours—imposes itself as a...
The idea of God is one from which contemporary philosophy, to say nothing ofWestern society at large, seems to have turned away from or replaced by otherquests. There is however no greater and more vital subject than the idea of...
The problem of node placement in a rural wireless mesh network (RWMN) consists of determining router placement which minimizes the number of routers while providing good coverage of the area of interest. This problem is NP-hard...
The double expansion that Husserl’s phenomenology imposed on subjectiveexperience posed, among other difficulties, a new and particularly difficultproblem for Husserl; that of the trans-temporal identity of the...
Global online sales for products, where many are substantially identical or deceptively similar, are the cause of a growing number of trademark (TM) infringement lawsuits. This research proposes an intelligent trademark legal...
John Haugeland passed away suddenly in 2010 leaving behind an unfinished book manuscript on Heidegger. He was an analytic philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; however, he had an “extensive...
This paper summarizes the features of hydropower developments and compares hydro with other renewable energy sources for supply to electric power grids. The particular advantages that hydro plants typically provide for grid...
Cloud computing is recognized as an important area for information technology (IT) innovation and investment. Many companies are rapidly reorienting their overall IT strategies to include cloud computing. Cloud computing reduces...
Among the many difficulties, or even paradoxes, that phenomenology has imposedupon us by positing itself as a doctrine, or at least as a radical foundation forphilosophy, one must first and foremost consider the operation...
The emergence of the makerspace movement offers tremendous potential to transform learning. Learning by making, while ancient in practice, has evolved due to the development and confluence of developments in computing...