Split Subject

This chapter introduces the major philosophical debate about the split-brain phenomenon. Split-brain surgery severs the major white matter fiber tract connecting the two cerebral h...

By drawing parallels to neuro-philosophical approaches to self-consciousness that give up the notion of an a priori psychological self, Zeman argues that linguistic self-reference ...

This chapter reviews the book The Subject of Holocaust Fiction (2015), by Emily Miller Budick. In The Subject of Holocaust Fiction, Budick is not concerned with positions that deni...

This chapter considers how photography emerges as an incomplete, iterative form of portraiture against an elusive subject. It looks specifically at Marcel Proust’s definition of mo...

This chapter reconstructs and analyses Ferrier’s main argument for a form of idealism which is both neo-Berkeleyan and post-Kantian. The argument, which is advanced in his Institut...

This chapter describes a serious omission in research ethics and oversight. Regulations and guidelines governing human subject research were largely created by professionals. Altho...

Abstract The origins of the Northern Irish state are of great importance for the study of Irish history and Anglo-Irish relations, but this subject has never been ta...

Abstract This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. The Ebonics and bilingual education controversies in the...