The Coherentist Revolution: Can Legal Knowledge be Constructed through Legal Coherentism’s Argume... more The Coherentist Revolution: Can Legal Knowledge be Constructed through Legal Coherentism’s Argumentation of Truth and Justification?
In this paper, I will evaluate the construction of legal knowledge under Legal Coherentism, with a focus on its conceptions of truth and justification. I will then draw upon this evaluation to illuminate the larger epistemological debate between Logical Empiricism and Coherentism (coherence truth and coherentist justification ).
Violence in anime has often been stigmatized as cheap, sensational and incapable of discussing co... more Violence in anime has often been stigmatized as cheap, sensational and incapable of discussing complex ideas. By using Joseph Carroll’s The Extremes of Conflict in Literature: Violence, Homicide and War (2012) and Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective (2014), as well as Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, this paper examines the cinematographic portrayal of violence through popular Japanese Anime series Tokyo Ghoul with reference to Yale Film Studies (2002). As various characters seek to find and express their identities, as a human whose socialisation and enculturation prescribe a life of compassion and non-aggression, or a ghoul whose community demands a predatory-prey worldview, violence is employed as a form of struggle for survival of the self and resistance of circumstances at large. This paper pioneers an unprecedented psychoanalytic model for anime literature commonly perceived to be filled with violence, and ascribes academic rigor to the genre.
The Coherentist Revolution: Can Legal Knowledge be Constructed through Legal Coherentism’s Argume... more The Coherentist Revolution: Can Legal Knowledge be Constructed through Legal Coherentism’s Argumentation of Truth and Justification?
In this paper, I will evaluate the construction of legal knowledge under Legal Coherentism, with a focus on its conceptions of truth and justification. I will then draw upon this evaluation to illuminate the larger epistemological debate between Logical Empiricism and Coherentism (coherence truth and coherentist justification ).
Violence in anime has often been stigmatized as cheap, sensational and incapable of discussing co... more Violence in anime has often been stigmatized as cheap, sensational and incapable of discussing complex ideas. By using Joseph Carroll’s The Extremes of Conflict in Literature: Violence, Homicide and War (2012) and Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective (2014), as well as Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, this paper examines the cinematographic portrayal of violence through popular Japanese Anime series Tokyo Ghoul with reference to Yale Film Studies (2002). As various characters seek to find and express their identities, as a human whose socialisation and enculturation prescribe a life of compassion and non-aggression, or a ghoul whose community demands a predatory-prey worldview, violence is employed as a form of struggle for survival of the self and resistance of circumstances at large. This paper pioneers an unprecedented psychoanalytic model for anime literature commonly perceived to be filled with violence, and ascribes academic rigor to the genre.
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In this paper, I will evaluate the construction of legal knowledge under Legal Coherentism, with a focus on its conceptions of truth and justification. I will then draw upon this evaluation to illuminate the larger epistemological debate between Logical Empiricism and Coherentism (coherence truth and coherentist justification ).
In this paper, I will evaluate the construction of legal knowledge under Legal Coherentism, with a focus on its conceptions of truth and justification. I will then draw upon this evaluation to illuminate the larger epistemological debate between Logical Empiricism and Coherentism (coherence truth and coherentist justification ).