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- On the Intractable Ontology of Species
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1 Indian Institute of Technology Indore, IN
1 Indian Institute of Technology Indore, IN
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SOCRATES, Vol 5, No 3-4 (2017), Pagination: 29-39Abstract
‘Species’ is a tricky, but unavoidable term which makes biologists disagree with each other in their attempts to define it. The disagreement actually stems from the intractable ontological nature of species. Not only biologists but also philosophers are engaged in the endeavour to understand species. The former attempt to define species while the latter try to determine its ontology. As a result, antinomies such as monism/pluralism or realism/antirealism come into the picture. Our sense of ‘intractability’ grows along with the increasing debate between these antinomies. The present paper sketches out the intractable nature of species through a historical account of the species problem. Through this paper, we have tried to decipher a ‘common thread’ that, perhaps, binds all our ideas of species together. This has been arrived at after noticing that when we confront the term species we all know what it refers to but we are confused when it comes to answering the question ‘what it means’.Keywords
Ontology, Species, Monism, Pluralism, Realism, Antirealism, Intractability.
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- Critical Reflections on the Fall Narrative of Communism
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1 Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, IN
1 Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, IN
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SOCRATES, Vol 6, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 34-50Abstract
The paper critically addresses the fall narrative of the narrative of the failure of the communist experiment. By doing so it makes a conviction that the great fall may have had laid down communism’s burial but had not closed the spirit of revolution and emancipation. More than being loathsome to the violence the fall narrative hangs on to liberal-capitalist-democracy’s hatred for equality and justice. The paper commits to the claim that if the idea of “return to socialism” makes no sense, equally is senseless the triumphalism debate of liberal-capitalism. Saying so the commitment is for “return to the human self” whose even distant possibility lies in socialism only.Keywords
Emancipation, Equality, Justice, Transformation, Revolution.References
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- A New Critical Notice of Robin Cook’s Medical Thriller ‘Coma'
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1 Indian Institute of Technology Indore, IN
2 School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
3 School of Humanities & Social Sciences at National Institute of Science Education & Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN
1 Indian Institute of Technology Indore, IN
2 School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
3 School of Humanities & Social Sciences at National Institute of Science Education & Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IN
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SOCRATES, Vol 6, No 3-4 (2018), Pagination: 1-25Abstract
This paper is an exploration of the medical thriller Coma often categorized as popular fiction through a grotesque lens. This study enables to delineate how grotesquery sustains and reinforces the relevance of fiction. Giving space to anxious imaginations about medicine and technology, these texts cannot be dismissed altogether as ‘wrong sort of fiction’ as suggested by Catherine Belling in her critique of Coma. Therefore, the paper argues that the creative audacity of grotesque equips it doubly as a reflection of an anxious society and also as a ‘boundary creature’ as opined by Frances S Connelly. Using the idea of grotesque as hybrid creature, that is as one entity which has several incompatible components jumbled together to construe meaning and sense, its emotional effects on the readers are justified. This paper takes Coma as an instance of medical thrillers and examines the various ways grotesque is embedded in the narrative. The paper concludes by suggesting the genre by extension is grotesque. Thus medical thriller becomes a space for new imaginations and inclusivity that can bring possible progress to humanity while still keeping a control over human experimentation ethics that powerful institutions may or may not employ. The idea that pervades this study is that grotesquery is employed as a template to translate meanings and interpretations of medical thrillers. Through multiple responses as elicited by the grotesque, these thrillers engage with readers differently and hence produce varied responses. This enables us to project the importance and usefulness of the medical thriller genre.Keywords
Grotesque, Coma, Medical Thriller, Popular Fiction, Bioethics.References
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