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This chapter distinguishes between several senses of “normativity”. For example, that we ought to abstain from causing unnecessary suffering is a normative, not descriptive, claim. And so is the claim that we have good ...

In this chapter we study representations of the last Plantagenet king of England, Richard III, relating his myth and history to the discovery of his body in 2012 in a Leicester car park. Focusing on the body of Richard, ...

A specific variety of formal causation is dispositional essentialism. This chapter argues that dispositional essentialism is incompatible with any trope bundle theory committed to the primitive identity of tropes, such as ...

Value can be understood, analyzed, and created in various ways. In addition to more pragmatic modes of valorization, there are “ontological” processes that can be understood to increase value, which will refer as ontological ...

Some forms of viral storytelling should be considered as part of the general storytelling boom of the 21st century that tends toward instrumentalizing stories of personal experience in the public sphere. While the public ...

The introduction by the editors aims to present an overview of the ethos of the digital environment, mapping out the scholarly field within which the volume is situated. As such, it lays out the conceptual framework of the ...