In The Democracy of Objects Bryant proposes that we break with the epistemological tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Bryant develops a realist ontology, called -onticology-, which argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations. Bryant proposes that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure.

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The Democracy of Objects

Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life

Ethnically differentiated societies are often regarded as dysfunctional, with poor economic performance and a high risk of violent civil conflict The author distinguishes between dominance, in which one group constitutes a majority, and fractionalization, in which there are many small groups In terms of overall economic performance, the research shows that both theoretically and empirically, fractionalization is normally unproblematic in democracies, although it can be damaging in dictatorships In terms of the risk of civil war, the author shows that both theoretically and empirically fractionalization actually makes societies safer, while dominance increases the risk of conflict A policy implication is that fractionalized societies are viable and secession should be discouraged

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Implications of Ethnic Diversity

Part of understanding the meaning and power of algorithms means asking what new demands they might make of ethical frameworks, and how they might be held accountable to ethical standards. I develop...

Toward an Ethics of Algorithms: Convening, Observation, Probability, and Timeliness

Collective emotions are at the heart of any society and become evident in gatherings, crowds, or responses to widely salient events. However, they remain poorly understood and conceptualized in scientific terms. Here, we provide first steps towards a theory of collective emotions. We first review accounts of the social and cultural embeddedness of emotion that contribute to understanding collective emotions from three broad perspectives: face-to-face encounters, culture and shared knowledge, and identification with a social collective. In discussing their strengths and shortcomings and highlighting areas of conceptual overlap, we translate these views into a number of bottom-up mechanisms that explain collective emotion elicitation on the levels of social cognition, expressive behavior, and social practices. Language: en

Towards a Theory of Collective Emotions

Benedict Anderson’s deservedly famous thesis about the origins and nature
of modern nationalism turns around the central notion of an “imagined
community.” This category provides him with a matrix out of which one
can apprehend-theoretically and historically-the different variants of nationalist discourse formulated over the last two hundred years. We will refer,
in the brief comments that follow, to three basic dimensions structuring
the fabric of Anderson’s argument: 1) the presuppositions implicit in the
notion of an “imagined” community; 2) the kind of substitutability or solidarity which is required to be a member of such a community; 3) the kind
of relationship that is established between such a community-which is by
definition finite or limited-and its outside. Before that, however, let us
describe the main features of Anderson’s thesis.

On Imagined Communities

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