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O-mannosylation in Candida albicans enables development of interkingdom biofilm communities
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Globalization, re-discovery of the Malay âlocal,' and popular TV fiction through audience narratives
The proliferation of TV fiction can be partly explained by TV producers attuning their products to draw
audienceâs attention. Narratives of love dominate the plots and almost always the good is pitted against the evil,
rich against the poor - ultimately the good always wins. The formula may be clichéd, but in places where news
of war, terrorism, diseases, violence, and conflicts usually prevail, respite from tumultuous realities of the world
can often be found in popular TV fiction. Here, we study three popular Malay TV fiction, Julia, On Dhia, and
Adam & Hawa to examine how TV fiction viewers relate to them through personal narratives and focus group
interviews. Through their voices, we reveal that despite TV fiction viewersâ constant preoccupation with
Western-imposed globalization, the TV fiction set against the backdrop of globalization can encourage the
viewers to re-route their ways to re-discover their imaginary âgood old daysâ that are often dismissed, neglected
or forgotten
In Defense of Wishful Thinking: James, Quine, Emotions, and the Web of Belief
What is W. V. O. Quineâs relationship to classical pragmatism? Although he resists the comparison to William James in particular, commentators have seen an affinity between his âweb of beliefâ model of theory confirmation and Jamesâs claim that our beliefs form a âstockâ that faces new experience as a corporate body. I argue that the similarity is only superficial. James thinks our web of beliefs should be responsive not just to perceptual but also to emotional experiences in some cases; Quine denies this. I motivate Jamesâs controversial view by appealing to an episode in the history of medicine when a researcher self-experimented by swallowing a vial of bacteria that at the time had not been studied in much detail. The researcherâs commitment to his own as-yet untested hypothesis was based in part on emotional considerations. Finally, I argue that Quineâs insistence that emotions can never be relevant to adjusting our web of belief reflects a tacit holdover of one of logical positivismâs crucially anti-pragmatist commitmentsâthat philosophy of science should focus exclusively on the context of justification, not the context of discovery. Jamesâs emphasis on discovery as a (perhaps the) crucial locus for epistemological inquiry is characteristic of pragmatism in general. Since Quinean epistemology is always an epistemology of justification, he is not happily viewed as a member of the pragmatist tradition
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