Inappropriate arguments as a communication technology: types, peculiarities, and countering mechanisms

This article is dedicated to such type of communication technology as inappropriate arguments. Special attention is given to clarification of the key concepts of the topic – “argumentation”, “appropriateness”, “inappropriateness”, and “context”. The original classification is provided to the types of inappropriate arguments. The author reveals the contextual peculiarities of using different types of inappropriate arguments; analyzes the specificity of using inappropriate arguments; as well as offers possible countering mechanisms. Particular examples of using incorrect arguments are confirmed by links to recorded live dialogues. The article employs the methods of intent analysis and comparative analysis. The Russian tradition of studying the theory and practice of argumentation features a number of research that touch upon the problem of inappropriate arguments. However, the study of arguments is just a part of the whole variety of communication technologies. The novelty of this work consists in the centralized, systematized presentation of the assemblage of variations of inappropriate arguments. The types of inappropriate arguments are illustrated on the specific examples from literature, cinematography, cultural -historical, social and political spheres of society. The acquired results can be valuable for the development of lecture courses on the theory and practice of argumentation, students majoring in philosophy, and audience interested in modern research dedicated to communication technologies.

Introduction to the Special Issue

The Collegium Phaenomenologicum has met in Umbria, Italy every summer since 1976; only COVID made it pause, and hopefully only temporarily. It has been a forum for deep and broad discussion of the phenomenological tradition; it has also been a place where that tradition has itself been broadened and deepened by generations of thinkers who came to study the classical texts and to do phenomenology. In 2019, over the course of three weeks in July, in three lecture courses, several talks by visiting faculty, twelve text seminars sessions, art workshops, and very many informal talks over dinner, on the terrace, and on long walks through the town of Città di Castello and beyond, the Collegium worked on the question of critical phenomenology.

NAMES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF GLOVES IN RUSSIAN AND ABKHAZO-ADYG LANGUAGES: WORD EDUCATIONAL AND ETHYMOLOGICAL ASPECT

The article deals with the nominations of various types of gloves in the Russian and Abkhaz-Adyghe languages in the synchronicdiachronic plan. An attempt is made to systematize the names of gloves in the Abkhaz-Adyghe languages and their dialects, to determine the motivating features that underlie the basis of the nomination and to identify the word-formation structure, as well as to give an etymological analysis of the names that have lost their internal form in the process of language development. Investigation in this field will make a certain contribution to the word formation and etymology of the Abkhaz-Adyghe languages. The research materials are important for the lexicology, word formation and etymology of these languages and may be used in lexicography for making up derivational and etymological dictionaries, as well as for lecture courses, special courses and seminars on various sections of the language structure.

WRITTEN ADYGHEAN LANGUAGE AS A SUBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC CONSIDERATION (TO THE YEAR OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES)

The article examines the issues related to the history of the formation and development of the written Adyghe language. The author traces the path made by the Adyghe language in the scientific space: from the appearance of the first Adyghe primer, the first grammar, and to the scientific publications of Adyghe scholars. Particular attention is drawn to fundamental work Guseva N. T. "The history of formation and development of the Adyghe linguistics" who have made significant contributions in the history of the development of the Adyghe linguistics, to perpetuate the memory of 40 researchers, whose life is dedicated to the most noble and peaceful science of Philology. The theoretical and practical significance of the studied material lies in the possibility of its inclusion in university lecture courses in philology and history.

Antennas Up! Laura Nader’s Undergraduate Lecture Courses as Public Anthropology

While teaching lecture courses at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura Nader taught generations of students to raise their anthropological antennae. This article uses an autoethnographic approach to describe the author’s exposure to anthropology at Berkeley in the nineteen-nineties, gesturing towards the way undergraduate lecture courses play an important but largely underrecognized role in fostering public anthropology. Nader’s lecture courses were particularly effective at this because their focus on pushing students to question dogma and analyze controlling processes offered students a sense of how anthropology could foster critical public discourse. Nader stressed the importance of asking good questions designed to challenge assumptions, finding the right methods to answer those questions, and paying attention to pathways of power. While always questioning received wisdom, ideological assumptions, and Western categories of knowledge, Nader continued to stress the importance of developing straightforward, highly-accessible concepts that captured the attention of students—like Harmony Ideology, trustanoia, controlling processes, and the vertical slice.

The (Con)Text of a Footnote: Heidegger and the Factical and Pre-Ontological Aspects of Care

Right after the presentation of Hyginus’s fable in §42 of Being and Time comes a note in which Heidegger affirms that the orientation about care as the being of Dasein (§41) arose in the context of the interpretation of Augustinian anthropology and the foundations obtained by the analysis of Aristotelian ontology. Why such a mention and why is it placed precisely after proving the pre-ontological origin of care as the being of Dasein? Assuming such problem, this paper does not aim only at offering a reading key that justifies such note, but at presenting the importance of the factical and pre-ontological aspects presented, respectively, in Book X of The Confessions of Augustine and in the fable of Hyginus for Heidegger's elaboration of care as an ontological category. For this purpose, three lecture courses will be assumed, especially: Augustine and Neo-Platonism (1921), which will make it possible to perceive the always factical aspect of care, thus evidencing the historical enactment perspective of the hermeneutics of facticity; Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle (1921/1922), which will make it possible to understand the idea of “ontological category” as a first formulation of what, in Being and Time, will be the existentials; and History of the concept of time: prolegomena (1925), which will allow us to realize that care is about being and not having, therefore, that it is not a possession of Dasein, but a condition of its existence. Finally, after justifying the importance of different aspects for care as an ontological category, it will be understood why the ontological interpretation differs from both others.

On the “Spiritual” in Aesthetic Experience; or, The “Nonfactual in Facticity”

This article revisits the original meaning of “spiritual” as distinct from “intellectual” experience in Theodor W. Adorno’s late work. It does so through the implicitly Hegelian motifs in Wassily Kandinsky’s manifesto “On the Spiritual in Art,” a text that Adorno engages in passing in his Aesthetic Theory and that was, in turn, deeply influenced by the thought of Kandinsky’s nephew Alexandre Kojève, who also wrote an essay on his uncle’s paintings. This genealogy of motifs is of more than mere historical and anecdotal significance. At stake is nothing less than an accurate understanding of “spiritual experience [geistige Erfahrung]” as a more than merely theoretical matrix for what Adorno, in Negative Dialectics and the lecture courses, calls his materials studies. Rather than indicating largely esoteric or theosophical elements in Kandinsky’s influence on modernist aesthetic discourse, “spiritual experience,” in part read through the eyes of Kojève and, via him, Vladimir Soloviev, is thereby distinguished from what Adorno sees as an irrepressible tendency toward “spiritualization” in contemporary culture and the philosophy that reflects on it. Instead, it reveals a dimension of depth that the reception of Critical Theory has all too often ignored or disparaged.

Online vs. Face-to-Face Lecture Courses: Factors Impacting the Effectiveness of Online Learning

During the COVID-19 outbreak, most university courses have been offered on online platforms. A sudden shift from face-to-face classroom learning to online formats could influence the learning effectiveness of classes. This study aims to investigate differences in the learning effectiveness of online and face-to-face lecture courses. It also explores factors that impact the effectiveness of online instruction. These factors include interactions among learners, interactions between learners and the instructor, the quality of online platforms, learners’ ability to use devices and follow instructions, and learners’ situational challenges. The study participants were 261 university students at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in Bangkok, Thailand. All participants were enrolled in at least one lecture course, such as history, humans and the environment, the environment and development, or general philosophy, during the 2019 academic year. A questionnaire was distributed to participants after they completed these courses in May 2020. Paired simple t-test analyses were used to compare the effectiveness of online and face-to-face classes, and a multiple regression analysis was used to identify factors that impact the learning effectiveness of online classes. The results show that online classes are less effective than face-to-face courses. The multiple regression analysis also revealed that the effectiveness of online learning was significantly impacted by learners’ ability to interact with classmates during class, their ability to interact with instructors after the class, the quality of online platforms, and disturbances or distractions in learners’ environments.

Hypertextuality Of Tolstoy's Prose

This article highlights the intersection of realism and postmodernism of the 20th century and the hypertextuality of Tatiana Tolstoy's prose. The purpose of the article is to study the poetics of mythological prose, methods and forms of mythologization in modern Russian prose. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that this article seeks to consistently explore not only the myth, but also the mechanisms of mythologization and demythologization in Tolstoy's prose, as well as to identify the axiological and ontological features of mythology in the writer's texts. The theoretical significance of the article consists in the further development of theoretical knowledge about the categories of mythopoetics, the deepening of ideas about the mythologism of literature and the genre features of the mythological novel. The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that its materials can be used in lecture courses and seminars on the history of modern literature, the theory of myth, as well as in the works on T. N. Tolstoy.

BUILDING MASTERY OF ACCOUNTING LITERATURE THROUGH REFERENCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

The rapid growth of accounting literature in the digital age is a challenge in studying accounting literature. Mastery of scientific literature is an ability that every student wants to have. Responding to the rapid development of accounting literacy, optimizing the use of reference management software should become a habit for students to answer the challenges of the rapid growth of the accounting literature. This article describes a combination method of utilizing a reference management program Mendeley into student lecture courses to help students master the rapidly evolving accounting literature using digital resources. The use of Mendeley software also helps students form annotation skills in compiling citation entries that are comprehensive and effective