Kristina Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8280-4541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 111 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Translating Feelings and Mastering Empathy Statements in New Delhi’s International Call Centers
Empathy statements are grammatically regular, performative statements used widely in the therapy and medical industries in the United States and adapted to be used by callers in India’s National Capital Region international call centers to navigate the foreign and emotionally heightened situations workers experience while speaking to customers. This paper shows the performative nature of translation by analyzing the training of empathy in a train…
Mother Tongue Influence and Global English: Creating "Neutral" Elites in Delhi's Business Processing Outsourcing Industry
Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. "Mother tongue" is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity. Yet in the BPO industry, workers are expected to sound "global" with no identifiable regional "mother tongue" accent. Trainers in the BPO industry have responded to this challenge by working to re…
Call center timespace and working from home
Ethnographies of Indian call centers highlight the space of the global call center and its separateness from domestic life. This separateness is manifested in a chronotope (depiction of place, time and personhood) which allows for the coordination of sociolinguistic practices between call center workers and their colleagues, both domestic and international. Learning to speak like a ‘professional’ is one reason that many people seek work in call c…
Marxism and the Moral Point of View
Wood, of course, realized and indeed stressed what is patently evident anyway-that Marx&s;s "writings are filled with bitter denunciations of the capitalist system and its defenders, as well as extravagant praise for the radical working class movement and for those whom he views as its legitimate representatives". The moral belief &s;Capitalism robs the workers&s; could serve the interests of the working class and thus be a bit of working-class i…
Marxism and the Moral Point of View: Morality, Ideology, and Historical Materialism
Marxism and the Moral Point of View attempts to say what consistent Marxists working within the parameters of the canonical conceptions of Marxism should say about morality. This includes what they should say about the function of morality in society, about the extent of moral comment they can justifiably make, and about freedom, equality, and justice, including the justice of whole social formations. Karl Marx-and most Marxists follow him-was op…
Reconceptualizing Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat Gramscian Turnings
Civil society', much more than 'state', 'government', 'power', or even 'democracy' is an elusive term in political theory. At issue has been the question of what aspect of social life constitutes civil society. For the ancients, Cicero for example, civil society was necessarily an outcome of a political community. Later, civil society would be taken, not as emerging out of a political community, but to be the same thing as that community. By the …
Reflective Equilibrium
Reflective equilibrium is a widely used method for explaining and justifying judgments in a variety of disciplines. The method attempts to forge a number of judgments into a coherent whole. This whole should harmonize with other reasonably held and generally accepted beliefs and judgments in the relevant societies in question.
Global justice, capitalism and the Third World
There is No Dilemma of Dirty Hands
I will examine here the moral and political problem of dirty hands. In doing so, I will deploy and further characterize the method of ethics — with its appeal to considered judgements, and with its distinctive kind of consequentialism — which I have elucidated and defended elsewhere.1 However, an acquaintance with those writings is not presupposed, though, of course, it would be useful. It is often argued that politicians, and others as well, mus…
Cosmopolitanism
This essay explicates and defends a version of moral cosmopolitanism. It builds on the work of Martha Nussbaum and Kwame Anthony Appiah, who in turn build on Cicero and Kant. It is an update in a contemporary idiom of a classical cosmopolitanism. In a time when Enlightemnent ideas are widely discounted, it gives expression to an Enlightenment view arguing that there should be a fundamental allegiance to the ideal of a worldwide community of human…
Remarks on Béla Szabados's “After Religion? Reflections on Nielsen's Wittgenstein”
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Mondialisation et impérialisme
Je vais ici dfendre l'ide ( 1) que la mondialisation n'est pas mauvaise en soi -que c'est la mondialisation capitaliste qui est mauvaise (au sens de dommageable pour la plupart des tres humains) et (2) que c'est l'impria, lisme, non la mondialisation capitaliste, qui reprsente en fait la menace la plus srieuse pour notre monde, actuellement. La mondialisation, qu'elle soit ou non capitaliste, doit tre comprise comme la transcendance des frontires…
Socialism, nationalism, and the case of Quebec
Rethinking Nationalism
Moral Point of View Theories
Moral Point of View Theories
Taking Rorty Seriously
Richard Rorty est souvent vu comme une sorte de clone américain de Derrida et considéré, en tant que tel, comme irresponsable à la fois au plan philosophique et au plan politique. Je soutiens que c'est là une caricature. Rorty propose à la fois une version unifiée, pénétrante et raisonnée du pragmatisme, et une métaphilosophie originale et stimulante, imprégnée de la tradition analytique et qui, tout en lui adressant un défi de taille, lui reste …
Is global justice impossible
Liberal Nationalism, Liberal Democracies, and Secession
On the Relevance of Metaethics: New Essays on Metaethics
In this collection of original essays on metaethics, the nature of morality, and the structure of moral reasoning are characterized, the limits of justification in ethics are examined, and the underlying rationale of moral philosophy is probed. Around mid-century metaethics held centre stage in discussions of moral philosophy in Anglo-American and Scandinavian philosophical environments. During the 1970s, its foundational position was challenged …
Liberal Reasonability a Critical Tool? Reflections After Rawls
Le recours au raisonnable est partout présent dans l'œuvre de John Rawls. Et cependant, le concept lui-même est souvent vu comme problématique et nombreux sont ceux quipensent que le raisonnable ne saurait avoir la portée cruciale que Rawls lui attribue. Le concept est ici élucidé et certaines conceptualisations du raisonnable sont explicitées. L'auteur soutient que ces conceptualisationspermettent au raisonnable dejouer le rôle-clé que Rawls en …
Naturalistic explanations of religion
This article sets out a range of naturalistic explanations of religion. It maintains that what underlies religious symbols are facts about human beings and society which fulfil human social and psychological needs: understanding religion is incompatible with believing it
How to proceed in philosophy: Remarks after Habermas
How to Proceed in Philosophy: Remarks After Habermas
Etude du role legitime qu'Habermas attribue a la philosophie contemporaine 1) comme placemaker dans le domaine des sciences reconstructives ou il repere un phenomene de philosophisation des sciences humaines, 2) comme mediation et interpretation de la morale, de la politique et de l'art, face a l'excessive compartimentation des sciences, 3) comme critique sociale et critique de l'ideologie au regard des possibilites d'emancipation de l'homme
God and the crisis of modernity
Reponse de Kai Nielsen a la critique formulee par Rodger Beehler envers son dernier ouvrage, Dieu, Scepticisme et Modernite. L'A. manifeste son desaccord sur plusieurs points : la conception de la situation du croyant, celle de la nature de la croyance religieuse, celle de la religion et de la maniere dont elle entre en contact avec les autres pans de la culture
Atheism without anger or tears
Rethinking Nationalism
Secession: The Case of Quebec
I argue that people have a right to self‐determination when they are plainly predominant in a certain territory and do not violate the civil liberties of minorities. But there is no self‐determination without the preservation of self‐identity and the cultural preservation that goes with its secure existence. So to preserve autonomy and self‐determination people must preserve their cultural identity and this cannot be securely sustained in modern …
The Concept of Ideology: Some Marxist and Non-Marxist Conceptualizations
(1989). The Concept of Ideology: Some Marxist and Non-Marxist Conceptualizations. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 146-173
Call center timespace and working from home
Ethnographies of Indian call centers highlight the space of the global call center and its separateness from domestic life. This separateness is manifested in a chronotope (depiction of place, time and personhood) which allows for the coordination of sociolinguistic practices between call center workers and their colleagues, both domestic and international. Learning to speak like a ‘professional’ is one reason that many people seek work in call c…
A moral case for socialism
A moral case for socialism is made, eschewing efficiency arguments—as crucial as they are in other contexts. The best feasible models of socialism and capitalism are compared with respect to such fundamental values as well‐being, rights, autonomy, equality and justice. It is argued that a feasible democratic socialism is superior in all these dimensions to even the best feasible forms of capitalism
Marx and the enlightenment
On Taking Historical Materialism Seriously
In the first chapter of Karl Marx's Theory of History, G. A. Cohen contrasts Marx's image of history with Hegel's, contrasts, that is, a powerful form of historical idealism with historical materialism. Historical idealism stresses the "dominion of thought" (Gedankenherrschaft); social change, on such an account, is to be explained principally in terms of changes in consciousness, the course of history being determined by fundamental ruling ideas…
On the Very Possibility of a Classless Society: Rawls, Macpherson, and Revisionist Liberalism
C. B. Macpherson, in two significant essays, discusses the views of John Rawls. One, Essay IV in Democratic Theory, examines work prior to A Theory of Justice, the other, Rawls' Models of Man and Society, examines A Theory of Justice and in particular it looks into features in book which take up problems that troubled Macpherson earlier.' I shall discuss both these essays, but, keeping Macpherson's own strategy in mind, I shall first expound cruc…
The "Good Reasons Approach" and "Ontological Justifications" of Morality
The “Good Reasons Approach” and “Ontological Justifications” of Morality Get access Kai Nielsen Kai Nielsen Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 35, April 1959, Pages 116–130, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216431 Published: 01 April 1959
Mother Tongue Influence and Global English: Creating "Neutral" Elites in Delhi's Business Processing Outsourcing Industry
Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. "Mother tongue" is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity. Yet in the BPO industry, workers are expected to sound "global" with no identifiable regional "mother tongue" accent. Trainers in the BPO industry have responded to this challenge by working to re…
Taking Rorty Seriously
Richard Rorty est souvent vu comme une sorte de clone américain de Derrida et considéré, en tant que tel, comme irresponsable à la fois au plan philosophique et au plan politique. Je soutiens que c'est là une caricature. Rorty propose à la fois une version unifiée, pénétrante et raisonnée du pragmatisme, et une métaphilosophie originale et stimulante, imprégnée de la tradition analytique et qui, tout en lui adressant un défi de taille, lui reste …
Is global justice impossible
Liberal Reasonability a Critical Tool? Reflections After Rawls
Le recours au raisonnable est partout présent dans l'œuvre de John Rawls. Et cependant, le concept lui-même est souvent vu comme problématique et nombreux sont ceux quipensent que le raisonnable ne saurait avoir la portée cruciale que Rawls lui attribue. Le concept est ici élucidé et certaines conceptualisations du raisonnable sont explicitées. L'auteur soutient que ces conceptualisationspermettent au raisonnable dejouer le rôle-clé que Rawls en …
God and the crisis of modernity
Reponse de Kai Nielsen a la critique formulee par Rodger Beehler envers son dernier ouvrage, Dieu, Scepticisme et Modernite. L'A. manifeste son desaccord sur plusieurs points : la conception de la situation du croyant, celle de la nature de la croyance religieuse, celle de la religion et de la maniere dont elle entre en contact avec les autres pans de la culture
Atheism without anger or tears
Marx on Justice: The Tucker-Wood Thesis Revisited
Rationality and Relativism
Morality and the Language of Conduct
Egoism in Ethics
The Functions of Moral Discourse
Journal Article The Functions of Moral Discourse Get access Kai Nielsen Kai Nielsen Hamilton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 28, July 1957, Pages 236–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216660 Published: 01 July 1957
Reason and Morality
IN A profoundly beautiful but disturbingly perplexing passage in the Bible, God speaks darkly our knowledge good and evil. The narrative runs follows: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree the garden thou mayest freely eat: but the tree the knowledge good and thou shalt not eat it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' Knowledge good and we are told, will open our eyes and we shall be gods. Possessin…
Good Reasons in Ethics: An Examination of the Toulmin‐Hare Controversy
Egoism in Ethics
The "Good Reasons Approach" and "Ontological Justifications" of Morality
The “Good Reasons Approach” and “Ontological Justifications” of Morality Get access Kai Nielsen Kai Nielsen Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 35, April 1959, Pages 116–130, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216431 Published: 01 April 1959
Iii.—some Remarks on the Independence of Morality From Religion
Journal Article III.—SOME REMARKS ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF MORALITY FROM RELIGION Get access KAI NIELSEN KAI NIELSEN Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LXX, Issue 278, April 1961, Pages 175–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LXX.278.175 Published: 01 April 1961
On Speaking of God
Morality and God: Some Questions for Mr. MacIntyre
Conventionalism in Morals and the Appeal to Human Nature
"Christian Positivism" and the Appeal to Religious Experience
Can Faith Validate God-Talk
THESIS: Philosophical analysis provides fideism with a crucial problem. It seems that we can accept on faith only what we can understand. For if we cannot understand something, we cannot know what it is we are to accept on faith. Yet crucial religious assertions appear to be completely without truth value. But if they are, how then can we possibly accept them on faith? This essay examines some efforts to get around this barrier to an appeal to fa…
On Morality and Convention
God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion
“Without religious belief, without the Living God, there could be no adequate answer to the persistently gnawing questions: What ought we to do? How ought I to live?.... Is this frequently repeated claim justified?.... I shall argue that the fact that God wills something—if indeed that is a fact—cannot be a fundamental criterion for its being morally good or obligatory and thus it cannot be the only criterion or the only adequate criterion for mo…
Morality and the Language of Conduct
Is to Abandon Determinism to Withdraw from the Enterprise of Science
The Intelligibility of God-talk
There are certain primary religious beliefs which are basic to a whole religious Weltanschauung , for they are the cornerstone of the whole edifice. If these beliefs are unintelligible, incoherent, irrational or false the whole way-of-life, centering around them, is ‘a house of cards’. Certain segments of it may still be seen to have a value when viewed from some other perspective, but if these primary religious belief are faulted, the religious …
The Primacy of Philosophical Theology
The center of theology, I shall argue, is philosophical theology, that is, philosophical analysis of fundamental religious concepts and claims. Whether there can be any revelation, general or special, and which putative revelation or revealed theology, if any, is genuine must be settled by reference to philosophical criteria. Whether the very concept of God itself is a coherent concept such that there could be a revelation, a legitimate object of…
Contemporary Critiques of Religion
Anthropology and ethics
On Refusing to Play the Sceptic's Game
Paradigm-Case arguments were set out to meet epistemological scepticism and to refute in a short decisive way, without even the need to examine them in detail, paradoxical metaphysical claims. Stroud, J. J. Thomson and Rorty think they utterly fail to do so. 1 I shall argue that supplemented by a perfectly innocuous verificationist argument, a distinct argument of Moore's, given a limited sphere of application and taken as also involving the argu…
Alienation and Self-realization
Self-realizationist theories are among the classical attempts to develop a comprehensive normative ethical theory. Plato and Aristotle, in giving classical statements of such theories, argue that a man's distinctive happiness, a man's distinctive flourishing, will only be realized when he realizes himself, i.e. when he achieves to the fullest possible degree his distinctive function. And to achieve one's function is to develop to the full those c…
Social Science and Hard Data
Nietzsche as a moral philosopher
God and Self: The Function of Religious Claims
first place. Or so I think many theologians and people who believe would say. I intend here to put into secular language some aspects of that claim. Reading superficially through much of work done in recent years by philosophers of religion is convincing proof that is not dead, for simple reason that could never have existed. Atheism, as Michael Scriven has so well argued in Primary Philosophy, is only option available to rational man. The first …
The challenge of Wittgenstein: An examination of his picture of religious belief
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