Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Biographic Data
| ID | 978510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rukmini Bhaya Nair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rukmini Bhaya |
| FAMILY NAME | Nair |
| SIGNATURE | NAIR R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2185-1651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All He Needed Was a Hull
The essaytraces an arc from atrue story of shipwreck involving the ships Patience and Deliverance in the seventeenth century to a twenty-first-century conversation between the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT and the author on the subjects of patience and narrative crisis. It is suggested that deliverance from crises isintegral to the conceptual structure of both patience and narrative. Features of patience as a "postcrisis virtue" are then…
Body of knowledge and knowledge of the body
‘Do You Believe in God, Doctor?’ The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism
The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure
This preregistered study tested three theoretical proposals for how children form productive yet restricted linguistic generalizations, avoiding errors such as *The clown laughed the man, across three age groups (5-6 years, 9-10 years, adults) and five languages (English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'). Participants rated, on a five-point scale, correct and ungrammatical sentences describing events of causation (e.g., *Someone laughed the m…
States of reason and reasons of state
Over the past half-century, Noam Chomsky has established a powerful intellectual presence in two apparently unrelated domains of discourse — the field of theoretical linguistics and the arena of anti-establishment politics. This paper examines Chomsky’s use of metaphor across these domains, arguing that in Chomsky’s work metaphor enables an undercover, perhaps even classically ‘anarchic’ dialogue between disciplines. Organizationally as well as p…
Why Am I so Anxious?” A Study of Attention Bias in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Colonization
Three
TheDay NoOne Died AnjumHasan after Frank O'Hara It's a day todrinka largesoda inBangalore,gulmoharflowerslividon theleft and thereon theright. I takethecreaking278, a woman withone cataracteye's handinga bag ofbananas totheconductorat MekhriCircle. She knowsittoo,today'stheday no one dies. The soda bottle's hissinga bitlikelaughterinmyhand when I pass through Cantonment railwaystation withouta platform ticket, thepolicemanwatchingbut maybetoohott…
Lying on the Postcolonial Couch
Lying On The Postcolonial Couch
Expressing doubt and certainty
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Expressing doubt and certainty
Lying on the Postcolonial Couch
Lying On The Postcolonial Couch
Colonization
Three
TheDay NoOne Died AnjumHasan after Frank O'Hara It's a day todrinka largesoda inBangalore,gulmoharflowerslividon theleft and thereon theright. I takethecreaking278, a woman withone cataracteye's handinga bag ofbananas totheconductorat MekhriCircle. She knowsittoo,today'stheday no one dies. The soda bottle's hissinga bitlikelaughterinmyhand when I pass through Cantonment railwaystation withouta platform ticket, thepolicemanwatchingbut maybetoohott…
States of reason and reasons of state
Over the past half-century, Noam Chomsky has established a powerful intellectual presence in two apparently unrelated domains of discourse — the field of theoretical linguistics and the arena of anti-establishment politics. This paper examines Chomsky’s use of metaphor across these domains, arguing that in Chomsky’s work metaphor enables an undercover, perhaps even classically ‘anarchic’ dialogue between disciplines. Organizationally as well as p…
Why Am I so Anxious?” A Study of Attention Bias in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure
This preregistered study tested three theoretical proposals for how children form productive yet restricted linguistic generalizations, avoiding errors such as *The clown laughed the man, across three age groups (5-6 years, 9-10 years, adults) and five languages (English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'). Participants rated, on a five-point scale, correct and ungrammatical sentences describing events of causation (e.g., *Someone laughed the m…
‘Do You Believe in God, Doctor?’ The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism
Body of knowledge and knowledge of the body
All He Needed Was a Hull
The essaytraces an arc from atrue story of shipwreck involving the ships Patience and Deliverance in the seventeenth century to a twenty-first-century conversation between the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT and the author on the subjects of patience and narrative crisis. It is suggested that deliverance from crises isintegral to the conceptual structure of both patience and narrative. Features of patience as a "postcrisis virtue" are then…
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)