Jayne Werner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 737150 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jayne Werner |
| PRENOMES | Jayne |
| SOBRENOME | Werner |
| ASSINATURA | WERNER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4068-0018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Physicalism, Foundationalism, and Infinite Descent
This paper contributes to answering the question how physicalism can be defined for a world without fundamental physical phenomena. In a recent paper in this journal, Torin Alter, Sam Coleman, and Robert J. Howell propose a necessary condition on physicalism. They argue that physicalism is true only if there is no infinitely descending chain of mentally constituted phenomena. I argue that this alleged necessary condition faces counterexamples. An…
Solving a puzzle of definition
This paper concerns the question of which logical principles hold for real definitions. Recently, Samuel Elgin has presented five principles concerning real definitions that seem initially plausible. He has shown them to be jointly inconsistent. This gives rise to a puzzle that can only be solved by denying one of the principles. In this paper, I argue against Elgin's principle of expansion, which concerns substituting a definiens for its definie…
Cardinal Composition
The thesis of Weak Unrestricted Composition says that every pair of objects has a fusion. This thesis has been argued by Contessa (Analysis 72(3):455–457, 2012) and Smith (Erkenntnis 84(1):41–55, 2019) to be compatible with the world being junky and hence to evade an argument against the necessity of Strong Unrestricted Composition proposed by Bohn (Analysis 69(1):27–31, 2009a, Philos Q 59(235):193–201, 2009b). However, neither Weak Unrestricted …
Contingentism and paraphrase
One important challenge for contingentists is that they seem to be unable to account for the meaning of some apparently meaningful modal discourse that is perfectly intelligible for necessitists. This worry is particularly pressing for higher-order contingentists, contingentists who hold that it is not only contingent which objects there are, but also contingent which semantic values there are for higher-order variables to quantify over. Objectio…
A Defence of Ontological Innocence
In a recent paper in this journal, Jonathan Barker argues against the claim that grounded entities are ontologically innocent. In this paper I defend the ontological innocence of grounded entities against Barker's argument. I tease out an assumption that is crucial for the success of Barker's argument and I show that the defender of ontological innocence can deny this assumption in a motivated way
Rescue Cases, the Majority Rule, and the Greatest Number
In a recent paper, Tim Henning argues that the result that we should save the greatest number in rescue cases can be established on procedural grounds without making use of the aggregation of interests. He first argues that we ought to respect the affected persons' equal claims to have a say in the rescue decision and that this can only be achieved by the majority rule, which consists in giving each affected person an equal vote. Then he argues f…
Extended Dispositionalism and Determinism
Modal dispositionalists hold that dispositions provide the foundation of metaphysical necessity and possibility. According to the kind of modal dispositionalism that can be found in the present literature, a proposition p is possible just in case some things are disposed to be such that p. In the first part of this paper I show that combining this classic form of dispositionalism with the assumptions that the laws of nature are necessary and dete…
Partial grounding, identity, and nothing-over-and-aboveness
Potentialism and S5
Modal potentialism as proposed by Barbara Vetter (2015) is the view that every possibility is grounded in something having a potentiality. Drawing from work by Jessica Leech (2017), Samuel Kimpton-Nye (2021) argues that potentialists can have an S5 modal logic. I present a novel argument to the conclusion that the most straightforward way of spelling out modal potentialism cannot validate an S5 modal logic. Then I will propose a slightly tweaked …
Arbitrary grounding
The aim of this paper is to introduce, elucidate and defend the usefulness of a variant of grounding, or metaphysical explanation, that has the feature that the grounds explain of some states of affairs that one of them obtains without explaining which one obtains. I will dub this variant arbitrary grounding . After informally elucidating the basic idea in the first section, I will provide three metaphysical hypotheses that are best formulated in…
Irreducibly collective existence and bottomless nihilism
This paper develops the metaphysical hypothesis that there are irreducibly collective pluralities, pluralities of objects that do not have a singular object among them. A way to formulate this hypothesis using plural quantification will be proposed and the coherence of irreducibly collective existence will be defended. Furthermore, irreducibly collective existence will be shown to allow for bottomless scenarios that do not involve things standing…
A grounding-based measure of relative fundamentality
The Vietnam War
This volume derives from an unprecedented seminar held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in November 1990. At the seminar, leading Western diplomatic and military historians and Vietnam scholars met with prominent Vietnamese Communists to reflect on the Vietnam War. The book contains four parts: The Vietnamese Revolution and Political/Military strategy; the war from the American side; the war in the South and Cam…
Doomed from the Start? Ngo Dinh Diem and the Start of the Vietnam War
Journal Article Doomed from the Start? Ngo Dinh Diem and the Start of the Vietnam War Get access Jessica M. Chapman, Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. 296 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Jayne Werner Jayne Werner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 590–592, https://do…
Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam
This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources (including surveys, interviews, and responses to film screenings), Jayne Werner demonstrates that despite the formal institution of public gender equality in Vietnam, in practice women do not hold a great deal of power, continuing to defer to men in bot…
State Subject-making and Womanhoods in the Red River Delta of Vietnam 1 1
This paper explores how governance works in doi moi Vietnam through an examination of state subject-making and the ways in which it might be changing. More specifically, it discusses the two social
Gender, Household, State
A collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in Viet Nam during doi moi, the period of economic market reforms that characterized the nation in the 1990s. These fascinating and varied essays illuminate women's daily lives as they are shaped by culture, economics, and traditional ideals
Vietnam's Women in Transition
The American War in Vietnam
As suggested by the title, this collection of essays focuses upon American involvement in the Vietnamese War. These essays were originally written for a symposium in 1988 in which (for the first time since 1975) scholars from both the U.S. and Vietnam met to discuss and debate the war and its impact on their respective nations. Thus, these works (by American authors) though alternately probing and guarded, are always thought-provoking. They displ…
Course syllabi on the Vietnam war
A Short History of the War in Vietnam
In one of the frequent corporate ads in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times, the one on April 30th by United Technologies addressed the issue of Vietnam. As I glanced through it, I noticed the claim that the first American killed in "the Vietnam war" was in 1959. This is early enough, but it's not true and misrepresents the nature of the "Vietnam war." It also illustrates, I believe, one of the problems we Americans have about thinking about …
Rejoinder to Adam Fforde
The issue of scholarship regarding Asian socialist countries is by no means a new one. This has faced China scholars for a long time. The difficulties of gaining access to these countries, assessing information from elusive sources, and gathering data are common to all scholars of countries like China, Korea, and Vietnam. Of course, research conditions are less than ideal. Vietnam, Korea and China are to a large extent closed societies, even if w…
Socialist development
With the end of the war, the peasantry's willingness to produce for the state weakened. Since the supply of consumer goods was very sparse and access to agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, equipment and seeds was limited, peasants simply curtailed their transfers to the state in like manner. The state was as a result obliged to devise stronger incentives to motivate peasants to raise productivity and release their surplus to state collection …
Vietnam
This collection of documents on the Vietnam war roughly spans the periods of French and American involvement (Vol. I: 1945–1955; Vol. II: 1955–1975) and purports to include the major documents reflecting the key decisions of the two conflicts. In this effort it is largely successful, and indeed the two volumes represent the longest and most comprehensive compilation of documents on the war to date. The collection concentrates on previously unpubl…
Introduction to the tenth anniversary issue
With this issue we celebrate the tenth year of publication of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. The Bulletin's parent organization, the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, was founded to protest the war in Vietnam and the silence of the Asian studies profession with regard to U.S. sponsorship of the war. [See the Statement below.] From there, the concerns of CCAS and BCAS spread more generally to anti-imperialism and to providing a for…
Socialist development
With the end of the war, the peasantry's willingness to produce for the state weakened. Since the supply of consumer goods was very sparse and access to agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, equipment and seeds was limited, peasants simply curtailed their transfers to the state in like manner. The state was as a result obliged to devise stronger incentives to motivate peasants to raise productivity and release their surplus to state collection …
State Subject-making and Womanhoods in the Red River Delta of Vietnam 1 1
This paper explores how governance works in doi moi Vietnam through an examination of state subject-making and the ways in which it might be changing. More specifically, it discusses the two social
A grounding-based measure of relative fundamentality
Irreducibly collective existence and bottomless nihilism
This paper develops the metaphysical hypothesis that there are irreducibly collective pluralities, pluralities of objects that do not have a singular object among them. A way to formulate this hypothesis using plural quantification will be proposed and the coherence of irreducibly collective existence will be defended. Furthermore, irreducibly collective existence will be shown to allow for bottomless scenarios that do not involve things standing…
David Marr's ‘Vietnamese anticolonialism’
Because of its legendary resistance against the United States and its struggle for national salvation, Vietnam has entered into the consciousness of progressive mankind and has begun to attract the attention of foreign historians. In the United States, the war of aggression waged by the U.S. government has been costly in lives and property and has seriously weakened the country in all aspects, leading to the increasing opposition among the Americ…
Introduction to the supplement
Today the American press focuses on what might be called the domestic consequences of United States policy toward Korea. We read about the troop withdrawal issue, the unfolding Korea Lobby scandal, and, perhaps, Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) activities within the U.S. The following supplement, however, reminds us of the far worse consequences of American and Korean policies for those who remain within Korea. It was the U.S. CIA which …
Introduction to the tenth anniversary issue
With this issue we celebrate the tenth year of publication of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. The Bulletin's parent organization, the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, was founded to protest the war in Vietnam and the silence of the Asian studies profession with regard to U.S. sponsorship of the war. [See the Statement below.] From there, the concerns of CCAS and BCAS spread more generally to anti-imperialism and to providing a for…
New light on Vietnamese Marxism
The historical roots of Vietnamese Marx-sm and its popular appeal are well-known, but the history of the Marxist movement, especially before World War II, has been, up to now, obscure and difficult to pinpoint. Most students of Asia recall that the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) was the first communist party to come to power in Asia (in 1945, with the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam), although the Korean Communist Party has t…
Caodai Spiritism
Vietnam
This collection of documents on the Vietnam war roughly spans the periods of French and American involvement (Vol. I: 1945–1955; Vol. II: 1955–1975) and purports to include the major documents reflecting the key decisions of the two conflicts. In this effort it is largely successful, and indeed the two volumes represent the longest and most comprehensive compilation of documents on the war to date. The collection concentrates on previously unpubl…
Socialist development
With the end of the war, the peasantry's willingness to produce for the state weakened. Since the supply of consumer goods was very sparse and access to agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, equipment and seeds was limited, peasants simply curtailed their transfers to the state in like manner. The state was as a result obliged to devise stronger incentives to motivate peasants to raise productivity and release their surplus to state collection …
A Short History of the War in Vietnam
In one of the frequent corporate ads in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times, the one on April 30th by United Technologies addressed the issue of Vietnam. As I glanced through it, I noticed the claim that the first American killed in "the Vietnam war" was in 1959. This is early enough, but it's not true and misrepresents the nature of the "Vietnam war." It also illustrates, I believe, one of the problems we Americans have about thinking about …
Rejoinder to Adam Fforde
The issue of scholarship regarding Asian socialist countries is by no means a new one. This has faced China scholars for a long time. The difficulties of gaining access to these countries, assessing information from elusive sources, and gathering data are common to all scholars of countries like China, Korea, and Vietnam. Of course, research conditions are less than ideal. Vietnam, Korea and China are to a large extent closed societies, even if w…
Course syllabi on the Vietnam war
The American War in Vietnam
As suggested by the title, this collection of essays focuses upon American involvement in the Vietnamese War. These essays were originally written for a symposium in 1988 in which (for the first time since 1975) scholars from both the U.S. and Vietnam met to discuss and debate the war and its impact on their respective nations. Thus, these works (by American authors) though alternately probing and guarded, are always thought-provoking. They displ…
Vietnam's Women in Transition
Gender, Household, State
A collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in Viet Nam during doi moi, the period of economic market reforms that characterized the nation in the 1990s. These fascinating and varied essays illuminate women's daily lives as they are shaped by culture, economics, and traditional ideals
State Subject-making and Womanhoods in the Red River Delta of Vietnam 1 1
This paper explores how governance works in doi moi Vietnam through an examination of state subject-making and the ways in which it might be changing. More specifically, it discusses the two social
Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam
This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources (including surveys, interviews, and responses to film screenings), Jayne Werner demonstrates that despite the formal institution of public gender equality in Vietnam, in practice women do not hold a great deal of power, continuing to defer to men in bot…
The Vietnam War
This volume derives from an unprecedented seminar held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in November 1990. At the seminar, leading Western diplomatic and military historians and Vietnam scholars met with prominent Vietnamese Communists to reflect on the Vietnam War. The book contains four parts: The Vietnamese Revolution and Political/Military strategy; the war from the American side; the war in the South and Cam…
Doomed from the Start? Ngo Dinh Diem and the Start of the Vietnam War
Journal Article Doomed from the Start? Ngo Dinh Diem and the Start of the Vietnam War Get access Jessica M. Chapman, Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. 296 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Jayne Werner Jayne Werner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 590–592, https://do…
A grounding-based measure of relative fundamentality
Potentialism and S5
Modal potentialism as proposed by Barbara Vetter (2015) is the view that every possibility is grounded in something having a potentiality. Drawing from work by Jessica Leech (2017), Samuel Kimpton-Nye (2021) argues that potentialists can have an S5 modal logic. I present a novel argument to the conclusion that the most straightforward way of spelling out modal potentialism cannot validate an S5 modal logic. Then I will propose a slightly tweaked …
Arbitrary grounding
The aim of this paper is to introduce, elucidate and defend the usefulness of a variant of grounding, or metaphysical explanation, that has the feature that the grounds explain of some states of affairs that one of them obtains without explaining which one obtains. I will dub this variant arbitrary grounding . After informally elucidating the basic idea in the first section, I will provide three metaphysical hypotheses that are best formulated in…
Irreducibly collective existence and bottomless nihilism
This paper develops the metaphysical hypothesis that there are irreducibly collective pluralities, pluralities of objects that do not have a singular object among them. A way to formulate this hypothesis using plural quantification will be proposed and the coherence of irreducibly collective existence will be defended. Furthermore, irreducibly collective existence will be shown to allow for bottomless scenarios that do not involve things standing…
Extended Dispositionalism and Determinism
Modal dispositionalists hold that dispositions provide the foundation of metaphysical necessity and possibility. According to the kind of modal dispositionalism that can be found in the present literature, a proposition p is possible just in case some things are disposed to be such that p. In the first part of this paper I show that combining this classic form of dispositionalism with the assumptions that the laws of nature are necessary and dete…
Partial grounding, identity, and nothing-over-and-aboveness
Cardinal Composition
The thesis of Weak Unrestricted Composition says that every pair of objects has a fusion. This thesis has been argued by Contessa (Analysis 72(3):455–457, 2012) and Smith (Erkenntnis 84(1):41–55, 2019) to be compatible with the world being junky and hence to evade an argument against the necessity of Strong Unrestricted Composition proposed by Bohn (Analysis 69(1):27–31, 2009a, Philos Q 59(235):193–201, 2009b). However, neither Weak Unrestricted …
Contingentism and paraphrase
One important challenge for contingentists is that they seem to be unable to account for the meaning of some apparently meaningful modal discourse that is perfectly intelligible for necessitists. This worry is particularly pressing for higher-order contingentists, contingentists who hold that it is not only contingent which objects there are, but also contingent which semantic values there are for higher-order variables to quantify over. Objectio…
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