Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet hinders someone as a knower. This takes place when concepts normalize or detrimentally standardize our epistemic lives.

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Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …

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The Belgian bibliographer and independent scholar Michel Ryckx created and maintained the world’s most extensive bibliography of Thomas Pynchon scholarship on his website Vheissu.net from 2002 through 2022. This article introduces a new resource, the Thomas Pynchon Online Bibliography (TPOB), which transforms Vheissu.net’s extensive Pynchon bibliography into an open bibliography on Zotero, a free, open-source, and widely-used reference management software, with bibliographic metadata for each item, and extensively updated with entries and additional metadata for its 1.0 release. TPOB can assist scholars in locating Pynchon studies on specific topics, by specific authors, in specific languages, etc. The TPOB dataset also supports the investigation of novel insights into Pynchon studies, and may contribute to contemporary bibliometric literary studies more broadly. This paper presents exploratory experiments on the Pynchon studies metadata in TPOB including studies by year and page count, text-to-commentary ratio, formal features of bibliographic titles, intertextual fields, and semantic web.    

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Faced with the failures of existing democracies, many democratic theorists conclude from recent empirical work in political science critical of the functioning of electoral institutions that citizens are too ignorant to hold office-holders to account and that representative democracies are not responsive to ordinary citizens. We argue that these conclusions are unwarranted. They hinge on highly contestable interpretations of the work in question and conflict with important contrary theoretical and empirical findings that democratic theorists have ignored. If our argument is convincing, it should weaken the case for alternative regime types (e.g., lottocracy or epistocracy), which rests in part on empirically grounding the assertion that representative democracies cannot deliver meaningful accountability. Our argument also highlights the importance of engaging with the social-scientific literature in a more careful and wide-ranging manner. 

The Belgian bibliographer and independent scholar Michel Ryckx created and maintained the world’s most extensive bibliography of Thomas Pynchon scholarship on his website Vheissu.net from 2002 through...

This review examines María Fernanda Miño Puga’s groundbreaking monograph Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), which offers the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of E...

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Voting occurs on Election Day. In the history of electoral democracy, this fact has been closely identified with the practice of elections. However, I argue the temporality of election time generates ...

At the heart of the debates surrounding the privileges of the mendicants lies a central controversy regarding the role of the papacy. From the mid-13th century onwards, the pope was not merely a parti...