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The present work is immersed in the context of the contemporary philosophy of science, especially of the semanticist philosophy of the structuralist metatheory. Objectively, the work aims to reestablish the dialogue between the general philosophy of science and the special philosophy developed by scientists concerned with the fundamentals of their discipline, in this case, with sociologists. After presenting the Mertonian notion of middle range theory, the conception of theory that offers ME and, from that conception, a way of conceiving both global intertheoretical relations and intertheoretical change will be presented. Finally, the analysis of the use of the notion of middle range theory in scientific practice will be made, analyzing the specific case of sociological research about organizations.

The article discusses the conditions that enabled the occurrence of cases of female sexual abuse and exploitation practised by peacekeepers during the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The paper seeks to understand this context through a feminist perspective, considering the influence of militarized masculinity and the socioeconomic conditions of the country to perpetuate violence against girls and women along the mission’s duration.

In this article, we investigate the effects of perceptual training on the perception and production of word-initial VOT patterns in English by Brazilian learners. The experiment consisted of a pre-test, a post-test and two delayed post-tests. The first delayed post-test took place one month after training, while the second one took place three years later. The results show a slight increase in the identification rates by the Experimental Group, and no significant increase between the pre-test and the final post-test in the production data. Based on these results, we draw attention to the need of associating perceptual training with additional awareness-raising tasks on phonetic-phonological aspects, combined with a continuous exposure to the target forms.

This article reviews the enactive approach to perception, which defends the role of objects, the subject and the environment in the configuration of the phenomenal character of perception, that is, the qualitative dimension of experience. Initially the case of hallucination and its implications in the understanding of the phenomenal character of perception is retaken. Then, two positions within analytic philosophy of perception, representationalism and disjunctivism, are critically explored. Finally, enactivism is presented as a more promising alternative.

This article discusses the role of intermediate information channels in continuing education, and shows that reading is the most frequently used information channel of college and university lectures.

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Guest editors introduction to the special issue "Global turn: tensions, limits and challenges".

This article sets out to analyse the translations into Portuguese of three poems written I English, “A Letter is a Joy of Earth” by Emily Dickinson, “To a Stranger” by Walt Whitman and “Sandra” by Charles Bukowski. Three translations by three human translators, Geir Campos, Pedro Gonzaga and Jorge de Sena, are compared to the translations made by Google Translate in order to evaluate machine translation quality. This research shows that machine translations are less “ludicrous” than some would think and are in fact quite acceptable. In the cases investigated, machine translations are sometimes as acceptable as the ones made by the professional translators, and they could even help them to make mistakes through a lack of attention or by ignoring all the possibilities in the case of polysemous words. The Google translations are obviously plainer and there are a number of mistakes in them of the kind one expects: wrong concordances, wrong interpretations of polysemous words, wrong interpretation of gendered words. However, overall the results are far more satisfying than forecast. Google Translate, or similar programmes, may help translators with different, albeit sound alternatives. Additionally, machine translations provide a useful tool to analyse the idiosyncrasies of translators.

This article discusses democracy within the scope of the capitalist society, using theoretical and documentary research. The study sought to build concepts around the limits of substantive, socialist, and representative liberal democracy. It shows some implications of liberal democracy for Brazilian social rights and public policies that have been dismantled by neoliberal counter-reforms, such as the policies on education. The study also exposes the need to protect national-popular education, capable of contributing to the construction of substantive democracy and new sociability, which implies in relations of equality and coordination between politics and economy from the perspective of human emancipation.

Migrant authors writing in foreign languages are one of the most tangible effects of the ongoing globalization of contemporary Chinese literature. Dai Sijie, Chinese émigré writer and film-maker, chose the French language to voice his narration of China. Soon he became an example of how the presence of multiple cultures within an individual can result in self-hybridization. His first novel Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (2000) is based on Dai Sijie’s own experience of banishment and tells the story of two youths whose re-education is strongly influenced by Western novels banned in China. But what happens when a literary text born as a translingual and transcultural work is translated “back” into its language (and culture) of origin? Is the mediation performed twice or undone? How does this process affect the author’s representation? This article will answer such questions through a comparative analysis of the novel and its Chinese versions (published in the P.R.C. and Taiwan), by focusing on the linguistic and cultural (re)translations. The “world literature fever” stresses the centrifugal force pushing literature from China to the West, yet globalization is a circular movement that sometimes implies the homecoming of a “Westproof” Chinese literariness.

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The research analyzes the criminalization of abortion in Brazil as a violation of sexual and reproductive rights of women. The general objective is, from the presentation of the book The Handmaid’s Tale, the analysis of the abortion in Brazil under a criminal and constitutional perspective, focusing on the decision of the Supreme Court, in the Habeas Corpus nº 124.306, tried in 2016. As regards to the methodology, the research is qualitative, descriptive and explanatory nature in relation to objectives, using the deductive method, built with bibliographic and documentary sources. It is concluded that abortion must be understood as a public health issue, whose ban violates women's rights and freedoms, and that the legislation should be amended on the basis of scientific research related to the theme and the judgment rendered.

PÍNDARO. As odes olímpicas de Píndaro. Introdução, tradução e notas de Glória Braga Onelley e Shirley Peçanha. 1.ed. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2016.PÍNDARO. Píndaro: epinícios e fragmentos. Tradução, introdução e notas Roosevelt Araújo Rocha. Curitiba: Kotter, 2018.

The election of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2018 brings to the political scene the update of discourse with proto-fascist elements. This article intends to contribute to the analysis of this discourse and the conditions around its materiality from the presidential inauguration, in January 2019. The study also observes the discourse’s impacts on women and the possibility of losing rights – especially sexual and reproductive rights – amidst the context of legislative reforms and growth of representatives of religious groups in Brazil’s Congress.

Since the last decades of the twentieth century, it has been given importance to the insertion of the History of Science into scientific education. In parallel, difficulties of a historiographical nature regarding the understanding of what History of Science is and its writing are considered limiting factors for such insertion. Essentially laudatory and anachronistic histories, narratives intended to present "heroes" of science or to establish the paternity of scientific discoveries are still present in scientific education. Contrasting, we built a very brief biographical fragment of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) for teacher trainning. Being contrary to a cumulative and linear description of the beginning, middle, chronological end and teleological purpose that characterized the biographical genre, both in the History as in the History of Science, we (re)interpreted a past with articulations between the life of the biography subject and his contexts – individual and society in dialectics –, facing the unsolvable tension between a representative being and a unique being. This fragment introduces historiography of science to pre-service Physics teachers, while allowing “to humanize” Pascal under the École des Annales’ aegis and its perspective of history as problem, giving rise to discussions of philosophical content. This article presents the biographical fragment of Blaise Pascal, as well as suggests its socialization in a proposal of didactic sequence to pre-service physics teachers trainning.

Apresentação v.15, n.4, 2018.