with David Lyle Jeffrey, Provost, Baylor University; Author of People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture / McGuinn Hall 121

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This thesis explores the concept of healing used by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and survivors as a conceptual tool to address and redress the legacy of residential schools. Using public testimony and selected interviews, I explore how the TRC’s statement-gathering process is perceived and experienced by survivors. This thesis also documents the personal tensions and political limits encountered during the implementation of a globalized, institutional process of truth-telling applied to resolve diverse and localized ‘traumas’ experienced by students enrolled in dozens of residential schools. This approach illustrates the inherent shortcomings of a top-down approach to solving residential school issues, drawing on the public testimonies of survivors to identify tensions between a national process and survivor-led and community-based alternatives for healing. Despite its intention to create a forum that allows survivors to tell their story about residential schools, the TRC has also, often, been used as space of political activism and social critique. Survivors have used the public testimonial spaces offered by the TRC to both critique the Canadian government’s commitment to reconciliation and also to demand more effective forms of redress, which have subtly shaped and transformed the TRC during its mandate. Thus, while I draw attention to institutional practices, ideologies and power relations shaping the TRC, I also emphasize how people perceive, engage and transform the process as a result.

This thesis examines the production and function of knowledge concerning security and Israeli security. A critical, post-positivist approach to analysing the constitution and practices connected to security knowledge is justified. From a broadly Foucaultian point of view, the thesis looks at the 'regime of truth' within which ideas of Israeli security concerning Palestinians are formulated. The connections between the Security Studies discipline, academic studies focusing on Israel's security, and the formulation of Israel's policy positions towards the Palestinians are examined. Overall, it is shown how the practices of a 'social scientific' Security Studies discipline engaged in producing 'useful' knowledge for state practitioners reinforces and legitimates official Israeli security discourse and practice based around a conception of a singular state-based identity seeking security, primarily through military-diplomatic means, against a recalcitrant and hostile enemy 'Other' in the Palestinians. This basic framework of security knowledge is traced through official Israeli security discourse and practice (the security dispositif) from 1988 to 2009, offering an in-depth analysis of the development and evolution of official security processes concerning the Palestinians. Adopting an explicitly critical ethos for reflexive research, the thesis disrupts and challenges official Israeli security dynamics, finding them to be repeatedly exacerbating conflictual relations. Through the deployment of the regime of truth, the repeated instantiation of the official Israeli security dispositif is shown to re-incite and re-confirm existing parameters of knowledge and knowledge production. The thesis therefore also provides a detailed and critical examination of the notion of a repetitive 'cycle of violence' at the heart of Israeli-Palestinian relations.

This thesis investigates logico-philosophical aspects of using either a non-transitive or a non-reflexive logic to obtain a logic of truth in which truth is transparent. It enquires into and rejects the claim that restricting transitivity of entailment to accommodate transparent truth suffices to make the connective tonk acceptable by arguing that tonk as defined in a cut-free sequent calculus requires in addition that the logic is non-reflexive to be uniquely defined, and develops a semantics for tonk based on models with two valuations which delivers a non-transitive and non-reflexive logic. It develops a cut-free sequent calculus and two kinds of semantics for a non-reflexive logic of truth in which truth is transparent, one based on trivalent models and one based on models with two valuations. It shows how to define a non-transitive, a paraconsistent and a paracomplete logic of truth on the models with two valuations and develops a cut-free sequent calculus that captures all four logics. It investigates to which extent the non-reflexive and the non-transitive logic of truth can express their own meta-inferences, and shows among other things how one can employ the paraconsistent and the paracomplete logic to express the meta-inferences of the non-transitive and the non-reflexive logic respectively. Finally, it proves that the non-transitive logic of truth is omega-inconsistent and furthermore that transitivity is not required as assumption to establish that a logic in which truth satisfies the conditions of quantified standard deontic logic is omega-inconsistent.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / This thesis examines the relation of various areas of Bertrand Russell's epistemology to his theory of truth. It has been held that the correspondence theory of truth is the key to Russell's epistemological realism. Russell himself defines knowledge in terms of truth, and not truth in terms of knowledge. After an introductory chapter, Russell's Theory of Mind is e xamined in Chapter One. Chapter Two deals with his Theory of Matter. Chapter Three treats his Theory of Language. The fourth and concluding chapter compares Russell's correspondence theory of truth with two alternative theories of truth: the coher ence theory of truth and the pragmatic theory of truth; and summarizes the three basic meanings of correspondence in Russell's theory of truth. Since Russell defines truth as some sort of correspondence between belief and facts, and derivatively in terms of the sentences expressing beliefs, it was felt that a tracing of the development of Russell's Theories of Mind (belief), Matter (facts), and Language (sentences) would best illuminate a study of his theory of truth. Russell's Theory of Mind runs the gamut from a mindmatter dualism, to a neutral monism, to a view of mind as "perspective." The progress of his Theory of Mind involves a move in the theory of belief from an "act" of belief, to a "propositional attitude," to a "feeling." In no case is truth predicated of the subjective factor in belief, but rather of "judgment," "propositions," or "content" of belief, except in the case where what a sentence indicates is a state of mind of the believer. Russell's Theory of Matter has changed in a fashion paralleling his Theory of Mind. Thus, he begins by inferring physical objects from sense-data, and he constructs physical objects from the class of all their appearances, and finally he says that we may infer the structure of physical events on the basis of non-demonstrable principles of inference. The world of facts is in every period considered to be a pluralistic world, and hence relations among facts are external relations. Russell's Theory of Language underwent a similar evolution. In the beginning of his thought on an ideal language, as suggested in Principia, he followed Wittgenstein in holding that logic has an atomic structure which mirrors a world of atomic facts. Later, Russell comes to feel that the "picture" theory of language is inadequate. Finally, he holds that language mirrors the world in that both words and objects are universals. In conclusion, a comparison was made between alternative theories of truth, and the correspondence theory of truth was summarized. The writer of this thesis holds that Russell's correspondence theory of truth is to be preferred over the alternatives presented. / 2031-01-01

by Chan Chi Wai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Bibliography: leaves 117-120.

A thesis submitted to the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Johannesburg, South Africa 2017. / Introduction: As Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission and HIV treatment programmes have scaled-up, more women are being kept alive and fewer children are infected with HIV. One of the challenges that HIV-infected women face is how to disclose their own HIV status to their children. The disclosure literature suggests that the main reason for women’s HIV-disclosure is to obtain social support, including financial, practical and emotional assistance, to help women to manage their HIV infection. HIV-related stigma, lack of knowledge of how to disclose, uncertainty about a child’s reaction to disclosure, and a perception that a child lacks the developmental capacity to handle HIV-disclosure are factors that affect disclosure decisions. HIV-disclosure is considered a critical element in strengthening the capacity of families in the continuum of HIV care. In 2011, the World Health Organization published guidelines for parental HIV-disclosure to children. These guidelines recommended full disclosure to primary school-aged children (from 6 years up to 12 years) and partial disclosure to younger children. Globally, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, HIV-disclosure interventions are lacking. The Amagugu maternal HIV-disclosure intervention was developed, piloted and evaluated between 2010 and 2012 to assist mothers to disclose their HIV status to their HIV-uninfected children. The intervention enrolled 281 mothers and their primary school-aged HIV-uninfected children, and aimed to increase maternal capacity to disclose their HIV status. This was implemented through six lay counsellor- led, home-based, sessions, including a health intervention at a primary health care clinic. The Amagugu intervention was acceptable and feasible in a high HIV prevalence, resource-poor, rural setting, and increased maternal HIV-disclosure to primary school-aged HIV-uninfected children. Methods: This PhD study was nested within the Amagugu study and was conducted at the Africa Centre for Population Health, now the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), in the Hlabisa sub-district of Umkhanyakude, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The aim of this PhD was to explore, in more depth, the experiences of women enrolled in the Amagugu intervention, including their experiences of the health intervention. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The sample for the PhD study comprised three groups: 1) all mothers from the Amagugu study (N=281); 2) a sub-sample of mothers from the Amagugu study (N=20) and 3) health care staff employed in the clinics where the Amagugu study took place (N=87). The quantitative data used in the PhD study xvi were collected at different time points from the 281 women, using questionnaires specifically designed for the Amagugu study, including baseline and post-disclosure questionnaires. Data on the clinic experiences were collected from the 281 mothers using semi-structured questionnaires administered after the health intervention. Semi-structured questionnaires, specifically designed for this PhD study, were administered to the clinic staff during the health intervention. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured questionnaires with the clinic staff (N=87), nine focus groups with clinic staff after the health intervention, and in-depth and semi-structured interviews with the sub-sample of women (N=20) who were enrolled after the Amagugu intervention had been completed. The University of KwaZulu-Natal Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC Ref: BF 144/010) and the University of Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref: R14/49) granted ethical approval for the PhD study. Results: The results reported in this PhD are drawn from four papers written during the course of this PhD, (three published papers and one paper accepted for publication). The results have been integrated from the data collected from the women and health care staff that were used for the PhD, and a literature review that resulted in a publication. The three main themes that emerged from the PhD are: 1. HIV-related stigma and HIV-disclosure: The literature review revealed that fear of HIV-related stigma was the most common reason for non-HIV-disclosure of HIV to both adults and children. In the sub-sample of 20 women, only two women had not disclosed to other adults due to fear of HIV-related stigma prior to the intervention. Those who had disclosed to only some, but not all other adults in their close social networks, reported HIV-related stigma at household (6/18), community (2/18) and clinic levels (1/18). Although HIV-related stigma was reported, there was also a normalisation of HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) in some communities due to the high social exposure to HIV in the study area. Qualitative data from the focus groups with clinic staff, and interviews with the sub-sample of 20 women, recognised that children’s exposure to HIV education has played a role in the normalisation of HIV. 2. HIV-disclosure and family strengthening: The majority of women in the sub-sample had disclosed their HIV status to other adults including their partners, friends and xvii other relatives, prior to the Amagugu intervention. Most women reported living positively with HIV and receiving necessary support from those to whom they had disclosed. Of those women who had disclosed to partners, about half had disclosed to their partners first before disclosing to any other adults. Their partners had mixed reactions to disclosure but were overall supportive. Whilst women’s original fear of disclosing their HIV status to their children had been that they would be stigmatised by their children, on the contrary, most children were supportive. The majority of women in the sub-sample expressed that they would advise other women in similar circumstances to disclose their HIV status to their children for social support, because disclosure increased family cohesion and improved antiretroviral therapy adherence. The health staff echoed the same sentiments regarding social support and family cohesion in the focus groups. 3. HIV-disclosure and access and adherence to HIV treatment: The interviews with the sub-sample of 20 women, and the semi-structured questionnaires and focus groups with 87 clinic staff, all revealed that participants agreed that whilst maternal HIVdisclosure was challenging, it was necessary for women to obtain social support from their children. Health care staff also agreed that maternal HIV-disclosure to their children was instrumental in supporting HIV-infected women to access and adhere to their HIV treatment. The clinic staff recognised the role they could play in health promotion and increasing opportunities for children to participate in activities at health facilities, but acknowledged that they needed support to address logistical constraints that hinder child-friendliness in health facilities, including heavy workloads, poor clinic infrastructure and staff shortages. The health intervention provided clinic staff with child-friendliness training and materials that were found to be acceptable and feasible, and yielded encouraging results. Discussion: This study contributes to the literature about the experiences of African, HIVinfected, rural women with HIV-uninfected children living in an ART-era. In particular the experiences of women who have participated in a maternal HIV disclosure intervention in Africa have not been explored previously. The findings of this work indicate that a decade after being diagnosed with HIV, women in this resource-poor setting are generally living positively with HIV. However, HIV-disclosure to other adults does not necessarily translate xviii to disclosure to children, and parents require specific interventions to assist them with this, and to understand the development and level of understanding of their children. Conclusion: Despite concerns raised by women prior to the intervention, including fear of HIV-related stigma and a perception that children lacked the developmental capacity to grasp knowledge about maternal HIV status, the women in this study reported no regrets in disclosing their status to children. They also reported receiving support from their children, which in turn, assisted them with adherence to their own HIV treatment. Future studies could test the same Amagugu intervention materials in a group of HIV-infected women with uninfected children not previously involved in research to explore whether similar results are found. / MT2017